Year 4 have kicked off their Winter Reading Challenge properly this week. Our goal is to read books, within our ZPDs at school, quiz on them and earn points for our individual teams. Groups have to hit milestones with their points to work their way up the tree, being a team to win the final prize on the star of the Christmas tree.

Good luck Year 4!

Year 4’s learning this week:

English: Year 4 have continued writing their very own outsider narratives inspired by the vehicle text and its illustrations from Leaf. This week the class published their writing, by editing their final pieces and taking on board feedback to make their work even better. Then Year 4 presented their work beautifully in their writing books and designed a front cover for their story that gave clues so that their reader could predict the events of their narrative.

Maths: Year 4 have been concentrating on what exchanging during subtraction with three and four digit numbers actually means. We used the base ten equipment so that we could prove visually that when we exchange we are borrowing from our different place value columns.

RE and Liturgy: Our class have explored the story of Mary this week and thought about all the different events that happened to an ordinary young girl from Nazareth that led up to the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. Year 4 then retold the story in their own words.

Year 4 spent a good portion of their RE time thinking about the meaning of Advent and exploring the significance of the Advent wreath, God’s complete and unending love for us. Year 4 then explored the meaning of each of the candles on the wreath; hope, joy, peace and love. All being virtues that Jesus taught us.

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. Year 4 used their knowledge of grouping living things in different ways to follow and analyse classification keys.

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 continued learning about the Northern and Southern hemispheres as well as classifying countries and continents into these two groups.

For homework this week, Year 4 have been given homework that builds on our learning that the food we eat everyday comes from all over the world. Please complete the food diary for one day this week and research where the ingredients/produce used for your meals comes from.

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. We then moved on to saying “I am a boy from” or “I am a girl from” any of the above eras.

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 - Grace

Maths Award - Rosanna

Writing Award - Oscar

A big thank you from Miss Whitehead and Mrs Dunford!