Half term home learning...

The children have been set the challenge of writing a poem during the holidays. We hope they have been inspired after their bracing walk to Maiden Castle on Thursday!
We reinacted many fight scenes between the Celts and Romans, therefore the children have been asked to write a poem focussing on either group and what life must have been like back then.
 It can be an Acrostic, Haiku, Cinquain, rhyming or non-rhyming poem, any poem structure is welcome! Also to present however they wish! Good luck and we can't wait to read them.

Homophone homework - results?!

Well, I did say that I would blog to state the family winners. A great turn out by a lot of the class, some great finds too especially homonyms (words spelt the same but mean different things) like shoot, spelt, foundation, I could go on! Homographs were more tricky due to pronunciation being different...

Anyway, our finalists were the Bishop family, the Munday family, the Mead family, the Bascombe family, the Duncalf family and the Stevens family with all families finding 40+ words. The winner was........ the Duncalf family! Well done John and his family for a super effort of 76 words found!
 

Spellings for half term!?

Here are the spellings for this half term. The focus is plurals (more than one) and the rules that the children should know in regards to making more than one. Ask them; when do we add an s, es, drop the y then add ies or in a word ending in an o, what do you add then?!
 Lastly two words to aid to our vocabulary, find out what 'puerile and impedes' mean? Add them to your writing repertoire

Spelling – Year 4 – 27^th May 2013

Choose your list and learn these spellings for next week.

List 1 –   went then when because therefore

List 2–   bushes beaches glasses games delays

List 3 –   watches berries ferries cities coins

List 4 –   scissors trousers loaves clothes tomatoes potatoes ramparts ditches puerile impedes

 

More pleading!

Hello all,

Just a couple of things:

1.  Year 4 are out on our Maiden Castle walk this Thursday so if any parents are free (just for the morning) and want to join us please let us know. The more the merrier.

2. We are still making a whole class mosaic and we would be humbly grateful for any spare tiles that anyone may have lying around - we have a quite lot of white, orange and brown so any other colours would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

POWSA Silent Auction

POWSA Silent Auction

The silent auction started at the Summer Fair on Saturday 18th May and will be drawn on the morning of Wednesday 22nd May - so you still have time to bid for one of the items! Please go to the school office for a bid form.


Item 1 - a set of second hand ladies golf clubs with a brand new golf bag. 

Item 2 – A family ticket to Wookey Hole Caves and attractions

Item 3 – Family ticket to Lulworth Castle

Item 4 - 2 child tickets to Fleet Air Arm Museum.

Item 5 - 2 child tickets to Marwell Zoo.

Item 6 – White Company Fragrance Set.

Item 7 – A ladies bag and 2 scarves.

Item 8 – 3 course Dinner for two at Moonfleet Manor (excluding drinks).

Item 9 – Lunch for two at Olives et al

Item 10 - Green Fee voucher for four people at Came Down Golf Club

Homophone challenge!

For this week's home learning we have set the challenge (or a family challenge!!) to find out as many homophones as possible!

A homophone is a word which has another word that sounds exactly the same however they are spelt differently and have different meanings (i.e. tale and tail, see and sea).

Good luck; the family which takes up the challenge will be congratulated on the blog at the end of the week! Likewise individual children will be rewarded for their efforts.

 

This week's spellings...

This week's spelling list 2, 3 and 4 have the focus of 'prefix'. The prefix 're' states that the verb is repeated and the prefix 'dis' makes the root word change to mean the opposite!
 

Spelling – Year 4 – 20^th May 2013

List 1 –   said when what there have

List 2–   rebuild redo replay revisit rewind

List 3 –   disobey disagree disrepair retrace rethink

List 4 –   disappear dissatisfy discomfort discourteous dishonour disguise dishevel dismantle