Year 4 | Knowl Hill CE Primary School

Welcome to Year 4!

Miss Yapp - class teacher

Mrs Tull - teaching assistant

Miss Martin - teaching assistant

This term we have lots to look forward to!

Christian Values

The value for this term is Perseverance

Please can children have a full PE kit in school everyday. (t shirt, joggers/shorts, trainers) thank you.

Please encourage your children to hand in their Partnership Books.

Please can children remember to have water bottles in school!

What Year 4 will be covering this week: 27th January 2020.

Maths:

This week we will be looking at area. This will involve counting squares, making shapes and comparing area.

Please make sure children are practising their times tables at home.

English:

This week we will be looking at newspaper articles and setting up a crime scene with people for the children to interview like reporters.

SPAG:

Features of a newspaper article;

Headline
Opening sentence/paragraph
Paragraphs
Past tense
Third person
Quotations/ Direct speech
Reported speech
5 Ws
Photos and captions
Facts and opinions
Chronological order
Summing up

Guided Reading

We will be reading The Astounding Broccoli Boy by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. Children will be asked a variety of questions whilst we are reading. We will also use this book to add to our vocabulary wall to extend children's vocabulary knowledge.

Homework and Key Dates:

Maths homework will be handed out on a Monday and is due back the following Monday.

Spellings will be handed out on a Monday (in homework book and on the website) and children will be tested on the Friday.

We encourage you to use times table rockstars and Spelling Frame.

www.spellingframe.co.uk

https://ttrockstars.com/

www.topmarks.co.uk - times table practice.

Reading for Pleasure:

Reading is an important skill and can bring us lots of enjoyment. At Knowl Hill CE Academy we promote reading and want to develop a love of reading for all of our pupils. To encourage this, we award a termly reading certificate to those children who read at least 4 x a week over a 10 week period. Please record any reading in the Partnership book. Any children that have been listened to during this period will be asked for their Parent Partnership book - pleasure ensure these are in school daily.

Here are some websites linked to poetry. Discuss what they feel the poem means, what they think the author's intended impact on the reader is, how it differs from another poem and whether or not they like the poem.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/children

https://interestingliterature.com/2017/02/03/10-classic-childrens-poems-everyone-should-read/

http://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poetry-for-children/

https://www.childrenspoetryarchive.org/