Secret Santa!

We all had a lot of fun today with your Secret Santas!
What wonderful wrapping paper and very thoughtful books.
I hope you all enjoy reading them and please remember to make a "Thank You" card.
Here are some photos...

Christmas Activities!

Christmas activities! on the Woodlands Junior website.

P4 Revision Books

Many parents have been asking me to recommend books to help you at home so I have made a list on www.amazon.co.uk which you can see by clicking here.
Of course, I DO NOT EXPECT YOU to buy books but I am aware that many parents would like guidance on how we teach maths for example the British way. The books I have listed are for different levels of understanding: ones which say "Key Stage 1" or "Year 3" are for those children who find some subjects difficult. "Year 4" books are a good revision of last year's objectives and "Year 5" books might be a bit hard as we have only done one term so far.

In England, the classes are as follows:
P1: Year 2
P2: Year 3
P3: Year 4
P4: Year 5
P5: Year 6
P6: Year 7
S1: Year 8 etc

In England "Key Stage 1" ends after P1 but as some of our children are younger than in England at this time, these books can also be for P2. These books show the basics so they contain the most important informtation. In my opinion, revision should always start with these basics as everything builds on these concepts.
"Key Stage 2" books are for P3, P4 and P5 but they are often written for P5 children to revise before the SATs and might be a little difficult for younger children.

I have included a science book on the list as it will contain a lot of scientific knowledge about all the science topics taught this year.

The mental maths books are very similar to the tests we do in school each week. They contain a CD, questions and answers to help your child to get quicker and more confident at mental maths.

Finally, there are two grammar books listed. These are the same book but one of them has some explanations in Spanish. I have taught English as a Second Language for over ten years now and I still believe this to be the best book on the market.

To find the ISBN numbers of a book, click on its title.

If you have any further questions, please write a note in your child's homework diary or speak to me at parent's evening.

The reason I recommend Amazon is that the books are sold quite cheaply, they are dispatched quickly and they have excellent customer service if you have a problem. I believe there is now free delivery to Gran Canaria if you spend over a certain amount and you can claim back the VAT by sending them a message with your order number.

I hope this helps and I look forward to seeing you all in the next two weeks.

Miss Sam

Christmas Holiday Project!

To help with your next topic of MAPPING, I would like you to do a little project over the Christmas holiday. Good luck!

Congratulations!

Well done to all of you for your brilliant performance yesterday!
Enjoy the long weekend!
p.s We hope you managed to get your flight Carlos what with all the travel chaos at the airports.
p.p.s We hope you get well soon Lucas - we missed you yesterday.

Christmas Card Competition!

4C,

Christmas card entries are due in on Friday please!!!

Thanks!

Miss Sam

Boudicca lyrics!

There are a few mistakes in this but I think we may have to sing it on Friday. I tried to edit the video but there are too many gaps.

Please practise the song!!!

Well done Pablo J!

Congratulations to Pablo J for being our Star of the Week for his excellent attitude and teamwork in our football lesson this week!

Secret Santa!

Secret Santa books are due in on Monday 13th December at the latest please.

Remember to:
1) Make the wrapping paper yourself.
2) Add a label which has to be opened to see the person's name (so it will be a surprise).
3) Get an English book but please do not spend a lot of money. Places like Idiomatika or Canary Books have a lot of books.

Assembly item on Monday please!

As you all know it is our assembly next Friday.
You know your homework is:
1) To learn your lines perfectly.
2) To practise readly them LOUDLY, CLEARLY and SLOWLY!
3) To bring in the item I have asked you to make on MONDAY please so we can check we can see it in the theatre.

Carlos P will be artisitc director on Monday and will be assisting me with preparation!

Vegueta Trip

4C,

Well done today for your excellent effort on the trip: I was very proud of you.
Here are a few photos and the map we were using. Maybe you'd like to do it another time with your family to practise using a map. I cannot take the credit for the map - it was produced by the Las Palmas Tourist Office.

Thank you so much to the following parents for all your support today:
Pablo S' mum, Lucia P's mum, Emilio's mum, Maria's mum and Carlos R's dad.

I hope you all enjoyed it and I hope your legs aren't aching as much as mine are tonight!

Tessellations on the school website!

If you click on the link, you will be directed to the school website where there are photos of our tessellation display and an explanation in Spanish for your parents to read: well done all!

