Yr 4 Friday 7th June - Looking Back and Forth
Friday 7th June 2019 – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week we have begun a new unit of work in English, looking at stories from other cultures. We are focusing our attention on Africa. We read extracts of the book – 'Africa is not a country' and learnt about what a diverse continent Africa is.
Did you know it is the only continent to be in all four hesmispheres?
Did you know there are 53 countries in Africa?
Well Year 4 do. We looked at different children’s lives from all over Africa. From South Africa to Egypt. From Rwanda to Mauritania. It was fascinating to learn and compare their lives to ours in England.
We discussed the word ‘diverse’ and decided we could use this for Africa as well as our own country.
In maths ,we looked multiplication using mental strategies, for example rounding, partitioning, doubling and halving. We like these puzzly lessons.
We looked at the mountain ranges of Europe in geography. It was great to go and revisit a topic from the beginning of the year and add to it. We also looked at the history of Cheshire from the Ice Age to 2009 (when most of the class were born) when Cheshire was split into East and West Cheshire.
We looked at carnivores, omnivores and herbivores in science – we were astounded to find out that pandas are omnivores!
Year 4 – Pupils’ Highlights:
- Premier sports athletics
- Computing with Mrs Cooper – we did Scratch
- Science animal research
- June evening preparations
- Having Lucy and Asa back
- Nancy can’t wait for Anancy next week! (long story)
- Chips!
Family discussion questions:
- What is a carnivore?
- What is a herbivore?
- What is an omnivore?
- How many countries are there in Africa?
- How many languages are spoken in Africa? (over a thousand)
- Is there snow in Africa?
- What does diverse mean?
- Why did people settle in Cheshire?
- Can you tell me what the small intestine does?
- Can you tell me what the large intestine does?
- (Here is a challenge!) Can you tell me what peristalsis is?
Looking forward:
This week the children will continue their work on African stories. Retelling an old African story themselves.
In maths the children look at division and have some revision of concepts we haven’t look at for a while. We will look at the EU and try to shed light on Brexit! In science we will look at food chains. On Friday we will probably get very excited about June Evening!
Homework in Year 4
Timestables for Wednesday - Mrs Benson
Spellings for Thursday – Mrs Cooper
Maths (Green sheet) and Ancient Egypt project homework not due for 4 weeks – Mrs Cowell
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
(This can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the plastic wallets are)
Letters
June Evening letters (green paper) – All children
Some children have athletics letter from Mrs Flint
Reminders
P.E. kits in this week. P.E. will be on Friday morning this week.
Could the children bring trainers or pumps if possible.
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.
Dates for your diary:
June
WB Monday 10th Year 1 phonics assessments
Tuesday 11th PTA 7.30 The Crown
Wednesday 12th Y6 Curriculum Day HCCS
Thursday 13th Father’s Day Shop
Thursday 13th New Starters’ Meeting 7pm Village Hall
Friday 14th Father’s Day Shop
Friday 14th June Evening straight after school
Thursday 20th Y6 Pastoral Day HCCS
Friday 21st Y6 residential until Monday 24th
July
Thursday 4th Sports Day
Thursday 11th Reserve Sports Day
Monday 22nd Y6 performance 7pm School Hall
Tuesday 23rd Y6 performance 7pm School Hall
Wednesday 24th Leavers’ Assembly 1.30pm Village Hall.