Year 4

During week four, we have started our to develop our multiplication and division facts in Maths. The effort that the children are putting in with Timestable Rockstars is starting to be evident in their learning.

In English we have been focusing on our story telling. For the first time ever, the children are typing up their story continuation on their iPads. Everyone is learning so many new skills. In Art we have been sketching our volcano landscapes, which links in nicely with the Geography topic of Volcanoes and Earthquakes.

In music this week we added percussion to the Sea Shanties we have learnt, as well as lots of singing in preparation for the outdoor Carol Concert. 

During our third week back, we have been learning about perimeter, including finding missing sides and an investigation involving dinosaurs! We have been focusing again on some tricky aspects of grammar, particularly punctuating speech, recapping adverbs and prepositions of time, and present perfect tense.

We are continuing to enjoy our story, Lob, which has had some emotional developments. After learning all about earthquakes, we have begun to design our volcanic landscape in art and used the rule of thirds to make sure we have composed our work artistically.  

It has been another busy week and by the time you read this we hope to have spoken to you all during parents evening about the progress that your son/daughter has been making. Times Tables Rockstars is starting to get exciting, with children working hard to earn coins and move up the leader board. Well don! 

As you know, we have been focusing on our grammar and it’s lovely to see many of these features in their retelling of the Lob story. In maths we have been looking at distances and converting between different units of measure. During science, all the children have enjoyed learning about solids, liquids and gases as well completing an investigation all about ice. Our understanding of volcanoes is growing all the time with so many amazing facts and questions coming from the classes.

 Finally, this week we have looked at some anti-bullying work and used our iPads to explore how to create posters!