Y4 Looking Back and Forth Friday 19th May 2023
Friday 19th May– Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children had swimming sessions in the pool. The pool is lovely and warm, which seemed to go down very well with the class. Year 4 have begun to write their twisted narratives and it has been great to hear that some pupils have talked about them at home. We have worked on speech, which is a tricky concept to get your head around, particularly punctuating it! We are persevering and having another homework to help to consolidate it too. The class have continued to work on fractions, learning to add and subtract fractions with the same denominator.
The class loved the session on Thursday sewing their money wallets. It was great to see parents and grand parents supporting the children with this project.
Questions to ask at home -
- What is a numerator?
- What is a denominator?
- What is reported speech?
- What is direct speech?
- What is a database?
Children’s highlights of the week
- Creating my twisted narrative
- Spelling test
- Swimming
- Sewing our wallets
- Receiving a special achievement award
- Maths with Mrs Cooper
- Band
- Reading the Lost Happy Ending story
Looking forward:
This week, the class will edit and publish their twisted narratives. They will continue to access the pool. On Thursday and Friday the class will have their water safety sessions with the swimming coaches.
In the afternoons, the children will; continue their sewing on Thursday, use close observational drawing with critters from the local environment (I think the drawing club are going to love this!), research a European country and explore humanism and the Golden Rule .
Homework in Year 4
Maths – pink sheet (again)
English – reported and direct speech again
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 Thursday - the children will be getting new timestables this week - (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 basket is)
Letters and Reminders
- Swimming kits (towels, swim suits, swim hat and flipflops/crocs)
- Everyone will need their swimming kits on Thurs and Fri
- Please check the newsletter for up-and-coming events and dates for your diaries.
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.