Welcome to Year 4

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog Week Beg: 29.1.18

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 29.1.18

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

In Literacy, we have been focusing on writing dialogues in text and employing the use of speech marks and inverted commas. We have also learnt how to include speech within writing stories. Children also learnt how to retell stories in their own words using speech, expression and intonation in their voices when presenting to the rest of the class.      

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to calculate formal method division and setting out calculations. We have practised using inverse operations of multiplication and division to check answers. We have also learnt about the relationships between 2D and 3D shapes and shape nets.    

In Geography, this week we have been learning all about the main towns and cities within Greater London and investigated how the physical features of London has changed over the years. For example buildings and landmarks.    

In Science, we have been learning about materials that can change state when heated or cooled. We have also investigated how temperature can have an impact on this and whether these changes can be reversible or irreversible.     

For home learning this week, you are environmentalist news reporters. You need to investigate and report on either one of the following below.  

  • What the future might look like if we take action on climate change

or

  • What the future might look like if we choose not to take action;

At the end of your report you must finish with the sentence ‘My promise to the planet is….’ (and explain how you will look after the planet)

Tips for writing a great newspaper report:

  • Catchy attention grabbing headline
  • Photos with captions (short line explaining picture)
  • Factually written

 

Extra Revision Tasks

Please focus on:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Negative and Positive numbers
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the same denominator
  • Formal Layout Division and Multiplication
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr
  • Calculating Perimeter

For Literacy focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks, commas, ellipses and brackets
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense
  • Handwriting
  • Spellings (please see the attached list of recommended spellings.)

Year 4 New Curriculum SpellingList

Have a great weekend!!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog 22.1.18

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 22.1.18

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

In Literacy, we have been focusing on explanation texts and the features of an explanation and information. We will also learn how to plan and write our own pieces of information and how to write factually.     

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to calculate and find the Perimeter of a shape. We have also been learning about Positive and Negative numbers. We learnt how to recognise these numbers and add and subtract to and from these numbers. We also focused on comparing negative and positive numbers using the more than and less than symbols.   

In Geography, this week have been learning all about the EU and the countries that make up Europe.   

In Science, we have been learning about the Water Cycle and conducted an experiment to investigate the process.  We also investigated how temperature affects the rate of evaporation. During the experiment we also learnt about key vocabulary such as: evaporation, condensation, precipitation and accumulation/collection.    

This week you are an adventurer/explorer that has the opportunity to go anywhere in the world. You need to write a report on a country that you would most like to visit and why? You need to include:

  • Information about your chosen destination
  • How can you get there?
  • Why do you want to visit that country?
  • Pictures/Drawings of the country or what you would like to see
  • What would you do once you arrived at your destination?

Extra Revision Tasks

Please can parents focus on:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the same denominator
  • Formal Layout Division and Multiplication
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr

For Literacy please can parents focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks, commas, ellipses and brackets
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense
  • Handwriting
  • Spellings

Have a phenomenal weekend!!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

 

Cyprus and Ithaca 15.1.18

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 15.1.18

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

In Literacy, we have been continuing our learning on poems. This week we are learning how to:

  • Plan
  • Create
  • Write a poem using similes, rhyming words, alliteration and personification.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to solve formal multiplication by multiplying 2 and three digit numbers with a single digit. We have also continued our learning on shape and symmetry by building on our prior knowledge of line symmetry and reflection to draw simple symmetric figures.

In Geography, this week have been learning all about the British Isles and investigating what makes up the British Isles.  

In Science, we have been learning about materials and Solids, Liquids and Gasses.   

Your Homework challenge this week is to investigate one country within the EU and create a brochure about that country. You might want to include:

  • Climate
  • Food
  • Famous Landmarks/ Tourist Attractions
  • Fun Facts about your chosen country in Europe

Extra Revision Tasks

Please can parents focus on:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the same denominator
  • Formal Layout Division and Multiplication
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr

For Literacy please can parents focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks, commas, ellipses and brackets
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense
  • Handwriting
  • Spellings

Have a relaxing weekend!!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

 

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog Week Beg: 8.1.18

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

Happy New Year!!!!

