Primary 4 Home Learning - fortnight commencing Monday 30th January

Literacy and EnglishSpellingThe children issued with Common Word revision sheets should aim to work on five of these words each week in addition to their group list below. If no individual list is

issued your child is now confident with the P4 Common Words; your child could now begin to work on the Diamond words (P5 common words) which I will issue with each Home Learning.The Diamond words for this fortnight are: autumn, aunt, balloon, breakfast, beach, behind, below, brother, brown, centre

This term we will be continuing to work on spelling patterns and rules. Your child should recognise their spelling group below -You can use any activity from the Spelling Menu to practise your words in your Home Learning jotter.I have saved some additional spelling activities on to the blog.Week commencing 30 th January Odin – Please review words from all previous Odin lists. We will be assessing these next week to see if we are ready to move on.Thor – unkind, untidy, disagree, unsure, untrue, disobey, disappear, disappoint, dislike, unhappyFreya - June, tune, one, gone, come, some, broke, smoke, blue, glue, trueLoki – joke, home, hope, hose, nose, rose, June, tuneWeek commencing 6 th February Odin – healthy, wealthy, feather, leather, weather, heard, breakfast, breakable, greatness, greatlyThor – slowly, quickly, useful, careful, usefully, carefully, beautiful, happily, angrilyFreya - Please review words from all previous Freya lists. We will be assessing these next week to see if we are ready to move on.Loki – Please review words from all previous Loki lists. We will be assessing these next week to see if we are ready to move on.

Literacy and EnglishReadingCheck your yellow Reading Record for reading homework on Monday,

Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Make sure you get an adult at home to sign your jotter when you have read the required pages.

Remember to bring your reading book to school every day.Choose a Reading Activity from the list provided and record which activity you have completed in your Home Learning jotter.

Numeracy and MathsWe have been focusing on multiplication and division so far this term. While we use the skip counting method when learning times tables i.e.

counting up in stations, it is really important that once confident with this children begin to work on quick recall of random multiplication and division facts. The groups will remain fairly fluid for the next few weeks depending on the confidence of individuals. The children will move on when they can clearly demonstrate their competence at recalling facts for each times table.If you have a computer at home go to http://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Pick times tables. Pick one of the times tables you have been working on in school.

Remember that you can access the excellent http://www.interactive-resources.co.uk/ website from home; both the username and password are crownprimary (all lower case). Go into the ‘P4 – Miss Gray’ folder and you will find new multiplication games for this term.If you don’t have access to a computer at home, play some times tables games with someone else. Write some times tables questions on card and see who can answer them the fastest when you turn them over.

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Primary 4 Home Learning - fortnight commencing Monday 30th January

Personal PresentationsOne of our targets for this term is to be able to present to an audience and show awareness of voice and body language. We made an excellent start with our Viking presentations last Friday; we are now going to work on building confidence by presenting individual talks to our classmates.

I would like you to choose a topic for your presentation and prepare a personal talk – this can be on anything which interests you; a sport or hobby, a favourite animal, or a famous person or landmark. You will give a more confident presentation if you choose something which you know quite a bit about already. I would like you to produce a poster to support your presentation (Miss Gray can provide paper); prompt cards can be used to help you remember your key facts and you can bring in items to show/pass round. Your presentation should be no shorter than 2½ minutes and no longer than 4 minutes. To keep things fair please do not use Powerpoint on this occasion even if you have access at home – we will be using Powerpoint again later in the term.Presentations will be timetabled for the week beginning 13th February – you must be prepared, as we will draw names out of the hat and you will have to present the next day.What I will be looking for:

A clear voice with good expression and projection. Open body language – face your audience and make some eye contact. Well organised information – no important details overlooked or missed out. Active listening – audience participation – showing an interest and asking relevant questions.

Viking Open AfternoonA huge thank you to everyone who managed along to support our Viking Open Afternoon – it was really great to see the classroom buzzing with enthusiasm! Pictures of the afternoon have been posted on the class blog together with the group presentation Powerpoints for parents/carers who were perhaps unable to come along.

Well done P4 – your singing was amazing, and I was amazed at the quality of your artwork and Powerpoint presentations!

What’s on? Please remember PE every Thursday. Cross country on Tuesday 3-4pm. P4 Wednesday lunchtime Art Club with Miss Gray. Home Learning jotters should be returned to school on Thursday 9th February to be marked before the next round of Home Learning is issued. Up Helly Aa Celebration – Tuesday 31st January (dress as a Viking again if you wish). Don’t forget to follow our school and class blog so that you don’t miss out on any updates.

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