Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 14th January 2022
Friday 14th January – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back: This week, the children have been creating wonderful fronted adverbial sentences as part of work on our new book ‘Leaf’. They’re absolutely desperate to read it, and that will happen next week.
In maths, we have worked on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. In the afternoons, the class worked with Mr Biggs on their netball skills as well as exploring sound and vibration in science. This proved a very popular lesson.
Building On
- Maths, the multiplication and division in Year 2 and Year 3.
- Sound work in science, links to the listening work the children completed in Reception.
- Fronted adverbials work built on the work from the autumn term.
- Developing a wider vocabulary builds on all of the children’s everyday experiences and all of the work in school.
Questions to ask at home
- What does a tuning fork do when you hit it?
- How is sound made?
- What is fronted adverbial?
- What happens to a number when you divide by 10 or 100?
- What is commutative law?
Highlights of the week for the children
- The lessons in maths where we divided by 10 and 100.
- Leaf and looking at the pictures in the book
- TTRockstars!
- Tuning forks in water in science!
- Hanging out with my friends
- Drums and birdseed with Mrs Cooper (the mind boggles)
Looking forward:
This week, we will get to read the book Leaf as well as explore some of the great vocabulary used in the text. In maths, we will be investigating factor pairs. In the afternoons, there will be more fun experiments on sound with Mrs Cooper, music lessons with Mrs Sant. Spelling and arithmetic work with Mrs Riddell.
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– green sheet to be handed in on Thursday /Friday at the latest
English - pronouns sheet (green sheet) to be handed in on Thursday /Friday at the latest
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables – for Friday All timestables - x2 x3 x6 x18 – 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
- Letter for residential to Delamere
- PE on Friday this week
- PE on Friday next term
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
Children can bring in hand sanitizers for their own personal use.
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.