This week, Year 4 have been busy practising our Christmas songs ready for our rehearsals to start in the hall. On Monday, we were lucky to have a visit from Wendy at Dental House to explain to us why keeping our teeth healthy is so important. She showed us different drinks and their sugar contents and the children were shocked! In Maths, we have continued to look at data in the form of bar charts/pictograms and time graphs. In Literacy, we have continued to read our book ‘A boy at the back of the class’, focusing on different writing styles across all 3 classes. In Reading Roundabout this week, we have been focusing on the VIPER ‘explain’. 

Spellings: Words where ‘ch’ makes a /sh/ sound (Chef, machine, chalet)

This week, Year 4 have been working hard in Literacy writing non- standard and standard English diary entries and reports based on our book ‘The boy at the back of the class.’ In Maths, we have started our new unit by reading and drawing pictograms and bar charts. In Geography, we have been continuing to look at different countries within Europe and looking at human and physical features that have changed over time. We have also started learning and rehearsing our songs for our Christmas performance! 

Spellings: Words ending ’-lly’ e.g: usually, finally, beautifully.

This week, Year 4 have been working hard in our multiplication and division unit in Maths. We have been continuing to explore short multiplication and short division. In Literacy, we have been writing  ‘A guide to Echelford Literacy’ for Ahemt in ‘The Boy at the back of the class’. In Reading, We have been focusing on the VIPER skill ‘inferencing’ and finding evidence in the book to help us support our answers. In Art, we have started exploring what a collage is and looking at different cutting techniques ready for us to gather our materials.

Spellings:  Words ending ’-ly

This week, Year 4 have been working hard in Maths and we have continued on with our Multiplication and Division unit. In Literacy, we have started our new text ‘The Boy at the back of the class’ and been creating a guide to Echelford. We have been visiting different areas of the school, describing it and explaining how we use each one. In Geography, we have started to look at Ahmet's journey from Syria to the UK and we have used this to inspire our PE learning in Dance. 

Spellings: Words ending in ’-ation’ 

Year 4 CEW

Year 4 have had a wonderfully busy week! We all enjoyed 4B’s Class Assembly where they shared the importance of Autumn and some spooky halloween facts!  In DT, we have been designing and constructing different nets for our torches, carefully deciding which shapes we’ll use when we make them after half term. In Literacy, we explored the features of book reviews and then had the chance to write our own, based on our class text The Iron Man. This was a fantastic opportunity to reflect on and consolidate our understanding of the story. In Maths, we have started our new unit on Multiplication and Division. We have been using known facts to solve larger calculations, such as 7000 × 3 = ?. We hope everyone has a wonderful and well-deserved half-term break!

Spellings: CEW words

This week has been an exciting one for Year 4! All the children across the year group have enjoyed their local walk to Ashford Train Station which was linked to our Geography learning. The children enjoyed pointing out different things that they would see on the map and what symbol it may have. We are so proud of how the children behaved out in our local area! We have also been working hard on our Maths unit ‘number sense’ looking at counting in 6,7,9,25 and 1000s forwards and backwards. We have also been looking at counting back through negative numbers. In Literacy, our focus this week has been on punctuating direct speech and we have been looking at different conversations that the characters may have in our book ‘The Iron Man’. 

Spellings:  strength, grammar, calendar, women, appear, straight, interest, opposite, increase, believe

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)