ROOM 5's blog: October 2014

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

What’s On?? Term 4 2014

Room 4 NCA

Welcome back for Term 4 – Hope you had a great holiday J

Christian Living

We are thinking about ‘God is truth and wants us to be truthful’. We are confident in the belief that truth is knowable, and that it will set us free to live the lives that God planned for us to live. When we live truthfully it means that we have integrity – our actions and our words match up with what we believe. We will demonstrate our love for God and others as we seek to live with integrity and complete truthfulness.

Weekly Scriptures

Psalm 43:3, John 1:17, Ephesians 4:25, John 14:6, Proverbs 12:19, Psalms 119:72-73, Job 34:21-22, Galatians 5:16-17, Luke 12:2-3, John 8:31-32

Science

Together and in groups we will investigate: LIGHT

Light exposes truth about things hidden. We are told that God is light and that we should walk in the light.

As we study light in Science, we will investigate: the properties of light, how it is refracted and reflected, how we use light, and the ways it impacts our lives through technology.

Art

Painting, Christmas art

PE/ Sport

Athletics – Long Jump, High Jump, Discus, Sprinting. Swimming

School Events
Friday 31st October Disco

NCA School Athletics Day – Friday 21^st Nov

Stoke/ Richmond Interschool Athletics – Wed 3^rd Dec

Prize Giving Production TBA

Home learning

Scripture memory, Reading (record on sheet), Spelling: 4 nights per week (if needed) testing 10 words from lists in the back of spelling book – please tick these,

studyladder.com – Maths multiplication.com – x tables practice, Maths worksheet or Dragon Maths x 2 weekly

Optional: Publishing/ PowerPoint

Term 1 2017

Reading

STRATEGY - Making Connections

Text to self - When we make a link between the text and our own prior knowledge and experience.

Summarising

Using information webs and other graphic organisers to present the main ideas and facts we have read about. Later we use this to make google slides to share with others.

Writing

Descriptions of a moment in time

We will learn the correct tense and how to use our five senses to write descriptions about our special places and moments in time e.g. watching dogs on a beach. Mondays we will have fun with narrative stories.

To proofread our work we will use PIGS - check Punctuation (capital letters, full stops...), Interesting words (adjectives, technical words, precise verbs, similes), Grammar (present tense), Spelling (find errors and underline, look some up).

Maths

Addition and subtraction - looking at two main strategies: using ones and tens, and using tidy numbers. Number knowledge: adding to 100 e.g. 75 + .... = 100, and calculating how many 10s and 100s are in a number (plus many other knowledge goals). We will be beginning to memorise x2, x10 and x5 tables. We will study geometry - rotations, turns, reflections, slides.