29/11/19

Good afternoon Year 4! Another great week of learning. I can't believe next week we will be in December! Time is certainly flying. 

Highlights of the week:
This week the children have loved learning about how volcanoes erupt. They have even come up with actions and sound effects to represent the different stages of the eruption. They have also been writing letters in English based on Bill's New Frock. 


Next week:

Maths:  My group: Problem solving with measure continued. 
Miss Russon's group: Gathering data from charts and graphs.

English:  Alternative ending for Bill's New Frock, and features of non chronological reports. 

Spellings:
Group 1:

-door
-floor
-pour
-poor

-find
-kind
-mind
-behind
-child
-wild

Group 2:
-reign
-vein
-reindeer
-leisure
-abseil
-receive
-foreign
-sleigh
-ceiling
-receipt

Unfortunately lots of children were disappointed with their score this week so can you please make sure you are practising spellings at home to avoid this.

Science: Grouping living things.

Spanish: Classroom vocabulary 

RE: Hindu Gods (this week we did comparing birth celebrations instead)

PSHE:  Judging by appearances
 
ICT/Geography: Different parts of a volcano and different types of volcanoes. 

 Art:Continuing observation drawing of items. 

Have a lovely weekend, 
See you in December!

Miss Bradford

22/11/19

Good afternoon Year 4!I would like to start of by saying a MASSIVE congratulations to all of you for a great assembly this morning! You all spoke and sang so clearly, it was a great performance.

Highlights of the week:
This week has been 'Just Talk' week where we have been focusing on positive well being and how to deal with our different feelings. The children have really enjoyed learning about the different ways to help relegate their emotions. 

Important notices:
Please can you make sure that everyone is coming to school with a water bottle. The children are not allowed to be going outside of the class to go and get water from the fountain, they need to have a bottle in class that they can use when they need it. 


Next week:

Maths:  My group: Problem solving with measure continued. 
Miss Russon's group: Place value and time. Any recap on time would be really helpful. 

English:  Finishing Bill's New Frock 

Spellings:
Group 1:

-where
-after
-begin
-any
-friend
-both
-because
-beautiful
-children
-Christmas 

-immature
-impossible
-impatient
-impolite
-imperfect
-impractical
-impression
-imbalanced
-immoral
-important

Science: Food pyramids. 

Spanish: Items in a pencil case.

RE: Hindu Gods.

PSHE: Mindfulness activities.. 
 
ICT/Geography: Volcano research. 

 Art:Continuing observation drawing of items. 
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Have a lovely weekend and well done again! 

Miss Bradford

15/11/19

Hello Year 4! 
You all looked amazing with your crazy hair today raising money for CHILDREN IN NEED. Thank you very much for your contributions to this great cause. 

Highlights of the week:
This week in maths we have been increasing whole numbers by scale factors and making our own word problems. Miss Russon's group have been consolidating their understanding of money and place value. In English, we created a class poem for anti-bullying day. We have also been reading more of Bill's New Frock and the children have written diary entries in role as Bill exploring his character in depth. In art, we created our teeth mosaic using shells. The children really enjoying linking their science learning to this and using the glue guns!  We have also been practising for our class assembly. The children are really excited to show their learning to you all next Friday. 

Important notices:
-Friday is Mufti-day in exchange for an item that can go in a Christmas hamper. This is also the same day as our class assembly. Children do not need to wear uniform for their assembly, they can come in their own clothes like the rest of the school. 
-Next week is 'Just Talk' week where we will be focusing on positive well being. 

Next week:

Maths:  My group: Problem solving with measure. 
Miss Russon's group: More than, less than and equal to with the corresponding symbols <,>, =

English: Books associated with Just Talk week. 

Spellings:
Group 1:
-put
-our
-were
-was
-his
-has
-you
-by
-push
-pull

-illness
-illustration
-illegal 
-illogical
-illuminate
-irregular
-irrational
-irresponsible
-irresistible
-irrelevant 

Science: Food pyramids. 

Spanish: Items in a pencil case.

RE: Hindu Gods.

PSHE: Judging by appearances.
 
ICT: Different search engines.

Geography: How volcanoes are formed. 

 Art:Continuing observation drawing of items. 

Please make sure you are reading at home as well as completing Mathletics, there are lots of children who are not filling in their reading journals with a comment on home.

Have a lovely weekend and I am looking forward to seeing you all on Friday for the assembly!

Miss Bradford

08/11/19

Hello Year 4! 
What a great start the children have made to this half term! It was great to see so many of you enjoying the fireworks celebration on Sunday. What a great way to start back!  

Highlights of the week:
This week we have been consolidating our knowledge of the 9x table. The children have loved singing along with Percy Parker. Remember you can find all of the songs on YouTube to practise at home. They have also been using the timetable tab at the top of the blog page to practise their tables. In English, we have begun to read our class text 'Bill's New Frock' and have been answering comprehension questions about the book so far. The children have also been hot seating each other in the character of Bill. They generated some great questions and really enjoyed being in role as the character. We have been really practical with our learning this week. In RE, the children have been acting out the story of Diwali. We also used the outdoor area to take some mindfulness photography pictures of wildlife as part of our ICT learning. 

Important notices:
-On Tuesday we will be having an 'Odd Socks' day for anti-bullying day, so the children may come to school in crazy wacky odd socks.
-We will also be holding a non uniform and crazy hair day in exchange for £1 on Friday in aid of Children in Need.
-Our class assembly is on Friday 22nd November at 9:00am. It will be great to see as many of you as possible there.

Next week:

Maths:  Factors and scaling.

English: Different pieces of extended writing around our book, including a diary entry, and a letter.

Spellings:
From now on there will be 2 groups each week for the spellings. The children will be able to choose each week which group they would like to be in. They have chosen their spellings already for this week.

Group 1:
-said
-says
-your
-they
-some
-come
-once
-ask
-friend
-school


Group 2:
-inability
-inactive
-inaccurate
-inadequate
-incapable
-include
-incorrect
-incomplete
-inconsiderate
-incredible


Science: Food pyramids.
Spanish: Instructions in Spanish
 RE: Hindu God's
 PSHE: Team building activities.
 ICT: Cyber bullying
Geography: How volcanoes are formed.

 Art/D/T: Shell mosaic 

Please make sure you are reading at home as well as completing Mathletics, there are lots of children who are not filling in their reading journals with a comment on home.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Bradford

01/11/19

Hello Year 4! 

I hope you are having a lovely half term. 

Please find below a list of topics will be covering this half term.  Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday! 

Maths: 

-Multiplication and division. 

-Factors and scaling.

-Problem solving with measures. 

-Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.

-Measurement conversions.

-Comparing and estimating measure. 

-Discrete continuous data.

English:
-Take one book - guided reading and comprehension activities around a text. 
-Non fiction report - around the topic of volcanoes. 
- Riddles - reading, writing and performing. 

Science:
-Living things and their habitats. 

Spanish:
Everyday vocabulary and sentence building. 

RE:
- Marking  festivals,  pilgrimage, tradition and key  events in  life. 
- Exploring the Trinity at Christmas -Incarnation

PSHE:
Celebrating differences

ICT:
-Communicating and collaborating online

 -Cross curricular links 

Geography:
Volcanoes

Art/D/T
-Structure and shell structures
-Colour wash Picasso