Year Four Blog Week Beginning 10.2.2020
Our learning this week:
Maths-We will be multiplying by TU and HTU using formal written methods. See examples below if you would like to support your child with this learning.Written methods for multiplication
English-We are beginning a new book following the Power of Reading scheme. We will be explore the story in depth responding to the illustrations and word choices. we will not be revealing the title of the book but have included a snippet for your interest. The children have been enjoying guessing what the title may be.
Science-We will be using a classification key to classify animals. We have been finding out about key scientists such as Carl Linnaeus
http://https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks2-the-work-of-carl-linnaeus/zhnjf4j
Topic-We will be investigating life in a rain forest for it’s native inhabitants.
Parent Evening forms will go out this week.
Week beginning 3rd February 2020
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#27ee1d" ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Mrs Armitage on Wheels by Quentin Blake
This wonderfully imaginative book is about a character called Mrs Armitage who is very creative with redesigning her bicycle. The children will enjoy reading about her plans which will inspire their own creativity as they explore new ideas for improving and adapting Mrs Armitage’s bicycle.
MATHS: This week we continue to develop the children’s understanding of the properties of 2D and 3D shapes and recognising these properties in shapes in the environment[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#c21db9" ]HOMEWORK
Capacity Challenge
We have been learning about capacity and the meaning of concepts full, half full and empty. Can you draw a picture or take a photograph of a container that is full, half full and empty in your home. Ask your adult to help you write a label for each picture.
READING BOOKS and WORD LISTS
Please continue to send in reading books, diaries and word lists on group days [/dropshadowbox]
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Thursday, 6th February 2020: Chelsea Class visit to the Fire station
Friday, 7th February 2020: February Family Friday. Please join us from 8.30am – 9.00am [/dropshadowbox]
The first week of February
Back to a normal week at Howard.
First of all, last week’s homework:
Next week, we will work through the following things:
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- Ordering and comparing fractions above and across one.
- Adding and subtracting fractions with related denominators.
- Problem-Solving.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#e0c394″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]English[/dropshadowbox]
With the help of our class-novel “Room 13” we will be …
- Using a range of narrative and language devices to innovate a warning dream.
- Using a storymap and a range of narrative and language devices to invent a warning dream.
- Using Success Criteria and feedback to edit and improve our writing/narration.
- SPaG: Using Prefices.
- Have a look at the video: https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html#
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- Exploring the effect of pulleys to translate force.
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- Spanish: I can use Spanish to talk about pets.
- Geography: I can link contour-lines with the reality.
- ICT: I can apply my knowledge of programming to create a simple Scratch programme.
- PSHE: Connor and Faye will be back teaching us how to keep fit and healthy.
We will also continue sharing our Myths from two weeks ago.
Week Beginning Monday February 3rd, 2020
Time seems to fly and we have two more weeks left of this term. As the days get longer, we hope the weather gets milder…
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#6c2ec1″ ]Our Mathletics Champions this week…[/dropshadowbox]Super Mathlete
Gold Award
Lambeth Class: Luke, Yusuf
Vauxhall Class:
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Yusuf – 7191 Points
Vauxhall Class : Aayush – 6250 Points
Silver Award
Lambeth Class : Barin, Stanley
Vauxhall Class :Hamza, Alesha, Elena
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class: Aliyah, Brady, Carlotta, Hasan, Mia, Carter
Vauxhall Class: Aayush, Ishmael, Zachary, Agyeiwaa, Hamza, Oliver, Alesha, Naomi, Elena
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”horizontal-curve-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f1e517″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#0db856″ ]Our Learning this week…[/dropshadowbox]
Our Learning this week…
English
Your children will be authors this week. They will create their own characters and write their own stories based on the Man on the Moon with a new ending as well. Very exciting indeed…
Maths
We will be learning about money and learn about the different coins and notes as well as make different amounts using different coins. For e.g – 3p = 1p + 1p+1p
2p + 1p
Please can you play shopping games with your children?
