Monthly Archives: January 2018

Year 4 Weekly Update 29-01-18

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Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 29.01.18

Another fantastic week of learning! Wow! We were lucky enough to meet Guernsey’s up and coming sprint champion, Cameron Chalmers following his nomination as Channel Island Sports Personality of the Year, who joined us for our Daily Mile today. Inspiring!  

The children have also shown great resilience this week with the Year 4 Marvellous Measures Challenge battling the elements and mud! Thank you for your family measuring homework-there was some super maths!

Here’s what’s coming next week:-

Numeracy: The children will be ‘acting it out’ to solve problems. They will also be starting a fractions unit to find fractions of quantities. Please click on the links for some activities to support their learning.

Fraction monkeys

Topmarks

Bingo

Literacy: We will begin looking at explanation texts with our base text – ‘Until I met Dudley’.  Please see the links below for this week’s homework:

Challenge choice 1

Challenge choice 2

Science: Our forces topic will begin next week in preparation for our exciting Feel the Force Day NEXT FRIDAY 2nd February. You should receive an invitation today from your child. Please join us at anytime. Click on the link:-

Invite to Feel the Force Day

Book Week: The school will be celebrating book week during the week beginning 5th February.  This will launch Readathon and on Friday 9th February children are invited to come to school dressed up as a character from their a book.  For more information, please see http://stmartinsprimaryschool.edublogs.org/2018/01/18/book-week-readathon-dress-up-day-book-sale/

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for your continued support.

Year 4 team

Weekly note 22.1.18

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Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 22.01.18

Another great week of learning!  The children have enjoyed lots of different measuring tasks this week and have been working really hard on their substituted stories.

Here’s what’s coming next week:-

Numeracy: Next week will be continuing to work with measures. This will be an outdoor practical experience as the children complete the “Year 4 Marvellous Measures Challenge!”

Please could the children bring their wellies in next week as most of our numeracy lessons will be outside in the mud!

If the children would like to do some preparation for the measures challenges then they could practice some conversions-follow the links!

Postage rates-find the weight and length of a parcel and calculate the cost of posting

Coconut ordering Select mass, length or capacity and then choose your challenge

Match the times! Practice telling the time-analogue and digital.

Read the scales

The fun family measures homework also supports this.

Literacy: We will be writing our own imaginary world stories and will be looking at a new spelling focus on plurals.  Can you find any plurals in your reading at home?

Science: We will be finishing off our electricity topic – researching electricity questions and presenting our findings.

Feel the Force Day: A date for your diaries…Friday 2nd February. We are planning a very exciting day of workshops and activities that investigate ‘force.’ You are invited to join us at any time in the day to share in your child’s learning. Feel free to spend as much or as little time as you want-no scientific knowledge required!

Art: The children will be drawing, painting and collaging spring flowers next week. Any materials that could be used for collaging would be gratefully received.

Book Week: The school will be celebrating book week during the week beginning 5th February.  This will launch Readathon and on Friday 9th February children are invited to come to school dressed up as a character from their a book.  For more information, please see http://stmartinsprimaryschool.edublogs.org/2018/01/18/book-week-readathon-dress-up-day-book-sale/

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for your continued support.

Year 4 team

Weekly Update for week beginning 15.01.18

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The children have worked really hard this week and created some brilliant light towers using their knowledge of conductors and electrical circuits. We have really enjoyed getting out every morning for our Daily Mile, Mrs Mason has even joined the fun!

Here’s what’s coming next week:-

Numeracy: We will be focusing on measures in the build up to outdoor challenges the following week.

This term’s rainbow targets are focussed on doubling and halving and the children have been practising in class this week. Please continue practising times tables at home.

Literacy: We will continue to look at stories in imaginary worlds. This week children will be planning and writing a substituted version of the class text Leon and the Place Between.

Literacy Homework: This week’s literacy homework is focussed on speech punctuation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GR6yaLCo6gowOWLNov8y1SWlsZzOjpmM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRgqy4q_EuILnnyMhqBjl4LNOSq01-8a/view?usp=sharing

Science: We will be designing their own experiment to investigate conductors and insulators. We would love to see children doing their own research at home on electricity that they could share with the class.  

Reading: Thank you to those parents who have been in reading with children this week. We still have space for more parents so if you would like to help out please let your child’s class teacher know.

 

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for your continued support.

 

Year 4 team

Weekly Update for week beginning 8-01-18

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Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 08.01.18

Well that was a quick week! It’s great to be back and see all the children, they all sound like they’ve had a wonderful Christmas.

Here’s what’s coming next week:-

Numeracy: We will be focusing on multiplication and division. We will be looking at how known facts can be used to work out other facts e.g. if you know that 2 x 4 = 8 then you know that 8 ÷ 4 = 2, 2 x 40 = 80,  4 x 4 = 16 (doubles), etc. For homework this week the children could design a poster showing this and drop into Google Drive. Hwk

This term we are really going to strongly ‘encourage’ the children into learning their times tables.There will be lots of fun activities and games but a high expectation for the children to be practising regularly. Please use the blog for some useful advice and weblinks:

https://stmartinsyear4blog.edublogs.org/2016/10/03/rainbow-targets-multiplication-and-division/

Our aim is for ALL the children to know ALL their times tables by heart by the end of the year-please help us with this target!

We will also be giving the children their new Rainbow Targets on doubling and halving-see homework books next week.

Literacy: We have started our new unit on ‘Imaginary Worlds’ and next week we will be basing our learning on the text ‘Leon and the Place Between’. Thank you to everyone who has brought in copies of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, we can’t wait to get started with this during Guided Reading next week.

Science: we will be starting our new topic on electricity, building and exploring circuits.

Reading: Thanks for some of the offers for help in hearing readers. If you arrive at school at about 2:30pm to sit in the car park why not join us and hear some readers instead of waiting on the playground in the cold? Let us know if you can help.

The Daily Mile: we did our first session today and we’re so proud of the children, their enthusiasm and resilience in the wind a rain was admirable. please click on the link for more information and see the previous blog for arrangements. Please make sure children have bottled water-it was thirsty work today!

Flyer

More information

Thank you for your cooperation and your continued support.

Year 4 team