Week ending 24th November 2023

 Hi Year Four,

What a great week we have had. The children had so much fun putting their assembly together and they did so well. They certainly are a confident group of performers!

We are continuing to work on multiplication and division.

Many children were thrilled this week as they learned their table and were able to move on to the next. Congratulations to those who have now passed them all. The rate of learning has improved a lot and the children are saying that they are now practising at home. It really does make a huge difference!

For English we have been concentrating on writing the middle part of a story. We have been 'up levelling' our sentences to make the writing more interesting and exciting. The children are learning to use expanded noun phrases, adverbs and fronted adverbials. 

We have completed our topic on Picasso for art and will be focussing on Designing and making our vegetable and lentil soup over the coming weeks.

NEXT WEEK

Maths 

We will continue to work on  multiplication and division.

English

The focus will be singular and plural spelling and the possessive s with an apostrophe. 

The children will be writing the ending of their stories and working on ensuring that each sentence makes sense and that the story flows. 

We are currently reading 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. Next week the children will have a comprehension lesson based on this book.

Science

We will continue our project exploring 'sound.' Next week we will be learning about the ear and how it works.

History

As we continue to to explore early civilisations, next week we will focus on trade, buying and selling.

Spanish

The children will be learning how to state their birth dates and ask another when their birthday is.

Spellings

Group 1

active

capable

credible

accurate

mature

mobile

possible

patient

polite

regular

Group 2

they

there

their

chef

does

country

touch

which

tooth

teeth

Visit to The Hindu Temple

The deadline for payment for this trip is 9th December. The children are very excited to experience this and there is so much to look forward to.

They are able to dress in traditional costume, have their faces painted, ride in an oxen cart and visit a shrine. a professional speaker will be attending for an interactive presentation and they get the chance to eat a traditional lunch.

We learn about the Hindu religion in year four and the children find it interesting and enjoy the lessons. Visiting the temple is an experience they may not be offered again and will be extremely beneficial to their understanding.

Please could you confirm your child's place on this trip as soon as possible.

Many thanks #

Ms Davis

Week ending 17th November 2023

 Hello Year Four,

We have begun a block of multiplication and division for maths. The children are beginning to know their times tables facts with rapid recall. It is making such a difference to their maths work. 

Please encourage your child to practise at least three or four times a week. They feel so proud when they have achieved a good result on a Friday and are able to move on to the next group of tables.

We have been working on our writing skills up up levelling sentences. We are using fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases to creative interesting, more detailed writing.

We are also in the process of writing an adventure story. This week we worked on creating the setting for the story. Next week we will spend time on the main part of the story.

We will also be working on the plural spellings of words.

For history, the children learned to translate Phoenician writing this week, which they really enjoyed.

We are beginning to use Spanish during the school day. We take the register in Spanish and have now learned to ask what we would like for lunch and will be responding to this in Spanish.

We began our project 'Sound' in science this week. We learned that vibrations through the air creates sound. The children carried out experiments to see how musical instruments vibrate to create sound. They used different materials to block sound and most of their predictions for the most successful material were correct!

NEXT WEEK

It is our assembly next Friday and we are really excited to share our work with you!

Maths 

We will continue working on multiplication and division.

English

Next week the children will write the main part of an adventure story. They will need to use noun phrases and adverbials to make the narrative more detailed and interesting. 

Spellings

Group 1

strength

suppose

surprise

therefore

although

thought

through

various

weight

woman

Group 2

sweet

prickly

smooth

enormous

fresh

forest

quietly

noisy

loud

proud

Homework

Please ensure that your child practices spellings three or four times a week. It makes such a difference! I send a sheet home with the children which is ideal for 'look, cover, spell, check.'

The children need to practise their tables at least three times a week. 

The 'extreme' reading challenge will be the home project for this half-term. The children need to take a photo of themselves reading in an unusual place or position. They need to write a book review to accompany the photo. This will need to be in before the end of term.

 Hello Year Four,

We have come to the end of a busy week! 

We have been working on calculating area in maths and the children completed the end of block assessment successfully.

The children are learning how to create sentences with greater interest and more detail to use in creative writing challenges, so we have been learning how to recognise and use expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. They have written two setting descriptions which included the added phrases and next week we will be beginning to write an adventure story which include these.

We completed our project on food chains for science.

For RE we learned about symbols. We drew everyday symbols that we use and focused on symbols for Hinduism and Christianity.

We had a well-being day today and the focus was on understanding and recognising our feelings. We also looked at resilience and the children had two mindfulness sessions.

Next Week

Maths

Next week we will be beginning a new unit on multiplication and division. It will help a lot if they can practise their times tables for this.

English

Our English lessons will include working on using fronted adverbials and plotting an adventure story. the children will also have a comprehension lesson.

Science

We will be starting a new topic on sound next week. we will be learning about how we hear sounds and the materials sounds pass through. We will be experimenting with a variety of musical instruments.

History

The children will be exploring Phoenician writing. We will look at ancient writing and translate it so that we can understand it.

D and T

Following our soup tasting experience the children have discovered that the most popular soup is lentil.

Next week we will be making lentil soup!

Spellings

Group 1

question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

Group 2

friend

given

please

place

beautiful

world

went

where

what

when

I wish you all a happy and restful weekend.

Ms Davis

 

Week ending 3rd November 2023

 Welcome back,

I hope you all had a great half-term holiday.

We have been working on finding areas in maths this week. This will continue next week.

For English we have been learning how to write expanded noun phrases and adding these to descriptions of different settings.

Our focus in science is food chains. 

Today we had a discussion about judging by appearance and stereotyping. The children enjoyed the session and began to draw different images, rather than the usual stereotype.

For history we learned about ancient civilisations. We looked at a variety of timelines and located the civilisations on a world map. 

We looked at cubism in our art lesson as we begin to study the work of Picasso.

Next week's spellings

Group One

perhaps

popular

position

possess

possible

potatoes

pressure

probably

promise

quarter

Group Two

area

people

pretty

symbol

Hindu

sound

ear

hear

art

old

This half-term's work

English

We will be focussing on expanded noun phrases, fronted adverbials and uplevelling the writing this half-term.

The children will be using this when they write setting descriptions and a story. Later in the term we will be learning how to write reports.

Maths

We are currently learning how to measure area. We will also be focussing on multiplication and division. 

Times Tables

The children are tested weekly on their tables. It makes a huge difference if they work on these at home at least three times a week.

Science

We are currently learning about food chains. We will be moving on to investigating sound and how our ears work.

ART

Our study will be Picasso and cubism. We will be building towards creating a collage of a distorted image.

History

This term we will be focussing on ancient civilisations.

PHSE

Our project is celebrating difference. It began today by exploring how we can judge by appearance and stereotype.

RE

The children will be exploring symbols used in everyday life and those used by Christians and Hindus.

We will be focussing on The Holy Trinity as we lead up to Christmas.

Home Project

This half-term's project is 'extreme reading.' I would like the children to take a photo reading in a strange or unusual place. I would like them to take a photo of the book being read and write a review for the same one. If you have any questions please come and see me or send me an email.

I wish you all a fabulous weekend and hope to see you for the fireworks on Saturday.

Ms Davis