The Jesse Tree

The Jesse Tree is a unique Advent tree that can be very useful for teaching children about the Bible at Christmas, and a fun activity, too! The Jesse Tree represents the family tree, or genealogy of Jesus Christ. It tells the story of God's salvation plan, beginning with creation and continuing through the Old Testament, to the coming of the Messiah. The name comes from Isaiah 11:1, "Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit."
The Jesse Tree

What it is, what it means, and how to make one.

Origin
The Jesse tree represents Jesus' family tree. The name is taken from Isaiah 11:1, in which Jesus is referred to as a shoot coming up from the stump of Jesse, the father of David.
The ornaments on the Jesse tree tell of Jesus' ancestors, and of the events leading to Jesus' birth.
Symbols

Adam and Eve

Apple (Genesis 2:4-3:24)

Noah

Ark or rainbow (Genesis 6:11-22, 7:17-8:12, 20-9:17)

Abraham

Knife (Genesis 12:1-7, 15:1-6)

Isaac

Ram (Genesis 22:1-19) Jacob

Ladder (Genesis 27:41-

28:22)

Joseph

Colorful coat (Genesis 37, 39:1-50:21)

Moses

Tablets of the law (Exodus 2:1-4:20)

David

Harp (1 Samuel 16:17-23)

Isaiah
Lion and lamb (Isaiah 1:10-20, 6:1-13, 8:11-9:7) Mary

Lily (Luke 1:26-38)

Elizabeth

Small home (Luke 1:39-55)

Joseph

Hammer or saw (Matthew 1:18-25)

Roots are important parts of a tree. As people, we need to know our roots, as well. Often, we run from one thing to another without reflecting on where we've been or where we are going. As we create a Jesse tree during this Advent season, let us pause and look at our lives to see on whose shoulders we stand.
Activity
Make a Jesse tree for your home. First, take a large, bare branch and secure it in a pot of sand or rocks. (You can also use a large potted plant or evergreen.) Create ornaments that trace Jesus' royal line by making symbols for some of the people found in the Hebrew testament. Make the ornaments out of cardboard or construction paper and decorate as you like.
Instead of hanging all the ornaments on the tree at one time, you may want to hang one on every other day of Advent. Read the Scripture citation given here as you hang each ornament on the tree.

Mrs Hinsley's Spellings Monday 29th November 2010

Singular = one
Plural = more than one

The Rules

1. To most words you just add ‘s’….. dog / dogs.

2. To words ending in s, sh and ch you add ‘es’…. church / churches

3. To some words ending in f add ‘ves’… leaf / leaves

4. Words ending in a consonant then y add ‘ies’…. Library / libraries

5. To words ending in a vowel then y add ‘s’…. key / keys

Activity 1

Turn the words into plurals


baby         hat

story         toy

box           scarf

pony         leaf

day           church

Weighing Scales especially for Dhanisha

Try this game to see if you can read the correct number of grams or kilograms on the scales.

http://www.ictgames.com/weight.html

Have a go at choosing the right adjective to describe what is going on in this text.

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/english/monmouthshire/choose_adj_monmouthshire.html

Adjectives make our writing more interesting. They help the reader get a better visual image of what you are describing.

Mrs Hinsley's Spellings Monday 22nd November

Plurals of words ending in 'f', 'ff' and 'fe'

1. beliefs
2. loaves
3. puffs
4. reefs
5. shelves
6. sniffs
7. thieves
8. wolves
9. calves
10. chiefs
11. cliffs
12. cuffs
13. halves
14. knives
15. leaves

Practise your times tables so that you can meet your Maths target.

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/timestable/interactive.htm

Listen to the song and watch the film based on The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

The Highwayman - See what some Year 5 chidren thought of the poem.

Fractions Practice

Try these w.eb sites to remind you about what you have been learning

http://www.vectorkids.com/vkfractions.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/fractiondecimalpercentage/fractions/introduction/quiz.shtml

Drawing 3D shapes

3D shapes - what are they?

Spellings for Mrs Nicholls's group 15th Nov - th words

Group 1: think, thump, moth, with, Thursday, thunder, brother, other, thought, thumb, thank, earth.


