Hello everyone,
We hope you are keeping well and enjoyed a long weekend! Hopefully the sun will come back out for us to enjoy!
Koalas and Kangaroos have been extremely busy in English this week by starting a new unit on natural disasters. They have explored lots of news articles and news reports on volcanoes and earthquakes. From these, they collected lots of new vocabulary which they then made into their own glossary. We will continue to study news reports as the children’s final outcome will be to create their own which will be filmed and performed to the rest of the year 4s.
In Maths, we have looked closely at our problem solving skills which included our heuristics. We began the week by looking at the problem, ‘David, Brett, Julie and Carmel were lining up at the cinema. How many different ways could they line up?’. In groups, the children acted as each person, found different combinations and then recorded this systematically into an organised list. We also looked at pattern spotting problems.
Next week we will be starting our new Geometry unit, closely looking at area, classifying shapes and identifying angles.
Reminders for next week –
- Please ensure your children are completing all set homework including SumDog and times table practise on Times Table Rockstars (sound check) https://ttrockstars.com/.
- Please send your child into school with their reading journals, vocabulary work and spellings on Thursday 13th May 2021.
- Please send your child into school with the correct PE kit on Thursday 13th May 2021 for their CM sports PE session.
- Next week, we will be making our money carriers. Please bring in any materials your child would like to use, should you wish to, though we do have plenty of materials at school.
Well done for another fantastic week of learning Year 4’s, we look forward to seeing you on Monday. We hope you all have a lovely restful weekend.
From
Miss Jackson-Nash, Miss Honeywell, Miss Hawley and Mrs Cairns