Year 4 Update – Wk 22
Friday 3rd March – Student-Led Conferences
Monday 13th – Friday 17th March – Book Week: Dress up as your favourite book character on Friday for the character parade!
Thursday 16th March – Y5 Market Day: Bring some money to buy some goodies and support a good cause!
Friday 24th March – International Food Fair: Keep selling those raffle tickets to win the class excursion!
Thursday 30th March – Spring Concert
Friday 31st March – End of Term 2 – Easter Holidays Begin! School ends at 12:00 noon.
Tuesday 18th April – First Day Back at School
Tuesday 25th April – Year 4 Bake Sale
Thrusday 27th April – Year 4 Theatre Trip
Tuesday 2nd May – BHS CPD Day: School Closed
Student-Led Conferences
A reminder to sign up for a Student-Led Conference session with your child’s class teacher.
Building Challenge Day
Health and well-being
As you will have seen in notices sent home recently, there have been some cases of scarlet fever and chicken pox at the school. We would be very grateful if you could remind your child to wash their hands frequently throughout the day and to stay home if unwell.
How We Express Ourselves
Central Idea: Nature, purpose and creativity inspire the design of structures in the community
Lines of Inquiry
An inquiry into:
- Architecture in the local and global environment (reflection)
- Elements that influence design (perspective)
- Pattern and shapes in structures (form)
Natural Elements
Next week the children will continue to inquire into the design process behind famous structures around the world and plan, design and construct their own structures inspired by nature. This will act as their summative task for this unit of inquiry.
Central Idea – Shapes can be identified, classified and used in different ways
Lines of Inquiry:
- The relationship between 2D and 3D Shapes
- Symmetry and transformations can be found in our environment
- Angles in 2D and 3D shape
Next week the children will be learning about transformations (rotation, translation, reflection) and will have a go at tessellations in preparation for Friday’s student-led-conferences.
- develop characters to engage readers in stories
- write stories with familiar settings told in first person
Next week the children will continue to develop their character profiles and begin planning the other story elements.
Comprehension Key: Making connections
We are continuing to make connections while reading with the story and ourselves, other texts and the world. We are particularly focusing on the connections we can make with the characters in the story as this will support our narrative writing.
Home Learning 24.2.17 – Transformation and Tessellations
This week the children will complete a tessellation-related task.
Daily home reading
A reminder that the colour of the home reading book your child brings home will reflect their reading ability at the end of Year 3. However, as reading assessments continue over the course of the coming few weeks, this may or may not change. PLEASE be reminded that the colour sticker on the reading book your child brings home is far less significant than the development of fluency AND comprehension. There is also an expectation that your child will read a book and complete any quizzes on Reading Eggspress twice a week.
Spelling
The children will have 10 new words to learn each week (Friday) and will be tested on them by a classmate three times per week. The words they have consist of some vocabulary relevant to our current U.O.I., some words relating to the spelling rule that we are currently learning about and some words of their choice.
