Welcome back, everyone!

We hope that you are all well and that you all enjoyed a peaceful Christmas break and a wonderful New Year.

This week, we have continued our learning on The Snowman – the children had a fantastic time creating their own snowmen using artificial snow with coconut conditioner and bicarbonate of soda. We then gave our snowmen a name and explored a variety of science games to build our vocabulary banks for words that described ‘changes of state’ as well as for solids, liquids and gases.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In Maths, the children have been enjoying challenge activities on calculating the area and perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. We were very impressed by the various strategies selected by each child, such as ‘boxing up’ quadrilaterals within a shape to calculate area, and using times table knowledge and doubling in order to solve perimeters of regular quadrilateral shapes, efficiently.

 

A few brief reminders for next week:

• Home learning (spelling, vocabulary and maths) to be returned back to class by Friday 13th January 2023.
• Please continue to practise daily on Times Table Rockstars, in order to prepare for the Y4 multiplication check.
• Spring Term reading passports – please make use of the school and local libraries in order to enjoy a wide selection of texts across the Spring Term.

 

We hope you all have a great weekend,

Best Wishes,

Year Four Team