Remember to say a big thank you to Luis, Emilio and Shivani on Wednesday!

More creating tessellations

Here are some more photos of our successful Wednesday afternoon!

Creating our tessellations!

Many thanks again to our brilliant helpers: Shivani, Emilio and Luis for all their help with this. They were so busy on Wednesday afternoon but they really helped us to do our best work.
Here are some photos of what has been achieved so far. Don't worry, we still have a few weeks to finish!

Christmas comprehension

I was so impressed with how you all behaved during our comprehension lesson last week.
Here are some photos. Sorry if I didn't manage to get one of you: I will attempt to next time! Well done for skimming and scanning for the answers quickly and quietly!
I am really enjoying our reading comprehension lessons now - I hope you are too.

Your Cubist Sculptures Gallery!

Maths next week!

Remember that we will be doing maths tests next week so make sure you bring your calculator!

Well done to Daniela!

Well done to Daniela for being our Star of the Week!
Not only has she produced fabulous work in literacy and maths this week but she also produced an amazing tessellation!

Well done!!

Trip to Vegueta on Monday!

4C,

Thank you to all the parents who have offered to come on the trip. some of you will leave from school and others will meet us down there.

We leave school at about 9:00 and return at about 12:15.

We will do lots of run activities (rain permitting!) and we will learn a lot about MAPS which is our new topic for geography.

Please remember to bring:
* An anorak or umbrella
* Your pencil case (including colours, gluestick, ruler and pencil)
* Your snack and some water
* A notebook to take notes

Wear your PE kit please!!
See you on Monday - please do not be late for school as I need to explain some things before we go!!

Gladiators

Oh no! The Grinch Stole Christmas!

Connectives game

Play PREFIX match!

Here is the prefix match game we played in class today.
See how fast you can match the meanings.
For example, BI means TWO.

Brilliant tessellations made by children!

These are amazing! I know yours will be just as brilliant!!

Amazing modern tessellations!

How to Tessellate

Christmas Wrapping Paper!

As you know we will be making our own wrapping paper for Christmas - how exciting!!
Here are some tessellated images to get you thinking...

This week in maths we are revising number bonds to 100.
To play some games to revise this (like mental maths), click here.

We will also be looking at finding the difference by counting on. For example, 542 - 392.
To do this we count from 392 to the nearest ten (400) which is 8. Then, we count to 542 which is 142. Finally, we add 142 and 8. The answer is 150. So, 542 - 392 = 150.

Finally, this is a great website for testing your number bonds. It even has a game for decimals that total 1 or 10 for thos of you who fancy a challenge! Have a go! Please let me know if the link doesn't work.

Enjoy!

Stars of the Week: Paula and Marta!

Well done to both Marta and Paula for being our Stars of the Week!

Marta: You had the most original ideas for what Baboushka would say in her diary.
Paula: Your work in both literacy and numeracy this week was amazing!

Tessellation Town!

This week we are going to "visit" Tessellation Town in our ICT lesson.
Have a look before if you'd like to explore some tessellations!

Symmetry and tessellation.

If you would like to revise anything we have done today (as there was so much!!), click on the websites below.

Good luck!


The Symmetrizer!

Symmetry game


Reflective symmetry

Tessellations

More tessellations!

2D and 3D shapes

Tessellation website

Design a tessellation!

As you know we are now studying the work of graphic artist Escher in class. At the end of the topic you will produce your own tessellating Christmas wrapping paper. Here is an example of one of Escher's tessellations. We will be using this post tomorrow in our ICT lesson. See you then!

Maths and Art!

4C,

Well I hope you learned a lot today about symmetry, reflections, tessellations and tiling patterns in our maths and art lessons.

I look forward to seeing your symmetrical hearts or your finished symmetrical pictures tomorrow.

Please remember that you need to do a tessellation/tiling pattern for next Monday. I would like it on paper so that I can display your wonderful work but you can choose if you would like to colour it or you coloured paper.

Also, you need to make your 3D present for our Baboushka display for next Monday!

For those of you who enjoyed making shapes out of paper today, here are some sheets to help you. I need to say thank you to the wonderful people at the University of Leeds Textiles Department for making them.

See you tomorrow for some work on 3D shapes and nets!