Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 18th March
Friday 18th March – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
The children have worked hard and had a busy week. Preparing for the Delamere assembly. Learning more about the Vikings and what we have learnt about them from evidence left behind. We have continued to work on fractions in maths. In the afternoons, we have just begun our new Design and Technology topic of creating purses.
Building On
- Sewing in Year 2
- Fractions from Year 3
- Painting skills for previous years
- Hockey skills from the last session
Questions to ask at home
- What was your favourite part of the assembly?
- Which was the favourite photo?
- Why did you paint a flower?
- What was the message in the book?
Highlights of the week for the children
- Delamere assembly for families
- Painting flowers
- Completing our double page spreads about Delamere
- Looking at the Delamere pictures with our families
- Starting sewing the purses
- Playing on the field because it was a lovely day
- Everything!
Looking forward:
This week, the children will continue with their myth work, looking at the structure and language used in adventure stories. We will continue to work on fractions, in particular adding fractions. In the afternoons, we will continue to create our felt purses as well as teeth and eating and food chains in science.
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– maths sheet this week to be handed in on Thursday
English – Homophones and sentence accuracy work
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables - x11 x6x12x13 – 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
- Odd socks day on Monday
- BINGo on Friday
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.