Year 4 - Looking Back and Forth Friday 8th July
Friday 8th July– Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, the children explored the idea of twisting a well-known story into a darker more sinister ending. At first, the children found this a little on the unusual, but soon got into the spirit of the thing. The Weetabix adverts helped quite a bit! We studied data handling and symmetry in maths.
The children in the afternoons, have used their dioramas to create animated stories, using the digi blue animation software. Another great highlight of the week was the fantastic sports day with splendid weather!
Building On
- Narrative story writing
- Knowledge of traditional stories
- Shape and shape work
Questions to ask at home
- What is a twisted narrative?
- How can you make a twisted ending?
- What is line of symmetry?
- What is a parallelogram, trapezium and rhombus look like?
Highlights of the week for the children
- Animating the mountain stories
- Creating twisted narratives
- E. with Mr Biggs, capture the flag
- Starting writing my own twisted narrative
- Statistics in maths
- Being with my friends
- Sports day
Looking forward:
This week, the class will be completing their twisted narratives, learning more about the journey up Everest, French as well as refining their biking skills with the crew from Bikeability.
Homework in Year 4
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.
Maths– pink sheet this week to be handed in on Thursday
English – purple mash
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables
(This can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the plastic wallets are)
Letters and Reminders
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.