What makes good Instructions?

We have been looking at what makes good instructions to help us write our own. We worked in groups to look at different types of instructions and talk about what we thought was good.

We decided that good instructions have:

1. A clear title
2. A 'what you will need' part
3. Diagrams with labels
4. Bullet points and numbers
5. Simple, easy to read sentences
6. Lots of 'bossy' action verbs
7. Sentence openers like first, next, finally.

Multiplication Games

Have fun learning your multiplication calculations. Here is a good game for x3 and x4 to get you started. Click here for Space Race

And when you are good at that, why not try more tricky times tables, with lots of excellent games here.

Remember, our target is to know the answer in just three seconds!

Tudor Jousting Game

You have to be very quick to win the jousting in the court of King Henry VIII. Try to go as fast as you can and get close to the taget as you can to be one of the best knights.

Good luck! Let me know how well you did.

To play the game click here

The Tudors

For our new theme topic we are going back in time five hundred years to Tudor England. It was a period in British history when there were big changes. It was a time when Britain became a powerful nation and took to the seas to explore the world.

You can read lots about Tudor life by clicking here.

Myths and Legends

We are looking at myths and legends for our new language arts project. This website has a wonderful collection of cartoon myths and legends from around the world which you can read and listen to.

Why not listen to a few and if you like one, why not tell other children about it in the comments?

Click here to visit the website

Quick Minibeast Quiz

 

 

Here is a quick quiz about minibeasts. It uses some of the new words we have learnt, like nectar, pollen, arachnid, colony and habitat.

See how quickly you can get all the questions correct!

Click here to take the quiz

Concentration Game

OK, watch carefully ... where's the red? This is a great game to test your power of concentration. Have a go, see how far you can get and let me know in the comments!

Click here to play Where's the Red

(Plays in every browser except IE)

Well done Porsche!

 

Congratulations to Porsche who was our class spelling champion after scoring a perfect 25 out of 25 in our recent competition. Well done too to Yuk Yik and Nemo who also got every spelling correct! The competition went to a 'sudden death' round when Porsche won by spelling 'friendly' correctly.

Thank you to all the parents who generously sponsored their children for the spelling bee, your support is greatly appreciated!