Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 13th January 2023
Friday 13th January– Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children read the wonderful story Leaf, creating Anglo-Saxon villages with no windows and beat boxed their way through their science lesson!
The children worked on their dictionary skills in English, not only finding the unfamiliar words, but also in some cases, working out which meaning was the most appropriate for the context.
Questions to ask at home
- How is a Anglo-Saxon village different from Goostrey?
- What features do they have in common?
- What timestables do you need to learn this week?
- What can you tell me about the Anglo-Saxons so far?
- What happened in the story, Leaf?
- What is the message in the book that we can all learn from?
Children’s highlights of the week
- TTrockstars time
- Definitions work with dictionaries
- Beat boxing!
- Sound experiments
- Maths
- Creating an Anglo-Saxon village
- Lunch
- E. basketball with Mr Biggs
Looking forward:
The children, this week will be analysing lost narrative texts. In maths, they will begin to look at factors and factor pairs.
In the afternoons, the children will be looking at how society worked in Anglo-Saxon times. Look at how clothes were made and dyed (this could be a smelly session!). The children will be exploring Moses and the 10 commandments in R.E. as well as how different instruments make sound in science.
Homework in Year 4
Maths– maths sheet
English – pronouns
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 x3x9x6x13 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
- Delamere letter permission slips
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.