This week’s Gospel reading teaches us that we must always be ready to greet Jesus as we do not know the day in which Christ is coming to us, it may be when we least expect it.
In a similar way, Year 4 have been thinking about how they can make themselves ready for the coming of Jesus throughout Advent. Year 4 have been trying their best to stop and reflect during this period and ensure they are making this time of preparation count.
One way in which many Year 4s are preparing themselves before Advent has even begun, is through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. By giving their first confession tomorrow (Saturday 26th November) the children in our class can begin Advent with the certainty that they have wiped their slate clean and can have a fresh start as this Liturgical year comes to its close.
Year 4’s learning this week:
English: Year 4 have been writing their very own outsider narratives inspired by the vehicle text and its illustrations from Leaf. Our main objective has been to use fronted adverbials, powerful verbs and powerful adjectives in our writing and we have spent much of this week analysing what those three things look like if used successfully. The staff in Year 4 have all been blown away by the quality of the writing completed this week, Year 4 have shown huge steps of progress within their writing as well as an increased concentration over their work.
Maths: Year 4 have been practising their column subtraction skills. We have focused on what happens to a number when we use subtraction and how it becomes less than it was before as numbers are taken away.
We have also been developing confidence in being able to exchange between our hundreds, tens and ones when subtracting numbers.
RE and Liturgy: Our class have continued exploring stories from the Bible’s Old and New Testament. Specifically this week, Year 4 have explored the story of Jonah and the Whale.
To share the Wednesday Word together each week, please follow this link:
http://www.wednesdayword.org/
Science: Year 4 have continued looking at Living Things and their Habitats topic this week. We continued consolidating our understanding of the the term ‘classification’. Then we continued to investigate the different ways in which various living things can be grouped.
As well as exploring the use of more Venn diagrams, we investigated the use of Carroll diagrams which aided us in classifying vertebrates and invertebrates in different ways.
PE: Year 4 have used their practised skills of dribbling with and passing a ball to play team games of basketball this week.
Geography: Year 4 have been learning about where their food comes from. We discovered where the food we eat for breakfast everyday comes from such as; oranges that come from Spain and milk that comes from Great Britain.
Year 4 also learnt about the different hemispheres of the Earth and the fact of Great Britain being situated in the Northern hemisphere.
Spanish: Year 4 have continued learning about Ancient Britain. We started this week by revisiting the Spanish translations for the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Roman Age, the Anglo-Saxon Age and the Viking Age. Then we spent time ordering these ages in their chronological order and exploring where they would be on our time line.
PSHE: Year 4 have continued examining their relationships this week, including the different groups of people in their lives. The class then thought about the choices they could make to make these people in their lives happy.
Notices:
Please make sure you are reading at home regularly and recording this in reading records.
Please make sure you are practising times tables on TT Rock stars regularly.
Please make sure your school instruments are practised at home for our weekly Wider Opportunity lessons on Thursdays.
Congratulations to our award winners this week!
Golden Award - Connie
Maths Award - Isaac
Writing Award - Ronnie
A big thank you from Miss Whitehead and Mrs Dunford!
