Welcome to Year 4!

 

4B                                                                       4Y                        

Teacher- Mr Malies                                          Teacher - Mr Sheldon

 

Support Staff:

Miss Cheenibass

Mrs Johnson

Miss Maguire 

                            

English:

This half term, our class text is Counting on Katherine by Helaine Becker.

 

Our mastery keys for this unit are:

•           Expand noun phrases by the addition of modifying adjectives, nouns and prepositional phrases
•           Use fronted adverbials
•           Use paragraphs to organise information and ideas around a theme (to organise and sequence more extended narrative structures)
•           Choose nouns or pronouns appropriately for clarity and cohesion and to avoid repetition
•           Use commas after fronted adverbials

Spelling:

We teach a weekly spelling lesson in Year 4 where we focus on a different spelling rule each week. We also consider one harder to spell word taken from the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list, which you can find below. Spellings are stuck into brown spelling books every Friday and should be learnt at home ready for a spelling test the following week.

 

Whole Class Reading:

We teach reading in our whole class reading sessions where all children study the same text. Whole class reading takes place each day and follows a similar format each week.

 

 

We will be looking at a wide range of texts this year and will use our reading gems to help us to improve our comprehension skills and to become better readers. The reading gems we will be using are:

•           Define
•           Retrieve
•           Summarise
•           Infer
•           Predict
•           Relate
•           Explore
•           Compare

Reading

We love reading in Year 4! Everyday, we dim the lights, put our fire on the interactive whiteboard and relax whilst the teacher reads our chosen class story. Sometimes, we even lie down on the floor or in the reading corner. Why not ask your child about their current class story.

 

4Y are reading: The Last Bear by Hannah Gold

 

4B are reading: Time Hunters: Greek Warriors by Chris Blake

 

 

Here are 50 recommended books for Year 4

https://www.booksfortopics.com/year-4

 

 

Maths:

The National Curriculum requires that children can recall their multiplication facts up to 12 x 12 by the end of Year 4 and all children will be required to sit the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) in June. Please help your child at home to learn their times tables by using the links below:

https://urbrainy.com/mtc

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Important days:

• Reading: All reading records should be brought into school on a Monday so that they can be checked. Children can change their reading books once they have finished reading the book and completed an AR quiz. Your child should read at home 5 times a week. Of those 5 times, we hope they can read with an adult at least twice. An adult needs to sign the reading record everytime a child reads (even if they are reading silently) so that we can monitor how much children are reading at home.  
• PE: Our current PE day in school is Monday. Children need to come into school wearing their PE kit on this day. We will alternate indoor and outdoor each week as our other PE session is swimming.
• Swimming: Children will have weekly swimming lessons (Tuesday - 4Y Wednesday - 4B). Girls will need a swimming costume and boys will need swimming trunks. No goggles, bikinis or swimming shorts are allow. Anyone with hair long enough to cover airways or eyes needs to wear a swimming cap. 
• Spelling: Spelling tests are completed on Fridays and new spellings given out. Please ensure that spelling books are in school on this day.