Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 10th January 2025
Friday 10th January – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the class have been introduced to a new story in English. We know it is something to do with Vikings and a chap called Arthur. We will find out more this week……
We learnt about Abstract nouns – things you can’t touch/hold. We gave artefacts from the vault (we saw in a picture from the book) abstract noun phrase names, it was a lot of fun. E.g. The squishy blobfish of doom, the great sword of destiny or the glistening skull of jealously.
In maths, we looked at multiplication and division facts for the three and six timestables.
Questions to ask at home -
- What is an abstract noun?
- Name 3 sounds you heard on the sounds walk?
- Name 3 places with Anglo-Saxon place names?
- What does ‘kirk’ mean?
- Where were there a lot of Anglo-Saxon place names?
- Why do you think that is?
- Tell me things you learnt about every day life in Anglo-Saxon times?
*****CHALLENGE – IF YOUR CHILD CAN BRING ME A SHEET OF THESE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS ABOVE BY WEDNESDAY THEY WILL RECEIVE 20 HOUSEPOINTS! *******
Children’s highlights of the week
- TTRockstars
Looking forward:
This week, the children have some awesome learning opportunities. They will be exploring sound and vibration in science. In history, they class will be learning about the king Alfred the Great. In music, the children will be exploring ‘beatboxing’ with ‘Mrs B in da House!’ In computing, the children will be channelling their inner Ardmann and creating their own stop-frame animations.
Homework in Year
Abstract Nouns – English
Maths – Exercise 7
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Accelerated Reader Quizzes
TTRockstars – 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 this week - x3x4x7x15– second week
(Homework can be handed it at any time before Friday, the children know where the basket is)
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.
Dates For This Term
January 13th 7pm Space Invader PTA meeting
January 24th Time TBC School Disco
January 30th Book Fair arrives
February 7th Year 3 Cake Sale
February 7th 7pm Village Hall PTA Comedy Night
February 25th Young Voices
February 27th Recycle for School bags
March 6th World Book Day
March 7th Film Night
March 11th Y4 to Delamere one night
March 14th Y2 Cake Sale
March 20th After school until 5pm Open Books—your child’s work
WB March 24th Mother’s Day Shop
WB March 24th Parent evenings
2nd April Y5 to Burwardsley 2 nights