Year 4 Weekly News 29.11.24

Our outsider narrative has really taken shape this week. We have worked hard to incorporate our extended noun phrases to describe how the polar bear is feeling. Within each paragraph, we have spent time editing and responding to marking. Within each paragraph, we have spent time editing and responding to marking. We wrote a fantastic 5 paragraphs each with slightly different spag focuses. We should all be very proud!

We have begun our multiplication and division unit looking at multiples and how we can move between multiplication and division facts. This is something we call a fact family. We have learnt about patterns and ways to remember our facts. We have now learnt our 6 and 9 times tables.

In reading, we have become familiar with the text The Saga of Erik the Viking by Terry Jones. Exploring the front cover, blurb and unfamiliar language helped us to get to know that Erik was determined to go in search of land. We have then read extracts throughout the book learning more about his journeys and focusing on how the author portrays the characters feelings alongside summarising paragraphs.

Our focus in our football PE lesson was turning and changing direction. We practised dribbling and turning with the ball in order to move away from players. We enjoying playing games, working in teams and creating 'N' turns with a partner.

We have also enjoyed a second PE session with Kick coach Gabe this week and our PE lesson on gymnastics with Mrs Whittingham.

We completed our unplugged computing unit by thinking about how easy it is for real and fake information to be shared online. We summarised our learning by thinking about what should we do before we share information online. We answered this brilliantly!

In our History lesson this week, we reflected on how we should remember the Vikings. The children thought about how the Vikings were warriors, farmers, travellers, craftsmen and much more. We created knowledge organisers to celebrate everything we have learnt about the Vikings.

In our Heartsmart lesson this week, we took part in an exercise in 'love languages' which is based on the principles from 'Five Love Languages' by Gary Chapman.(Northfield Publishing, 2015).The book identities five love languages and explains that each of us has one or two main ones that tell us that we are loved. They are:

• Kind words – someone says something kind to you
• Kind action – someone does something kind for you
• Nice time – someone chooses to spend good time with you
• Gifts – someone gives you an unexpected present – (not birthday/Christmas)
• Hug/high five – someone puts their arm on your shoulder when you're sad or gives you a hug or a high five

We individually reflected on our own love language and a time when we have felt loved. 'And from far away the Lord appeared to his people. He said, "I love you people with a love that will last forever. I became your friend because of my love and kindness.' Jeremiah 31:3

We have continued to work on our final piece in Art this week. We are continuing to use rules to develop our pattern ideas. We also looked at the work of Andy Gilmore to inspire our ideas. We loved exploring his graphic patterns and use of colour.

Baking was our focus in DT this week! We have made our first biscuit. We worked in teams of 5 and we each given a role to play. We worked through the recipe and created the most delicious products. At the end, we had time to taste them and think about what else we could add to our biscuits to make them more unique!

During RE this week, we completed our art work showcasing Jesus as the light coming into the world – they look amazing. We then listened to some Christmas songs and thought about what this told us about Jesus. They were so many fantastic phrases used to describe him!

We started a new computing unit this week. This new focus is on audio production. We learnt about input and output devices and are now able to identify these. We also used the wave app to record our own audio and listen to it back. We also importantly learnt how to delete these files.

In our science lesson this week, we learnt about ways that we can protect the environment for living things. We learnt about micro and macro habitats.

Maths.co.uk homework has been set for this week.

Have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Morris and Mrs Pointon