Welcome to Sycamore Class (Year 4)
Welcome to Sycamore class!
Dates for your diary
Meet the Team!
Homework
Reading
Children should be reading every night at home for at least 10 to 15 minutes. Their homework diary should be signed and brought into school EVERYDAY and will be checked frequently. Children can read a book from school or a book from home. Some children will be given extra phonics support and work to complete at home.
Spellings
New spellings will be given on Wednesday and there will be a dictation session on the following Thursday.
Maths
Children should also be practising their times tables every night at home. Their signed homework diaries should be brought into school EVERYDAY and will be checked frequently. TT Rock stars is an excellent programme to pratice times tables. The children will also be given a times tables sheet to complete every night in preparation for theier Times tables check which will be in June.
Friday Homework
The children will also be given additional homework on an A4 sheet. This will be handed out on a Friday and is due in on a Wednesday.
PE
The children have PE on Wednesday this term. Children need a full PE kit on these days; school PE top, black shorts or tracksuit and trainers. Please ensure your child has warm clothing during the colder months.
English
This term, we will be focusing on writing narrative based on the book 'Gorilla' by Antony Browne.
During our English sessions, we will be focusing on adding clauses using a range of conjunctions, using expanded noun phrases to modify verbs and building cohesion between paragraphs.
Our class novels this term are The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S Lewis and How to be a Viking by Cressida Cowell.
The children have an opportunity to read everyday and as a class we read a wide range of texts. We have an enormous school library and a class library filled with the lastest books to suit the childrens interests and needs. We encourage the children to discuss books with confidence and explore a range of genres and authors.
Below is a useful website, which will show you a range of Year 4 texts, which your child may enjoy.
Maths
This half term the children will learn about place value, addition, subtraction and multiplication and division. We will be using lots of concrete materials, pictorial representations and looking at word problems and reasoning to improve our overall mathematical skills.
Year 4 children complete their times tables check at the end of the year. Please help with this by practising time tables at home as much as possible.
You may find the following websites useful:
Science
This term children will be learning about States of Matter and Animlas including Humans. We will look at solids, liquids and gases their changing states. Conducting experiments to test our theories and answering scientific questions that the children may have. Animals including humans focuses on different types of teeth, food groups and healthy diets comparing herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
Below are some links related to our topic.
Foundation Subjects
History
What happened when the Romans left?
We will be focusing on The Anglo Saxon and Viking period during this term. Lessons will cover key dates, significant periods of history, everyday life and signifcant people of that time.
Geography
What might I find in Europe?
Children will learn about countries, cities and environmental regions in Europe. They will compare the region of Catalonia in Spain to the North West region of the UK.
Other Subjects:
RE - How and why might Christians use the bible?
PSHE - Being in my World
Music - Samba, carnival sounds and instruments.
Art - Drawing and sketching
Design and Technology - Mechanical systems
Spanish - My school
Computing - Collaborative Learning and Scratch.
Foundation subjects links
History - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxsbcdm
Geography - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zgrtp4j
Computing - https://scratch.mit.edu/
Spanish - Spanish Phrases
Art-https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zpq3pbk/revision/7
DT - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zsn7nk7#z8y6vj6
Key Documents
Google Classroom
Google Classroom is an essential part of our everyday teaching and it is important to have the children logging in regularly so that they are familiar with this online platform. Homework is sometimes set on google classroom and it is another way in which teachers communicate with pupils about their learning. Lots of resources for lessons are posted on our page so please keep upto date with logging in.