This week…

Congratulations boys on an fantastic creative arts performance yesterday!  You were all brilliant both for the performance and also for the hard work that you all put in throughout the week.

Maths:  We are looking at area (and revising perimeter) this week.

http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html

 

http://www.mathplayground.com/area_perimeter.html

 

English:  In grammar we have been looking at varying sentence openings to make writing more interesting to read.  In other lessons we are working on newspaper writing using the story of Krindlekrax as a starting point.

Reading books

Dear boys and parents

We would like to compile a reading list for boys in Year 4.  This will be a list of books you have enjoyed reading and would recommend to a friend.  If you have any suggestions, please post your ideas here and let’s see how many books we can find!

From Mrs T

This week…

Maths:  My group are looking at calculations using brackets this week.  For this they will be needing to know their multiplication facts and also how to do column multiplication/addition.

http://www.bracketbasics.co.uk/activity/

Literacy: We are looking at antonyms this week and using Krindlekrax as a starting point.  The boys will be describing what it is like underground in tunnels from the perspective of a rat and a human.

In grammar the boys are looking at how to vary sentence openings to make work more interesting.

Spellings on Friday:  The dictation will be on the exceptions to ‘i before e’

http://www.spellzone.com/unit21/page1.cfm

This week…

Literacy:  We have started our work on non chronological reports today and for this unit of work the boys will be evaluating texts and composing their own non chronological report all about crocodiles.  They will need to have plenty of facts about crocodiles and a picture to use too.  In grammar this week we are continuing to work on the basic punctuation of sentences and encouraging boys to reread their work to check for capitals letters and full stops.  We also have World Book Day on Thursday and would remind boys that they need to bring in a shoe box (or similar) and perhaps some art and craft items that they may wish to use or even some toy figures (related to Krindlekrax and being underground in the sewers).

 

Here are examples with a different theme:

  

Maths: My group have finished their work on rotational symmetry and we are moving onto perimeter and area.  We will be starting with perimeter.  For each maths lesson I have also prepared a warm up which is not related to the task as a revision on topics we have already looked at this year.

http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/maths/perimeter_and_area/index.html