Champions!

I also thought you would appreciate this.

Have a great holiday as CHAMPIONS!

Maths Revision

I have just seen this website and I thought some of you would like it to help you to revise. Click on the link below:

Year 6 Maths

Have a lovely summer!

Thank you to anyone who has sent a message on my new blog and thank you all for being a wonderful class. I will miss you all but I know I will see you all next year around school and in the patio.

I have very fond memories of you all and I hope you have a fantastic summer.
I have changed the blog to suit your new status as 5C: how mature!
I will be adding some of those maths sheets to Edmodo in the next few days but apart from that, please relax and enjoy the holiday.

To those of you who will be having a birthday in the holiday: have a great day.

Take care and enjoy. Good luck in 5th Grade!

Spain vs Switzerland

This one is in German. I'm sure Spain will do well in their next match.

Fantastic Stop Motion Animation!

I think this is brilliant! Hopefully, England will do better tonight.

You will be doing this type of animation in 5th Grade; how exciting!

England World Cup Song 2010

This is the England World Cup song.

Sound revision

Revise our science topic SOUND by clicking on the link and doing the activities on Day 14.
Good luck!

Over the Rainbow

Get your bids ready!!!

This week, I will be giving you lots of time to prepare your bids to be...

Aztec Day Party Planners 2010!

Who will receive the honour?

Click on the link below to look at an example party planner's website!

Remember to check on the success criteria what needs to be included in your bid.

Make Believe Parties

As you all know, my favourite sport is netball and this is the bid to get netball in London's 2012 Olympics!

Spelling revision

Sorry, the last link didn´t work. For general English revision which includes spelling revision, go to this website.

I hope that these websites help.

Remember, you can also play DJ Cow´s spelling revision game which revises reading skills (skimming and scanning) and spelling patterns!

Revision Websites

This is a fantastic website to revise literacy objectives.

Use the same website to revise maths objectives.

Connectives revision.

Revise adjectives.
Be an adjective detective.
Excellent adjective revision.

General revision, including spelling.

Good luck and remember not to spend too long revising!! Go out and enjoy the sun!

Aztec Dancing

Wow! Fantastic Art Website!

Wow!
Please thank Miss Angela for finding this website: it has loads of tutorials to help us with our watercolour painting. We are going to try out some of the techniques today.
Click on the link to practise!

Revise for the Science Test!

Click here to revise for the Science test.

This link is for the BBC Schools website; in our list, I have added the other website which has lots of extra help!
Good luck!

Week 4 Spellings

shade weighed
laughed raft
repair square
exclaim shame
disguise replies
comb gnome
taught thought
gruff enough

Nuestros Canes "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria"

Sorry!

Blanca, Esteban and Marta,

My scanner is still refusing to do anything and I can't use it.
I will scan your certificates as soon as possible.

Scanner problem!

Sorry to Blanca and Esteban for not uploading your certificates yet; I was going to scan them after the maths scans but my computer crashed. I will try again tomorrow.

New photos of Vedder!

Many of you keep asking me to upload new photos of Vedder so here are a few more: I hope you like them. I will upload Firgas photos tomorrow.

Let´s do some Aztec weaving!

This week you have found it very difficult to settle down to work and when you have finished your work, a lot of you are noisy. So... I think it might be a good idea to do some weaving to relax. Have a look at the images as they will explain how we will do it. If you have any wool, please bring it in! Remember to bring your card in ready: cut and A5 size (half of A4).

Spellings for next week

F: I understand how to spell unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words

animal
dictionary
generally
library
marvellous
description
difference
extra
generous
interest
poisonous
different
memorable
interested
familiar
miserable

Remember to write 2 sentences a night using these spellings!

Homophone spellings for next week

cereal serial
scene seen
waist waste
flour flower
aloud allowed
board bored
vain vein
plane plain

2 a night sentences:
Monday: flower and flour
Tuesday: vain and vein
Wednesday: board and bored
Thursday: seen and scene
Friday: plane and plain

Stars of the Week!

Well done to Rafa for being our *Star of the Week* for his fantastic still life drawing!

Well done also to both Omar and Olga for being past Stars; sorry I have not uploaded your certificates until now.

4C to the Rescue!

My puppy Vedder!

This is my puppy Vedder. He is 11 weeks old and weighs 9 kilos. He is a Newfoundland (Terranova) and is going to be a very big boy!

Still Life Photography Competition

I can't wait to see your entries for the two competitions!

Homophone spellings for next Monday

Blue, blew, grate, great, hair, hare, him, hymn, Knight,night, Peace, piece, Right, write, Break, brake

Great Grammar Website!

This is a great website to help you with grammar; you can listen to songs and lots more!
Go to Grammaropolis!

Fantastic 4C Term 1 Photos

Happy Easter!

4C,

I hope that you and your families have a lovely Easter together.

See you in two weeks!

Make sure you relax!

Mini Spelling Bee!

Here is a fab website.
Have a go tomorrow in our ICT time.

Please find Storm Girl!

4C,

As you were all taking home your dolls this weekend, I think someone may have picked up the wrong bag by mistake. Storm Girl by Olga was in a black bag. Maybe you have her at home by accident. Please look.

