Friday, 17th September 2021
The children in Year 4 had yet another busy week.
In English, they spent a few days planning and writing their own ‘Dirty Beast’ poems inspired by Roald Dahl before starting their new unit of work based on David Wiesner’s Flotsam. They became beach detectives on Thursday, opening bags of flotsam left behind, trying to guess who it must have belonged to. They used their reasoning and inference skills well.
In Maths, they built whole numbers using Dienes equipment and place value counters to show their understanding of the value of each digit in 3 and 4 digit numbers. They extended this task by re-grouping numbers flexibly, thinking about core facts such as how many tens make a hundred, etc.
In Re, the children looked at the 4 sources of Revelation and reflected on the first one, Creation. They wrote beautiful explanations on what they have learnt about God’s nature through his work of art.
In Pe, we played team building games and moved on in our multi-skill unit by re-introducing throwing and catching. In Geography, the children reasoned about why certain cities in the UK grow faster than others, whilst in Computing they carried on extending their basic Scratch designs from last week. In Science, we looked at types of enquiries and ways of testing.
Thank you for those of you who sent in plants to go into our Class Gardens. We tidied the bed on Thursday and started planting our bulbs and other seasonal plants.
It has been lovely to see the children Tuesday afternoon in Sewing Club. I introduced three basic stitch types (running, back and cross stitch) which the children practiced on pieces of felt. Great progress in just one lesson! I look forward to seeing them again next week.
Have a lovely weekend,
Ms Varga
Please see your Home Learning bellow:
| Home Learning | Due by Tuesday, 21st September 2021 |
| Spelling | Please log onto Spelling Frame and practice your weekly words one last time before testing yourself on them.
https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/9/2-The-I-sound-spelt-y-elsewhere-than-at-the-end-of-words (you do not need registration to access these activities) |
| Reading | Please log onto Read Theory and complete 2 activities.
https://readtheory.org/auth/login Reading records were also sent home today with the children’s reading targets set by their previous teacher. The children should record their own reading regularly including a brief summary of what they have read, the date and the title of the book. |
| Multiplication | Please log onto ‘Hit the button’ and spend 10-15 minutes practicing your multiplication facts. You can start practicing them by tables, however you should try and extend this by practicing them mixed up, as well. |
| Maths/English | Please log onto Study Ladder with your existing login details and access the ‘Pod’ assigned to you.
https://www.studyladder.co.uk/ Please start your learning with the ‘Tutorial’ explaining expanded notation. We call that ‘re-grouping’ in class. We identify the value of each digit in a number and re-write it as a number sentence. E.g.: 1257= 1000+200+50+7 It’s different from ‘decomposition’, which would be flexibly breaking a number up, such as: 1257=800+200+240+17 With ‘regrouping’ the children can prove they understand the value of each digit according to its place within the number so later they can re-group in a more complex way: 1257= (10×100)+(20×10)+57
In English, I would like the children to create an A4, colourful learning poster. I would like them to use their learning from this week and think about 4-5 pieces of ‘flotsam’ (debris in the water that was not deliberately thrown overboard, often as a result from a shipwreck or accident) that would represent them the best. Would it be: a book, a pair of football boots, a tinful of Pokemon cards, a box of special sweets, ballet shoes, a specific soft toy? Could I guess who they are just by looking at their chosen ‘Flotsam’? Could their classmates guess? Please be prepared to present your poster by Tuesday. |
