Millennium

Hello!

Thank you as always for all your help and support.

This week’s learning in Year 4:

Maths: We are continuing our revision of key skills by exploring the distributive laws of multiplication. We will be using adjacent multiples to help us work out answers and using partitioning to help us to solve calculations involving larger 2 digit numbers.

English: We are continuing to read Ice Palace by Robert Swindells and will be story mapping the story so far before exploring Ivan’s feelings and actions as he approaches Starjik’s lair. We will be writing in role, hot seating some characters and drawing and annotating our impressions of parts of the story.

DT: We will be exploring the sustainability of reusable bags and designing our own bags for life

PE: We will be continuing to develop our bowling and batting skills in cricket.

ICT: We are continuing to use Isle of Tune to compose a piece of music for a Pharaoh’s funeral.

Homework is a continuing project exploring our History topic, the Ancient Egyptians. Pick one task each week to complete and post your results on Google Classroom.

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns!

The Year 4 Team

Homework-Egyptians

Hello Year 4!

We hope you are all ready for another fantastic week! Here’s what we will be learning;

Maths- we will be learning about area this week, counting squares to calculate areas and comparing the area of different shapes. We will also be looking at corresponding problems.

English- we will be continuing to look at the poems of Valerie Bloom and writing a class poem in a similar style.

Geography- we will be learning about how tribes live a traditional lifestyle in the rainforest and comparing it to our own.

ICT- we will be beginning to design our own simple toy using scratch

Science- we will be learning and creating simple food chains which include a producer, prey and predator.

Spanish- we will be saying what we can do, remembering some simple verbs

Music- we will be listening and responding to a piece of music

RHE- the girls will be learning some facts about puberty while the boys are talking about peer pressure and the effects of smoking on the body.

PE- we will be developing close catching and wicket-keeping skills as we continue to learn about cricket.

As always, please contact us on the year group email if you have any queries or concerns.

Happy learning!

Welcome back to school Year 4! We are super excited to see you all again!

This week we will be learning:

Maths- continuing our work on decimals, we will be adding decimals to make a whole, ordering and comparing decimals and rounding decimals.

English-we are starting a new, exciting text featuring poetry from Caribbean artists. We will be learning and performing poems as well as learning about the poets themselves

Geography-we are learning to decribe the layers of the rainforest

Spanish-to learn some verbs in Spanish.

Music-we will be exploring some body percussion

PE- we will be learning some Cricket skills

For those children who are not attending school, we will continue to post work  on Google Classroom but there will be no live lessons.

Thank you again for all your support. We look forward to seeing you in school!

Welcome back to another week of home learning Year Four. Hope fully this will be our last week of learning at home and we look forward to seeing you all back with us next week!

This week we will be holding  live lessons at 11.30 for you  on 4 days all as well as lots of fun lessons to keep you learning remotely. The links to join our live lessons will go live at 11.25 each day on your Google Classroom stream.

Remember to join us for merit card assembly with Key Stage Two at 9.15am on Friday too.

Well done to last week’s merit card winners, Yasir, Sarah, Taliyah, Octavian, Alvin, Kayden, Katherine and Maximilian. We are very proud of you all!

This week we will be learning:

Maths-to recognise hundredths as decimals.

English-read and appreciate a poem and to write a persuasive letter about deforestation.

Science-what are acoustics?

R.E- to be able to recognise some of the key festivals in Islam.

Geography-to identify where in the world rainforests are located.

Spanish-to recognise some verbs in Spanish.

Music-to explore percussion at home

Here is your weekly timetable with links.

Weekly Timetable for Home Learning Wk beginning 1.3.21

Weekly Timetable for Home Learning Wk beginning 1.3.21

We would just like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your hard work and enthusiasm during this period of home learning. We have been impressed and amazed by the quality and quantity of the work you have submitted. Thank you very much Year Four and to all of your grown ups as well!

Hello Year 4,

I can’t believe we have got to the end of the half term already! It has simply flown by and you have all worked so hard. We are really impressed with all the amazing work that has been submitted. Thank you all.

Our learning for this week;

English- we are continuing with our work relating to The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry and will be learning the rest of the story this week.

Maths- we are continuing our work on fractions including adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator.

Geography – we will be considering the vegetation which grows in the different climates of the world.

Science- we will be exploring the pitch and frequency of sound waves.

Spanish- share a story

ICT- continue working on your coding skills in scratch

RE- we will be learning about the Muslim Holy Book

Music- practising reading and clapping how many beats are in a bar.

There will be a live story sharing session with Miss Danzey on Wednesday at 11.30 am and a Merit Assembly at 9.15 on Thursday. The meeting codes will be shared just before the lessons as always.

There will be no home learning on Friday 12th February as this is an inset day.

As always, if you have any queries or concerns, please feel free to contact us on the Google Classroom stream or via the year group email year4@howard.croydon.sch.uk

A suggested timetable is attached below. Don’t worry if you can’t manage all the tasks, just try to do a little each day and please do share your work with us. We love to see it!

Once again, thank you for all our hard work and support this half term.

Happy remote learning!

The Year 4 Team

Weekly Timetable for Home Learning Wk beginning 8.2.21

Hello everyone,

We hope you are all safe and well in this difficulty time.

All learning is currently taking place remotely and links can be found on Google Classroom.

Links for some lessons can be found on the attached timetable but all lessons and associated tasks will be uploaded daily.

Please feel free to contact us with any concerns or queries.

Thank you for your continuing support!

The Year 4 Team

Weekly Timetable for Home Learning Wk beginning 25.1.21