Year Four Viking Visitor and Dress and Day 2019
Week beginning 11th November
This week, QE2 Class will be visiting Whitgift School, as part of their Primary Project.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#f74545″ ]The timetable is as follows:[/dropshadowbox]
Monday –
AM – Computing (Corel Photoshop)
Lunch 11:45 – 12:15
PM – Languages (Italian)
Visit to the Water Garden
Tuesday –
AM – Computing (Zu3D)
Lunch 11:45 – 12:15
PM – Science
Computing (Zu3d)
Wednesday –
AM – Computing (BBC Microbit)
Music
Lunch 11:45 – 12:15
PM – Computing (Logo)
Thursday –
AM – Computing (Shortcut)
Languages (Japanese)
Lunch 11:45 – 12:15
PM – Science
Friday –
AM – Computing (SAMLabs)
PE
Lunch – 12:15 – 12:45
PM – Computing (Go Robo)
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#456af7″ ]Children will be required to complete a home learning task each days. Please ensure they arrive by 8:50 am each morning. [/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 4th November 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#0914eb” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – We shall be looking at ordering fractions, adding and subtracting fractions with unrelated denominators.
English – Over this half term, our lessons shall be based on our class reading book Goodnight Mister Tom and our topic The Second World War. This week, we shall be using video imagery as a stimulus for our own war poems.
Science – Our topic this half term is Electricity. This week, we shall be looking at planning an investigation and looking at the importance of variables.
PE – Swimming lessons return this week. Our Friday PE sessions will be taught by some local secondary school pupils, as part of our Sports Leader Alliance.
History – We shall be researching about how Croydon was affected during WW2. We will also be visited by Mrs Bakka who will be teaching us all about Walter Tull. 
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at online safety this half term.
Monday 4th November, 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#adf8d8″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#754646″ ]We had a lovely start to Autumn Term 2 and all the children have settled into our class routines with ease as well as started their new learning journey with our topic ‘ Sort It Out’.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”raised” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#d4f224″ border_width=”3″ border_color=”#3c21eb” ]Dates for the Diary… Wednesday 6th November – Local area walk at 9:10 am. Please speak to the class teacher if you are able to come with us. We will be back in school by 10:30 am. This walk is linked to our Geography curriculum about learning where we live and finding out about what amenities are available in our locality.[/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#f78acd” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#050408″ ]Dates for the Diary… Apologies for the error about Year 1 Christmas Play. It is on Wednesday 11th December.[/dropshadowbox]
Our Mathletics Champions this week are…
Super Mathlete
Lambeth Class – Shauna (3460 Points), Yusuf ( 2320 Points)
Vauxhall Class – Aayush ( 5715 Points), Ishmael (3760 Points)
Gold Award :
Lambeth Class – Aliyah
Silver Award
Lambeth Class – Shauna, Olivier, Sakhile, Luke, Stanley, Emily
Vauxhall Class – Fabeha, Yigit Emre
Bronze Award
Lambeth Class – Yusuf, Michael, Barin, Aliyah, Shauna, Hasan, Anaya, Jennifer, Mustafa, Sakhile, Kevin, Bonnie, Tome, Brady, Olivier
Vauxhall Class – Aayush x2, Ishmael x 2, Logan x2, Yigit Emre, Alesha, Agyeiwaa, Hamza x 2, Kelcia, Mah’ree
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”perspective-left” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#a2e4ed” border_width=”3″ border_color=”#f7372d” ]Our Learning this week…[/dropshadowbox]
English
We continue our learning about poetry. Children will identify the different features of a poem – verses/ stanzas, rhymes, repititive words / phrases, onomatopoeic words, alliteration. They will read a range of poems about fireworks, identify key vocabulary, generate their own word bank, write and edit their own firework poems.
Check out this firework poem
Maths
Children will continue their learning about subtraction. They will use the key vocabulary – subtract, take away, minus, fewer, less and understand how to subtract using different resources – ten frame, part/part whole, number lines etc… They will begin to reason and explain their thinking as well as solve simple problems. Please practise subtraction using number rhymes.