We hope you have had a fantastic Christmas break and New Year. We would also like to welcome you back into the Spring Term. This week we have had a very busy but an exciting first week back.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the features of poems such as similes, rhyme and alliteration. We have also been exploring different types of poetry and poetic writing styles.

In Numeracy, we have been learning how to solve word problems using two-step number operations and calculating answers based on information provided in a question. We have also been focusing on mathematical vocabulary that relates to problem solving and number operations.

We have also been learning about Symmetry in shape and mirror reflections.

In Topic this week, we have been investigating London and the famous Landmarks that makes London a great place to live.

 

Your Homework challenge this week is to write a short poem about London. Focus on including your five senses:

  • Touch
  • Taste
  • Smell
  • Hear
  • Sight

Extra Revision Tasks

Please can parents focus on:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr

For Literacy please can parents focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks, commas, ellipses and brackets
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense
  • Handwriting

Have a great weekend !!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

 

Cyprus and Ithaca 11.12.17-18.12.17

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 11.12.17-18.12.17

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

We have had a very busy week celebrating Christmas with all the Christmas card making, writing the Nativity story and illustrating it and singing at the Christmas production!!!!! We have also enjoyed a lovely Christmas lunch this week with all the trimmings 🙂  

Our new topic in Geography next term will be researching all about why London is a great place to live.

Your Homework challenge over the holidays is to research a famous landmark in London. For example, the Shard, The Tower of London, Gherkin etc. and make either a model of the landmark out of recyclable material or a poster.

To accompany your model or your poster you must include some interesting facts that you have researched about your chosen landmark and also explain why you have chosen the landmark that you have.

Please can parents focus on and revise with children:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr
  • Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
  • Multiplying decimals and dividing decimals by 100

For Literacy please can parents focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks and commas
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense
  • Handwriting- it is clear and legible to read, joint up and in cursive

Thank you for all your support this term it has been very exciting and busy!!!

We would also like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year and look forward to welcoming you all back with us again in 2018 for the Spring Term.

 

Have a magical Christmas and a wonderful New Year!!!!

 

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog 4.12.17

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 4.12.17  

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

We have had a very busy week revising topics in Literacy and Numeracy. We have also been very busy finishing off our learning for Topic on the Romans; so that we can get ready for Christmas!!!!!  

Your Homework challenge this week is to write a letter to Santa. You need to share with Santa all of your achievements this year and what you are proud of. You also need to include your New Year’s Resolutions and what you would like to achieve next year for 2018!!!

Please can parents focus on:

  • Times Tables 2-12
  • Mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Equivalent Fractions
  • Converting Time from 12hr to 24hr and 24hr to 12hr

For Literacy please can parents focus on sentence writing and including:

  • Punctuation
  • Capital letters and full stops
  • Exclamation marks, speech marks and commas
  • Connectives ensuring that sentences make sense

 

Have a fantastic weekend !!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

 

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog 27.11.17

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

We have had a very busy week visiting Metro Bank and learning all about Money!!!!  

This week we have been focusing on revising number operations on multiplication and division. We have also been learning about reading scales and measuring to the nearest tenth.   

In Literacy we have been continuing our learning about Myths and Legends and have been focusing on our creative writing skills on planning and writing our own myths.  

In Topic we have been learning about Roman Gods and Goddesses!!!

The homework challenge for this week is to create a Most Wanted Poster about your chosen mythical creature. Your poster must include:

  • Character profile E.G personality, what do they like and dislike, are they friendly, scary, mean, heroic or a villain etc).
  • Description of what they look like E.G (half human and animal or half animal and half god like etc).
  • Description of the setting  E.G (where they live and come from such as ancient town, clouds, the sea, forest etc).

