Hello and welcome to the class page for Year 4! We are so excited to be teaching our fabulous Year 4 cohort this year and cannot wait to start our journey together. We have so many amazing topics, trips and fun ahead of us and this page will be your go-to for links to your child's spellings, curriculum pages and information explaining what your child has been learning.
Our Topics this year are as follows:
Autumn: Through the Window
Spring: Incredible Invaders and Significant Settlers
Summer: Journeys Here and Beyond
Science topics to be covered:
Living Things, Electricity, Animals Including Humans, Sound, and States of Matter (including the water cycle).
PE days:
We will continue to ask the children to come to school in their P.E kits on their designated days.
This will eliminate the need to share changing rooms.
Homework:
English and Maths Homework is set on alternate weeks on a Friday. This needs to be returned to school on the following Thursday and will be placed inside each child’s green plastic homework wallet.
Children are expected to read x3 times per week at home – and logged in their RED journal which will signed weekly in class. A signature will be required weekly to acknowledge that your child has completed independent reading.
Please practise Times Tables on 'Times Tables Rockstars' as often as you can and use EdShed to help practise spellings.
Autumn Term
In Year 4, we will be launching our new topic, Through the Window. We will kick off to a fabulous start by creating autobiographies in English, which will be a window into our worlds. These will help us to write from a personal perspective and to consider our readers as an audience. We would like to thank you for contributing to these by supporting your child with their homework. They have beautiful family trees and interesting anecdotes to show owing to your efforts. We can't wait to see the final product! We hope you will enjoy these books as much as we have enjoyed creating them.
In our topic lessons, we will be looking through our own classroom window to survey the geographical landscape; learning about topographical features, land use and our own environment. We will create sketch maps, observe the human and physical features and record how the environment makes us feel as a part of our fieldwork unit.
In our science topic, we will study ‘Animals and their Habitats’ and we will start with designing ‘Mrs Nerg’ posters, spending an afternoon enjoying the outside collecting different leaves. We then move on to classifying these leaves using simple yes or no questions to create a simple dichotomous key.
After half term, our focus will be Remembrance. We will look through the windows of the past and create beautiful, poignant Haikus. We will discuss the notion of refugees and the circumstances surrounding the need to leave homelands. In Art, we will look through many different windows at the abstract work of Marc Chagall whose childhood and wartime experiences shaped his art and his life. We will improve our drawing techniques and will use different grades of pencils to develop tone and shading skills. We will look at drawing in three dimensions before developing the use of perspective by considering the vanishing point.
For our first Maths topic, we have developed our understanding of place value. We have explored 3 and 4 digit numbers using different concrete resources. We have focused a lot on rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. This is quite a tricky task which we will continue to practise throughout the year. We are, however, becoming masters at exchanging 10 ones for one ten, 10 tens for one hundred and 10 hundreds for 1000. Through becoming secure in this knowledge we can partition numbers in different ways and will confidently understand the concept of exchanging when we come to addition and subtraction calculations.
Spring Term 1
English
This term, the children will continue to develop their English skills through different genres; namely a persuasive advert, a non-chronological report and a myths and legends story. These will all be written around the topic of the Anglo-Saxons. They will learn new skills such as the plural possessive apostrophe, figurative language and to build suspense in stories. In Whole Class Reading lessons, we will be delving into the magical worlds of Narnia and Disney to ensure Year 4 continue to enhance their vocabulary.
Maths
In Maths this term, the children will build upon their times tables knowledge progressing from learning times tables facts to learning formal methods for multiplication and division as well as more efficient strategies for solving problems.
They will continue to practise daily for the Times Tables Check which is due this June. In this, the children will answer 25 questions online. They need to answer these questions within 6 seconds... wow! To support them with this expectation, the children will complete Times Tables Rock Stars worksheets every day and will use Hit the Button to improve speed every Friday. Please also practise online at home as often as you can. To achieve their "Rock Status", children need to choose the "Studio" game and play this 10 times. After doing this, they will be awarded a status based on how quickly they answered the questions. You begin as a Wannabe, completing each question in over 10 seconds, and you can progress to the incredible Rock Hero by completing each question in less than 1 second!! Can you beat your teacher and achieve this? Children can win certificates when they improve and hit each milestone. TT Rockstars is a fun, creative way to hone those important skills ready for the test in June.
In science, we will be working scientifically by:
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