Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth -Friday 20th May

Friday 20th May– Looking Back & Forth in Year 4

Looking back:

This week, the children worked really hard on their decimals work again.  We looked at writing and comparing decimals.

In English, we continued to work on our stories with a view to publishing our work.  

Building On

• Publishing using joined handwriting.
• Decimals work from Year 3
• Multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. These was looked at in Year 3 and in Year 4.

Questions to ask at home

• What is personification?
• What is a simile?

Highlights of the week for the children

• SWIMMING!!!
• Maths
• English stories
• Science - observing and drawing leaves
• TT Rockstars
• Using the laptops to create branching databases to sort animals

Looking forward:

All of the children will need to bring their swimming bags on Thursday for their final swimming sessions on that day. Young Voices - anyone who is going to Young Voices will swim on Thursday morning.

Next week we will be looking at some more aspects of finance as part of our PSCHE work,  In R.E. the children will be exploring Jewish weddings and the children will also be taking part in a Wider Opportunities music lesson, in preparation for next year.  We are expecting some very special visitors on Monday - details on the newsletter.  We will be doing some research on mountains and building on our knowledge of weather phrases in French.  On Friday, it is the Jubilee celebrations with a picnic and kite flying - details on the newsletter.

We are breaking up on Friday for one week and a day because of the extra Bank Holiday so children will return on Tuesday 7th June.

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–   cream sheet this week to be handed in on Thursday

English – Similes sheet

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 – 20 reads in the reading record =10 housepoints

Please encourage your child to record their reading in their reading records.