Belgrove Senior Girls' School

This week we are taking part in maths week. In fourth class, we are have  great fun by engaging in various games and activities such as Queen of the Tables, designing our classroom door as a whole-school contest, partaking in a maths trails and playing interactive maths games. As part of stations on Thursday, we will also get to play maths games using dominos and figure out some challenging puzzles.

As part of homework, each pupil has been given a user ID, password and school ID for logging into https://www.mangahigh.com/login . Once logged in,click into ‘assignments’ and you can play the games that are there.

Here is another link to play fun games  at home:

 http://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/powerlines/powerlines1.html

Enjoy 🙂

During October we will be learning about the European Union and countries within the E.U.

Welcome to Fourth Class!

Welcome to Ms. Davey’s fourth class blog!

Keep an eye on our blog throughout the year to get updates on what we are doing in class!

Find some fun websites and games listed below that you may like to try.

Maths

Interactive online games and activities to make learning tables fun!

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

Problem solving game involving time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks1/maths/telling_the_time/play/popup.shtml

Gaeilge

http://www.isfeidirliom.ie/

http://digitaldialects.com/Irish.htm

Spellings

Here are some activities to help you practise your spellings at home. All you do is click on the PDF link below and print out these activities. Have a spare spelling copy at home and choose one of these activity cards each evening.

http://www.belgroveseniorgirls.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Spelling-activities.pdf

This is also a great website to practise your spellings through online activities and games. You have to register first for a free account (ask an adult for help with this) and then add in your list of spellings each week as you go.

https://www.spellingcity.com/

Reading

Reading is very important!

Even in fourth class the girls should be reading aloud to an adult and also should be read to by an adult. A great way to do this is sharing the reading.

Discuss the book with your daughter by making predictions, inferring what will happen next or analysing characters.

Authors

Roald Dahl     J.K. Rowling    Michael Murpurgo    David Walliams

Marita Conlon-McKenna       Enid Blyton

(Jacqueline Wilson has some fantastic books for this age group, but do be aware that she also writes for teens and some of her books are inappropriate for primary school).

Books

Here are some excellent books that 4^th class girls have recommended;

1. Harry Potter series
2. Billionaire Boy
3. Heidi
4. Percy Jackson series
5. The Secret Garden
6. Mallory Towers
7. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
8. Wizards of Once
9. The Nine Lives Triology
10. Tom Gates
11. Wonder
12. Auggie and Me
13. Black Beauty
14. A Series of Unfortunate Events
15. Katy
16. The Heros of Olympus
17. The Faraway Tree
18. Matilda
19. Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

Be aware of your own daughter’s ability when helping her choose books. Read the blurb together and discuss the choice.

Summer stars have some great tips on how to choose a book with your child, engaging reluctant readers, reading development etc.

http://www.librariesireland.ie/summer-stars/supporting-childrens-reading-information-sheets/

Vocabulary

When children come across new words in different contexts they develop a stronger understanding and a more detailed vocabulary. Try using new vocabulary from the reading in daily conversations.

Every day we will uncover a new word. Our ‘Word of the Day’ will be given as homework where the girls will use it in their own sentence. Over time we will develop our word bank together.

As discussed in class our project on Brazil will be done in groups. It will mainly be completed in school but you may be asked to do some research at home.

Projects will be displayed in a booklet format. The girls have chosen two topics each to cover. Remember each girl in your group should be able to talk about and explain the information in your project. If you have room at the end of the project you can add in your own interesting facts.

To help get you started;

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/brazil/#brazil-soccer.jpg

https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/brazil-facts.html

https://www.ducksters.com/geography/country/brazil.php

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/geography/physical-geography/amazon-facts/

*Supervision when using the internet is advised.

The library is also a great resource to use when doing projects. See if you can find any books that we could use in your local library.

In fourth class, problem solving is a challenging area in maths. We have started to work on trickier problem solving sums in class and we will be doing a lot of work on them in class to improve our problem solving skills. I will start to send home some problem solving questions for homework too so that the girls are getting plenty of opportunity to practice them 

There are also some good questions that you can do at home if you follow this link https://ie.ixl.com/math/class-4 and scroll down to mixed operations. Start at F1 and work down through the questions. They get harder as you work your way towards F9

The more practice we do, the better we will get at them 🙂

Hope you all enjoyed the lovely mother’s day cups and cards the girls made last week 🙂 

We were studying various types of rocks and soils in fourth class. We had to sort and group the rocks and samples of soil  and then compare and contrast them, focusing on certain criteria.

We looked at different samples of soil from areas around Dublin. In our experiment, we added the same amount of water to each soil type and observed how each reacted.

We also had to look at the properties of various rocks in our groups and share our findings with the class.

Lastly, we explored the influence of soils and rocks on animal and plant life in our environment 🙂

We had great fun building 3-D shapes from craft sticks. Take a look at some of our work 🙂

Here is the website link for coding if you have some free time over the midterm 🙂

http//code.org/minecraft