Group 2: think, thank, moth, with, Thursday, that, brother, other, thank, earth.

Test on Friday. Be ready! Good luck.

Symmetry

Mrs Nicholls's Maths group will be learning about symmetry in polygons tomorrow. Are you ready?

Rhyme Time song!

th sound

The Shema - in Hebrew

The Shema

The Shema is a Jewish prayer that Jesus would have learnt as a small boy and he would have said it every day. The Shema is the first prayer a Jewish child learns. The word "Shema" means Hear and that is the first word of the prayer.

The Shema is made up of three paragraphs from the Torah (the Jewish Scriptures)

•Paragraph 1 - Deuteronomy 6:4-9
•Paragraph 2 - Deuteronomy 11:13-21
•Paragraph 3 - Numbers 15:37-41

Here is the English translation of the first paragraph.

Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

Blessed is His name, whose glorious kingdom is forever and ever.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and all your soul, and all your might. These words that I command you today shall be upon your heart. Repeat them to your children, and talk about them when you sit in your home, and when you walk in the street; when you lie down, and when you rise up. Hold fast to them as a sign upon your hand, and let them be as reminders before your eyes. Write them on the doorposts of your home and at your gates.

Deuteronomy 6: 4-9

Mrs Hinsley's Spellings Monday 15th November

You have 12 spelling words altogether


Your first seven spelling words are the plural form of;

Fireman, foot, child, woman, sheep, mouse, tooth

Activity 1

One fireman, two ___________One foot, two __________

One child, two___________ One woman, two  ___________

One sheep, two __________ One mouse, two __________

One tooth, two _________________

Your next five spelling words all end in ‘y’ and your spelling words are the plural form
Remember take off the 'y' and add 'ies' to make the plural

Fly, fairy, lolly, enemy, daisy

One daisy, three _________ One fairy, four ______________

One fly, two ___________ One lolly, ten ______________

One enemy, lots of __________

Activity 2

List all of your spelling words in alphabetical order in two lists. Like this:

Singular Plural (spelling words)

Child  - Children

REMEMBER TO LEARN YOUR SPELLINGS EVERY NIGHT.

French - days of the week

French - numbers 1 to 10

Henry VIII and his six wives video.

Can you name them all and say what happened to them?

Newsbites

Remembrance Day - The Second World War

Remembrance Day - The First World War

Doctor Polygon song

2D and 3D shapes. How many can you name?

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/3d/index.htm

Can you count the rectangles?

Not as easy as it sounds!

http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_November16.asp

Good luck!

Play Fling the Teacher!

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/numeracy/shape/interactive/shapes.htm

Which teacher will you fling?

PE

From next week (15th November) PE will be on MONDAYS.

Please remember your correct PE kit.

Jewish Artefacts

How much can you remember?

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/re/m_parry_carmarthenshire/arteffactau/contents%20Iddew.htm

Similes

Do you remember what a simile is? Can you explain why we use them in our writing? Can you use similes in your own writing? Try to spot the similes in this poem.

My Tree 

She lives with branches like arms

Wide and long they grow,

She sings her song of the wind.

Leaves rustling like nails clicking,

Little flakes of bark peeling just like the skins of desert rocks.

She feels wrinkly like a rhino’s skin,

She smells like flowers

And in the dead of night she waits…

Find the Fractions

Try these 2 websites to practise the skills that you have learnt in your maths lessons this week.


http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_103_g_1_t_1.html

http://www.visualfractions.com/IdentifyCircles/identifycircles.html

For those in Mrs Hinsley's Maths Class who are struggling with the 3 times tables.

Visit this Tudor site and have a go at jousting.

http://www.tudorbritain.org/joust/

Find Fractions - Mrs Hinsley's Maths Group

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/ngfl/ngfl-flash/fractions/index.htm

Mrs Hinsley's Spellings - Monday 8th November

The rule is: If a word ends in sh, ch, ss, x, s or o,
then add ‘es’ to make it a plural (more than one.)

