Weekly Blog

Week Beginning 27th November

Writing: This week in writing, we will be starting our unit of work all about information  texts. We will be learning a text all about Dinosaurs and will be exploring generalisers that we can use in our writing. 

Maths: In maths, we will be continuing our unit of work focusing on multiplication. This week we will be looking at 11x and 12 x tables. We will also be exploring multiplying numbers by 1 and 0.

Reading: In reading, we will be reading chapter 5 of 'Bills New Frock'. 

Reminder: On Thursday 30th November, it is Christmas Making Morning. You are invited to join your child in the classroom to participate in Christmas crafts between 9.30am-11am. 

We are looking for donations of rice. If you have any that would could donate we would be very grateful. 

Week beginning 20th November

Writing: In writing this week, we will writing our own tales using all the skills we have learnt to help build a detailed setting. The children will plan, write, edit and publish their stories. 
 

Maths: In maths, we will be continuing to learn our times tables and will be focussing on the 7x, 11x and 12x tables. Please practise these at home with your children. 
 

Reading: We are continuing to read ‘Bills New Frock’ and will be reading chapter 4 this week in reading.

Week Beginning 13th November

Writing: This week in writing we will be innovating our model text and coming up with our very own warning tale. We will be applying the skills that we have learnt so far to do this and will be using the weather to help describe the setting. 
 

Maths: In maths, we will be continuing our unit on multiplication and division and will be focussing on the 6x and 9x tables. We will be practise recalling the tables as well as applying the knowledge to problems. 
 

Reading: In reading, we are continuing to read our class novel ‘Bills New Frock’ and will be exploring how to answer questions using our retrieval and inference skills. 
 

Reminders: 

As Christmas Making Morning is approaching, Y4 are looking for donations of 

-empty kitchen roll tubes 

-colourful wool

-rice 

If you have any of these around the house please send your child into school with any of these items. 

Week Beginning 6th November

Writing: In writing this week, we will be continuing to learn our warning 'The Treacherous Tracks' and will be learning skills that we can use when writing a story setting including personification and show not tell and will be practising using these skills. 

Maths: In maths, we will be starting a new unit of learning focusing on multiplication and division. We will also be doing assessment papers to assess the children's learning so far.

Reading: In reading, we will also be doing an assessment paper to help assess the progress made so far. We will also be continuing to read 'Bills New Frock' by Anne Fine and using our inference and retrieval skills to answer questions. 

Week beginning 30th October

Literacy: Our new text in writing is a warning tale name 'The Treacherous Tracks'. The focus on this unit of work will be setting description, we will be using rules of three to add description and thinking about using our senses to explain the time and weather. 

Maths: In maths, we will beginning our next unit of work all about area. We will learning about what an area is and how to calculate an area using squares. 

Reading: Our new book is called 'Bills New Frock' by Anne Fine. We will be making predictions about our new book as well as using our inference and retrieval skills to answer questions. 

Week Beginning 16th October 

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Literacy: This week in writing we will completing our unit of work all about instructions writing. The children will be having a go at writing instructions on how to make a canopic jar as well as creating their own set of 'How to...' instructions. 

Maths :In maths we will be continuing to subtract two four digit numbers i.e. 4567-3759. We will be learning how to subtract with exchanges using the column method. This is something that you could practise at home with your child. 

Reading: In reading, we will be finishing reading our book 'The Egypt Sleepover' and will be answering questions to show our understanding. 

Reminder: This week, we ware making our torches so please send in any empty Pringle tubes that you have at home into school. Each child needs a pringles tube for their torch. We are also looking for donations of AA batteries. Any spare lying around at home would be greatly appreciated. 

Week Beginning 9th October 

Literacy: This week we will be continuing to learn the model text and will be practising using the skills we have learnt when writing some instructions. We will be practising using colons and commas correctly as well as using add on and drop in clauses. 

Maths: In maths, we will be continuing to learning how to add four digit numbers and will be looking how to do this with more than one exchange. We will also be starting to subtract two four digit numbers.

Reading: In reading, we will be continuing to read 'The Ancient Egypt Sleepover' and will be further developing our reading skills. 

Week beginning 2nd October

Writing: This week we will starting our next writing unit all about instructions. We be reviewing the features of instructional writing and looking at the skills that we will need to include in our writing. 
 

Maths: In maths we will beginning out unit of work looking at addition and subtraction. The children will be using the column method to add four digit numbers which exchange 10. 
 

Reading: In reading we will be continuing to read our class book as well as looking at some poetry during national poetry day on Thursday. 
 

Reminder: In the last week of the half term we will be making torches and each child will need a pringles tube. If you have any at home please rinse them and bring them into school. Thank you!

Week Beginning 25th September

Writing: This week in writing we will be completing our unit of work all about quest tales and will be writing our very own quest tale. We will be using all of the skills that we have been learning this unit to help add dialogue to our stories. 

Maths: In maths we will be finishing our unit of work working on place value and will be learning to round numbers to 10,00 to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. 

Reading: During reading lessons. we will continue to read the story 'The Ancient Egypt Sleepover' and will be working on developing our comprehension skills.

Reminder: In the last week of the half term we will be making torches and each child will need a pringles tube. If you have any at home please rinse them and bring them into school. Thank you!

Week beginning 11th September

Writing: In writing we will continue to learn the rules of speech and will be applying these when writing dialogue.

Maths: In maths lessons we will be developing our understanding of ones, tens, hundredths and thousands. We will be partitioning numbers to 10,000. 
 

Reading: In reading we will be continuing to read ‘The Ancient Egypt Sleepover’ and will be further developing our inference and retrieval skills. 

Week Beginning 4th September

Welcome to Year 4! We hope you all had a lovely, relaxing summer. 

We have returned to school in unseasonably hot weather so please ensure that your child comes to school with a hat, water bottle.

Our P.E. days will be Wednesday and Friday, however we will not be doing P.E. on Wednesday of the first week. 

Writing- This week in writing we will be starting a unit of fiction writing based around a quest text. The focus of our writing will be speech and we will be teaching the children how to use speech marks correctly. 

Maths - In maths our first unit will be Place Value and we will be working on identifying, building and ordering numbers to 10,000.

Reading-Our first text this year will be a 'The Ancient Egypt Sleepover' by Stephen Davies. This week we will be reading the first two chapters and making predictions as to what will happen in the text.