Year 4 - Autumn 2 - Week 5
Date: 30th Nov 2022 @ 11:15am
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
We arrived to school on the 1st December to find our classroom full of festive decorations and a cheeky little elf hiding amongst our tree. With lots of deliberation and a few clues spotted around our room, we identified that the elf’s name was Sparkle and she had been awake all evening bring festive joy to our classroom. Excitement filled the room when we discovered a note from Sparkle informing us that she had left the North Pole and made a new home in our classroom this Christmas. She informed us she will be on her best behaviour, if she can become part of our class. In typical Year 4 TSP style, we welcomed Sparkle with open arms.
Our festivities really took off, with a trip to the Christmas Extravaganza on Friday. We loved taking part in the various activities, spending time with our friends and singing along to our favourite Christmas songs. A big thank you Team TSP for organising such a fantastic event and helping us kick start our advent countdown in such a brilliant way.
Our visit to Liverpool Cathedral was truly incredible and supported our understanding of the symbolism of light. From learning about Christingles, to the gifts brought by the three wise men, we learnt so much about the meaning of light in such a beautiful Cathedral. We were in awe of the Cathedral’s size and beauty. After finding a deserted fire, alongside some lost belongings, we discovered that shepherds had left their sheep in the hills to head to Bethlehem to see the new born King. After admiring the incredible stained-glass windows in the Cathedral and the bible stories that are told through the windows, we got the chance to make our own window to represent The Nativity Story. We all left eager to visit the Cathedral again!
It was time to recall the 9’s, 7’s and 11’s in Maths, identifying numbers that are within each of these times tables and connections we can make to support our understanding. We applied our knowledge to problem solving questions, completed a dominos activity to connect questions with their answers and even played board games with our friends to test our times tables knowledge. Next week, we will be focusing on the 12 times tables, looking at what happens when we multiply and divide a number by 0 and 1 and also using the smile method to support us when multiplying 3, one-digit numbers.
In English, we ensured our sentences were using the correct tense throughout and verbs were used to describe the movements and actions of animals in a circus. We critically looked at how we spell words with the ‘ed’ and ‘ing’ endings, forming a table of evidence to suggest the rules associated with adding these endings to given words. Later in the week, we took a look back at the events that have taken place so far in out story Leon and the Place Between, before mapping the events out on a flow map. Next week, we will look at the key features of diary writing in a modelled text, before planning our own diary entries.
Have a wonderful weekend, Year 4!
Reminders:
- Santa Dash takes place on Thursday 8th December. Children are to come to school wearing suitable Mufti clothes to complete the Santa Dash in. Children can bring festive accessories or costumes to get changed into and race in.
- Our Christmas Jumper Day takes place on Friday 9th December. We look forward to seeing all the festive jumpers in class.