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.

Poodwaddle.com

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 3
• Cut and stick the timepiece paper - match the definitions of a timepiece with the name of the timepiece, eg sundial, wrist watch etc
• Finish the acrostic of your name - some people might have finished this already. I want you to paint them tomorrow so make sure they are finished tonight.
• Get the brain code - go to the website I mentioned below, enter your code. If it works, write it clearly or print the results. If it doesn't work, do the test again. If your internet isn't working, GET A NOTE IN YOUR DIARY!!
  

Learning About Learning

As you know, we're about to start a new ITU all about learning; how we do it, what different ways there are of doing it, how we can change the way we learn to make learning more successful and so on. One of our colleagues found a website which analyses the way you learn, based on your answers to some questions. I've done it and the results are quite interesting. If you do it you might find out something about yourself that you weren't expecting. Click on 'Take The Test'.

When you've finished it, you'll be given a code number (mine is dss14xwc20514rxv) and if you save it we can look at all the results for the class.

Today's Work

We tried to continue with the tv schedule work and discovered that some people had been completely making it up as they went along instead of checking the time in their country against the time in Jeddah. Of course, if a race is happening at 9am in Jeddah, you can't show it at 9am in your country if you are 3 hours ahead of Jeddah.

Afterwards we tried something a bit easier: times tables. We continued with the six times tables and got quite a lot done.

The hardest thing we did today was the paper about the months of the year and how they got their names. It might be easy for Monika because the names are all Latin in origin and she speaks Italian. But, everyone can do it if they have a go.

Finally, some people have been nagging for me to put 'Who Wants To Be A Mathionaire?' on the website. There it is. Happy now?

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 2
• Cut and stick the months - There are three parts to each row: first the name of the month (January); then the origin on the word (Janus); then the reason why the month was given that name (God of Doors, so he opened the door on the new year and closed the door on the old year).

Some of the months may be a bit hard but, if you remember the answers people gave in class you'll only have about 5 that you don't know. A bit of intelligent guesswork should help you finish them all off.

Multiplication Game

Post your top score in the comments!

Today's Work

Well, this was me today, trying to get the class to make a paper aeroplane. Honestly, they were so lazy and useless. They couldn't follow any instructions. Some of them were even talking! I've never seen anything like it. I shouted and shouted, told them they were rubbish, said they should be embarrassed, everything...

Of course, I'm not really like that, as everyone knows. It was all just a game to try and show the students in Y4 the different things we can do to help people learn. Feeling happy, feeling confident and safe, knowing that someone is there to help you, knowing that what you do is appreciated all helps make learning not only more enjoyable, but also more successful.

So, for the last time, I was just PRETENDING to be nasty and anyone who says I am always like that will get double detention.

Anyway, here's the rest of today's work for our injured colleague:

Topic:
We continued making a tv schedule, finding it a bit easier to decide when to show programmes and how to work out the time difference between Jeddah and different countries. This might be useful to read to learn more about time zones.

Maths:
We continued working through Abacus; we're on to p.7 and 8 from Book 2. This section is all about times tables. We're doing our 6x table at the moment and we continue on to do all of them except 7x, 8, 11, and 12x. So, make sure you know the rest of them.

This Week's Work

Unfortunately, one of our class members has fractured his arm rather badly so I will try to use this post as a record of what we've been doing in class. I'll try to update it every day but you'll have to keep coming back to this post to find out what to do.

Of course, it will also help anyone who hasn't been paying attention in class, but I'm sure there's nobody like that in Y4-5!

Saturday

Topic - we tried making a tv schedule for the Olympic Games. Each group pretended to be in a different country. The Olympics were in Jeddah so they had to find out what times the events were shown in Jeddah and decide if they wanted to show live events, or only highlights, in their country.

The difficult part was working out what time it would be in their country, compared to the times in Jeddah. Some people were trying to show live events when they hadn't even started in Jeddah. Some people were trying to show highlights when the event hadn't finished.

Maths - we continued work with our times tables, moving on to the 6x table.

Spelling - we thought of as many homophones as we could. A homophone is a set of words which have exactly the same sound. For example; see and sea; knew and new; meet and meat. We also tried to think of words with silent letters; for example, fiGHt, throuGH, WeDnesday

Today's Homework

• Daily Maths 1
• Abacus 2 p.6 (Not your Abacus workbook)
• Copy one of the pieces of writing from your Writing book onto the piece of paper I gave you. You should do your best writing and try to avoid whatever mistakes you made the first time around. The best pieces will be chosen to go on the Y4 display.
  

Spellings: Week Beginning 23/02/08

listen
honesty
castle
which

right write
knew new
hear here
to two too
their they're there
would wood
threw through