Separating materials

Today we have been looking at separating different sized materials. We had a mixture of rice, buttons and cotton reels.

We separated these materials by using different sized sieves. The sieves only let through it things that are small enough to go through the holes.

We then poured the mixture through the sieve.

As you can see the cotton reels were left. We then sieved the rest of the mixture through a smaller sieve.

Silent Letters Invasion Game

Click below to have a go at the space invasion game from the BBC skillswise site. Its based upon recognising silent letters in words. Choose an easy and slow level to get used to it first of all. Then try to save the world from an alien invasion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/soundandspell/silentletters/game.shtml

New resources for keeping your child safe online.

Even though this site is designed for primary school staff it carries an important message which all parents and carers need to know about keeping our children safe online. Here is what it says about itself -

"Childnet's Know IT All for Primary Schools has been especially designed for primary school staff to help them understand important E-safety issues and how to help young pupils get the most out of the internet."


http://www.childnet.com/kia/primary/

Great Maths Games

Follow this link to play some great maths games against children from all over the world.

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/

Let me know what you think by clicking on the comment link below.

Our Easter Garden

Before we broke up for Easter, Father David our parish priest gave us a challenge of creating our own Easter Gardens. As always the children rose to the challenge. Here are a few of those we have in school.

Our Palm Sunday Interview.

I know that it is a long time ago but here is one of the finished interviews with an eyewitness that the children completed using www.xtranormal.com

Betty Birney Website

Today we looked at the website for Betty Birney. She is the author of the Humphrey stories that we are reading in class at the moment.
We searched for a number of facts about Betty Birney and in class we will be creating a factfile about her life and her work.
Have a look at the site by clicking upon http://www.bettybirney.com/

Can you answer these questions?

Which schools did Betty go to?
What book did Betty write first?
How many Humphrey books are there?
What is the name of the latest Humphrey book?
What are the names of her husband and children?
What is the name of Betty's dog?

You could answer these questions through the site and send them to me by clicking upon the comments link just underneath.

The world according to Humphrey Chapter 5

In chapter 5 we saw Humphrey work with Mr Morales to try to get the children to calm down and work together. He had a great idea of pretending to go missing and getting Willy and Brenda to help find him. This worked really well and the children not only found Humphrey but managed to work together.

He also gave Aldo his friend information about the moonlighters club, a club for people who work at nights. A very busy hamster indeed.

How safe are you on the internet?

Here a a good site to look at and follow. Even though it is aimed at KS1 it still contains very useful information to help you to stay safe while you are online. Click below to have a look.


http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/5_7/Default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1