Year Four Update - 2nd December

Over the past two weeks the children have begun rehearsing more regularly for the Christmas performance.  Any additional time they can spend practising their lines at home is greatly appreciated, thank you for all the hard work you have put in up to now.

Our English work has again focussed on building careful description into our writing. The children have written the next chapter of the book we have been reading as a class. After having developed use of adverbs at sentence level, it was great to see the children apply this to an extended piece of work.  

 

Last week we started to look for the first time as a class at poetry, we look forward to sharing this work with you before the Christmas break.

In maths we have been developing our ability to divide increasingly large numbers by one digit numbers through the method of chunking. As a result of lots of hard work, the children are progressing well and can use the process learned in class to reach the correct answer on most occasions.  We now understand how to complete calculations that include remainders and have started to apply our learning to different problem solving contexts.

Children now have a homework folder to take home which will be used for their homework task each week, as well as recording their reading and spelling practice. It is important that this folder is in school every day in order to track reading, even if the homework task is not yet complete. The task for this week requires the children to explore poetry at home, reinforcing their knowledge of the techniques we have started to study in class.  

Please see the links below for some age appropriate examples of poems the children may find interesting.

Mr Daniel

http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poems/famous/children/

http://www.storyit.com/Classics/JustPoems/