Important Update!
Children in Need
Friday 14th November is Children in Need day and our school council have decided that this year, we will be doing a cake sale!
If you are able to donate some cakes, they can be brought in to school on Thursday and Friday and our school council will be selling them after school on Friday. If you would like to purchase a cake to support Children in Need, please bring some money at the end of the day on Friday.
Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!
Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings / times tables and lots more.
Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. EdShed can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below. Log in details for EdShed or TT Rock Stars can be found on the inside cover of your child's Reading Record book.
Homework
Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. E.g. "Why do you think the character is unhappy?"
Please note that reading books will be changed when completed. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.
Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to Spelling Shed.
Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 13th October
Spellings
Spelling Rule 8: Words ending in ‘-ation’
adoration
admiration
coronation
detonation
observation
location
generation
exploration
combination
illustration
Geography Fact of the Week!
Mrs. Macdonald (our Geography boffin) has had a great idea! To make sure our knowledge of the world is solid, each class will be spotlighting a different country in Europe.
For this term, we have the country Switzerland
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...
SWISS CONFEDERATION: FACTS
Capital: Bern, de facto
Area: 41,285 sq km
Population: 8.6 million
Languages: French, German, Italian, Romansh
Life expectancy: 81 years (men) 85 years (women)
Largest city: Zurich
Maths Problem of the Week
Each week, a new maths problem will appear on the blog... Can you solve it?
The answers will be posted in next week's blog!
Previous week's answers...
Every 4th shape is a star, so the 48th shape will be a star.
Therefore, the 49th shape will be a triangle. And finally, the 50th shape will be a rectangle!
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Our second English book of the year is The Firework-Maker's Daughter, a story about a wildchild, who wants to be better than her father!
This week, we have been looking at writing choices, consciously made by the author. For example, when explaining how to make a firework, it is written down like a recipe... Is this Phillip Pullman explaining how you have to be exact in the ingredients? Or is it to show that you can mix a whole number of random things, with surprising results?
We will see...
Maths - Multiplication and Division
We have absolutely raced through our maths this week - obviously having solid times tables knowledge makes 'Factors' and 'Multiplying by powers of 10' an absolute piece of cake!
400 x 30 seems difficult at first... But if you simply do 4x3 and then make the answer 100 times bigger (4 to 400) and then 10 times bigger (3 to 30) you end up with the correct answer! 12,000
Weekly Awards
Safeguarding - morning routine
If you are dropping off your child at the classroom door / KS2 entrance door and need to pass a message on to a member of staff please do so by speaking to the staff member who monitors the door in the morning. If you need to enter school for any other reason, adults can only enter the school building via the main school entrance and seek assistance from the school office team. If you are attending a meeting with a member of staff, you must sign in at the front desk as a visitor and have an ID lanyard.
Safeguarding - home time routine
At the end of each day, Y4 will line up on the playground football pitch. Each child will be dismissed individually, only when a member of staff has seen the adult who is collecting. If they are signed up for OSC, the children will need to be collected from the front office, so OSC can sign in, and sign out, the children they are expecting.
If you need to speak with the class teacher at the end of the day, please allow them to dismiss the class first.
Thank you for your continued support in keeping our school and children safe.
Safety in PE
We would like to remind all parents that for the safety of all children and following guidance from Chorley SSP, jewellery is not to be worn during PE. This includes earrings, bracelets and watches. All children will be asked to remove their jewellery at the start of every PE lesson. This will ensure their own safety during the lesson and the safety of others. If a child is unable to take out their own earrings, adults in school will not be able to do it for them. This will mean they will have to take another role in the lesson such as observing, coaching or officiating.
For this reason, if your child is not confident taking out earrings, please do not put them in on our PE days. This year, our PE lessons are on Wednesday and Thursday, however we may also have extra lessons on other days throughout the year.
Thank you for your support in keeping our children safe.
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team