Hello!

Thank you as always for all your help and support.

This week’s learning in Year 4:

Maths: We are continuing our revision of key skills by exploring the distributive laws of multiplication. We will be using adjacent multiples to help us work out answers and using partitioning to help us to solve calculations involving larger 2 digit numbers.

English: We are continuing to read Ice Palace by Robert Swindells and will be story mapping the story so far before exploring Ivan’s feelings and actions as he approaches Starjik’s lair. We will be writing in role, hot seating some characters and drawing and annotating our impressions of parts of the story.

DT: We will be exploring the sustainability of reusable bags and designing our own bags for life

PE: We will be continuing to develop our bowling and batting skills in cricket.

ICT: We are continuing to use Isle of Tune to compose a piece of music for a Pharaoh’s funeral.

Homework is a continuing project exploring our History topic, the Ancient Egyptians. Pick one task each week to complete and post your results on Google Classroom.

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns!

The Year 4 Team

Homework-Egyptians

Hello Year 4!

We hope you are all ready for another fantastic week! Here’s what we will be learning;

Maths- we will be learning about area this week, counting squares to calculate areas and comparing the area of different shapes. We will also be looking at corresponding problems.

English- we will be continuing to look at the poems of Valerie Bloom and writing a class poem in a similar style.

Geography- we will be learning about how tribes live a traditional lifestyle in the rainforest and comparing it to our own.

ICT- we will be beginning to design our own simple toy using scratch

Science- we will be learning and creating simple food chains which include a producer, prey and predator.

Spanish- we will be saying what we can do, remembering some simple verbs

Music- we will be listening and responding to a piece of music

RHE- the girls will be learning some facts about puberty while the boys are talking about peer pressure and the effects of smoking on the body.

PE- we will be developing close catching and wicket-keeping skills as we continue to learn about cricket.

As always, please contact us on the year group email if you have any queries or concerns.

Happy learning!