Time Games

I've been looking for some good maths games for you to play. Next term for Maths, we will be learning about telling the time, months, seasons, reading calendars and solving problems about time. I found a very easy game where you make the time on a clock face. It's a bit noisy because the little creature keeps shouting, "Yes," whenever you get the correct answer. Your families will be able to hear how clever you are!
Click on this link to BBC Games and have a try.
Another fun site is Johnnie's Math Page. You can time yourself while you match digital and analogue clocks. You can also practise the skills you learnt in Measurement last term.
I hope you have fun with these games.

Children's Rights Speeches

We havebeen looking at the Save the Children wish list site and thinking about what we would like to buy to help children's rights become a reality for some of the children who Save the Children works with. Listen to our speeches and perhaps you might like to help. Click on the link to go to the wish list to see why a yak is useful and how plumpynut can save a child's life.
Thanks to Save the Children for allowing us to use their photographs for this topic.

Holiday Fun

I have found a fun website for people who love looking at art and making art works. It's the Washington Art Gallery in USA. Click on the link and Have fun exploring. There are lots of fun things to make and do on NGAkids.

Another fun site with activities is National Geographic Kids.

John Bevan-Ford

Yesterday we went to the John Bevan-Ford exhibtion at the Suter Art Gallery. We looked at his workand we used some of his ideas to make patterns in the middle of an outline of a bird. Birds are special to John Bevan-Ford because he used them like people who moved to and from countries. At the end of our session we made a giant floor puzzle of one of his paintings.

Habitats for our Birds

Last month we to the Suter Gallery to see Bing Dawe's exhibition, "Vagrants, Stragglers and the Unloved." We made clay models of threatened and endangered birds and Esther fired them for us. We have been painting them and today we made a big habitat for them. Some are water birds and some are forest birds so we have a forest, a lake and a river that runs down to the sea. It looks great.

Spelling Fun

For our homework last week we had some fun with our spelling words. We wrote funny stories using some of the words. Some people recorded their stories when we shared them on Friday.

Gymnastics

Every Thursday morning we go to the hall for gymnastics. Recently we have been learning about rotation and spring. Last week our focus was spring so we used beat boards and the mini tramp.
Year 4's were tested on beam passes where they did a routine on the low beam. Each week we choose a group to demonstrate the lesson for the next class. It's fun and we love it.

Mathletics

We all had great fun with Mathletics last week. That has finished for now so I have found a little maths game that we can play to help us remember our multiplication facts. Click on the link to play Fleebur and Spinky.