4FR
Class teacher: Mrs Richards
Teaching assistants: Miss Wood and Mrs Bartley
Below is some key information that you might find useful:
English
This term, we are reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We will look at character descriptions, recount writing, and letter writing whilst including punctuation and grammatical features appropriate for Year 4. The children will have opportunities to draft and write by: composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures.
Maths
In maths this term, we are focusing on place value. Using a variety of representations, including measures, pupils will become fluent in the order and place value of numbers beyond 1000, including counting in tens and hundreds, and maintaining fluency in other multiples through varied and frequent practice. They begin to extend their knowledge of the number system to include the decimal numbers and fractions that they have met so far.
Science
This term in science, we will focus on sound. We will identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating, recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear, find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it, find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it, and recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.
PE
4FR have their PE lessons each Wednesday and Thursday. Therefore, the children will need to come into school wearing their PE kit on those days and will remain in them for the rest of the day.
Homework
Homework is given out each Friday. The children will have a piece of work in their homework book which supports their learning in school. They will also have their weekly spellings to practise as well as a times tables sheet. Homework is to be returned on Wednesdays.
The children have their times table tests every Wednesday and their spelling test every Thursday.
Home Reading
We encourage children to read at least 4 times a week at home. In 4FR, for every 4 home reads, the children get a raffle ticket. The ticket goes in to our raffle for the chance to win our hamper. Raffles are each half term.
Times tables
By the end of year 4, children are expected to know all of their times tables up to 12x12. We practise times tables as often as we can in school. The children are expected to practise their times tables each week at home as part of their homework.
Here are some of the ways they could be practised at home:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2BHuSbt_Y
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb