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Science
In Science we will continue learning about the winter season – weather, what clothes we wear, plants and animals ( what happens to them), length of the day as well as explore Space focusing on the Earth and the Moon.
Children will also be continuing their learning about omnivores, carnivores and herbivores.
PE
Children will be learning about – ‘Dynamic Balance to Agility’- jumping and landing.
RE
We continue our learning about Christianity: We will be discussing lifestyles and celebration: Where do Christians go to worship?
ICT
We continue our learning about e -safety . Check out all the episodes on Think you know – Hector’s world
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/4_7/hectorsworld/Episode1/
Our new topic is ‘We are collectors’. where we find images about space using the web to help with our learning. Children will then copy and paste images into a word document.
Please support your child to use the mouse and key board as they need to develop this important skill.
PSHE
Children are learning about staying safe and this week we are focusing on crossing the road safely.
We revisit the Zones of Regulation. Your children are amazing at calming down using a range of breathing techniques. Please ask your child to demonstrate the hand breathing, lazy eight breathing, hexagonal breathing etc..
Music
Children learn to use voices expressively and creatively. They will also develop an understanding of rhythm and tempo.
Phonics
Please continue to practice sound recognition with your child. Encourage them to apply their phonic knowledge every time you read or write with them.
Homework
Please support your child to complete their homework . It’s a safety poster linked to our learning.
Handwriting
Week Beginning 3rd February 2020
The children thoroughly enjoyed the Mordern Hall Park trip and gained some invaluable knowledge. Thank you for all your help and support.
English – Writing
We will be looking at non chronological reports. Eventually the children will write their own non chronological report about mini beast.
A non-chronological report is a non-fiction report which is not written in time order. A non-chronological report is focused on a single topic and includes various facts about this topic.
Examples:
First, we will expand our vocabulary related to mini beast so the children can use it later when they write their own non chronological report.
On Tuesday we will look at features of a non-chronological report and we will locate these features on different report types.
On Wednesday and Thursday, the children will read information about polar bears and group them in the correct category – diet, appearance, habitat, movement and fascinating facts.
Maths – Shape
- To make patterns with 2D shapes
- To count edges on 3D shapes
- To count vertices on 3D shapes
- To sort 3D shapes
- To count faces on 3D shapes
-To make patterns with 2D shapes.
We will discuss what shape may come next. What colour will the 9th shape be? ETC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zthsb9q
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=patter
– To count edges on a 3D shape
Children will physically hold and explore 3D shapes before completing their work. An edge is where 2 faces meet.
–To count vertices on a 3D shape
The vertex is a point or corner on a 3D shape. Children will explore 3D shapes and look at the vertices before completing the work.
-To count faces on a 3D shape
A face is a flat or curved surface on a 3D shape.
-To sort 3D shapes
Children will sort 3D shape according to different properties. Children may sort 3D shapes according to round or straight edges. They could sort shapes according to the number of vertices.
| We will continue to read The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me by Roald Dahl. We will also be learning some new reading skills as a whole class using ERIC. The children will build their repertoire of different reading skills through the year. |
When reading with your child, please use VIPERS when asking them questions on the book they are reading.
Our ICT slot is on Tuesday afternoon. We are photographers is the name of our new unit. In this unit, the children review photos online, practise using a digital camera, take photos to fit a given theme, edit their photos, and then select their best images. Children will also select images to create a comic.
Florence Nightingale. The children will continue to explore Florence Nightingale. We will be comparing the conditions in Scutari hospital before and after Florence Nightingale. The children be writing about the differences in a diary form.
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Is your child an author?
If yes, head over to Grant Koper’s website. Your child has the opportunity to have their story published on his website and their story read out of YouTube by Grant himself!!!
Week Beginning 3rd February 2020
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will learn to add and subtract units of measure before starting a new unit of work on place value.
