In Year 4 this week, we have been using our Oracy skills to listen to, write and perform debates. We have been looking at the Oracy objective: To use more natural and subtle prompts for turn taking such as pausing when looking at your partner after you have finished talking or giving a little nod to say I'm finished. Our debates have been focused on different sections of Iron Man which is our power of reading text. In Maths, we have been consolidating our knowledge on addition and subtraction with different problem solving and reasoning activities. In PSHE, we have been looking at what it means to be a member of a school community and what responsibilities everyone has within a school. 

Spellings: Words with the prefix ’inter-’ meaning ‘between or among’

This week, Year 4 were continuing to work on addition and subtraction in Maths, focusing on regrouping across multiple columns. In Literacy, we have been looking at fronted adverbials, remembering to use a comma after them. We have also been working on improving our handwriting, making sure our letters are neat, clear, and correctly formed. In Music, we have started our musicianship topic focusing on our pulse and rhythm when singing. 

Spellings: Words with the prefix ’sub-’ meaning ‘below’ or further divided.

This week, Year 4 have been continuing to look at their Literacy text ‘The Iron Man’. They have been writing diary entries from different perspectives looking at describing the setting and characters feelings. In Maths, the focus has been on adding 4-digit numbers, with particular attention to regrouping across different columns. In Computing, Year 4 has been getting to grips with using the standard ‘QWERTY’ keyboard. They’ve also learned how to carry out useful functions on the Chromebooks, such as taking a print screen and creating and editing a Google Document

Spellings: Words beginning with the prefix ‘im’, ‘il’ and ‘ir’

This week in Year 4 we have been looking at rounding 4 digit numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 in Maths. We have continued to look at our writing text, The Iron Man and have been focusing on using apostrophes for possession. We created a model of the Iron Man in groups and wrote sentences labelling him making sure we used our possessive apostrophes. In our foundation lessons, we have been focusing on electricity and different objects that are battery operated and mains operated. We walked around school, looking at all the different electrical objects in various areas. 

Spellings:  inability, inactive, inadequate, incorrect, incurable, indefinite, inelegant, inflexible, insecure, invisible.

What a brilliant first full week Year 4 has had. The children have settled back into school life beautifully. In Literacy, we have been focusing on our handwriting and learning how to organise paragraphs clearly around a theme. In Maths, we have been focusing on place value, specifically learning how to find 1,000 more or less than a four-digit number. In Geography, we have been looking at why we need maps and the symbols that maps use in our local area. 

Spellings: Homophones (plain, plane, weather, whether, eye, I)