Learning zone - year 3 & 4
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Area of learning |
Name of Activity | Description |
| English | Look, say, cover, type and check | A programme to help children learn their spellings. After children have entered the spellings they wish to learn flash cards are created.Subsequently these are shown to the children. After a view they are covered and children have to type out the spelling and check to see if it is correct. |
| English | CBBC Newsround | A news site from the BBC for children. You can listen and read news items as well as send in your comments. Check out the Harry Potter pages and vote for your favourite baddie. |
| English | Learning vocabulary can be fun | Word searches, crosswords, hangman, matching games and quizzes to develop children’s reading skills. |
| Mathematics | Millenium Bug race | A game for 2 involving adding 2 numbers
together as quickly as possible. Good for sharpening up addition skills.
The game can be played at different levels of difficulty. |
| Mathematics | Sorting games | Nine different sorting activities to help the development of reasoning. |
| Mathematics | Number Board | This is a series of problem solving activities. Children are asked to use a ‘broken’ calculator that only has a few keys working properly to make a set of given numbers. |
| Mathematics | Calculation Balance | Good for number bond work and learning multiplication tables. There are a range of different activities available. |
| Mathematics | Post sorting | A series of different activities all of which involve pupils posting a letter: tens and units; rounding; converting pence to pounds and vice versa. |
| Mathematics | Guess my number | Good for basic algebra work and understanding about inverse operations. |
| Mathematics | Hit the button | The best possible way to practise multiplication tables. Children have to either find the answer to a multiplication question or use the answer to find the question. The site is also useful for ‘quick fire’ number bonds work and deriving division facts. |
| Mathematics | Fractions | A range of activities to assist children to understand more about fractions. |
| Mathematics | Ghostblasters | A game to help children recognise multiples. |
| Mathematics | Angle Activities | Different activities to help your child measure angles accurately. There is a moveable protractor that can be used to measure different sized angles. |
| Science | Put Annie back together | An activity to help children learn about
the main bones in the human skeleton. |
| Science | Power up | Learn about electricity by taking part in a number of different activities designed to teach the important areas of this subject taught in primary school. |
| Science | Space Cadets | A site created by the British National Space Centre with a number of animated films providing information about day and night and our solar system. |
| Science | The Glaxo Smith Kline Active Science Site | This site contains four activities for 8 year olds. There is some reading to do and some activities to do against the clock. There are units on the organs in the body, energy and population. |
| Science | Life processes and living things | Find out about where some animals live, what they eat and about looking after our environment. The site is by North West Grid for Learning,. |
