WELCOME TO YEAR 4 2020-21 WITH MRS CLARKE & MRS SYKES
Welcome to our Year Four Class Page.
This page will be updated every half term to help keep you up to date with the things we will be working on this year.
There will also be a copy of my long term plan for the year and each half term I will add my medium term plan for the half term.
Look out for helpful websites to support the learning at home and a copy of the spellings for each half term.
ENGLISH
This half term we will be using ‘Escape from Pompeii’ by Chrsitina Balit, which links really well with our History unti on the Romans and last terms work in Geography on volcanoes. We will be looking to write from different characters points of view, using verb forms, standard English, direct speech and organising paragraphs into themes.
MATHS
This half term we will begin the half term by looking at how we use money. This will involve counting, writing and estimating amounts of money and solving problems involving money. We will follow money with a week on area and how we measure the area of regular and irregular shapes and how multiplication and division can help us. Finally we will be leaning about fractions. This will include counting in hundredths, finding equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions and adding and subtracting fractions.
TIMES TABLES
Times Table Challenge
We will be continuing our Times Table Challenge and will be working each week on our individual times tables. After completing each challenge, the children will receive a certificate and will move along the Times Table Ladder.
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Times Table Rock Star
We will be using Times Table Rock Stars at both home and school to help us improve our speed of recalling multiplcation facts.
Will you be quick enough to be a Rock Hero?
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SPELLINGS
Spellings for this half term:
Group 1
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YEAR 4 SPELLING OVERVIEW – SPRING 2 |
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1. 22/02/21 |
international, intergalactic, intertwine, interrupt, intercept, antibiotic, antidote, antihistamine, antihero, antisocial |
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2. 01/03/21 |
interpersonal, intervene, interject, internet, interpreter, antiseptic, anticlimax, anticipation, antifreeze, antilock |
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3. 08/03/21 |
physician, optician, extension, collision, confusion, profession, session, percussion, fiction, fraction |
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4 15/03/21 |
magician, politician, electrician, exclusion, transfusion, infusion, passion, mission, possession, direction, attention |
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5 22/03/21 |
strength, surprise, therefore, various, quarter, recent, regular, reign, separate, straight |
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6 29/03/21 |
notice, potatoes, pressure, purpose, ordinary, peculiar, natural, mention, material, knowledge |
Group 2
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YEAR 4 SPELLING OVERVIEW – SPRING 2 |
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1 22/02/21 |
automatic, autograph, autopilot, autonomy, autobiography, superman, superior, supernatural, superstar, superficial |
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2 01/03/21 |
autofocus, autocue, autodial, autoroute, autofocus, supermarket, supernova, superfan, superfast, superglue |
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3 08/03/21 |
meet, meat, hear, here, knot, not, mail, male, reign, rain |
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4 15/03/21 |
beech, beach, wait, weight, there, their, right, write, to, two, too |
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5 22/03/21 |
interest, island, learn, naughty, often, particular, perhaps, popular, possible |
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6 29/03/21 |
probably, promise, question, remember, sentence, special, thought, through, weight |
SCIENCE
We will be looking at living things and their habitats. We will recognise that living things can be regrouped in a variety of way, explore and use classification keys to help, group and identify living things and then we will look t how environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things.
History, DT, Spanish, Music, RE & PE
We will be learning Stop! by Joanna Mangona – a song/rap about bullying.
We will be looking at the impact the Roman invasion of Britain had and what evidence of the Roman occupation we can still see today. We will find out why they wanted to invade and settle in Britain, what it was like to be part of the Roman army, who was already living in Britain at the time of the invasion and who was Boudicca and what did she do.
We will also look at what impact the Romans had on Warrington.
We will be exploring what temptation and sacrifice mean to Christians and looking at the sacrifices Jesus made.
This half term we will be learning about mosaics, where they come from and how they are made.
We will design and make our own mosaics and then we will make a whole class mosaic.
This half term we will be dancing, learning to listen to a piece of music, feel the beat and fit movement to it with a focus on floor work and pathways.
We will be learning about how to name the different parts of the body in Spanish.
HOMEWORK
Homework will be given out on a Monday to be completed and returned by a Friday. There will be on-line Maths homework and Grammar homework to be completed in your child’s homework book. Your child will also have spellings, reading and times table challenges to complete each week.
Bug Club has books set for your child to read at home. There are quizzes and questions to complete along the way. When your child has completed all the activities within the book they will automatically be assigned a new book. Children should be aiming to read at home 4 times a week.