We have had another brilliant week in Year 4. The children have been working so hard, especially on their own stories, that we have been writing in English and battling hard on TTRS in the class tournament. Here is what we have been up to…

Maths

In maths this week, we have been learning some more about shape. We have learnt about different types of quadrilaterals; square, oblong, trapezium, parallelogram, rhombus and irregular quadrilaterals. We found out the properties of each of these 2D shapes e.g. a parallelogram has 4 straight sides, no right angles and 2 sets of parallel sides and a trapezium has only 1 set of parallel sides, no right angles and 4 straight sides. We then went on to learn about 3D shapes. We learnt to name and describe 3D shapes using maths vocabulary such as vertices, faces and edges. The 3D shapes we learnt about are cone, cylinder, sphere, hemi-sphere, cube, cuboid, tetrahedron (aka triangular based pyramid), square based pyramid, triangular prism, pentagonal prism and hexagonal prism. Some of us learnt about octagonal prisms, and pentagonal and hexagonal based pyramids. Here we are having great fun making 3D shapes...

Next week, we will be learning about statistics and finding out how to draw and interpret data in bar graphs and time graphs.

English

In English this week we planned and wrote our own 5 part fantasy stories. We made sure our stories had these 5 parts; beginning, problem, build up, problem solved and ending. We described the setting that our story took place in and described the characters. We used dialogue between our characters to show what they are like.

Next week we will move on to learn how to create imagery in poetry using alliteration, onomatopoeia and personification, which are all figurative language techniques.

Thematic

In ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ this week we have learnt about the role the pyramids played in Ancient Egypt and about hieroglyphics. We have also been learning about primary and secondary sources of historical evidence, and about whether sources of evidence are reliable or not.  

Next week, we will be finding out about the significant contributions the Ancient Egyptians made to architecture and art.

Spellings

This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ay’ sound spelt with ei or ey. These are the spellings to learn for a test on Thursday 27^th November:

reins, vein, veil, reindeer, beige, abseil, obey, they, grey, prey, survey

Challenge words: conveying, disobeyed

Love to Learn

This week’s home learning task is science. We will be learning about food chains in a few weeks. Find out what a food chain is and write some in your Love to Learn book. Find out what these words mean and try to label them on your food chains: predator, prey, producer, consumer. You could draw pictures of the living things in your food chains, or you could create your food chains on a computer and add in photos that you find. However you choose to present your learning, we can’t wait to see it.

Please hand this Love to Learn challenge in by Wednesday 3^rd December.

 

Dates to remember

24th November – Book Fair on all week

5th December – Year 2 and 4 Come Dine with me (Sapphire 11.30, Cornflower 11.45, Team Aqua 12.30 and Team Topaz 12.40)

10th December – Christmas Fair 3.15pm-4.15pm

15th December – No PE this week

16th December – Year 3 and 4 Church Performance at 10am at St Laurence Church

17th December – Year 3, 4, 5, and 6 Christmas Party Day – children to wear Party Clothes to school

17th December – Christmas Dinner Day

18th December – Christmas Jumper Day

18th December – Final day at school; school finishes at 2pm and there will be no after school club

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Cousins, Mr Cook and Miss Jordan