Brains on, please!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As it is the midterm break, I certainly hope that people are enjoying their time relaxing and not working too hard. But let's not forget to turn on our brains while we are out having fun too!! Remember, our unit is "Water for Life" so keep your eyes peeled for interesting water facts and uses, or abuses.

We hope everyone is having fun and is excited about coming back next week!

Miss D, Miss Bodfish, Miss Lamb

Half term maths fun :)

Well, we're now at the end of our first half term and we have learned so much! Everybody is making progress with their tables and number bonds and we're looking forward to our next maths work on multiplication and division.

We know that everybody is now ready for a holiday and whilst we encourage everybody to spend time with their family and have fun, it is important that we continue to make progress in our times tables and number bonds.

We would be very happy if year 4 could spend a few minutes practising their times tables and number bonds. They could do this by playing games on the woodlands site or using their digit cards or drawing multiplication squares for themselves. Lots of fun ways to get quicker and quicker!

See you all in one week and have a very happy holidays and learn those tables!

Just a reminder about International Day on the 22nd of October from 3:30pm to 6:30pm.

There will be nearly 20 stalls from around the world as well as cultural dancing and foods from across our wondrous planet!

All children can wear their national costume to school (or the colours of their flag).

Players from Benfica will also be attending and children may collect their autographs if they wish (they can also sign tshirts, so please bring an extra tshirt to school).

Please come along and enjoy the fun!

Maths Review

We are now coming to the end of our current work in maths and are busy reviewing what we have learnt so far in maths this year. We made a very long list but decided that the main focus has been on problem solving, addition and subtraction (using partitioning and adjusting) and number facts (such as number bonds upto 20, 50, 100 and 1000). We know that we have made lots of progress but still need to practise all of these new things for homework.

We will be starting more exciting work in maths after the half term break - we'll keep you informed about the areas we will cover through weekly posts on here.

Number Bonds!

We have had soooo much fun practising our number bonds! We need to be able to recall all our number bonds up to 20 (that means number bonds to 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 etc) but we also need to know our number bonds to 50, 100 and 1000 - PHEW!

We have talked about how this takes a LOT of practise. We know we are doing this for homework every Monday night but we also need to practise in class.

Miguel Nunes from 4LB came up with a great idea for helping us work even quicker. He suggested we all use a stopwatch with our maths partners and time how quickly we could recall our number bonds. Everybody had great fun and worked quicker and quicker and quicker! What a great idea Miguel!

Keep on working with this fantastic enthusiasm Year 4 and let's see if we can keep practising those number bonds to beat our times next week!

Make sure you check our blog for links to some fun number bonds games.

International Day!!

Just a reminder that St. Dominic's is going to be hosting International Day on the 22nd of October from 3:30pm to 6:30pm. Everyone is welcome! There will be nearly 20 stalls representing countries and cultures from around the world, so please come out and see cultural dancing, and try foods from across our wondrous planet!

Last Week's Quotes from 4D

"I was proud of the assembly because everyone laughed and had a good time!"

"I was proud of this week because everyone saw the assembly and now knows why we are "Fantastic 4D!""

"I was proud because we worked really well as a team."

Permanent Library Day for 4D

Please remember, 4D, that every Wednesday we have our library day! Be sure to bring back any library books you have signed out with your library bag so that you may get out new ones!

Monday 5th October 2009

Please remember that school is closed on Monday. Normal classes will resume on Tuesday.

Have a great long weekend everybody!

4LB Assembly!

We are going to do an assembly all about family! The sharing will start at 8.30am and is on 9th October 2009.
We hope you can come and enjoy it!

Sonia, Charlene, Miguel P and Sofia 4LB

Voting for Student Council

Yesterday year 6 did many things so we would vote for them and in assembly today they said what they wanted to change in school. They then went to our classrooms so we could vote for them.
We can't wait to find out who has won!

Rita, Afonso, Amrit and Ines 4LB

Bipods and Tripods!

The maths problem for this week needed a lot of thought. It was all about aliens called bipods and tripods. It used lots of addition. It was fun and exciting. We checked it on the carpet with Miss Bodfish.
Let's hope next week's problem is fun!
Aya, Carla, Khalid, Ze and Mads 4LB

Our unit

Our unit is called My Family, My Self. So far we have made posters about our family roles and we also watched movies about families in China, India and Australia. They were nice movies.

Chiara, Daniella and Miguel N. 4LB

Year 4 News

Every week we are going to write some articles about events that have happened for our year 4 blog. We hope that you read them and that you like it!

Laura and Luis 4LB

School Directory Cover Design Competition

Each year the PTA puts together a very useful Directory with phone numbers and addresses to help you and your parents get in touch with each other.

They would like you to get more involved in putting it together and so, for the first time this year, the PTA are running a Junior School competition to design the front cover of the Directory.

There will be a 30€ FNAC voucher for the best design.

Hand in your entry with your name and class to the Main Reception by lunch time Friday 9 October (next Friday).

Only 1 entry per person.