Costume Parade - The Photos

Here they are, as promised. Shall we have a little quiz? Can you name the characters and the books they come from?

I can see Fat Boy...Bucket Head Man...Red Dress Girl...er...

Book Week - The Photos

We went to read to a Y2 class on the penultimate day of Book Week. I think everyone really enjoyed it, judging by the happy faces.

Book Week - The Finalé

Wow! What a great week we've had! I think our last day was the best; dressing up, having a parade, seeing a really exciting assembly and, of course, the best part was......

watching tv!!!! Ye-e-e-s-s-s!!

I've got lots of pictures of people in their costumes and I'll be adding them to the blog over the holidays.

In the meantime, have a great holiday and come back safely and rested next term.

Today's Homework

• Colour/paint/decorate your bookmark. We will judge the best bookmark tomorrow. Please make sure that you have done all of the decoration yourself, not asked someone else to do it for you.
• Plan 3 questions for your biography in detail - for example; your questions might be 1. Which countries have you visited?; 2.What are your hobbies?; 3. What jobs have you done? You should then try to think of more questions that will give you as much information about the answers as possible. eg When did you visit those countries? What did you think of them? What did you do in the countries? Who did you go with?
• Don't forget it's Costume Parade tomorrow!
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths D - Don't forget; do the bit inside the brackets first. You only need to write one answer.
• Bring your favourite book to school tomorrow - We will be writing book reviews
• Finish the Happy Family book

In response to a couple of murmurs in the classroom, let me remind everyone (except Rayyan) that we did these books in 2007. I told everyone on Saturday that they needed to have the book ready on Tuesday. There is NO excuse for not having it when we go down to the Y1 class tomorrow. Be warned.

Mystery Object

This shape, as a couple of people spotted, can be made into a pyramid. Well done to Anastasia for getting there first with the answer. We had a few wrong answers and quite a few people trying to give the answer after I'd given out the net worksheet with the name of the shape at the top. Nice try kids!

The exact name, which nobody managed to get, was tetrahedron. So now you know.

Book Week

I just thought I'd update everyone with a couple of points.

Firstly, we are going to the Book Fair on Tuesday. It is not the kind of fair where you can buy books but more like a travelling Book Club. If you see any books that you like you can fill in an order form and give the money in on Wednesday at the very latest.

Secondly, it's Costume Parade on Wednesday. We'll be doing the parade pretty much straight away, in case any parents want to linger around to take photos. If you're trying to decide what character to come as, you can pick anyone who originally appeared in a book. 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin is not a book character but Little Red Riding Hood is, for example.

Have fun!

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths A
• Abacus SDM w/b p.113-114 (That means both!)
• Finish the Happy Family story, including the cover - Now, some people say that they can't find their story. I'm afraid that means they will have to write it again. Perhaps if it had been kept safely in their tray, where it should have been, they wouldn't have to do the same thing two times. Maybe this will help them learn to look after things. We should be going to read our stories to Y1 on Tuesday so you have until then to finish it.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 3
• Abacus SDM Workbook p.115
• Shape wordsearch - Remember, the words in the spelling test will be the shape words you've seen in your work this week.
  
• Find your all-time favourite book. Next week you'll be doing a book review and a presentation about your book so now would be a good time to find it, read it again and maybe start thinking about what you might want to say or write.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 2
• Shape crossword
• Abacus 2 workbook p.57 + p.62. NOT p.57-p.62

If you want to, you could practise the performance reading paper which was given out today. Those who want to enter the competition and win a prize like this



will need to 'perform' tomorrow, after lunch.

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 1
• Learning Paper - ask your mum and dad (or any other adult) which things they think they are good at learning
• Cube - make it, decorate it, stick it
• Some people need to finish Abacus 2 p.19. It's the people who were talking the most, I think.
  

Mystery Objects

It's That Man Again! Rayyan pulled a surprise victory out of the bag with a very early answer to the Mystery Object question. In fact, he actually sent his answer in as a comment at the bottom of one of the messages on here! So, well done for using new technology AND getting the answer right!

Well done also to Mohammed, Ahmed, Aly and Anastasia who told me the correct answer. If I've missed your name from the list, let me know and I'll change it. So many people answered the question I had trouble remembering them. How different to the Maths Quiz in Jeddah Journal, which only had TWO correct answers from Y4.

For those of you who didn't get it, this is an image of the brain in cross-section.



So, if anyone cut a slice across your head, this is what they would see. Sort of.

For those that are interested, here's another question for you: which teacher's brain is this?

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 3
• Write 3 sentences in your writing book using your spelling words. Try to use the words you got wrong. If you are in the Blue group, use the other words which sound the same eg main, not mane
• Prepare presentation: Its TOMORROW! Here are some tips:

1. Aim for at least 1 minute of talking
2. Tell us about what you think of your country
3. You could mention: places you've been, famous places, famous people, the best part about your country, mountains, lakes, the differences between your country and Saudi Arabia (if you're not from here)
4. You could also try to teach us some words from your language (if it's not English)
5. If you're telling us about what you think, do you really need to read from a paper?
   

Testing

Yesterday's homework has disappeared and I can't seem to get it back again. Hmm.

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 2
• Abacus 2 workbook p.50
• Copy the 'Winter Memory story neatly onto paper
• Begin researching your country for a presentation on Wednesday. You will need to speak for 1 minute about either the place where you are born or the place where your family are from.
  

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 1
• Learn spellings
• Finish the learning paper - we started it in class this morning. You need to tick the boxes to show how you like to learn
• Holiday plan - Write the answers in sentences or in paragraphs. Stick the paper in your topic book and write the answers next to it. Don't write it on the paper. You can give it in tomorrow or on Monday. Don't be late!
  

Spellings: Week Beginning 01/03/08

Blue Group
You will need to know the meanings of these words
rein reign
sew sow
rowed rode
scent sent
vain vein
plane plain
aloud allowed
main mane

Main + Yellow Group
Compound Words (not like Basateen)
playground
blackboard
football
cupboard
upstairs
anywhere
something
everybody

Topic Words (for everyone)
brain
learn
memory
style

Mystery Object

Well done to Rayyan for the best answer to last week's question. This object



is John Harrison's first sea clock, an invention which allowed sailors to accurately measure their position for the first time. His invention led to advances in mapping and exploration. The clock can still be seen today, more than 200 years after it was invented.