28/02/20

Good afternoon Year 4!

Highlights of the week:The children have arrived back in school fully refreshed and full of energy. The brief arrival of the snow caused a lot of excitement this week for both the class and the adults! This week the children have really enjoyed receiving letters from their new Pen Pals! The letters came from Grade 5 in an American school in North Carolina. The class really enjoyed learning about the similarities and differences in their schooling and wrote replies to explain what life is like in the UK for children their age, as well as asking questions about life in America. 

Please find below a brief outline of the topics the children will be covering over the next term.
Maths:-Decimals
-Fractions
English:-Take one book focusing on 'Stig of the dump'.
-Play script writing
Science:-Continuing states of  matter

Geography:

-The Rainforest 

PSHE

-Healthy me.

RE

-Sacrifices and creation story in Sikhism.

ICT

-Continuing to create a website.

Art

-The children will be swapping groups so the group that completed the Stormont art project will be completing a Picasso inspired portrait.

Spellings:

Group 1: 

-height

-history

-imagine

-increase

-important

-interest

-island

-knowledge

-learn

-length

Group 2: 

-careful

-careless 

-fearful

-fearless 

-happy

-happily

-happiness 

-colour

-colourful

-colourless

School reports will be taken home today. You can make comments on Gateway if you wish to.

Please remember it is World Book Day on Thursday, children can come to school in their favourite book character along with the book if they have one.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Monday!

Miss Bradford

07/02/2020

Good afternoon Year 4! I cannot believe we are now in February and coming up to half term! This will be half way through Year 4, it is incredible how quick the time has gone.
 Next week:
Next week we are having a whole day of D&T on Thursday. If anyone has any cardboard boxes of any size (e.g. cereal boxes) that they wouldn't mind bringing in that would be really appreciated. 

English: Story settings continued.

Spellings group 1
mature
injure
mixture
capture
secure
assure
manure
leisure
treasure
pleasure

Spellings group 2:
write
wrist
written
wrote
wrong
wrinkle
writing
wreak
wriggled
wristband 

Maths: Problem solving with decimal numbers. 

Science: Investigating gases. Spanish: Designing party invitations based on Spanish vocabulary

History : Ancient Egyptian writing systems.

PSHE: Reflecting on work this half term.

ICT: Continuing to create our website. 


Have a lovely weekend!Miss Bradford