Year 4
Welcome to Year 4's Class Page
Teacher: Mrs Stringer
Support staff: Mrs Eagle (Mrs Roxby - 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 Monday afternoon and Friday 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 football and rounders.
Homework
Reading of their banded reading book at least three times a week
TT Rockstars - children to access this as much as possible please. Keep a watch out for battles!
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 - The Angel of Nitshill Road by Anne Fine
Spring - The Firework Makers Daughter - Philip Pullman
Summer - The Butterfly Lion - Michael Morpurgo
Geography
We are going to be investigating land use. We will start by looking at the land use around our school and then start to look at our local area. We will then move onto comparing land use across the county and further! We will be using our IT skills by using digimaps to help us.
History
Welcome to our journey back in time as we discover what happened when the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain. Why did they come? How did they changes change Britain? We will also be looking for evidence of how the Anglo Saxons impacted out lives today.
Who were the Anglo-Saxons?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm/articles/zq2m6sg
Why did the Anglo-Saxons come to Britain?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm/articles/z23br82#zst3bqt
Science
Our topic this half term is Digestion and the Food Chain. We will be looking at what happens to our food once it enters our mouths and how our bodies get the energy and nutrients it needs. We will be investigating our teeth and how human teeth are similar/different to other animals. Finally we will be looking into food chains
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Computing
This term we will be using Purple Mash to learn all about coding. Our lessons will follow the PRIMM method, Predict, Run, Investigate, Modify, Make and we will be learning about algorithms, how to debug and how to write code successfully.
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.
