Year 4 - Looking Back and Forth 5th May 2023
Friday 5th May– Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week we have continued to look at the book the Lost Happy Endings in class. We have met the Witch, now she is now at particularly nice character! The children have written similes and metaphors to describe her. They let their creative juices flow and they produced some wonderful descriptions. We also read a twisted fairy tale ending for Snow White. The children are excited at the prospect of creating their own twisted narratives. In maths, we continued to look at fractions, converting mixed numbers to improper fractions. Timestables have come in very handy with these.
Questions to ask at home -
- What is a numerator?
- What is a denominator?
- What is a mixed number?
- What is an integer?
- What is an improper fraction?
- What does the word deceit mean?
- What does the word entice mean?
Children’s highlights of the week
- Drawing club
- TTrockstars
- PE with Mr Biggs
- Maths working on fractions
- Coronation carousel of activities on Thursday afternoon
- The picnic on the field
- Getting a bookmark and a coronation mug
- Band
Looking forward:
This week, the children look at speech marks and looking at what makes character seem evil or good?
In the afternoons, the children will begin their topic on Europe as well as exploring databases in computing and science.
Homework in Year 4
Maths – pink sheet (again)
English – Witches Poems
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
- 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.