Year 4 classes
Reading - 15 minutes everyday
Spelling test - Monday
Multiplication quiz - every morning / TT Rockstars - practise at home
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Spelling words: breath, business, caught, difference, exercise, extreme, medicine, possession, thought, although
TT Rockstars - there is a tournament against Y3 starting on 21st January.
Reading - 20 minutes a day.
This week, we have had practical erosion experiment to see how rivers change the landscape.
In DT and History, we designed a pulley to help build a Roman town.
In Science, we explored how evaporation happens via heat and humidity.
Some children have been enjoying practising their spellings at home and their scores are improving. Therefore, going forward, all spelling sheets need to be completed and handed in on Mondays. Spelling words ought to be practised for 5 minutes a day - a column.
Spelling words: serious, obvious, curious, hideous, spontaneous, courteous, furious, various, victorious, gaseous, threw
TT Rockstars - 15 minutes at least 3 times a week. We will be looking at progress in class.
Reading - 20 minutes daily, preferably reading aloud to an adult.
Maths - Here is a recap on this week's Maths. It is optional, but if children bring the answer into school they will receive a house point.
This week
English
Maths
PE
The children have had a productive start of his half term and made good choices.
Please remind your child to bring in the following statinery to school - pencil, ruler, glue stick and whiteboard pens.
Spelling: merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily, prettiest, nastiness, beautiful, pitiful, silliness, whole.
TT Rockstars - tournaments now back on! There is one for Year 4s only and another one between Yr 4 and 5.
In Art, we are learning about weaving and we had an opportunity to create weave using paper.
In English, we have started a new CLPE reading book and it has been interesting been introduced to the new characters.
We enjoyed recapping on co-ordinates in Maths this week.
Spellings for testing on Monday 8th January: courageous, ridiculous, outrageous, disadvantageous, nervous, carnivorous, famous, rapturous, adventurous, tortuous, wait
TT Rockstars - new tournament has started between Joplin and V.Williams class.
Reading - Year 4s have done amazingly well and reached their target this term. So at Christmas, relax and read a book. This will help you get ready for your new target next term.
Thank you again to all parents and carers for helping with the costumes and props, the performance would not have been so successful without your help.
We had another successful evening at church at our annual Carol service; everyone who attended performed beautifully.
We hope you all have a restful and enjoyable holidays. See you in the New Year.
Spelling: poisonous, dangerous, mountainous, marvellous, perilous, tremendous, enormous, jealous, precious, disastrous
Spellings: expansion, extension, comprehension, tension, suspension, exclusion, provision, explosion, erosion, invasion, February.
TT Rockstars.
Year 4 have had a super busy week. In Science, we started to learn about the food chain.
In Art, we created our design in readiness for our printing next week.
In Maths, we consolidate our knowledge in division and recognised that quotient and divisor are interchangeable.
From our English reading book, we are writing a diary entry as one of the main characters.
Have a good weekend.
Spellings
At home - TT Rockstars and Reading (AR targets)
We have practised our performance with Year 2.
In English, we are using our vocabulary on emotions to describe how the main protagonists might be feeling.
In Maths, we are learning how to use our division calculation to solve word problems.
We visited Elfridges and had fun choosing our presents.
Spellings : chef, chalet, machine, brochure, parachute, chute, chaperone, chandelier, crochet.
TT- With the new school mathematician mammoth, things are getting exciting on a Friday, lets increase our speed in year 4 and get practising. Please remember in year four part of our homework is to do TT rockstars 3 times a week at a minimum.
Talk homework: Thinking back to our practical model of the digestive system, can you name all seven parts of the digestive system we learnt about and what each part does.
Reading: Please take the time to participate in reading to an adult for a recommended 5 minutes a day.
We have had fun in Science, watching a piece of weetabix going through the digestive system.
In Maths, we have started to learn about short division.
Spellings: generally, ususally, finally, beautifully, cruelly, carefully, faithfully, peacefully, wonderfully, thoughtfully.
Talk homework - Explain to your adults / family what we have been doing in Maths - how we find the quotient to division questions that involve a large dividend, e.g. 54 divided by 3.
We also handed back some assessment papers. The children have circled a question that they have been taught, and it would be great if you could spend some time going over it together. There are some elements of the paper that we have not taught and will be teaching soon.
In Year 4, we have been debating if our main protagonist, Chaya, is right to steal in order to help others.
We had fun in Geography, where we drew on satsumas to show the lines of latitude and longitude. We also discussed the location of the Equator and the Prime Meridian.
In Science, we have been observing eggs that represented our teeth in different liquids over the past few days. We took them out of the liquid to find out how they had changed. Tell your adult / family what happened to each one!
Talk homework - tell your adults at home the advice you gave Chaya and why.
TT Rockstars - the tournament is still on.
We have delving into our English book - The girl who stole an elephant - and we are about to find out what will happen next to our feisty protagonist.
In Maths, we are solving problems using our 3 times tables. Ask us how to work out 23 x 3.
We have been practising our play. Please help us to practise The Recycling Song - the verses in order are:
glass bottles, cardboard, paper, plastic and tin cans.
Hope you have a great weekend.
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Talk homework - talk to your adults and family about the play and how you can add in expression and action.
TT Rockstars - a new tournament is on between the two Year 4 classes! Please practise - Garage Band awards more points
Spelling - information, sensation, preparation, vibration, decoration, donation, duration, registration, population, determination.
We have had some fantastic matches in netball where we were able to use all the skills we have learnt, foot work, 3 second rule and different types of throwing.
In Maths, we have been working on solving problems using subtractions with more than one exchange.
In English, we wrote a piece of writing filled with fronted adverbial, expanded noun phrases and exciting vocabulary about the video we watched on Literacy Shed - Hunted.
Today, we evaluated our DT project, which was the interactive active factsheet.
