Year 4 News Week beginning 4.2.19
What are we learning this week?
Maths – This week we will be exploring written methods of division and consolidating efficient methods of multiplication.
English – To continue our Rainforest theme, this week we will be adding innovation, in the form of a new character, to our text-The Great Kapok Tree, in the style of the author, Lynne Cherry. Please feel free to follow along with us at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw
Science-To compliment our rain forest topic we will be looking at habitats and food chains.
I.C.T-We will be continuing our internet safety unit exploring online gaming
P.E-Both classes have been enjoying using scooter boards to improve their netball skills.
Topic-We will be comparing the contrasting settlements of the Yanomami and Britain.
Music- We will be finishing our current food and drink topic and moving on to songs and music about global warming.
Upcoming events
Please look below for a copy of the letter regarding an exciting visitor we have booked to come in and support our learning on the rain forest and food chains.
Year 4 Rainforest workshop letter
Congratulations go to Sofia, Richa, William, Caiden, Keona, Aryan, Maja and Emily who all received merits this week!
Week beginning 4th February 2019
Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete:
Lambeth Class : Adoma – 3341 Points / Ryan – 2396 Points
Vauxhall Class : Krishan– 5710 Points/ Ali – 3392 Points
Gold Award
Lambeth Class : Isaiah
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Jayden, Cameron
Vauxhall Class : Yeabsira, Krishan
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Adoma, Japdeep, Marwa, Yaacoob, Deyan, Magnus, Ryan, Nicole, Ayaan, Nathan, Comella, Kye, Charlotte, Sackena
Vauxhall Class : Oskar, Shun Ming, Ali
Our learning …
This term our new context is called…
‘Now you see me, now you don’t’ and it is about Space especially focusing on the ‘Moon’.
This is related to exploring space in Science as well as learning about significant people who has made a contribution to world history – our focus is on Neil Armstrong. We will also be learning about classification of animals in science – mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, amphibians etc..
Please check your child’s homework book for the overview of this term’s curriculum.
English
Our focus text is ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. Your child will continue developing their skills of character description, role-play and hot-seating characters. They will continue to identify and differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts and understand the different features of texts. Fiction – stories, pictures, characters, events, sequencing events (beginning, middle and end). Non-fiction – true, facts, contents, photographs etc…
Maths
This week we will continue our focus on money. Children will develop their skill to recognise and identify different coins as well as notes – 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p, £1, £2,£5,£10,£20,£50 . Children will understand the value of coins and how to make totals using different coins for e.g 10p can be 10 x 1p coins/ 5 x 2p coins / 2x 5p coins / 1x 10p. Children will also play shopping games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Science
We will continue our learning about seasonal changes focusing on Winter.
Children will plan, write and edit a non chronological report about winter.
Children will be looking at different types of animals and birds and sort them to different categories in their learning about classification – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish etc…
PSHE
Children will begin to develop their understanding about going for goals and how to achieve them by breaking them into little steps. Children will also be learning about the Green Cross Code and understand the importance of staying safe while crossing roads.
ICT
Children will learn about e-safety and how to get help when necessary. They will continue developing their skills to use a keyboard – write their name, change font and size and colour, use back space, enter and space bar keys with confidence. Please support your child at home to do the same.
P.E.
Children will be learning about control and how to develop ball skills – chest pass, over arm throw, under arm throw etc…
R.E
Children will learn about Christianity – focusing on the place of worship – Church
This week Home work:- Staying safe while crossing the road poster / The Green Cross Road.
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Please return home work by Wednesday 6th February, 2019.
Southwark News Week Beginning 28.1.18
What are we learning this week?
Maths – This week we will be exploring written methods of multiplication and division.
English – To continue our Rainforest theme, this week we will be continuing reading and investigating the text-The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry. Please feel free to follow along with us at the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0arFtHeVw
Science-To compliment our rain forest topic we will be looking at habitats and food chains.
I.C.T-We will be continuing our internet safety unit exploring online gaming
P.E-Both classes have been enjoying using scooter boards to improve their netball skills.
Upcoming events
Please look out for a letter regarding an exciting visitor we have booked to come in and support our learning on the rain forest and food chains.
Congratulations go to Daisy and Marques for gaining merits this week as well as to our reader of the week-Solly. Megastars were the winning marble team with 189 marbles!
Week beginning 28th January
Writing
This week we will be moving onto writing chronological reports. We will be using Dr Xargle’s Book of Earhtlets as a stimulus for our writing. It is a story about humans written from the perspective of an alien and is very funny!
