Never Startle a Gnome 4b ‘kn/n/gn’

Never under any circumstances startle a gnome.

My neighbour had a gnome on his neatly mown lawn. One day he thought it would be funny to sneak up behind it and frighten it. The gnome suddenly gained height and he didn’t stop growing until he was as tall as my neighbour’s house.
The gnome picked up my neighbour between his finger and thumb and snarled at him with his gnashing teeth.

My neighbour had resigned himself to his fate when to his surprise the gnome said, “That was the funniest trick I’ve ever known!” and then added laughing, “I’d much rather you did that now and again instead of neglecting me.”

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The elephant has half the alphabet

At the zoo the elephant has half the alphabet painted on his trunk so he will not forget it. The giraffe had to laugh - elephants do not need to know the alphabet! In fact the dolphin thought that it would be fantastic to take photographs of the elephant’s trunk and the giraffe’s long neck. He asked the orphaned fawn for help. It was tough to finally catch them by the fountain at the fifth attempt sufficient effort was made to keep still. Zoos are fabulous places!

Place Value Game

We have been learning about decimals.
Check out this fun pirate game and try to find the buried treasure.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates1.htm

Anagrams

Use this week's spellings to solve these anagrams

1. A breakfast ______________
2. A 3D shape ______________
3. Supermarket shopping ______________
4. View of the landscape ______________
5. A wild plant ______________
6. A decision ______________
7. It makes things move ______________
8. Part of a room ______________
9. The front of a TV ______________
10. An instrument ______________

Sally’s distress

This week our spellings use the se/ce/s sound.

My selfless niece Sally announced last Saturday that she would do all the housework and give her stressed mum a rest. She went to Tesco and bought all the groceries including a choice of cereal and a recipe book. Her mum was impressed. The house was spotless. The windows glistened. Sally whistled and pranced about as she dusted the cobwebs from the ceiling. She thought her day was a success. Descending the steps she was distressed as she tripped over her careless bother’s science kit. What a disaster!!

Can you make your text this week have a Fair trade theme? Don't for get to print a copy so we can share them in class tomorrow morning.

Fair trade

This term Primary 6 pupils are finding out about Fair Trade.

Have a look at the Fairtrade website and see if you can find out answers to the following:

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

In what year did the first Fair Trade label appear?

List 5 products that can be Fairtrade products?

List 3 shops that sell Fairtrade items

Who stocks the most Fairtrade fruit?

Post answers as a comment

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

The blog will be up and running in 2010 again but I will try to put a couple of Christmas riddles online to keep you entertained over the holidays

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Sorry guys for not getting this on sooner

well done to all who posted already. don't forget to try to tick a print out in your homework book so we can share them tomorrow

hope you had a good day

see you tomorrow

Mr Gray

Voicethread

We're experimenting with a website that allows us to exchange and share our opinions. The website is called Voicethread and is used by anybody that is on the internet. So be careful!

You can comment by typing or by recording your comments using a microphone, but you will need to create an account. Any comments that you make will not appear straight away. I will have to check them the way I do on our blog.

Remember the safety tips about creating an account - use your school email address, only use your christian name in you account name.

The website address is http://www.voicethread.com/

You can see and comment on our test post here

Have fun, use the site wisely and this could be great fun

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