Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 1st March

Friday 1^st March – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4

Looking back:

This week, the children have settled back well into their routines.  We have begun a new book in English, that we think could be an action-packed story, with Viking Gods!  In our maths lessons, we have been practising the skills of multiplication, using 2,3 and 4 digit numbers.  We have explored; informal methods, long methods and short methods and chosen the ones we like to work with best.

Questions to ask at home  -

• Which method do you prefer in maths – the long or short multiplication method?
• What do you think the new story is about?
• What is a constellation?
• What does the word ‘intrepid’ mean?
• What does the word ‘pored’ mean?
• What does the word ‘enveloped’ mean?

Children’s highlights of the week

• Starting our new story in English
• TTRockstars
• P.E. – Hockey
• Sound in science
• PHSE and the book The Flower
• Maths – multiplying 3 and 4 digit numbers by 1
• My Happy Mind – our new module Relate
• History – creating our powerpoints

 Looking forward:

This next week, we have a trip to Delamere to look forward to, where we will be looking at the habitats of woodland creatures, as well as mapping reading and orienteering.

Homework in Year 4

Maths – Orange Sheet – if the children could work on these calculations for 1 hour maximum.  It will be fantastic practise.

English – Abstract Nouns

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 – New this week – week 4   x4  x8  x7  x16

(Homework can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the basket is)

 Letters and Reminders

Wb – 4^th March Mother’s Day Shop

5^th March – 4:15 – 5:15 pm Book Look in Year 4

7^th March Delamere Residential for Yr 4

 8th March Film Night

WB 11^th March Parent Appointments

22^nd March Year 2 Cake Sale

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. 

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