Spellings 30/11/2020

 'ei' sound. 

Weigh

Eight

Neighbour

sleigh

grey

does

young

touch

blood

parachute

27/11/2020

 Good Afternoon Everyone, 

This week has flown by! I have been impressed with your resilience to solve challenging maths problems this week. 

Upcoming events 

Friday 4th - Mufti day (bring in something for the hampers).

Friday 11th Christmas Jumper Day and Christmas Dinners.

Thursday 17th Year 4 Party. 

Friday 18th (last day of term) - Elf Day. Dress as an elf. School finishes at 2:00pm. 

PE

All PE lessons will now be taking place outside. Please ensure your children have appropriate clothing for the weather. 

Next week 

Maths - Continuing with Conversions of measure. 

English - Poetry (Free Verse)

Science - Find patterns between pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it. 

Geography - To explore the features of a volcano. 

Spanish - Learning how to sing Happy Birthday.

RE - To identify the importance of each part of the Puja Plate discuss what an offering is. 

D&T - To design a Christmas Card and make simple levers and linkages. 

Please ensure you use mathletics and times table rockstars to support you with your times tables. Continue to read your books and use the reading stems to answer questions about the text.

Have a good weekend! 

Mrs Bidder 

Spellings 23/11/2020

Prefixes 'il, im, ir' 

illegal

illegible

immature 

immortal

impossible 

impatient

imperfect 

irregular 

irrelevant 

irresponsible 

20/11/2020

Good Afternoon Year 4, 

Another successful week. We have mastered dividing and multiplying by 10 and 100 and are able to convert tenths and hundredths to fractions. 

Teams 

I have set a task on Microsoft Teams for the children to complete. If you have any trouble on Teams please email me with a screenshot of the issue so we can help you as quickly as possible. I am expecting ALL children to complete this assignment. 

Also, please do not feel you have to return the work on a Word document. As long as it comes back to me via teams it can be in a different formats. For example, if you have issues with other people needing the laptop/tablet or you do not have Word etc., as long as you view the assignment and documents on Teams so you understand the task, your child can then complete the work on paper and return the work by taking a picture and uploading that to the Teams Assignment. 

Next week 

Maths - Converting measures.

English - We will be finishing off our myth and writing a poem based on a legend.

Science - We will be learning and investigating pitch. 

Geography - To explore what happens when a volcano erupts. 

Art - We will continue to focus on using watercolours to create different textures. 

RE- Hinduism - To understand each Hindu home will have a Shrine. To understand the importance of a Puja plate and the different items found on it.

PE - Next week the children will be starting Rugby. They will need warm PE kit for this as they will be outside. I have explained to the children that it will be similar kit to their football kits but it does need to be dry and warm clothing as well as footwear. 

Please ensure you use mathletics and times table rockstars to support you with your times tables. Continue to read your books and use the reading stems to answer questions about the text.

Enjoy Your Weekend! 

Mrs Bidder 

Spellings 16/11/20

Prefix 'in'

Inactive 

Incorrect

Invisible

Insecure

Inflexible 

Indefinite

Inelegant

Incurable

Inability 

Inadequate

13/11/20

 Good Afternoon Year 4, 

Thank you very much for all of your donations today for Children in Need. 

Next week is Anti-Bullying Week. We will be focusing on everything that makes us unique and discussing who can support us in and out of school. On Monday (16th) it is Odd Sock Day. Please wear your uniform with odd socks. 

Next week 

In Maths next week we will be focusing on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 through decimals. This week we focused on solving problems with more than 1 step. Please continue to practise these at home! 

In English next week we are going to continue with writing our Myth. I am excited to put our characters into a story and be imaginative. 

Please ensure you use mathletics and times table rockstars to support you with your times tables. Continue to read your books and use the reading stems to answer questions about the text.

Have a great weekend! 