- In English we will use information books and video clips to research volcanoes. We will then plan a non-chronological report on volcanoes.
- In science we will test rocks for permeability, density and durability.
- In RE we will learn why Jewish people believe it is important to care for trees and we will mark the Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat.
- In topic time we will use the volcanoes we have made in class to make a working volcano. We will use vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to create an “eruption”.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#72f623″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]Thank you to all the families who sent in newspapers. The children really enjoyed making volcanoes.[/dropshadowbox]
Rain forest Homework Year Four
Here is a copy for those who have lost their homework. Please work through the activities and bring in to school on Fridays.
Year Four Blog Week Beginning 3.2.2020
Thank you to Ranger Russ who had a successful visit with his animal friends.
Our Learning this week:
Maths-We will be learning and reasoning about multiplying and dividing by 11 and 12. We will also multiply 3 numbers and find out what factor pairs are.
English-We will be looking at rain forest themed poems before starting a persuasive writing unit about deforestation.
Geography-We will be learning about the negative and positive impacts of deforestation.
Science-We will be collecting, investigating and classifying animals and plants we find in our school environment.
Week beginning 3rd February 2020
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#c241fb” ]Just a quick reminder – We shall be visiting Kew Gardens on Monday 3rd February. Please make sure that your child has: a waterproof coat, sensible shoes, a packed lunch and water. We should be back before the end of the school day.[/dropshadowbox]
Over the next few weeks, Miss Handley will be teaching Maths in both Year 6 classes and Miss Blackford will be teaching both classes’ English lessons.
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Maths – This week’s maths learning objectives are to:
- use simple formulae
- generate and describe linear number sequences
- express missing number problems algebraically
- find pairs of numbers that satisfy an equation with 2 unknowns
- enumerate possibilities of combinations of 2 variables
English – This week, we shall be continuing with our narrative unit. We shall be retelling Stanley’s arrival at Camp Green lake, boxing up the key sections and then creating a story map. We shall then be using this to plan our innovated character’s arrival.
Science – As part of our unit on Animals, including humans, our learning objectives are:
- To know how the blood is pumped around the body.
- To know the main parts of the circulatory system and know the job of the blood and blood vessels.
- I can explain what the circulatory system is.
- I can identify the main parts of the circulatory system are the blood, heart and blood vessels.
- I can explain how oxygen gets into our blood stream and to the rest of the body
- talking.
PE – This is our last swimming lesson this week. On Fridays, we shall be learning Boxercise.
Reading – We shall be continuing to read our class text, Holes. We shall be completing activities based on improving our explanation, retrieval and interpretation skills.
Geography – This term, we will be learning all about Scandinavia. This week’s learning objectives are:
• To explore the physical features of Norway
• To create maps using a key
Key dates –
Parents’ evening – 12th and 17th March (subject to change by class teachers).
Week beginning 27th January 2020
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#e63cdf" ]THIS WEEK’S LEARNING:
SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
This is a delightful story about a very noisy boat trip with the main character Mr Gumpy. This week we will focus on developing the language to sequence time by retelling the story using story maps and actions.
MATHS: This week we will focus on developing children’s understanding of shape and space. They will learn to recognise and describe the properties of common 2D and 3D shapes [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#edf60c" ]HOMEWORK
Chinese New Year
Can you find out more about the Chinese New Year? What is the animal for the year 2020? What was the animal in your year of birth? How do people celebrate the Chinese New Year? How long do the celebrations last? Can you find some pictures about how people celebrate the Chinese new Year?
READING BOOKS AND WORD LISTS: Please continue to send these on group days [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#0cf6f5" ]IMPORTANT DATES
Wednesday, 29th January 2020: Grosvenor Class visit to the Fire station
Thursday, 6th February 2020: Chelsea Class visit to the Fire station
Friday, 7th February 2020: February Family Friday. Please join us from 8.30am – 9.00am [/dropshadowbox]