Year 4 - Spring 1 - Week 4

Date: 26th Jan 2022 @ 7:31pm

Another wonderful week here in Year 4! 

With a little help from some friends from Sesame Street, we learnt all about Shabbat, the Jewish Day of Rest. We discovered that Shabbat happens each week from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday. During Shabbat, Jewish people remember the story of creation from the Torah where God created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th day. Using a flow map, we sequenced the things that happen during Shabbat including family meals, prayers at the synagogue and drinking from the Kiddush cup.

It was time to write letters this week in English, showing off our knowledge of the events that unfolded in Pompeii after tremors could be felt on the ground. It has been heartwarming to see how passionate the children are about our book ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and the historical language they have used in their writing. Connecting our learning back to our speech writing checklists, we also took to the challenge of including speech in our writing. Our letter writing concluded by answering a critical question - should the children return to Pompeii? It was great to hear the debates the children formed surrounding the question and the powerful justification they wrote to support their answers.

It was time to open our new restaurant this week, for our first book tasting session. We were delighted to indulge in a range of books from our class library and decide which of our ‘courses’ we would like to read next week. Year 4 took great joy from their restaurant experience and it was a delight to see how many children discovered new genres of books they would like to read.

We have connected our understanding of using column multiplication in Maths, to now multiply a three digit number and a one digit number. Year 4 truly have mastered the steps they need to take in order to multiply accurately using this method. Later in the week, it was time to introduce division and practise using the bus stop method to help us to divide. Next week, we will be thinking about area and how it is calculated by multiplying the length of a shape by its width.

We also took the time this week to remember those who suffered in the Holocaust, under Nazi persecution. We created a flame to represent the candles we lit in class in remembrance and explained why it is so important to mark this memorial day.

A big thank you to Anne for welcoming us to the Eucharist Service at St.Peter’s Church on Wednesday. We learned more about why Christians gather at this service and the symbolism of the bread and the wine. Another thank you to the fantastic team from Mad Science, who delivered an inspiring assembly to showcase just how interesting, and sometimes completely mind blowing, Science can be!

Have a great one, Year 4!

Reminders:

-Please do comment on Google Classroom to showcase the fantastic reading the children are completing at home.

-Weekly spellings are accessible via Google Classroom.