Year 4 Class blog

Friday 6th September 2024

Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome back everybody and welcome to Year 4. I hope all the children have enjoyed their first week back after a lovely summer break. I know some of the children were a tad nervous about moving up into a new year group but everyone has been incredibly resilient and taken to their new class and new expectations like a duck to water!

This week in our English we have been reading the novel Gorilla written by Anthony Browne.

So far, we have met Hannah who is a lonely character. We have been looking for clues using images and vocabulary to try and decipher why she is lonely. The children were all great detectives spotting the clues Browne gave us to learn more about her as a character.

Next week, we will be using this vocabulary to create a setting scene. I will post on dojo some of our fabulous writing!

In Maths, we have been using equipment to represent numbers. We’ve been using counters, denes and other such equipment to solve problems and represent numbers all the way to 1,000. In addition, we’ve already been doing lots of timestables practise in preparation for the timestables test at the end of Y4. Any support at home preparing the children for this test will be greatly appreciated. Timestables are vital in ensuring the children are competent mathematicians so we will be putting a big emphasis on this area this academic year.

In Science, we are learning about the human body and particularly digestion this half term. On Thursday, we have begun learning about the first stage of digestion, which is our teeth, and how they chew the food we need to gain the nutrients from it. We have been leanring about the fuel we put inside our bodies and how the foods/drinks we chose to consume may have a negative impact upon our oral health. Therefore, to investigate what we should be eating our drinking, we created an investigation testing various beverages and the affect these drinks have upon an egg we’ve submerged in that drink. We’ve learned that we are going to liken the shell of the egg to the enamel of our teeth to see if some of these so called healthy drinks really do keep our teeth safe.

Here are a few things you may need to know about life in Y4…

• PE – double slot Fridays. Please can all children come into school in full PE kit on Friday.
• Spelling test also on Fridays. Children will get new spellings each week to be tested. Please can you practise these with the children.
• Timestables awards will be given out weekly so please practise these with your child at home.
• Dojos are awarded to children for reading at home. Please can you read with your child at least 3 times per week and record so in their diaries in order to gain dojos. Once a child has read 100 times at home, they are allowed to chose a book from the online book store to purchase and keep at home as a reward for being such book worms !! I wonder who will be the first member of our class to achieve this?!
• It has been lovely meeting some of you in the yard at hometime. If you ever have any questions, please do grab me at the end of the day or message me via dojo. Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Fillingham x