Weekly News 5.9.25
Welcome to Year 4! Team Aqua and Team Topaz have had an amazing week; you wouldn’t believe it is the first week of term! They have been completing some incredible learning and have really impressed us! Here is what we have been up to this week…
Maths
We have kicked off maths in year 4 by learning about number and place value. We have learnt to read and write numbers up to 1000 and beyond in words and in digits. We have been representing numbers using place value counters and diennes (also called base ten). Here we are using the diennes blocks…
We also estimated missing numbers on numbers lines up to 10,000. We started off with number lines where all the numbered intervals were labelled and then we tried some trickier number lines where none of the intervals are labelled in between the start and end point. The children did amazingly well and showed us that their understanding of number is excellent! We finished off the week by partitioning 4 digit numbers e.g. knowing that 3824 is 3000 + 800 + 20 + 4.
Next week we will continue to learn about number, and we will be comparing and ordering numbers up to 100 and beyond.
English
In English this week we have begun reading our first text of Year 4 called ‘Gregory Cool’. This is a short picture book about a young boy who travels to Tobago for the first time without his parents to stay with his Granny and Grandpa. The beautiful illustrations have given us the perfect opportunity to learn how to describe settings in a story. So far this week the children have found out that to write a good setting description you need to use expanded noun phrases and verbs and adverbs. An expanded noun phrase is using adjectives to expand the noun. For example, the dry, dusty ground, the loud, chirping crickets. We tried really hard to try to remember to use commas in between our adjectives in our expanded noun phrases. We used verbs and adverbs to describe another setting of the story, and the children thought of some excellent, ambitious words to use, for example, lizards scuttling frantically, the sun beaming powerfully.
Next week, we will finish reading Gregory Cool and learn how to write recounts including diary entries.
PSHE
In the afternoons this week the children have taken part in lots of PSHE activities based around our school motto, ‘One childhood, one chance’. We have been learning about our school values; equality, respect, kindness and courage’ and our school rules; be ready, be respectful, be safe.
Next week we will begin our first thematic unit this year called ‘Make some Noise!’ which is a science based unit where we will learn all about sound.
Spellings
This week’s spellings are words that begin with the prefix in-. There will also be a few red words to learn each week. These are the spellings to learn for a test on Thursday:
invisible, incorrect, inhuman, incapable, incomplete, independent, although, address, accident
Challenge words (optional to learn): inconvenient, inexpensive
Love to Learn
The children will bring home their new Love to Learn book today. Their first task is to decorate their book and write their name on the front.
Other news
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PE is on a Monday afternoon this term