This is what she looks like...

I hope we can find her and put a big smile back on Olga´s face.

Football spellings

Monday 8th March 2010
F: I know specific football vocabulary
1. The ball was intercepted by…
2. He drilled the ball home.
3. Footwork
4. The kick-off (noun)
5. The match kicked-off (verb).
6. Liverpool won the game.
7. Man Utd were beaten.
8. Penalty
9. The first-half
10. Half time
11. The second-half
12. Liverpool were victorious.
13. The goalkeeper saved the ball (verb).
14. The goalkeeper made a great save (noun).
15. The referee blew the whistle.
16. Messi charged up the pitch.
17. Ronaldo was brought down in the penalty area/penalty box.
18. Ronaldo took the free-kick.
19. Messi placed the ball on the penalty spot.
20. Xavi crossed the ball across the box.
21. Nil-nil (0-0)
22. A draw (2-2)

Spelling revision with the Spellits!

This game is really good to revise spelling rules.
Part of the game will help you with this week´s speeling focus: words that which common letter strings but different pronunciation (dough and rough, for example).

Play the spelling game.

ICT Lesson on Monday 8.3.2010

Use the websites I have added to our list on the right to print a net of a 3D shape.

After you have finished, research by going to the link with 3D shape activities.

Kim Yu Na

Do Young,

It is quite difficult to find videos of Queen Yu Na on youtube due to copyright which is a shame but here is a video of her from last year.

Some of you may know that Miss Susan used to do this event for her country Canada and Miss Susan said that Kim Yu Na is amazing.

Skicross

Watch one of the new Winter Olympic sports: Skicross.
It is very exciting!

ICT Monday 1st March

How much do you know about the Winter Olympics?

In our ICT lesson, you will be researching the Vancouver Olympic Games at Woodlands Junior's website.

You will also be watching a girl's recount of the Winter Olympics and reading some news reports about the Olympics. You can also visit Newsround.

Why not see if you understand the difference between FACT and OPINION in news reports here.

Finally, you will be able to visit the official Olympic website and play a few games or watch some snowboarding skills.

Dance Mat Typing

Dance Mat Typing!

Thank you!

4C,

Thank you to everyone for making my birthday so special.
Everyone did something whether it was singing to me, doing brilliant homework, behaving incredibly, making a card, leaving messages here or Edmodo, making a powerpoint, posting images, making a home-made present or giving me a present. I really didn't expect anything so... MANY THANKS.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Sam

p.s Thank you to Lara for making the balloons!

Birthday!

Thank you for all your lovely messages; I have had a fantastic birthday.
You can bring a little food tomorrow if you like for a mini party at 12:30.
Not too much though as I don't want you spoiling your appetite for lunch!

See you tomorrow!

No school tomorrow!

Thank you for your comment Patricia.
I hope you all have a lovely day off school tomorrow.
See you on Friday!
Who saw me in Leroy Merlin? Did i look bored?

Stars of the Week at last!

Sorry to Yoel, Diego, Sofia and Dani for forgetting to upload these for you.
Well done for being our Stars of the Week!
I have just been reading your problem sections of your stories and have given out lots of stars: well done! I can't wait to read your finished stories this week!!!

Spellings for 08.02.2010

Monday 8th February 2010
F: I can spell ABSTRACT NOUNS
1. HAPPINESS
2. CHATTINESS
3. LOUDNESS
4. KINDNESS
5. UNTIDINESS
6. HELPFULNESS
7. STRENGTH
8. INTELLIGENCE
9. SPORTINESS
10. HONESTY
11. AGILITY
12. THOUGHTFULNESS
13. CONFIDENCE
14. BRAVERY
15. BEAUTY
16. CHEERFULNESS
17. QUIETNESS

Conjunctions!

No school tomorrow!

4C,

If you are bored tomorrow and have NOTHING ELSE TO DO, there are maths sheets and the science summary sheet on Edmodo.

There is a good science revision website which you could use to revise for the science test you will have in the next few weeks.

The topics this term are on Days 9, 10 and 11.

Hope to see you all on Wednesday!

Miss Sam

Double consonant spellings!

1. kidnap
2. plan
3. grab
4. disappoint
5. tip
6. rub
7. stop
8. assignment
9. mission
10. pressurised
11. fizzy
12. balloons
13. compressed
14. possible
15. kidnapped
16. planned
17. grabbed
18. disappointed
19. tipped
20. rubbed
21. stopped

Practise spelling double consonants!

Robin Hood

Hoodwinked

BBC Schools

Click on this link to do some revision

ICT this week

Click on the link to read and do these activities.

to learn how to read GRID references, click here.

Taxi game

Taxi game to practise compass bearings.

Great website to practise compass bearings

Click here to go to this great website to practise compass bearings.

Stars of the Week!!!

Well done to Carlota and Elena for being our two Stars of the Week!!

Mapzone!

For the next five weeks, we are going to be studying "Maps and Mapping" in our geography lessons. Here is a fab website called Mapzone. Have a look at it!!

Happy New Year and Happy Three Kings' Day!

4C,

I hope you have a lovely day tomorrow with your families.
Enjoy your last five days of holiday - see you soon!

Miss Sam