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• Year 4 Week 1 Autumn 2

Welcome to Year 4

Autumn Term 1

Year 4 team: Miss Doyle, Mrs Jones, Mrs Betts

Welcome to our Year 4 class page! We hope you have had a well rested summer break and are ready for a new exciting term!

This term we will have lots of fun and we will grow together as a team! 

Our Curriculum:

This half term we will be developing our reading and writing skills through texts with a focus on fantasy. In English, we will be starting our new picture book which will be revealed in the first week back! It may be related to the creature in the picture above, what's your prediction?

  In Guided Reading we will be predicting, infering and developing our comprehension skills using our new text 'A World Full of Animal Stories 50 Folktales and Legends' by Angela McAllister

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In Maths, we will start by looking at numbers up to 10,000. We will then move onto adding & subtracting these numbers and solving word problems.

You can practise your times tables at home on Timetables Rockstar, this is really important!

Here is links to some games to practise your times tables:

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

https://ictgames.com/tablesTennis/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples

In the Wider curriculum, our geography topic this term will be 'Earning a Living' We will learn all about different jobs and industries in the world and why they are so important. In Science, we will be learning all about grouping living things such as mammals, vertebrates, invertebrates etc.

On  Tuesday afternoons we will have PE and Gymnastics on a Friday morning.

  We will continue to add to our class toolbox with strategies to help us when looking at the Zones of Regulation.

Parents:

PE:

PE is every Tuesday and Friday. The children will need to come in their PE kits these days.

Homework:

Homework tasks will be linked to our learning in school. It should take your child about 20 minutes and it should be able to be completed independently or with some adult support. 

Homework will be set on a Friday and is due the following Wednesday.

Reading:

We love reading in Year 4. Children become better readers by practising reading as much as possible. We would encourage children to read with an adult or to be read to at home every day for 10 minutes. Children will bring home a levelled reading book that they can read with you. The children can also take a library book of their choice to read at home or in school. This is to encourage reading for pleasure and to help the children explore their reading!

Times Tables:

Being able to recall times tables quickly and accurately helps children to succeed in all of our Maths lessons. Please help your child at home to practise times tables as much as they can. Questions, chanting and Times Tables Rockstars are all good ways to learn. 

If you need to contact me about anything, please feel free to email me at the address below.

Monday - Friday

ciara.doyle@oldfield.cheshire.sch.uk