Year 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 14th March
Friday 28th February – Looking Back & Forth in Year 4
Looking back:
This week has been a grand week in Year 4. We had an absolutely amazing residential to Delamere, Foxhowl. We hope you have managed to find out the sorts of activities we did whilst we were there. There are some questions that may help jog memories….
Questions to ask at home -
- What is a badger’s home called?
- What eats the seeds in pinecones?
- What did the badgers eat from the fields?
- What did you catch in the pond?
- What did you catch in the streams?
- What was the fish called – A Miller’s Th- - -
- What was the critter that we found in the streams, that showed that the stream was not polluted and were clean?
- What does a caddis fly larva cover itself in?
- What did you have for breakfast?
- What was the centre leader called?
- What was her special talent? (she could remember everyone’s …..)
- What is a welly eater?
- How do you survive a well eater encounter?
- What was the camp fire called?
- What was the best part of the camp fire?
- What do you do in the ‘bungalow’ song?
- What was the first activity we did? Ori………
Children’s highlights of the week
- Walking through the forest
- Fishing in the stream
- Pond dipping
- Welly-eaters!
- Fred Pickle, The Fantastic Fire
- The coach journey with my friends
- Looking at animal habitats
- The night walk
- Playing games in the dining room
- Investigating pine cones
- Mega welly eaters
- Marshmallows
- Terrible jokes
- Orienteering
- The riddle
- Songs
- Eating
- Hot breakfast
- Yummy pasta
- Walking through the stream
- Cereal
- The bike jumps!
Looking forward:
Next week, the class will be classifying animals and making classification keys. Painting their decorative clay brooches. Investigate the rise and falls (highs and lows) of the Vikings in Britain. The class will be exploring branching databases in computing.
There is a TTRockstars competition on this week. Let’s smash it!
Homework in Year
Pronouns, GAPS mat and homophones – pink sheet
Maths – pink sheet
Reading – daily at least 15 mins – remember to take the Accelerated Reader Quizzes
TTRockstars – as much as possible 10 mins daily is ideal – at least once a week for 20 mins
Spellings – Mrs Riddell – Please learn them for the test on Wednesday. It is better to look at them for 5 minutes each day than try to learn them all in one night. The children remember them better learnt over the week.
Could the children please complete their homework in pencil or blue/black pen not felt tip.
Timestables this week – x3 x12 x8 x18 – second week
(Homework can be handed it at any time before Friday, the children know where the basket is)
Reminders for this week – Please check the weekly Newsletter for more detail
Nightly reading recorded in reading record – make sure it comes to school on Friday
Reading challenge has started – 20 reads in the reading record =10 housepoints
Please encourage your child to record their reading in their reading records.
Dates For This Term
March 20th After school until 5pm Open Books—your child’s work/Delamere photographs
WB March 24th Mother’s Day Shop
WB March 24th Parent evenings
2nd April Y5 to Burwardsley 2 nights