Activity 1
Your spelling words this week are the plural form of all of the words in the list.
stitch, kiss, watch, bus, dish, potato
domino, box, witch, patch, wish, class
Copy the following list into your book and make the plurals
One stitch, two stitches. One kiss, two
One watch, two ______ One bus, two ________
One domino, two _____ One box, two _______
One witch, two ________ One patch, two ________
One wish, two _______ One class, two _________
One dish, two_________ One potato, two __________
Activity 2 - Copy the sentences into your books and put in the correct plural word
1. The fairy gave me three w_________.
2. My mum gives me lots of good night k______.
3. There were lots of b_______ at the bus station.
4. We were sewing and I did lots of s________.
5. Max and James had a game of d_________.
6. There are two c_______ in year four; 4H and 4S.
7. My sister put her toys into the toy b ____.
8. I put ice cream into four d_____.
9. The two wicked w_______ put a spell on Sam.
10. Mum sewed two p________ onto Tom’s jeans.
11. I had two roast p_________ with my dinner.
12. We all checked our w_________ to see if it was time to go home.

Stay safe when holding sparklers...

Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night? The Gunpowder Plot!

Carroll Diagram

Try this link to sort shapes into a Carroll Diagram.
http://www.coppschool.lancsngfl.ac.uk/blackbar.htm?/Classwork/Classwork/Class3/maths/data.htm

Thank you!

We would like to thank everyone for coming to our very enjoyable INSPIRE workshop this morning. The children thoroughly enjoyed having their grown-ups in school and we hope that you all found the session useful.

Should you have any questions or comments on what we talked about, please do come and have a chat.

Thank you.

Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Hinsley.

Simple Science - Find out about our topic on 'Keeping Warm'.

4C Keeping Warm Video from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Science - Keeping Warm

4C Keeping Warm Song from Simple Science on Vimeo.

Penguins on ice

Can you use the correct punctuation at the end of each sentence?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/penguins_on_ice/small_sound/standard.shtml

8 times table cartoon

8 times table trick!

Mrs Nicholls's spellings 1st November

This week we are learning words with the ea vowel phoneme when it sounds like 'e', as in head.

Group 1: head, bread, thread, sweat, heavy, feather, healthy, death, deaf, weather, heaven, spread.

Group 2: head, bread, dead, deaf, ready, spread, ahead, weather.

Use LOOK, SAY, COVER, WRITE, CHECK to learn your words ready for our test on Friday.

Good luck!

Mrs Nicholls

Year 4 Inspire Workshop

We would like to welcome parents, carers or other adults who will be coming along to our Inspire Workshop on Thursday 4th November.

We hope that you will find the workshop useful, that you will enjoy working with your child and that you will discover many new ways of helping and supporting your child's learning.

RE - inside a synagogue

We have learnt that Jesus was a Jew and that he would have been brought up by Mary and Joseph to know and understand the faith traditions of Judaism.

We have also learnt some new facts about the Jewish faith and place of worship. Most of us can even spell 'synagogue'

If you want to remind yourself about the inside of a synagogue then click on the link below to take a virtual tour.

http://www.surreyplacesofworship.org.uk/virtualvisits/synagogue/

Welcome back

Mrs Hinsley and Mrs Nicholls would like to welcome you back to school. We are looking forward to another busy half term. We hope that you had a good rest and are ready to work hard and learn lots of new things.

Mrs Hinsley's Spelling Homework Monday 1st November 2010

Singular means only one,
Plural means more than one.

Plurals ending in ‘s’ or ‘es’

Bucket, church, bush, pencil, brush, torch, princess, spade, fox, flute
http://www.lancsngfl.ac.uk/curriculum/literacy/lit_site/lit_sites/plurals/pl_2/esplurals.htm
 - log on to the website(if you can) to practise your spellings.


Your spelling words are not the singular words above but the plural of these words. Eg bucket – buckets (this is your spelling word)

Activity 1

Put your 10 spelling words in alphabetical order both singular and plural, like this

Bucket- buckets

Activity 2

Write some sentences using all of the plurals of your spelling words. Underline each one as you use it. Like this;-

Once there were two princesses who kept some foxes in two nearby churches.

Learn your spellings and work out the rule for changing the words from singular to plural.