Year 4 Spring 1 Blog (2)

9th February 2022Almas Anwar

 

Reading and Writing

We have been working on creating our own opening and build up to an adventure story.  Within this unit we have been looking at features of writing such as; alliteration, similes and personification.

We are continuing our daily reading sessions to improve their comprehension and discussion skills.

Maths

In maths, we have been looking at division. Children have been learning how to divide a 2 digit and 3 digit number by a 1 digit number, including remainders.

Your children will be bringing home with them a pamphlet for parents explaining more about the times tables check in June 2022.  Children need to continue working on learning times tables at home.  Below there are some very useful websites to help them with their learning and understanding.

www.timestables.co.uk – This website shows the exact format of the test children will complete

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4

Mathletics

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

Topic

We have been continuing with our topic on rivers and mountains and have been looking at mountain environments in terms of climate and safety.  We have also done some art work focusing on mountain landscapes.

RE – In RE the children have been continuing to study Sikhism, they have looked at the holy book of the Sikh religion and also found out about where Sikhs worship.

 

At the beginning of the next half term the sequence of learning will focus on:

English – Writing a diary account of a character, from a story we have already looked at.

Maths – We are completing a unit on area before moving onto a unit on fractions including; tenths and hundredths, equivalent fractions and fractions greater than 1.

Topic – We will be finishing off our rivers and mountains topic by looking at the features of a river and an optional homework task will be set on The Water Cycle.

ICT – We will be continuing to look at spreadsheets.

RE – We will continue to study Sikhism, finding out about the values a Sikh will live by.

Year 4 Spring 1 Blog

19th January 2022Amanda Feagan

Reading and Writing

We did a very interesting unit on poetry based on ‘Dragons Wood’. The children  enjoyed creating their own poems in the same style. The teachers enjoyed reading them!

Thank you for your support in listening to your child read and also supporting them with learning their spellings. We cannot emphasise enough how important this is.

Maths

In maths we have been looking at multiplication. Children have been learning how to multiply a 2 digit and 3 digit number by a 1 digit number.

We are continuing to learn our times tables in readiness for the statutory test in June.  Children are making good progress towards this and we encourage them to continue learning these at home. We urge you to let your children have a go at the tests on the following website to support them to learn their times tables.

www.timestables.co.uk

Topic

We have begun our new topic on rivers and mountains and discovered some of the tallest mountains in the world and located some of the mountain ranges across the world.

RE – In RE the children have been studying Sikhism and have found out about who Guru Nanak was and what Sikhs believe.

Over the next few weeks the sequence of learning will focus on:

English – Writing an opening and build up focused on a setting and based on the book ‘The Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne.

Maths – We continue to look at multiplication and solving word problems. We will then be moving onto division and division with remainders.

Topic – In our rivers and mountains topic, we will be looking at mountain climates and studying some famous mountain landscapes with our artistic hats on, leading to the children producing a mountain landscape collage.

RE – We will continue to study Sikhism, finding out about the other nine gurus and how they help others.

Linden class have started their swimming lessons and are thoroughly enjoying them.

 

Year 4 End of Autumn Term Blog

9th December 2021Amanda Feagan

Reading and Writing

In Year 4 we have finished off our persuasive letter about deforestation and worked on a portal story based on a picture book called ‘Journey’. The children have written the sequel to the story, explaining the next adventure the children from the story went on. We concentrated on settings and action sequences.

We have continued to look at the three texts, ‘One Plastic Bag, ‘Krindlekrax’ and ‘Ug – Boy Genius of the Stone Age’ and completed comprehension activities linked to the texts.

Maths

We have completed our unit on addition and subtraction and have been looking at a unit linked to measures all about perimeter.

We continue to do times table practice and encourage you to work with your child at home to learn the times tables. The children will know the ones they need to practise.

Science

The children have been continuing their work on the topic of sound. They have learnt about how we hear and the inner workings of the ear. We have also learnt about how sound travels and had an interesting lesson exploring this using string telephones.

In RE we have been learning about the Hindu religion in terms of how Hindus worship. We will be looking at the Christmas story in the last week of term.

Hawthorn class have completed their term of swimming and have had much success and really enjoyed their time at the pool. In spring term, Linden class will be having swimming lessons.

In the last two weeks of term we will be doing some art and craft based Christmas activities.

Over the next few weeks the sequence of learning will focus on (beginning of new term)

English – we will be looking at poetry based on a poem called ‘Dragon’s Wood’ by Brian Moses and writing our own poem in the same structure. After this, we will be starting a new unit based on a book called ‘Tunnel’ by Anthony Browne, where we will be writing opening and build ups to our own stories.

Maths – we will be looking at multiplication and division

Topic – In topic we will be looking at mountains and rivers where we will be finding out how mountains are formed, the features of rivers and geographical facts about them. For example, the longest river, highest mountain etc.

RE – We will be looking at Sikhism and also later on the term Religion and the Natural World.

Look at what we have been doing in Year 4!

 

Year 4 Autumn 2 Blog

17th November 2021Almas Anwar

  Reading and writing

This half term so far we have been studying persuasive writing in the form of a letter.  The subject of the letter was deforestation and looking after the rainforest and all its creatures.  The children are currently writing their own persuasive letter from endangered animals.

We have started some new texts to Year 4 and have been working on our comprehension skills.

The texts are; One Plastic Bag, Krindlekrax, and Ug: Boy Genius of the Stone Age.

Maths

We have been doing lots of work on addition and subtraction, including mental methods.  The children are able to use column method, partitioning and part whole model to help with solving their calculations.

We are continuing to learn our times tables in readiness for the statutory test in June.  Children are making good progress towards this and we encourage them to continue learning these at home.

Science

Children are thoroughly enjoying our new topic of sound, where so far we have learnt about how sound travels.

In Music, the children have really enjoyed playing the glockenspiels and are starting to develop their ability to read and interpret simple sheet music.  They are also beginning to understand and use the correct musical terminology.

Over the next few weeks the sequence of learning will focus on:

English – Writing a portal story based on a picture book (wordless book), called Journey.

Maths – We will be looking at addition and subtraction problem solving, perimeter and multiplication and division.

Science – In science we will be looking at the structure of the ear and also which materials make good insulators.

RE – We are looking at a variety of ways in which different cultures/religions worship.

Look at what we have been doing in Year 4!

Year 4

14th October 2021Almas Anwar

We have had a very busy half term in year 4. The children have settled back into school well.

 

Some of the highlights from this term have been:

English – We have been writing our own Finding Tale, after finding our own box of treasure!  Also on National Poetry Day, we wrote poems about chocolate cake after enjoying our own.

Maths – In Maths we have been doing work on place value, leading on to rounding and negative number.

Topic – We have benn learning about the Roman invasion of Britain and the main differences between the Romans and the Celts.

ICT – Learning to code using Purple Mash

French – In French we have learnt to say our name, how old we are and where we live.

RE – In RE we have been learning about how different religions worship.

Coming up

Next week we will be designing and creating our own Roman shields.  After half term, in science we will be studying Sound and in Maths we will be covering the four operations