Year 4
Week beginning 29th September
We've had a brilliant week of learning this week, with lots of research and fact finding about Bear Grylls! Ask your child and see if they can tell you interesting facts we have been learning!
On Wednesday we celebrated National Fitness Day and a competition between each year group was held for adults to do the most steps during the day. Miss Lunn did an outstanding job with 21,000 steps and won the year group an extra play!
This week we will be celebrating Harvest Festival on Thursday (2nd Oct) and parents are welcomed to join our Church service at 11:00am.
Parent Information Video
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Worship Theme This Week:
Our worship theme this week is: Hope.
"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope".
Jeremiah 29:11
Destination Reader
Our book this term will be 'You vs The World - The Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up!' by Bear Grylls
This weeks learning:
English - We will continue our English unit, focusing on biographies and begin creating our own about Bear Grylls, using the facts we have gathered
Maths - We will continue our first unit on place value where we will look at rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100
Spelling - We will be focusing the suffixes -er and -est in our spelling list for this term
Science - We will understanding how objects can change their states of matter
DR - We will continue reading our book 'You vs The World: Bear Grylls Guide to Never Giving Up' and focusing on using a range of reading strategies within our lessons
Geography - We will be explaining valued land features for early settlers compared to today
PE - We will continue our unit on Fitness
DT - We will be understanding the importance of hygiene in cooking
Music - We will begin our first lesson on Samba drumming
French - We will continue our first unit on 'Je me presente' where we will be learning to introduce ourselves in French
Spelling words to practise this term:
Focus on high frequency words- see list attached at the bottom of this page
Words to know this term:
- main
- mane
- fair
- fare
- peace
- piece
- colder
- stronger
- bravest
- fastest
- because
- beautiful
- everybody
- improve
- treasure
- measure
- pleasure
- enclosure
- closure
- picture
Homework:
Please check the homework overview at the bottom of this page, we will share and display the home learning in class.
My Maths will be set each week and the task is due every Thursday.
Reading:
Remember to read at home as much as possible! If children read three times at home, they get a raffle ticket.
Reading Raffle – Please encourage your child to record in their yellow reading record when they have read at home.
3 reads a week = 1 raffle ticket
5 or more reads a week = 2 raffle tickets
Library Day is on a Wednesday for both classes.
Your child regularly reads with an adult, both individually and during whole-class reading lessons. In Year 4, children are encouraged to take responsibility for changing their own reading books as needed.
Please note that we do not always write in your child's reading record. This is because we keep our own detailed record in school, and avoiding duplication allows us to spend more time directly supporting the pupils.
Thank you for your understanding and ongoing support in fostering a love for reading. If you have any questions regarding reading, then please speak to a member of the Year 4 team.
At the end of every other term, two names from each class will be drawn in Worship and those children will make a special trip ( with a book) to our local Costa to enjoy a babyccino!
Recommended Book list for Year 4… https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-
Important Messages:
We would like to give parents and carers a heads up for dressing up days throughout the year so you can look out for costumes in advance. We are really lucky in Year 4 that we get lets of opportunties to dress up. Please keep a look on Vinted as there are often lots of great bargains! Below are the following costumes needed throughout the year:
- Explorer style costume
- Victorian costume
- Rockstar costume
- Viking costume
Key Dates:
KS2 Harvest Festival Worship in the church - Thursday 2nd October at 11:00am
Fraser Portrait Photos - Monday 13th October
Survival Day - Thursday 16th October
Flu Immunisations - Thursday 23rd October
Thank you for your continued support,
Miss Lunn and Mrs Talbot