Mrs Bidder

Spellings 09/11/2020

 Possessive Apostrophe with Plural Words

girls' 

boys'

babies'

children's

men's

mice's 

ladies'

cats'

women's

geese's

06/11/2020

Good Afternoon Everybody. 

I am glad we are all back and have had a fantastic start to the second half term. 

Teams

This week in class I have taught the class how to use Microsoft Teams - this is an online learning platform. The children have been given their own emails and passwords to log onto Teams. We will be using this platform should we need to work from home as per the guidance given by the DfE. 

You should have been sent a step-by-step guide how on how to use Microsoft Teams and we will be producing a video showing you exactly how to navigate the program which will be on our blog. 

In class we will continue to practise using Teams so that we are able to easily use the programme.  

Next week 

Maths - We will continue to solve word problems using mixed operations and moving onto multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. 

English - Next week, we are going to be starting to write our own myth. We are going to look at what makes a good myth and why. We will also begin to start creating our own setting. 

Home learning project

Anglo Saxon Settlements.

This half term I would like you to build a 3D model of an Anglo Saxon Settlement. You can be as creative as you like but it should be based on the set up of a real life Anglo Saxon village. 

When you  return, you will need to be able to speak about your settlement and discuss the different parts of the village. 

The deadline for this project is 11th Decemeber 2020

Please ensure you use mathletics and times table rockstars to support you with your times tables. Continue to read your books and use the reading stems to answer questions about the text.

Half Term Overview

English - we will continue to focus on Beowulf - we will be using this to write our own myth. 

Maths 

Factors and Correspondence problems

Problem Solving

Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100

Measures and Conversions

Comparing, estimating and calculating

Statistics

Perimeter

Science

Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions.

Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.

Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear.

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.

Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Computing 

To understand the dynamics of a search engine and know that there are different search engines (some within specific sites e.g. BBC, and some the whole of the Internet e.g.  Google, Yahooligans, Ask Jeeves)

To collect data and identify where it could be inaccurate.

To be able to skim read and sift information to check its relevance and modify their search strategies if necessary

To understand that the information they use needs to be appropriate for the audience they are writing for e.g. copying and pasting difficult language

To plan, create and search a database to answer questions.

To choose the best way to present data to my friends.

To use a data logger to record and share my readings with my friends.

Geography

Use atlases to find places using index/ contents.

To locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe concentrating on their environmental regions.

To locate the key physical characteristics of the UK

To locate the human characteristics of the UK

To use plans.

To identify differences between places.

To understand what a volcano is and where they are in the world.

Art and Design

Introduction to Monet and his artwork

Watercolour wash

Explore Wet on Dry colour mixing

Explore Wet on Wet

Use a wax crayon on watercolour

Christmas scene using watercolours in the style of Monet

Christmas scene using watercolours in the style of Monet

R.E.

To introduce Hinduism and their beliefs about God.

To recognize the Aum symbol and its meaning/importance to Hindu’s

To learn, know and describe the Hindu God Ganesh and the story behind the elephant headed god

To learn about the different Hindu Gods and understand the importance of each of them in Hindu worship.

To understand each Hindu home will have a Shrine.

To understand the importance of a Puja plate and the different items found on it.

To understand and explain the importance of a Mandir to Hindu worship.

To look at the different Hindu festivals in a calendar and how the clothes change for each festival/celebration. 

To understand Diwali and how Hindus celebrate this festival.

Spanish

To learn how to ask for and say your birthday

To sing Happy Birthday in Spanish

To listen to, watch and follow a video clip with unfamiliar vocabulary

To learn some typical exclamations in Spanish

To use language of days, dates, and celebrations to make a birthday party invitation

To learn about a typical celebratory custom from Mexico

To learn new Christmas vocabulary

To learn about the key Christmas dates for Spanish people

I hope you all have a lovely weekend! 

Mrs Bidder 

Spellings 2/11/20

 Focus on the 'ure' sound

Measure

Treasure

Pleasure

Enclosure

Displeasure

Composure

Leisure

Exposure

Closure

Disclosure