Please can parents focus on practising the times tables. Children must know these from 2-12 off by heart, mental maths and number operations using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

For Literacy please can parents focus on using punctuation and encouraging children to check their writing for full stops and capital letters. To further consolidate children’s learning you could also focus on including exclamation marks, speech marks and commas to beef up sentences and create a more complex writing style.

Have a joyful weekend !!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog 20.11.17

Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 20.11 17  

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

We have had a fantastic time in Hooke Court and the children had a brilliant time participating in a variety of activities such as:

  • Roman Cooking
  • Marching
  • Visiting Roman Museums
  • Jewellery Making etc.

This week we have been focusing on Bar Charts and how to read and interpret data. We have also learned how to make a Tally Chart by conducting our own independent research and transferring that data onto a Bar Chart.   

In Literacy we have been learning about Myths and Legends and have studied a variety of different texts such as Pandora’s Box and Demeter and her daughter Persephone along with some fascinating legends. We have also learnt about the features of myths and legends and some of their differences.

In topic we have been learning about Emperor Hadrian and the infamous wall that he built!!!

The homework challenge for this week is: Write a story about the Loch Ness Monster. Your writing must be structured in a story format and include:

  • Beginning, Middle and the End
  • Plot
  • Hero/Villain
  • Mystical creatures
  • Choose a Setting for example (A land far away, clouds, kingdom, heavens, earth, ancient cities etc.)

Have an energising weekend !!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters

 

Year 4 Cyprus and Ithaca

Hope you had a lovely weekend. This week our focus is on the Romans, with half of the year group in Hooke Court! Those of us at school are still learning about the Romans, making mosaics and finding out interesting facts. These will be put into a report by the end of the week. In Literacy, we will be looking at how to make our reports even better than before, by including subordinate clauses, with conjunctions, as well as exciting vocabulary. In Numeracy, we are having our weekly visit by Metro Bank, where the focus is money, however, we are looking decimals and counting in hundredths and tenths to support this.

The writing challenge for this week is to continue this story… It was a dark stormy night, and the waves of the sea were crashing in anger. As I looked out of the window, I saw… Remember to use exciting openers, amazing vocabulary, and subordinate clauses with conjunctions. Can’t wait to read these!

As we have changed the way we teach spellings, we are no longer sending out a list of words for the children to learn. However, please encourage them to practise the words on the attached list, as these are what are expected from them by the end of Year 4. The current spelling lessons are engaging, and more than just a list, as previously taught.

Finally, please encourage the children to learn their times tables. They’re almost there, but practise makes perfect! Next week, we will be looking at division, and times tables in Numeracy to really fine tune what they already know.

Hope you have a good week!

Mrs Winters & Miss Raval

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Cyprus and Ithaca Blog: Week Beginning: 6.11.17

Welcome back to Cyprus and Ithaca class,

Cyprus Class Assembly will be on: Friday 10th November 2017 at 9am.

We hope you had a lovely weekend. This week we have been focusing on money and adding and subtracting decimals in Numeracy. Over the next few weeks we will be learning about money management and banks. These sessions will be led by a representative from the Metro Bank who will also be teaching children life skills and how to employ their knowledge of money in real life situations. We will also be focusing on the 9 and 12 times tables.  

In Literacy we have been doing some cross-curricular learning with History and Literacy. This week children have been exploring life during the Roman Times and investigating the battle of the Romans and the Celts. Children have also role played being news journalists who have been reporting live from the front line of the invasion. Children have also developed their writing skills in incorporating speech into articles that they write using speech marks.

In topic we have been learning about the Roman roads and what did the Romans do for us.

The homework challenge for this week is:

  • You are a Roman Soldier who is about to invade Britain with the Roman Emperor. Write a letter to your family explaining what you are doing and why? How are you feeling? What do you think is going to happen?

Have a whizzing weekend !!!

Miss Raval and Mrs Winters