The children will be designing their own aliens. As usual, we will also have a strong focus on new vocabulary from the text. For example: unravel, disguise and atmosphere. There are also lots of fun, nonsensical words and phrases e.g eggmangle, hole in your face and beddybyebyes.
The purpose of our learning over the next two weeks will be to write a non-chronological reports about aliens.
Reading
Our new class read will be The Hodgeheg by Dick-King-Smith. We will be doing lots of reading comprehension style activities based on the text in preparation for the SATs in May.
Maths
We have now moved onto shape and space. This week we will be consolidating our knowledge of 2d shapes by sorting them according to their properties (sides and vertices) and making patterns.
Your children need to have a strong understanding that 2d shapes are the same shape, even if they have been rotated to different orientatWions. We have sent shape word mats home and would appreciate if you could practice spelling the shape names and discussing their properties with your child.
Towards the end of the week we will be focusing on 3d shapes and their properties. 3d shapes have two or more vertices or one vertex. Please be aware that a cone does not have a vertex, it has an apex instead. This is because the curved surface meets. A vertex is where the edges of two flat faces meet.
History
We are learning about Pablo Picasso.
Science
We will be continuing our work on plants.
PE
We are excited to have some students from Archbishop Tennisons learning to lead PE/ games and activities as part of their Sport’s Leader’s Initiative. They will be working with us for the next 6 weeks.
Important information
This week we are holding the maths workshop on Thursday 31st January. THIS IS A REPEAT OF THE CALCULATING WORKSHOP WE HELD IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR. It would be great to see you all there! J
Week beginning 28th January 2019
This week our learning will be as follows;
- In Maths we will continue working on measuring length, before moving on to find the perimeter of shapes.
- In English we will be exploring a story from another culture, Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes by Manlio Argueto.
- In Science we will look at how fossils form.
- In Topic time we will research volcanic regions focusing on tourism.
- In R.E we will earn about why Jewish people believe it is important to care for the environment and learn about the Jewish festival of Tu B’Shevat (the birthday for the trees).
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Week Beginning 21st January 2019
This week:
- In Maths we will learn to estimate, measure and compare lengths.
- In English we will create information leaflets on volcanoes.
- In science we will investigate the properties of rocks.
- In RE we will be looking at why Muslims consider it important to care for others and the environment.
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Week beginning 28th January 2019
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Maths – We shall start our new and exciting unit of fractions. This week, we shall be specifically looking at:
- I can explain that fractions are parts of a whole. (10 sweets, 5 are cherry, 3 are pineapple, 2 pear)
- I can count up and down in fractions.
- I can compare and order fractions with related denominators. (simplifying)
- I can compare and order fractions with non-related denominators. (some simplifying)
English – We shall be looking at how to plan, write and edit a warning dream – based on the current events in our thriller of a class read, Room 13!
Science – We shall be starting our new topic Living Things and Their Habitats.
Computing – We shall be continuing to look at Online Safety, specifically the symptoms of video game addiction. We shall also be learning how to build a Space animation on Scratch.
Reading – We shall be starting our new class novel, Room 13 by Robert Swindells. Thanks to the Friends of Howard for our lovely class sets of books so that we can all read along! We shall also be writing a book review on Wonder. 
PE – We have PE lessons on Tuesdays and Thursday. Please make sure your child has some tracksuit bottoms/leggings as we shall be going outside on Thursdays.
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31st January – Trip to Polka Theatre.
Week Beginning 28th January,2019
We look forward to an exciting week ahead.
Apologies for postponing the Mathematics Work shop and any inconvenience caused.
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Congratulations to our Mathletics Champions.
Super Mathlete:
Lambeth Class : Jayden – 3591 Points / Ryan – 2188 Points
Vauxhall Class : Krishan– 3640 Points/ Elizabeth – 2840 Points
Gold Award
Lambeth Class : Nicole, Charlotte
Silver Award :
Lambeth Class : Annika,Ryan,Comella
Vauxhall Class : Leon
Bronze Award :
Lambeth Class : Adoma, Japdeep,Zayna, Shuajb, Isaiah, Jayden, Marwa, Yaacoob, Cameron, Amira
Vauxhall Class : Elizabeth,Tristan, Oskar, Suvisha,Krishan,Shun Ming
Our learning …
This term our new context is called…
‘Now you see me, now you don’t’ and it is about Space especially focusing on the ‘Moon’.
This is related to exploring space in Science as well as learning about significant people who has made a contribution to world history – our focus is on Neil Armstrong. We will also be learning about classification of animals in science – mammals, birds, reptiles, insects, amphibians etc..
