Year 4 - Looking Back and Forth Friday 10th November
Friday 10th November – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children have been learning about the key features of a biography. They have explored the language features as well as the structure of a biography. In maths, we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10. 100 and 1000. This is a tricky concept, the children have worked hard on this. If your child feels not as secure as they would like to be ? Here is a BBC bitesize video which could help.
How to round numbers - BBC Bitesize
This is a super video and activity that could support your child.
Questions to ask at home -
- When you round to the nearest 10, what number do you look at?
- When you round to the nearest 100, what number do you look at?
- When you round to the nearest 1000, what number do you look at?
Children’s highlights of the week
- It was a unanimous conclusion. The class loved learning about George Mallory.
- Creating branching databases
- Listening to our visitor Reverend Broad.
Looking forward:
This next week, the children will be exploring ice in science as part of their states of matter work. Look at how stop-frame animation works in Computing. The class will start to create their mountain dioramas.
Homework in Year 4
Maths – Orange sheet
English – adverbs and fronted adverbials
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Acelerated 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.
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Thursday – This week our new timestables will be x11 x3 x6 x18 timetables for 4 weeks – this will be week 1
(Homework can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the basket is)
Letters and Reminders
16th November—free dress day for all children—please bring chocolate in for the Christmas Tombola which will be at St Luke’s Christmas Fair on the 25th.
17th November Year 5 cake sale
24th November Items for the class Christmas hampers in—more details on the class Facebook pages. Raffles tickets will go on sale early
December.
25th November—PTA has 2 stalls at St Luke’s Christmas Fair in the
Village Hall 11 to 1pm. Lots of fun and stalls including our Christmas
Tombola
6th December Christmas Jumper Day
8th December Beetle Drive in the school hall—more information on page 3
WB 11th December Christmas Shops
Next term:
12th January Year 4 cake sale
15th January PTA meeting 7pm Space Invader
26th January—school disco Village Hall
9th February Year 3 cake sale
8th March Film Night
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
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.