Year 4
Welcome to Year 4's Class Page
Teacher: Mrs Stringer
Support staff: Miss Lindley (Mrs Powell - PPA cover)
Our Routines
Children will have a banded reading book and a book for pleasure to bring home.
Reading books will be changed every Monday. Please make sure your child brings their banded reading book and signed reading record on this day. Children are encouraged to read at home at least three times per week to develop fluency and comprehension skills. Please also ensure your child has their reading book and record with them each day as the adults in class will read with the children throughout the week.
Our PE days are Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday afternoon this term. Please ensure your child has the correct PE kit with them. Earrings need to be removed for our sessions; if they are newly pierced then please provide tape for your child so that they can cover their earrings safely.
This half term we will be focusing on the fundamentals of PE (such as balancing) and ball skills.
Homework
Reading of their banded reading book at least three times a week
Reflex - children to access this at home as much as possible please
UR Brainy MTC - this is another great website for the children to practise their timestables
Fortnightly dictation sentences - these will be sent out via Class Dojo every other Friday
Mental Maths sheets - these will be sent out each half term. Please practise with your child and highlight each objective as they reach it.
Any opportunities the children can have to use maths in their everyday life, for example telling the times, adding up items at the local shop and working out their change etc will all be really beneficial for them as we progress through Year 4.
You may find the following document helpful to you in supporting your child's reading: there are content domain specific question stems that will help promote discussion helping to improve their understanding of vocabulary, retrieving, summarising, inferring, predicting, explaining and comparing.
Reading
Our core texts for Year 4 are:
Autumn - How to Train your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
Spring - Varjak Paw - S. F. Said
Summer - The Boy at the back of the class - Onjali Q. Rauf
Geography
In Autumn term, we are going to be investigating the water cycle. We will be looking at water, why we need it, how we use it and how we can save it. We will be creating rainwater collection vessels and also looking at the impact of lack of rain on the local environment.
History
Welcome to our journey back in time as we discover what happened when the Romans invaded Britain. Why did they come? How did their arrival change Britain? We will also be looking for evidence of the Romans in todays world.
How the Romans conquered Britain?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/z9j4kqt
Daily life in Roman Britain
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/zjgkkty
Science
Our topic this half term is states of matter. We will be looking at gas, solids and liquids and investigating what happens when something changes from one state to the another. We will be looking at what the molecules do in each state and will be doing some really cool experiments and investigations!
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Computing
This term we will be using Purple Mash to learn all about hardware and software and what they mean and their function. We are also going to start looking at animation and giving creating our own.
Return to School Presentation
Recommended Reading List LKS2
Maths - Quick Recall Facts
Helping your child at home:
Year 4 Fun Curriculum Games
https://urbrainy.com/mtc
www.ttrockstars.co.uk
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-2.html
https://primarygamesarena.com/Years/Year-4
Fabulous websites!
We really enjoyed looking at Top Marks Daily 10, and learning how to improve our arithmetic skills. So many of the class wanted the link putting on the web site, so here it is - click on the image of the clock!
You also might want to try some of the other learning games on the Top Marks web site - click on the logo below to go to the menu page.
