Year 4 - Autumn 2 - Week 4
Date: 23rd Nov 2022 @ 5:03pm
Another great week in Year 4!
In RE, we connected our understanding of what light means to Christians with the song ‘My Lighthouse’. We took the time to reflect on what the lyrics in the song mean and how they can support our understanding that Jesus is the light of the world. Connecting to our Collective Worship value of Peace, we enjoyed a calming and peaceful Yoga session with Dom from Active Sefton, recognising the importance of Mindfulness and taking a moment to ourselves.
We are thoroughly enjoying reading ‘The train to impossible places’ by the fantastic Peter Bell, as part of our Guided Reading lessons. This fast-paced fantasy adventure is supporting our prediction, retrieval and inference skills. When writing, we are enhancing our sentences with the use of verbs and adverbs and utilising a range of subordinating conjunctions to join two sentences together. We even played our own version of Scrabble this week, connecting our knowledge of sounds to create words from a selection of letters. This game really did help us to remember the importance of sounding out and breaking down our words into their smaller sounds.
Our focus continues to be on the times tables in Maths and how we can call upon our times tables knowledge to support multiplication and division calculations. Using our critical thinking, we discovered similarities and differences between the 3 and 6 times tables, completed times tables wheels to recall the 8’s and even spotted how arrays can support our understanding that division is the inverse to multiplication. Next week, we will look at multiplying a number by 1 and 0 and also what happens when a number is divided by 1 or itself.
In Year 4, it is our mission to nurture our world and in particular, our community. To support our wishes for a more environmentally friendly word, we attended a Christmas Recycling Assembly delivered by Mersey Recycling Discovery Centre. This assembly reminded us of key messages surrounding the impact of packaging at Christmas time and ways to make small changes that can make a big difference.
Our Scientific vocabulary vastly expanded this week, as we discovered what the Digestive system was and the purpose it has in our body. In Spanish, we learnt how to talk about our brothers and sisters, remembering the all-important Spanish difference we need to make when referring to a man or a woman. Our Swimming lessons have sadly come to an end, but the improved stamina and fitness we have gained has been beneficial in our Fitness lessons this week. We completed a range of fitness tests to gain our personal best score and we are determined to use our school value of Hope to beat our PB next week!
Have a lovely weekend, Year 4! Keep shining!
Reminders:
- Year 4 School Trip takes place on Tuesday 29th November. Children will need to bring packed lunch and water bottle in a disposable bag.
- As the colder days are upon us, please ensure your child brings a coat, gloves or any other winter accessories to keep them warm whilst enjoying their breaktime.