Please check your child’s homework book for the overview of this term’s curriculum.
English
Our focus text is ‘Man on the Moon’ by Simon Bartram. Your child will continue developing their skills of character desription, role-play and hot-seating characters. They will continue to identify and differentiate between fiction and non-fiction texts and understand the different features of texts. Fiction – stories, pictures, characters, events, sequencing events (beginning, middle and end). Non-fiction – true, facts, contents, photographs etc…
Maths
Please continue to support your child to tell the time – o’clock and half past. This week our focus is on money. Children will develop their skill to recognise and identify different coins as well as notes – 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, 50p, £1, £2,£5,£10,£20,£50 Children will understand the value of coins and how to make totals using different coins for e.g 10p can be 10 x 1p coins/ 5 x 2p coins / 2x 5p coins / 1x 10p. Children will also play shopping games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money
Science
We will continue our learning about seasonal changes focusing on Winter.
Children will plan, write and edit a non chronological report about winter.
Children will be looking at different types of animals and birds and sort them to different categories in their learning about classification – mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish etc…
PSHE
Children will begin to develop their understanding about going for goals and how to achieve them by breaking them into little steps. Children will also be learning about the Green Cross Code and understand the importance of staying safe while crossing roads.
ICT
Children will learn about e-safety and how to get help when necessary. They will continue developing their skills to use a keyboard – write their name, change font and size and colour, use back space, enter and space bar keys with confidence. Please support your child at home to do the same.
P.E.
Children will be learning about control and how to develop ball skills – chest pass, over arm throw, under arm throw etc…
R.E
Children will learn about Christianity – focusing on the place of worship – Church
This week Home work:- Staying safe while crossing the road poster / The Green Cross Road.
Please continue …
*Mathletics
*Reading daily to develop fluency and comprehension skills.
*Play phonic games on Phonics Play / Starfall Phonics
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/freeIndex.htm
http://more.starfall.com/?t=253552593&y=1
Please return home work by Wednesday 30th January, 2019.
Week beginning 28th January 2019
What will we be learning?
Maths-This week we will be learning how to find % of amounts, how to find the increase/decrease percentage of an amount as well as the missing amount
English-We will be editing and peer assessing our biography based on Anne Frank
Science-We will be continuing our work on the classification of vertebrates
PSHE-We will be continuing to look at stereotypes and why we should be wary of them
Computing-We will be continuing to develop our APP
MFL-We will be continuing to develop our understanding of a Spanish conversational language
Important Information
Homework
Tuesday-Reading comprehension or independent writing tasks
Thursday-Mathletics
Friday-Fiction Express
Parent’s Evening will be on Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th February
Week beginning 28th January 2019
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- Wednesday, 30th January 2019 at 9.20am in Dinner Hall – Parent Workshop: How can I help my child with Writing
- Tuesday 12th February 1.00pm – 3.00pm – Chelsea Class visit to Croydon Fire Station
- Wednesday 13th February 1.00pm – 3.00pm– Grosvenor Class visit to Croydon Fire Station
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SPRING TERM 1 TOPIC: Transport
LITERACY:
Book Focus: Mr Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham
This week we focus on the characters in the story. The children will write short sentences about what the characters say to each other.
GROUP PHONICS: Group Phonics will continue this week with each group focusing on reviewing the sounds learnt and decoding new words as well learning how to spell and write these words.
MATHS: Over the next three weeks we will focus on developing children’s understanding of shape, space and measure. This week’s focus is:
• to develop an understanding of the concepts related to capacity such as container, full, half full and empty, nearly full, nearly empty
• The children will explore, through a range of practical activities, filling, comparing and measuring the capacity of different containers using different materials.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD:
• This week the children will explore and find out more about the parts of a vehicle and what makes it work
HEALTH AND SELF CARE
This week we will discuss what is meant by healthy foods, food we should eat sometimes and foods that are healthy and can be eaten most of the time.
MAKING RELATIONSHIPS
This week we will also discuss what it means to be a good a friend to someone and how to resolve a problem you may have with a friend.
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[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”20″ border_color=”#8cf9ef” ]HOMEWORK
Different types of vehicles
Can you find pictures of different types of vehicles that can be used for transporting people and other things from one place to another? Please remember to write a label for each picture.
READING BOOKS: Please continue to send in reading books and diaries on group days
KEY WORD LISTS: Please only send in word lists if your child is ready to be tested. Please note that there isn’t any rush for your child to race through the lists. It is more important that they have secure recognition of these words before moving onto the next list.
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