Year 4 have made a great start to the new year! It has been wonderful getting to know one other and learning together over the last two weeks.
As a class, we have been working on our Golden Rules and how we can practise these in our day to day school life.
Our learning this week …
In English we have been exploring the key features of a dilemma story together and how we can navigate difficult decisions in our own everyday life. We have also been discussing what we think makes a story interesting. Some ideas we had were, using expression, powerful vocabulary and exciting punctuation. We are gradually working towards adding our own fictional chapters into our Lost or Stolen? dilemma story!
In Maths, we have been focusing on our place value columns, specifically up to 4 digit numbers. We have also been investigating number lines that go up to 10,000.
Mrs Parker has enjoyed getting to know the children during RE on a Monday and Tuesday afternoon. The children have been impressing us with their creative and artistic skills to learn about the Bible during these sessions.
In Science, we have been learning how to group animals into different classifications, including the group in which humans belong to; Mammals. We have also been studying our body’s digestive system and all of the different organs we have that work to keep us healthy.
In Topic, we have successfully started learning about Ancient Egypt and we spent time last week exploring modern day Egypt on Google maps and comparing that to an Ancient map of Egypt. The class came up with some excellent similarities and differences!
The class and I have really enjoyed our Singing Spanish sessions, going over what they did last year and introducing some new phrases. These included phrases such as, “Good Morning”, “Good Afternoon” and “Good Evening” as well as extending our responses to “How are you?”.
Finally, in our PE, we have been lucky enough to be joined by a coach from Blackpool Football Club, helping us with our invasion and defending skills through some exciting games.
Congratulations to our award winners on Friday:
Golden Award - Poppy
Writing Award - Emma
Maths Award - Zak.
Just a quick reminder that the children will be given homework on a Friday that is due in on the following Tuesday. Also, Mrs Parker will be doing the class spelling tests on a Monday afternoon.
From all the teachers in Year 4.
Our learning this week…
In English, we have been completing our creative writing stories on Hamir’s adventure. We have been drafting and editing our work before completing our final piece. We have also been producing our leaflets linked to the harvesting of our lettuces. We had lots of fun tasting the lettuces this week. Please see Class Dojo for some pictures!
In Maths, we have been exploring time, making conversions between days, weeks, months and years. We have been using our knowledge to solve a range of word problems, developing our reasoning skills.
In RE, we are continuing with our topic ‘Belonging to the Church’. We considered the ‘Liturgical Calendar’ and researched the meanings of the different colours associated with the Church seasons.
Reading Book Challenge….
Just a reminder, due to the success of our last challenge, we have decided to begin a new ‘Reading Book Challenge’,
There will be prizes for first, second and third, the winners will be drawn from a hat for the children who have read five times a week consistently throughout the duration of the challenge. Last time the prize was cake with Mrs Ormerod! So…. Keep reading and quizzing Year 4!!
Reading Record Reminder:
Please sign your child’s reading record so we are clear that their book needs changing - Many thanks
Spellings and Times Tables…
As it is the last week, there will be no spelling and times-tables tests on Friday 16th July. But please continue to practise your tables on TT Rockstars!
GULP CHALLENGE: REMINDER
The ‘Gulp Challenge’ has now finished, please can the children bring in their completed cards on MONDAY if they haven’t already. Many thanks
Homework; Learning By Questions
This weeks activities can be accessed by following this link : https://www.lbq.org/Login.
Today’s password is: 9y2g
REMINDER The link will only remain live for the rest of today.
The children have been using this website ‘Maths Frame’ in class to practise their times tables, please follow the link to complete more practise at home… Times Table
Golden Award winners this week… Franchesca and Ollie
Maths Award… Lily T
WELL DONE TO ALL OUR AWARD WINNERS THIS WEEK!!!
And finally, we are all looking forward to our Class trip to the Cinema on Wednesday 14th July and our Teddy Bear’ picnic lunch on our last day of term on Friday 16th July. Remember to bring your blanket, what a lovely way to celebrate our last week in Year 4!
Enjoy the weekend!
Best regards
Mrs Parker, Mrs Ormerod and Mrs Debowska.
