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.
