Key Messages: for next week…

Thursday: Parents are invited in to read with their children at 2:40pm. Children cannot leave early on this day. Please see the separate email that has been sent home regarding the information. 

• Tuesday is swimming for 4B and 4G. Please ensure that full swimming kit is brought in on that day. If your child cannot take part, please contact their teacher or the office to explain why.
• Thursday is PE for all of Year 4. Please send the children in wearing their PE kit.
• Children can come to school in their PE kit on swimming days.
• Please ensure children are wearing correct school uniform and shoes, including a tie.
• Please ensure children are bringing in their water bottles every day, preferably with a sports cap.

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Weekly homework tasks: 

Reading daily – please bring in your reading record signed by an adult.

TTRS - at least 3 times a week for 10 minutes.

Mathletics – Friday to Friday

AR Quizzes – complete on Accelerated Reader once book has been completed. This can be done at home or at school.

Please note, Mathletics has a different login to AR and TTRS.

Sir Linkalot – children can download the app and watch spelling videos.

This week we have been learning words from the ‘Pressure Proust’ bundle. Here are the words: appear, arrive, breath, breathe, consider, decide, early, famous, forward, group, guard, guide, history, increase, decrease, mention, minute, notice, popular, potatoes, pressure, promise.

***Well done to everyone who has received a certificate so far for either Mathletics or TTRS***

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English:

In English this week we continued reading our text, and we wrote a comparative setting description of Mount St. Helens before and after the eruption. Our focus was to use prepositional phrases and ambitious vocabulary. We used drama to portray how the characters could have acted/ been feeling during some scenes of the text.

Next week, we will write a newspaper report on the eruption of Mount Pelee.

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Maths:

This week in maths we began our work on fractions by looking at and drawing different representations of fractions. We also started to look at equivalent fractions and built our own fraction walls.

Next week we will continue with fractions by extending our equivalent fractions work, and will build on our knowledge of fractions of quantities.

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Thematic Curriculum:

This week during our afternoon lessons, we welcomed in some visitors from two local charities: Broadstairs Disabled Riding Centre and Broadstairs Town Team. Both are very local charities to us and the children were keen to hear about the work that they do and asked many questions to deepen their understanding.

We also learnt more about the different features of a volcano and how they are formed. We created a double-page spread detailing the information and made a flapped cross-section of a volcano.

Next week we will continue to explore volcanoes in more depth.