Hi everyone,
We hope that you are all well and enjoying the Winter sunshine this week.
So far, the children in Year Four have been enjoying taking part in gymnastics – we are currently learning how to balance, roll and create a group pose by sharing our weight to balance, and even counterbalance! As part of our World Cup learning, we have also been studing heuristic strategies in Maths, such as generating a table and using number codes in order to solve combination problems about different types of football kits.
In English, we have completed our Spider Information pages and we look forward to starting our learning on Anthony Browne’s The Tunnel. The children have already started to make links between their Guided Reading tasks on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, with the portal that is also present in The Tunnel story. We have looked closely at the following vocabulary words: journey, transformation, portal, transportation. Could you practise building these words on a morpheme grid at home? e.g. transform – transformed – transforming – transformation. Please see below for a fantastic example of a Spider information page, complete with editing flaps to self-correct and improve, from Year Four.
In Maths, we have completed our learning on adding and subtracting tenths, and we have started to use our place value grids to support our division of numbers by 10 and 100. The children have enjoyed learning about wholes, equal parts, tenths and hundredths and they have a secure knowledge of how to represent these values. Next week, we look forward to applying our learning across various contexts.
A few quick reminders for next week:
- Please continue to complete the reading passport challenge – the deadline to complete this task is Thursday 1st December 2022.
- Please ensure that your child continues to practise and log in to Times Table Rockstars, to best prepare them for the Y4 Multiplication Check in June.
- Children to complete their spelling, vocabulary and Maths tasks (red book) and reading journal activities (yellow book) by Friday 2nd November 2022.
- Year 1-6 Advent Service at Sacred Heart Church, Waterlooville.
We wish you all a lovely weekend,
Take care,
Year Four Team