Fashion Fun

Here's a game for all you budding fashion designers. Dress up the girls to show what they could be wearing on their summer holidays. Who knows, maybe it will inspire your own wardrobe this summer?!

http://www.dressupgirl.net/dressup/687/Summer-Holiday.html

Oh... and there's a dress up boys section too. 

Spring Information

Blanca M asked me for some info about springs. So here are a few links, remember this counts towards your reading target!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/physical_processes/magnets/read4.shtml

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/magnetssprings.html

http://www.sciencebus.co.uk/topics/magnets.html

Hope these help. Also you could spend some time looking for magnets and springs in things that you have in your house.

Tom

Change Exchanger

A new game from ICT resources which helps practice our current Maths target. Which is of course "I can subtract mentally by counting on from the smallest number to the largest number." This game will also help you with your money calculation skills! Enjoy.

Problem Solving Game

Ambleside Primary have a great mental maths / word problems game here. Just the thing to keep you going through the summer holidays.

Make Your Own Computer Games

Our ICT lesson for this week was a bit different in that we decided to make our very own computer games. We unfortunately don´t have much time to do this kind of thing in school so if you want to have a go at home use this link and click on "DEMO".

Horrible Histories Games

Play some games from the Horrible Histories website. They cover most of the topics we have looked at this year and some we haven't.

British Council Website

A website for children who are learning to speak English. It has loads of games, songs and videos. It is also good for your reading. Let me know if you play with it. 

Demolition Division

This is a really fast-paced and exciting game which helps you practice your divisions. Make sure you use your muliplication facts to help you. Can you find your way to the top of the leaderboard?

Viking Trading Game

This link takes you to the BBC Primary History Viking Site on Viking Raiders. If you click on the link at the bottom of the page in the activities section called  "BBC Primary History - Thorkel and the trading voyage" then you will get to the game.  

Try answering these questions:

1.  Whose family does Thorkel have to collect gifts for?

2.  What will the captain allow Thorkel to do if he collects the gifts?

3.  Who does Thorkel meet at the leather workers shop?

4.  What does Thorkel take back for Captain Olaf’s father?

5.  Name four other leather items in the shop.

6.  Which piece of jewellery will bring Captain Olaf’s wife good luck?

7.  Name four other pieces of jewellery in the shop.

8.  Name four things that the bone carver makes.

9.  What type of weapon will Thorkel take for Captain Olaf’s son?

10.  What other types of weapons does Harald make?

11.  Who is Gyda?

12.  Make a list of five things that the wood carver makes.

Thanks to Barbara Saleh from Primary Resources.com

Online Shape Poems

This is a fantastic site from the Woodland Trust (an organisation which helps to look after forests) where you can draw and write your own shape poems online. The site has some ideas to inspire you to start or you can draw your own shape. What's even better is that the site includes LOADS of vocabulary to use in your poems. Please give it a go.

The Woodland Trust has more spring time activities here. They need to be downloaded so please ASK MUM OR DAD FIRST!

A Library of Games

The British Library in London have documented children's games since 1900.

Find out more here.

Compound Words

This game tests your knowledge of compound words. Just in case you have forgotten a compound word is a word made up of two words which both mean something different:

e.g. tea + pot = teapot

The link also gives you access to 20 (yes 20) other cool games which are both fun to play and help your English. Enjoy and don't forget to write a comment if you have anything to tell me about the games (good or bad).

Tom

An Amazing Alliteration Activity with Aliens

This game is extremely simple; just repeat the sentence you see and hear on the screen. To make it more difficult you could try copying the Jamaican accent of the lady saying the sentences or by doing silly accents (an alien, a cat, a very Spanish accent or a very English accent etc.)

Money Problems

A game which helps you practice your problem solving with money. It shows you one way to work out subtraction calculations using coins.

Rock Hardness

UPDATE: I have now changed this link to take you directly to the game: Try it again!

Remember the lesson we spent scratching rocks? Well here is a game in which you have to scratch the rock then use what you learn to choose a drill bit.

The numbers the game uses are from Moh's Hardness Scale. You don't need to learn them but it is useful to know that they exist.

Enjoy.

Play Dig it Up

Go to the BBC Anglo-Saxon site and look for the link to the Dig it Up game.

Happy Digging!

Viking Icebreaker

Break the frozen Vikings out of the ice and make sure they make it into the longship by slicing through the ice.

Probably won't help you with your History but it's fun...

Unmask the Lewis Chessmen

Click Here to Begin

Lots of reading to do with this but it is very beautifully made. It will also teach you a lot about Viking Games.

Spring Flowers

As the rain lashes down on the playground and the icy wind chills us to the bone I thought we should turn our mind to Spring. And fractions.

Spring Fractions is a game which allows you to practice you knowledge of simple fractions of shapes.