Year 4 Week Ahead Information

09 September 2016

An overview of the week ahead in Year 4

Year 4 Planning and Carrying out Investigations

Information and Reminders

Homework has gone out this week, it needs to be returned by a Monday.
Reading books will be changed on a Monday and a Thursday. We have sent activities home with the children for you to try with them and their reading books.
The weather is very hot at the moment so please ensure that your child is bringing both a water bottle and hat in everyday.

Upcoming dates

Family Picnic - Sunday 11th September - 12.00- 16.00

Primary Workshop & Coffee Morning – Wednesday 14^th September – 9:00 – 10:30

School Holiday (Mid-Autumn Festival) – Thursday 15^th & Friday 16^th September

Year 4 Fun Soccer Day - Tuesday 20th September

International Week – Week beg. 26^th September

National Holiday (school closed) – Monday 3^rd to Friday 7^th October

Stars of the Week

4A - Arran Beaumont

4B - Manuel (Yoshio) Yamada

4C - Aoshen Li

English

In English next week we will be exploring poetry based on the body. We will be looking at a range of poetic devices and discussing the words and phrases that poets use to create humour within their poems. From here we will be writing our own poems about the body and then performing them to our peers. In guided reading we are continuing to retrieve information and from non-fiction texts and identify the themes within these texts.

Maths

During our maths sessions this upcoming week we will be moving on from place value work and begin to use formal column methods for addition and subtraction of 4 digit numbers. During our mental and oral starters we will be exploring the use of mental methods for addition and subtraction. We will be working on helping the children to be able to chose when is the most appropriate time to use a written method and when they should select a mental approach instead.

Topic

As scientists we will be moving on from the eye and begin to explore the role of the ear. We will look at how the ear works and the main functions of the different parts of the ear. From here we will look into fair testing and develop our own hearing tests to ensure that all the children have fully functioning hearing!