Year 4
Welcome to Year 4's Class Page
Teacher: Mrs Stringer
Support staff: Mrs Eagle (Mrs Roxby - PPA cover)
Our Routines
Reading books will be changed on a Monday. Please make sure your child brings their 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 and Thursday this term. This half term we will be focusing on Tag Rugby and Mindfulness.
Homework
Reading at least three times a week
TT Rockstars - children to access this as much as possible please. Keep a watch out for battles!
Weekly dictation sentences - these will be sent out via Class Dojo each 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.
Reading
Our class text this term is The Angel of Nutshell Road by Anne Fine.
Can you think of a reason why there are so many different front covers? What is the same and what is different?
Have you read any other books by this author? What do you predict the story will be about?
We will be reading this book together and as well as predicting how the story may unfold, we will also be looking at the vocabulary the author has used, using our summarising skills and increasing our personal dictionaries with lots of new words.
Geography
We are going to be investigating The Water Cycle'. We will be considering how important water is, where it comes from, and learning about condensation and evaporation. This will be cross-curricular with our Changing States topic in Science.
We are also going to be considering how climate change is affecting the water cycle and thinking about what we, as a class and a school, can be doing to help.
History
Welcome to our journey back in time as we discover what happened when the Romans invaded Britain. Why did they come? Who was the one who finally invaded Britain and stayed? How did the Romans change Britain? We will also be looking at what we see around us everyday which we can thank the Romans for. We will complete our topic with looking at why the Romans were eventually defeated.
What was life like in Roman Britain?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/ztqg4wx
Science
Our topic this half term is Changing States. We will be looking at solids, liquids and gases and how the appearance of the particles in each of these states differs. We will be investigating how something can change from one state to another and what chemical reactions happen for this to take place. Alongside our geography unit, we will also be considering the water cycle and the processes water goes through in each part.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgwc96f/articles/zngfp4j
Computing
This term we will be familiarising ourselves with Purple Mash and learning how to save our work under our username. Our main focus will be on building our coding skills. We will be reading code, writing our own and eventually creating our own playable game. Additionally, we will be ensuring we know how to keep safe online during our online safety lessons.
Recommended Reading List LKS2
Maths - Quick Recall Facts
Helping your child at home:
Year 4 Fun Curriculum Games
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.