Science
Children will begin to learn about the different types of materials – metal,plastic, fabric, glass, wood, paper etc…They will sort materials into groups on the basis of their properties and begin to distinguish between an object and material from which it is made.
Children will also continue their learning about seasons focusing on Autumn.
We will also investigate – Are taller people older?
Art
Children will develop their skills using different media to create firework pictures.
P.E
Children will continue developing different ways of travelling as well as develop their core strength and balance.
ICT
During ICT sessions, we will be learning to use technology purposefully to create, organise store and retrieve digital content-log on, type name and surname, change font, size, colour and type a sentence using capital letter, space and full stop. Children will watch Hector’s world.
History
We will be celebrating ‘Black History Month’. Our class will be talking about ‘Barack Obama’. Who is he? Why he is special? What did he do? Where did he live?
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.
Handwriting
We will be learning to form the numbers correctly and begin to learn the cursive script starting with the letters c, a, o, d.
Homework
Please support your child to do the investigation – Are taller people older?
Please hand it in by Wednesday 6th November 2019
Please continue …
*Mathletics-your child’s user name and the password are attached in your child’s yellow Reading Record book.
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonics games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
Week beginning 4th November 2019
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#faf136" ]Dear Parents, carers
We look forward to seeing you at parents evening this week.
If you have not yet booked a 10 minute slot, please speak to your child’s class teacher to arrange a time to meet. Please check the Parent evening booking times displayed on the classroom doors facing the playground. A reminder slip of your appointment time will also be sent in your child’s book bag.
Please note that if you arrive at 6.00pm or after 6.00pm on Wednesday 6th November, please use the main entrance on Dering Place.
Kind Regards,
Reception Team [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#eab822" ]AUTUMN 2 TOPIC: Light and Dark
This week’s learning
LITERACY
Book Focus: Whatever Next by Jill Murphy
The children will enjoy this wonderful story about a little bear’s adventure to the moon, developing their understanding of the story through role play activities. We will read and discuss the key events using sequencing vocabulary such as ‘First, Then, Next, Last’ or ‘At the end’.
Phonics: /i/, /n/, /m/ /d/ and /g/
Please keep sound sheet at home and continue to practise saying and writing these sounds every day. As your child continues to learn more letter sounds they may forget the earlier sounds taught so it is important to practise daily recognition and writing (using each of the sound cues eg /a/ - round the apple , down the leaf)
MATHS: This week the children will be learning to:
• explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
• recognise, create and describe patterns • use mathematical names for ‘flat’ 2D shapes, and mathematical terms to describe shapes
• select a particular named shape
Knowledge and Understanding of the World: The children will begin to learn about aspects of space exploration as they become more familiar with the focus book Whatever Next . Later this week we will also discuss the significance of Remembrance Day .
Communication and Language: To listen to others one to one with increasing attention and recall [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#2adf3b" ]HOMEWORK
Take some time this weekend to look up at the sky when it becomes dark outside. What do you see? Can you draw a picture about what you see? Ask an adult to help you write labels for your picture (eg. fireworks/ the moon/stars/aeroplane lights flickering)
READING BOOKS
Please read with your child and write a comment in the yellow reading diary. Please keep both reading books and yellow diary in your child’s bookbag after each reading.
Please note that if reading books have been lost, they will need to be replaced. [/dropshadowbox]
[dropshadowbox align="none" effect="lifted-both" width="auto" height="" background_color="#ffffff" border_width="20" border_color="#e85f26" ]IMPORTANT DATES
Monday, 4th November: Visit to Croydon Library. Grosvenor at 10.00 and Chelsea at 11.00am. Parent helpers please check your phone for text messages about what time to arrive at school to walk with us to the library
Tuesday 5th and Wednesday 6th November: Parent meetings for Reception children
Further dates to follow – Check parent noticeboard [/dropshadowbox]
Week Beginning 4th November 2019
English – Writing
On Monday the children will go for a nature detective walk in Duppas Hill, whilst there they will observe signs of Autumn. The children will use their senses, thinking about what they see, hear, touch, taste and smell.
On Tuesday the children will begin to understand the structure of a cinquain poem.
