Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 25th November
Friday 25th November – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children began to look at the new book in depth, studying pictures from the text as well as exploring a model text. In maths, we have looked at different methods of efficient calculations as well as estimating answers (using rounding).
The children have been working hard on their electricity work in science, creating circuits. The Purple Mash was a huge hit. (Don’t forget that you can access your Purple Mash programmes at home)
Questions to ask at home
- What does circuit mean?
- What does ominous mean?
- What does personification mean?
- What is a preposition?
Children’s highlights of the week
- Purple Mash mosaic patterns
- TTRockstars
- E. Gymnastics with Mr Biggs
- Science – electricity work with Mrs B
- Lunch!
- The preposition game
- Arithmetic and timestables tests
Looking forward:
The children, begin to look at the features of a scene setting piece of writing. In maths, the class will be starting a new unit of work on area. In the afternoons, the children will have some sessions of singing in preparation for the Junior Carol Service, as well as exploring more of the wonderful electricity topic in science.
Homework in Year 4
Maths– pinky peach sheet
English – design a front cover for their reading journals (A4 size(
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 Friday All timestables x11 x12 x 6 x15 - (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 plastic wallets are)
Letters and Reminders
- Note the time change for the evening Junior Carol Service (now the Monday night)
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.