Looking Back and Forth 10th December
Friday 10th December – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back: This week, the children finished writing their water cycle explanatory texts and set about starting to publish them.
In maths, we worked hard on perimeters and began to look at rectilinear shapes and their perimeters. We also had the second week of our timestables test on x2, x3, x6 and x18’s.
This week, the children have on more changing states work in science, which has linked wonderfully to their English writing.
Building On
- Maths work – shape work in Rec, Yr 1, Yr 2 and Yr 3.
- Changing state work in science currently in the mornings in English and in science
- Gymnastic skills building on the activities from all their previous years.
- Timestables – building on their skills on arrays in Year 1, Year 2 arrays and simple tables, Year 3 timestables work.
Questions to ask at home
- What is a state of matter?
- What are the states of matter for water?
- What is a rectangle?
- What is a rectilinear shape?
- How do you calculate the perimeter of a rectangle?
Watch this video – it is a lot of fun and has helped with our learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KurMIL8VVgk
Highlights of the week for the children
- Reading the Giggler Treatment
- Perimeter work in maths
- Science work with Mrs Cooper looking at evaporation
- Starting the work on multiplication and division
- Gymnastics
- Christmas Jumper Day!
Looking forward:
This week, we will be finishing our water cycle publishing and rounding of the work for the term. The children will also be completing end of term assessments.
In the afternoons we will be; continuing to explore Flowol and creating pop-up cards.
Homework in Year 4
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Accelerated Reader Quizzes
Rockstars – as much as possible 10 mins daily is ideal – at least once a week for 20 mins
Spellings – Mrs Riddell – Please learn them for the test on Wednesday. It is better to look at them for 5 minutes each day than try to learn them all in one night. The children remember them better learnt over the week.
Maths– pink sheet to be handed in on Thursday /Friday at the latest
English - pronouns sheet (pink sheet) to be handed in on Thursday /Friday at the latest
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables - x2 x3 x6 x18 – these will be muddled up this week.
(This can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the plastic wallets are)
Letters and Reminders
- Last day for the Christmas Raffle on Monday
- The Raffle will be drawn on Tuesday
- Christmas Lunch this week
- Carol Service on Tuesday or Wednesday at 5pm weather dependent
- PE on Friday this week
- PE on Friday next term
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
Children can bring in hand sanitizers for their own personal use.
Nightly reading recorded in reading record – make sure it comes to school on Friday
Reading challenge has started – 20 reads in the reading record =10 housepoints
Please encourage your child to record their reading in their reading records.