On Thursday the children will be thinking about powerful and precise words to describe Autumn.
Children will start with a sentence – red leaves falling and they will be encouraged to up level it.
Red – is there a better hue that would represent the colour?
Falling – how do leaves fall? They twirl, sprinkle, spiral …
Consider using surprising word combinations e.g. leaves dancing, winds shrieking/whispering
Maths We will continue with the addition and subtraction block.
- I can subtract two 2- digit numbers (not crossing tens)
- I can subtract two 2- digit numbers (not crossing tens)
- I can subtract two 2- digit numbers (crossing tens)
- I can subtract two 2- digit numbers (crossing tens)
- I know my bonds to 100.
- I can subtract two 2-digit numbers (not crossing tens) – numberline
68 – 15
First children jump back in tens then they jump the in ones.
- I can subtract two 2- digit numbers (not crossing tens) – place value chart
- to subtract two 2-digit numbers (number line ) (crossing the tens)
- to subtract two 2-digit numbers (place value chart) (crossing the tens)
The children will take a detailed look at Amy Johnson’s journey from The UK to Australia. They will think about how she battled different climates and what she experienced in each country.
Children will be visiting The Queen’s Garden in Croydon, where they will sketch the scenery using their knowledge of line and tone. The children will travel to The Queen’s Garden on Thursday 7th November 2019.
Merits
… to this week’s merit winners: Lisa, Lucas, Emiliana and Deen. You are true inspirations!
A big “well done” to the three children with the most Dojo-Points this week: Emiliana (28), Amna (28) and Damara (23).
Keep it up and remember, it all starts new on Monday!
Week beginning 4th November 2019
Welcome to an exciting week ahead.
Homework: Au2-Wk1-02112019 (If you are not sure about the bottle, just bring the empty bottle in and get Mr Grundey to check.)
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#bbe4ef” border_width=”2″ border_color=”#5f4444″ ]Maths[/dropshadowbox]
I can use halves, doubles, thirds, triples and the next term to build a time-table.
I can use my time-table knowledge and resources to visualise timetables and connect multiplication and division.
I can use my time-table knowledge to identify multiples of a number (up to 12).
I can use my time-table knowledge to identify factors of a number (up to 12).
I can use my time-table knowledge to identify prime number up to 100.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#bbefdd” border_width=”2″ border_color=”#5f4444″ ]English[/dropshadowbox]
I can use empathising and summarising to plan (1 lesson) and write (2 lessons with feedback and editing) a letter from Jeff to his „old“ best friend in Washington.
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Science: I can explain why we have day and night.
ICT: I can plan a webpage.
PE: Teambuilding with Agatha.
Art: I can plan my 3D cardboard relief.
Week Beginning 4th November
The children have settled into school well following the half term holiday. This week our learning will be as follows;
- In mathematics we will work on multiplication and division. We will learn to multiply and divide by three and four and to use our multiplication and division facts to solve problems.
- In English we will continue to explore the film “For the Birds” We will also learn about the features of a film review.
- In science we will learn to recognise light sources.
- In history we will create a tourist information leaflet on Skara Brae.
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#66f2dc” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]We are looking forward to our visit to the cinema on 13th November to see Johnny English Strikes Again. The visit is part of our work in English on Film Reviews.[/dropshadowbox]
Week beginning 28th October 2019
[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”10″ border_color=”#0914eb” ]What are we learning this week?[/dropshadowbox]
Maths – We shall be looking at simplifying fractions, ordering fractions and adding fractions with unrelated denominators.
English – Over this half term, our lessons shall be based on our class reading book Goodnight Mister Tom and our topic The Second World War. This week, we shall be starting our new unit of War Poetry. We shall be learning to recite, read and comment on a range of war poetry whilst using video imagery to inspire our own ideas.
Science – Our topic this half term is Electricity. This week, we shall be looking at planning an investigation and looking at the importance of variables.
PSHE – We shall be learning about New Beginnings.
PE – On Fridays we have our Basketball sessions and on Tuesdays we have our Swimming sessions. Please make sure that your child has their full PE kit in school.
History – We shall be researching about The Blitz.
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at online safety this half term.
