Year 4 learning this week
Below you will find our weekly teaching and learning summary to find out how we develop and enrich your child's learning whilst they are with us.
| Week ending | What we have been learning about |
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| 26/04/2024 | This week Year 4 has gone back in time to the Tudors! In Literacy, we have been writing our own descriptions of Hampton Court and Henry VIII, using pronouns and figurative language skills. We have been reading our power of reading text ‘Spy Master’ to help us with this. We made Tudor Monarch booklets in History, where we have gathered information independently from a range of sources. In Maths, we have been estimating and calculating the area of rectangles using squares and cm2. Spellings: We have been learning to spell words containing ‘sol’ and ‘real’. E.g. solve, solution, soluble, insoluble, dissolve, real, reality, realistic, unreal, realisation. |
| 19/04/2024 | This week, Year 4 have started our new History topic ‘The Tudors’ and are already enjoying our class text ‘Spy Master’ which is set in Tudor England. After reading the first chapter, we have written our own second chapter thinking about what might happen next in the story. In Maths, we have begun learning about perimeter and have been practising our measuring skills to accurately measure and calculate different perimeters. Spellings: Words with c before i and e - circle, circus, celebrate, centaur |
| 28/03/2024 | This week, Year 4 has finished our decimal learning in Maths. In Literacy, we completed a write up of our fabulous Roman Day, detailing all of the learning and activities we took part in, not forgetting the incredible costumes of course! In DT, we made ice cream using ice, salt and milk, this linked to our Science topic, States of Matter, and tasted delicious! We hope all of our Year Fours have a restful Easter break! Spellings: To spell words that are homophones e.g. seen and scene, affect and effect. |
| 22/03/2024 |
This week, Year 4 have been learning all about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and have become news reporters detailing the tragic event to create their own articles. They have also predicted what might happen to our main characters Livia and Tranio from ‘Escape from Pompeii’ after the eruption. In Science, Year 4 have been learning to identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature.
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| 15/03/2024 | This week in Year 4, we thoroughly enjoyed Science week by creating an experiment where we exploded our volcanoes using coke bottles and Mentos. In History, we have continued our learning about the Roman Empire, particularly focusing on Roman culture. In Literacy, we have created a set of instructions on how to escape a volcanic eruption. We have also enjoyed continuing to read our Literacy text ‘Escape from Pompeii.’ Spellings: To spell words ending in ‘-cian’ for example, musician, optician and dietician. |
| 08/03/2024 | Year 4 has had a fantastic week, dropping everything and reading when the bell rang throughout the week. We’ve been busy learning how to round decimals to the nearest whole number and how to find number bonds for numbers with one decimal place. As part of our history topic, Year 4 have been reading the book ‘Escape from Pompei’ by Christina Ballit and this week Year 4 have written a descriptive piece of writing of the explosion of Mount Vesuvius. In Science, Year 4 has been learning to identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature. Spellings: To spell words ending in ‘ssion’ for example, expression, discussion and omission |
| 01/03/2024 |
This week in Year 4, we have been continuing to read our core text ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and have been researching Roman Emperors. In Maths, we have started our decimals unit, where the children have learnt to recognise decimal tenths and to compare decimals. We have also enjoyed our introductory lesson to our new topic ‘States of Matter’ in Science, where we completed an experiment to see how long it took us to melt the ice using different techniques!
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| 23/02/2024 |
In Year 4, we had a wonderful first week back! In Literacy, we have started our new text ‘Escape from Pompeii’ which links to our new History topic of the Romans. We have learnt about the story of Romulus and Remus and have completed a descriptive piece of writing based on Pompeii prior to 79 Spellings: To spell words where ‘au’ makes an /or/ sound. E.G. August, launch, haul. |
| 09/02/2024 | This week, Year 4 have been exploring Ahmet’s perilous journey from Syria to the safety of London. We have recorded our findings in our very own diaries and our teachers have been incredibly impressed with the empathy and compassion we have shown towards the characters. Our focus has been using fronted adverbials within our writing. In Maths, we have been looking at time, with a focus on converting between analogue and digital clocks. We were so pleased to show our grown ups our incredible learning at the Expo on Wednesday, including our contrasting collages, which were a highlight for lots of families. Spellings: Words ending in ‘-ious’ and ‘-eous’ serious, obvious, curious, hideous, spontaneous, courteous, furious, various, victorious, gaseous |
| 02/02/2024 | We’ve had an amazing Maths Week! In Year 4, we have been investigating how best to make a profit from selling friendship bracelets, ready for today’s fair. We broke it all down to work out the most cost-effective length of elastic, number of beads and price point for each bracelet. Each class has worked incredibly hard to design their own production line to create the products and even dipped into marketing by creating labels for the bags and posters to advertise our work. Well done for your fantastic effort, Year 4! In Literacy, we have been holding debates based on why we should let refugees seek safety in our country. The children have approached this with great empathy, really showing our ‘N’ Green Value of being nurturing and kind to all. Spellings: To spell words where a suffix is added to words ending in ‘y’ merriment, happiness, plentiful, penniless, happily, prettiest, nastiness, beautiful, pitiful, silliness |
| 26/01/2024 | This week, we have delved into the world of poetry to explore some of the perils that Ahmet, the character in our text, came across on his journey from Syria to the safety of London. This links in with our Geography learning in the coming weeks, where we will be using our map skills to plot the journey and explore some of the physical and human features of the countries he travelled through. This week also brings our fractions unit to a close, as we have been applying the skills we have learnt to word problems. Spellings: Words ending in ‘-ous’ courageous outrageous nervous famous adventurous disadvantageous ridiculous carnivorous rapturous torturous |
| 19/01/2024 | In Year 4 this week, we have been writing play scripts based on our text ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class’. We then worked hard to turn them into paragraphs, using speech punctuation correctly. In Maths, we have been challenging ourselves to add and subtract mixed numbers and improper fractions. Although this started out as a bit of a tricky concept, we’ve been working hard using our manipulatives and a range of pictorial representations to help us and, as a result, we’ve made lots of progress! Spellings: The suffix -ous Poisonous, dangerous, mountainous, marvellous, perilous, tremendous, enormous, jealous, precious, disastrous |
| 12/01/2024 |
This week, we have got stuck into our new Power of Reading text, The Boy at the Back of the Classroom. We have been using a whole range of ambitious vocabulary and sentence structures to ‘wow’ our audience when describing the classroom and the characters. Within our Maths learning, Year 4 have been looking at comparing and ordering fractions. Towards the later end of the week, we also challenged ourselves to look at mixed numbers and improper fractions. More of this to come next week! |
