School Residential to Dhaid.

Please be aware that your child needs to be at school between 7:15 and 7:25am on Tuesday, for the school residential trip, as the coach needs to leave the car park at 7:30. This is because school drop off will begin and the car park will be far too busy for the school bus to be parked there. If you have any questions regarding the trip, please email me on scox@dubaibritishschool.ae and I will email back an answer - if I know it!


The children are getting really excited about the trip - so please don't be late!

      

MyMaths

Over the weekend I have set the whole of year 4 with a MyMaths account. If you have secondary children in the school you will already be aware of what MyMaths is. MyMaths is a website that the school subscribes to which allows your child to practise the maths concepts they are covering at school. They can also be set homework on-line instead of putting answers on a worksheet, which is stimulating and visual. I will send your child's password and log-in details home with them on Sunday.


I have already set your child 2 sets of homework so if you would like to log-on over the weekend, please email me with the name of your child and I will email your child's password back. My email is scox@dubaibritishschool.ae


If you would just like to take a look around the site, familiarise yourself and view some of the lessons, please log-on to www.mymaths.co.uk, using the log-on 'dubai' and the password 'circle'. The block we have just done is Numbers (tab on the left hand side), fractions and decimals. Have fun!

Science Assessment

Please be aware that the next Science assessment is on Thursday, covering the Solids and Liquids topic. We have had a long revision lesson today, quickly re-doing experiments that we have previously covered. Please ask your child about these experiments and relate them to the games I have posted on our blog. Please also relate these to everyday situations, such as cooking using liquids or solids.


Good luck with the revision.

Sports Day

Don't forget:


Year 4 Sports Day, Monday 23rd January, 2012. PE kit with house colours, hat and water bottle.

Good Luck!

Maths Games

I've just found some really fun maths games. I've tried quite a few of them and I think they are great for practising rapid recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Choose the timed games for added fun - see how many your child can complete correctly in the time given. 


http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm


Keep repeating and get your child to keep a note of how many they get right in the same time. Get them to give themselves a point every time they beat their score for each game. 






Enjoy!   

Science - Separating Mixtures.

This coming week brings the end of our current Science topic - Solids, Liquids and Gases. We have been looking at separating mixtures in class and we carried out an experiment to separate a mixture of kidney beans, sand and salt. The scientific language used during the experiment was solution, dissolve, filter and evaporate. We talked about what we could do to separate paperclips if they were in the mixture. The following video clip is a similar experiment using a mixture of sand, salt and iron shavings. The scientist in the video used heat to aid the evaporation - we left our solutions on the window sill for 3-4 days with the same effect.

Another thing we learnt about was filtration. Coffee dissolves in water but tea leaves don't so why don't we have tea leaves floating in our tea? A solution (mixture of a liquid and a dissolved solid) will pass through a filter but a solid will not. In this case the filter is the tea bag. The tea bag allows the water to pass through, infusing it with the flavour but the tea leaves stay trapped inside. The following video is a simple explanation of how a filter works.

Sports Day

Just a quick reminder that we have Sports Day on Monday 23rd January. Please send your child to school wearing their PE kits with their house PE top. They will also need a water bottle and hat. 


The PFA will be selling refreshments (tea, coffee and cakes) to any parents who wish to come along to watch.