Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - 24th June
Friday 24th June – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week, our new book, The Lost Happy Ending, which we have been studying as part of our English curriculum has been very popular and we all enjoyed our maths lessons on decimals and fractions and also about the properties of shapes. We were really lucky that Mr Few, one of our governors, was able to come into school on Tuesday afternoon to tell us all about his trip to the Himalayas. He showed us lots of photos and answered all of our questions. He said he was really impressed with how much the children knew. Many thanks to Mr Few for giving up his time. We had another session in the school woods and in the wildlife garden studying plants and invertrbrates in more detail and we also began to make our mountain dioramas which we will be animating.
Building On
- Knowledge of story features
- Organisation and self reliance
- Shape
- Fractions
- Team work
Questions to ask at home
- Where are the Himalayas?
- What is a polygon?
- What are the properties of an equilateral triangle?
- How many sides does a quadrilateral have?
Highlights of the week for the children
- Friday maths morning
- Mr Few's visit
- Bug hunting
- Mountain dioramas
- Athletics
Looking forward:
This week, the children will be continuing to look at the features of our new book in English. Continue to look at shape and space in maths andl begin to learn about graphs and data handling. Complete dioramas of mountain ranges and begin to animate them. Study bees!
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– sheet this week to be handed in on Thursday
English –
Geography - mountains and physical features - 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.