Yr 4 Looking Back and Forth - Friday 8th May

🔙 Looking Back – This Week in Year 4

This week, the children have been exploring the characters found in traditional stories. They looked closely at the Evil Queen and Snow White, discussing how characters can be portrayed in different ways within a story. The children explored inference skills by identifying hints and clues that reveal whether a character is kind-hearted or thoroughly rotten!

In Maths, we continued our work on fractions, focusing on equivalent fractions and building on the learning that began in Year 3.

🏆 Children’s Highlights

• Playing with friends
• P.E. with Mrs Murdoch – running races
• TT Rockstars
• Exploring the innocent and evil characters in Happy Endings
• Writing Evil Queen and Innocent Snow White haikus
• Fish fingers for lunch!
• Creating our European country double-page spreads

💬 Ask at Home

Try discussing some of these questions together:

• What type of snake is an adder?
• What does the word hank mean?
• What does the word susurrus mean?
• What is an improper fraction?
• What is a mixed number?
• What does equivalent mean?
• What does the word synonym mean?
• What is the syllable pattern for a haiku poem?

🔜 Looking Ahead – Next Week in Year 4

• Designing money containers
• Humanism in R.E.
• Continuing to understand the importance of bees
• European rivers in Geography
• Children’s rights in PHSE
• French – learning about time
• ICT – branching databases

📚 Homework This Week

• ✍️ English: Speech and SPAG mat
• ➕ Maths: Exercise 17 blue sheet
• 📖 Reading: 15 minutes daily (records checked on Monday; AR quizzes encouraged)
• 🎵 TT Rockstars: 10 minutes daily or two 20-minute sessions
• 📝 Spellings: Test on Wednesday (short, frequent practice works best)
• ✏️ Presentation: Pencil or blue/black pen only — no felt tips
• 🔢 Times Tables: Ongoing practice

📬 All homework is due by Friday — children know where to hand it in.

🔔 Reminders

• Reading records are due every Monday (with daily logs)
• ⭐ Reading Challenge: 20 reads = 10 house points

🗓️ Dates for Your Diary