Hello everyone,

We hope you have not got too wet from the rainy weather and enjoyed your weekend.

Last week in English, the years 4 brought all their writing skills together that we have explored over this past unit top create and edit their writing plans. The children will be writing their own narrative  of Jemmy Button in first person. We have had a large focus on different sentence types to make our writing more exciting and intriguing to the reader. This week children will be using their plans to draft and edit their stories. We cannot wait to read them!

In Maths, we have started to look at measurements. Starting with length last week we explored what different measurements their were and how to convert these from km all the way to mm. This week  we will be starting to look at Mass and its different conversion, allowing the children to see the similar links between mass and length (km/kg).

In Science, we have started our new topic ‘Living things and their Habitats). The lesson started off with a sorting race whereby they had to place the animal into the correct animal group (mammals, reptiles, amphibians etc)  and the children cheered each other, helping one another. Now they understand what groups of animals their are and the characteristics that go along side the animals, we will start to explore their habitats. In the next couple of weeks we will be creating our own micro-habitats such as dessert, Antarctica, rain forests, woodland, the ocean etc. It would be really appreciated if children could bring in some resources to go into their micro- habitats, from twigs, to stones, sand, leaves, ‘ice’.

We’re hearing that many of  the children are doing well at learning and performing their poems. We will be holding our Poetry Performance on 12th February, so if you are using costumes or props, that’s the day to bring them in. Looking forward to seeing them all!

We would also like to thank you for your support with the children’s multiplication. Both classes in year 4 have seen a big improvement in the accuracy and fluency of their time table recall. Please do continue to practise with children and here are a few useful sites we use with the children for times tables.

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

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

Sumdog and Times table Rockstar.

We hope you have a lovely week!

Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell and Mrs Cairns