22/03/19

Hello Year 4! 

Sorry there was no blog post last week due to my illness. However, I am so proud to have heard how well behaved you have been in my absence. The children have been working really hard getting ready for the KS2 production. 

Next week:
Spellings:
This week we are looking at words with the suffix 'tion' and 'sion'
-action
-caution
-protection
-accommodation 
-experimentation
-occasion
-television
-permission 
-decision
-mansion

English:
Performing a play script.

Maths:
Adding and subtracting fractions.

Please could all costumed be in school in a labelled bag by Wednesday 27th March. It would be a good idea to label all individual items too, so there is no mix up.

The production will be on Wednesday (am) 3rd April and Thursday (pm) 4th April. We do expect all children to be in attendance to both performances. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend. 

Miss Bradford

08/03/19

Hello Year 4!

PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

On Monday morning the children will be having a science workshop as it is science week. If any of you are happy to volunteer on Monday morning to help run the workshop that would be very helpful. If you are able to help, please email me.

What a lovely week we have had with much approved behaviour. Please make sure it continues! Rehersals for our play ‘Rock Bottom’ are in full swing. The music and lyrics have been posted on the KS2 Production website. This can be found on www.littleheathks2production.blogspot.com. You can also find them on YouTube by typing in Rock Bottom lyrics.

Highlights of the week
It was so lovely to see you all dressed up in your favourite characters for world book day! During world book day the children took part in a Quidditch game which was incredibly entertaining to watch! The children really enjoyed putting lots of their skills together in this game. I was running around dressed as Hagrid trying to keep up with the pace of the game to take some photos!

 The children have been working really well with their maths this week and have been using the column method to add and subtract decimals. The class have been working really hard on their presentation in their maths books and understanding how laying out their work neatly can help with the accuracy of their answers. In English we have been focusing on the book ‘The Black Book of Colours’ for world book day, which is a story about a boy called Thomas who is blind and he describes the colours of the world through his other senses. The class came up with their own poems based on the colours of the rainbow and used their sense of smell, taste, touch and heart to describe the particular colour. I was so impressed with the creativity and beautiful description in their poems.  Also, congratulations are in order for the children whose spooky sagas were chosen from the Young Writers competition for their stories to be published! You should be incredibly proud of yourselves! Please make sure you have replied either online by the 15/03/19 or with the written reply slip to me by Monday 11/03/19 so I can ensure these are sent off on time.

Next week is science week! We will be having maths lessons as normal but our other areas of the curriculum will be based around the theme which is journeys. We will be looking specifically at the journey of the water cycle and researching a mystery famous scientist!

Spellings:

This week we are focusing on words that end is ‘cian’.

musician

magician

optician

physician

politician
clinician
beautician
electrician

paediatrician
technician

Please note, from Monday the children will be dismissed from the main entrance to the school from the infant playground. This is the clear double doors near the garden area. This is to allow more space when the children are leaving. The children will not be allowed out of the building until they have been dismissed with an adult so please make sure you make yourself visible at these doors.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Bradford

Rock Bottom

ROCK BOTTOM TRACK 1

Track 1. Back to the Beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zt1TOPgquk

ALL:                             TICK, TOCK!

                                      IT’S TIME TO TRAVEL ON A JOURNEY!

                                      TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE TURNING BACK THE HANDS OF TIME!

                                      THE PAST BECOMING THE FUTURE,

                                      THE FUTURE FADING TO BLACK.

                                      WE’LL TAKE A WALK INTO HISTORY,

                                      SO STOP THE CLOCK ‘COS WE’RE GOING BACK!

                                      TIME TO PACK,

                                      HIT THE TRACK!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE ON A JOURNEY TO THE DAWN OF TIME!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

                                      GOING BACK, GOING BACK!

(The three Timekeepers rap over the instrumental section as the chorus dance.)

CRATER:                    You know we’re going back in time to where it - all began!

CREVICE:                   And we don’t even need a Tardis or DeLorean!

CREEK:                      Because we’re heading for the Stone Age if you want to be specific!

TIMEKEEPERS:       When man was brave

                                      And lived in caves

                                      And acted Neolithic!

ALL:                             TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE HEADING FOR A NEW HORIZON!

                                      TICK, TOCK!

                                      WE’RE BOUND FOR WHERE IT ALL BEGAN!

                                      WE’LL TURN THE TIDE OF THE SEASONS,

                                      WE’LL MAKE THE CALENDAR CRACK.

                                      WE’LL TAKE A WALK INTO HISTORY,

                                      SO STOP THE CLOCK ‘COS WE’RE GOING BACK!

                                      TIME TO PACK,

                                      HIT THE TRACK!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

                                      WE’RE ON A JOURNEY TO THE DAWN OF TIME!

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      REWINDING THE CLOCK,

                                      ‘COS WE’RE SINGING AND WE’RE SPINNING

                                      AROUND ON A ROCK.

                                      GOING BACK TO THE BEGINNING,

                                      WHERE EVIL WAS PRIME.

GROUP 1:

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

WE’RE GOING BACK IN TIME!

ALL:                             WE’RE GOING BACK!

01/03/19

Good afternoon Year 4 and welcome back! Although it has been lovely to see the class come back to school full of enthusiasm, the children have had to be reminded quite a lot this week about the level of noise disrupting their learning. I am looking forward to you all coming into school a lot more focused next week.

Highlights of the week.
We started the week by making the most of the beautiful sunshine and the children had a maths lesson outside. They practically consolidated their understanding of placing decimal numbers on a human number line. They have worked really hard on this and are now very secure in this topic. The children have also been working really hard on their times tables this week and have been increasing their accuracy and speed. We have now completed our 2s, 10s, 5s,11s,3s,6s,4s,8s and 9s. Next week we will be focusing on our 7s. Please make sure you are practising this times table at home. In English, the children have been using their senses to write spooky stories. I have been really impressed with the huge improvement in the children’s writing since the start of the year. Keep it up Year 4!

Next week:

Maths:
Calculating with decimals.

English:
The children will be writing their own fairy tale stories focusing on story settings.

Spellings:

This week we are going to be focusing on words with the prefix ‘anti’ and ‘inter’. The children need to know the spelling and definition of each word as well as knowing how to use each word in a sentence.

-antihistamine
-anti-climax
-antidote
-antibiotic
-antiseptic
-international
-intervene
-interject
-intercept
-intergalactic

Science:
Extended piece of writing on the water cycle.

Geography:
Identifying layers of vegetation.

RE:
Christian creation story.

Art:
The group at Stormont will be designing their plates and the group with me will be completing some mindfulness photography.

Spanish:
Recap of animals in Spanish.

ICT:
Using google earth to locate The Rainforest.

PSHCE:
Different friendship groups.

I hope you have a restful weekend. Please continue to learn your times tables, read and complete some learning on Mathletics.

I look forward to seeing you on Monday for a more focused calm start to the week.

Miss Bradford