As a class this week we have been looking at how we can be kind to each other. Each group were given a scenario where the children were unkind. The children acted out the scene and we discussed the unkind action that had taken place. We then gave the children who performed the scenario ‘advice’ on what their characters should do in that situation. The acting skills of all children and the advice they gave blew me away! Well done Year 4!
Maths – This week we have been focusing on multiplication and division. We have been looking at what happens to the digits when we multiply numbers by 10 or 100. We have also been looking at the column method of division which leave a remainder.
English – In English we have been really working hard on our descriptions. We have focused our writing on ‘Kevin the Carrot’ (2018) Christmas advert where Kevin’s family is locked away inside a castle by the Wicked Parsnip. The children wrote their own description of the castle and the indoor setting.
Science – We have been exploring classification keys this week and created our own about woodland creatures.
History – This week we have completed our newspaper report on the Battle of Hastings. I was extremely impressed with the detail and effort all the children put into their work!
RE – In RE this week we have been looking at the time of Advent and how we can serve others. We then created our ‘advent promises’ where we wrote a promise of how we can serve others at home and at school.
Important notice
We are collecting tokens as part of ‘The Sun’ newspaper Books for School campaign. If we collect 3500 tokens we will be sent £600 worth of books. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.
Please can I ask all parents to make sure that they sign their child’s reading record as it is the only record we have of you child reading at home.
Award Winners
Maths Award – The Maths Award this week went to Jack. Jack’s hard work and effort in Maths has blown me away this week. He has been even choosing his own challenges! Well done Jack!
Star Writer – We had two writing awards this week. The writing award for last week went to Theo. Theo’s recount of a lion coming into a school playground was incredible. Well done Theo!
My writing award for this week went to Nevaeh for the accuracy and detail she had put into her newspaper report on ‘The Battle of Hastings’. Well done Nevaeh!
Golden Award – The Golden Award this week was awarded to Kayden. Kayden has blown me away this week with how focused and eager he is to learn. His hard work and effort has really paid off this week as he has produced some incredible pieces of work. Well done Kayden!
Homework
Maths – page 6 (Counting in multiples)
English – page 8 and 9 (Pronouns)
Spellings - recap of spellings the children have been learning so far. (Quiz of 15 randomly chosen spellings on 13/12/19)
Times Tables – recap of all times tables (Quiz of 20 randomly chosen times tables on 13/12/19)
The children need to be going on TT Rockstars at least once over the weekend please. If anyone has any problems logging in please let me know.
Have a lovely weekend
Mrs Cunningham-Kay
