Looking Back and Forth Friday 3rd December 2021
Friday 3rdth December – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back: This week, the children began to write their explanatory texts for the water cycle. It has been great getting to grips with the scientific vocabulary.
In maths, we began some new work on perimeter in shapes. We had many discussions about the difference between rectangles and oblongs.
This week, the children have worked hard in gymnastics and explored more changes in state work in science. A particularly popular lesson seemed to be melting the chocolate lesson!
Building On
- Maths work from Year 3 – lots of work on area
- Changing state work in science currently in the mornings in English and in science.
- Changing state – building on the science work on materials in KS1
- Gymnastics - from previous years balancing and creating sequences of movement
Questions to ask at home
- What is precipitation?
- What is accumulation?
- What is transpiration?
- What is evaporation?
- What is condensation?
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
- Watching the animated calendar
- Working on perimeter in maths
- Timestables and TTRockstars
- Science – melting chocolate experiments
- The water cycle writing and the song and dance
Looking forward:
This week, we will be finishing our work on the water cycle and changing states in science. In maths we will continue to work on perimeter in rectangles and rectilinear shapes.
In the afternoons we will be; continuing to explore Flowol, working on gymnastic skills, weather permitting we will go on our elf run. We will also start to create some 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– yellow sheet to be handed in on Thursday /Friday at the latest
English - conjunctions sheet (yellow 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
- Can you please ensure the permission slip for the carol service comes in this week.
- Can the Elf Run donations also come in this week?
- You have until Friday to bring in money for the class raffle.
- Christmas Jumper Day - 10th December
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.