Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 4th November 2022
Friday 4th November – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children have come back with a great attitude to their work. We have completed our maths unit on Place Value and moved onto Addition and Subtraction. In English, we have started a new unit of work on Instructions and Explanations. The children have looked at mountains within the British Isles as well as looking at states of matter in science.
Questions to ask at home
- What is the difference between an instruction and an explanation?
- What new timestables have you got this week?
- What is the largest mountain in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales?
- Can you tell me any other mountain ranges in the British Isles?
Children’s highlights of the week
- TTRockstars at homework club
- Creating Mendi patterns in R.E.
- Maths – looking at rounding to the nearest 1,000
- Drawing pictures of Horrid Henry with Tony Ross
- Painting in our English lesson!
- TTRockstars!
- E. Gymnastics with Mr Biggs
Looking forward:
The children will study evaporation and condensation in their science lessons and also in English, studying the water cycle. The class will begin to write their own explanation text for the water cycle.
The children will be looking at mountain ranges within South Africa, near our twin school. They will explore Muslim funerals as part of the study on the Muslim faith, in R.E.
Use computer programmes to create mosaic designs, as well as continue their work on addition and subtraction in maths.
Homework in Year 4
Maths– Unit 4
English – Possessive Pronouns and SPAG mat. I have looked at determiners, subordinate clauses and pronouns with the class this week.
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.
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables x10x3x9x6 - (these were given out on Friday with how many columns the children need to learn.)
(This can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the plastic wallets are)
Letters and Reminders
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.