Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth Friday 11th March
Friday 4th March – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back: This week, the class have been amazing, awesome, wonderful, fantastic and fabulous. They showed such independence and resilience on the residential to Foxhowl. We worked out that the last visit they had was MOSI at the beginning of Year 2, so to go from that to a night away is a tall order. They were so polite and respectful that the staff at the centre thought they were a real credit to the school, Miss Atkins was very impressed. The centre leader said that they were definitely in her top 2% of children she has worked with this year.
We had great fun, we created great dens, walked and explored the forest. Created sculptures made of natural materials, pond and stream dipped.
They were a real credit to you and although you have tired and grubby (possibly wet and smelly) children returning to you. They definitely did you proud.!
Building On
- Learning about animals in KS1
- Independence and self-reliance skills
- Physical stamina, we did a lot of walking!
- Building and hand to eye coordination
- Team building and team work
- Communication
- Caring for each other
Questions to ask at home
- What was the best thing about Foxhowl?
- What was your best meal?
- What was the best activity
- What was the funny thing to happen?
- How do you sing Bungalow?
Highlights of the week for the children
- Delamere Delamere Delamere
- Pond dipping and finding lots of creatures
- Being with my friends
- Singing and eating marshmallows by the campfire
- The adventure playground
- Having fish and chips
- The stream walk
- Bacon butties, beans and toast for breakfast
- Seeing the badger sett
- Stories and hot chocolate at bedtime
- Stream dipping and catching fish
- Building dens with my friends
- The centre staff – we learnt a lot about bees from the wonderful Chef, who gave us seconds and thirds because he thought we were so polite.
Looking forward:
This week, we will continue with our work on Vikings and learning more about Viking Britain. We will continue to work on fractions in maths. We will be excited to see families and share our Delamere experiences on Friday.
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– no homework this week
English – no homework this week
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables - x11 x6x12x13 – these will be muddled up this week.
(This can be handed it at anytime before Friday, the children know where the plastic wallets are)
Letters and Reminders
- Delamere Assemby on Friday morning 9:30am in the junior hall
- Reading records to be in on Thursday this week (remember Mrs Fairhurst’s challenge!)
- Homework to be given in by Friday
- PE on Friday this week
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.