Year 4 Weekly update

We've had another fantastic and busy week in class! Here's a quick peek at what your children have been learning:

Maths: Moving from Addition to Subtraction

We successfully wrapped up our unit on addition with regrouping. The children showed great concentration and perseverance!
This week, we are making the move to subtraction, and we will soon be tackling regrouping (borrowing) in subtraction as well.

A huge well done to everyone on Times Tables Rock Stars (TTRS)! We are incredibly proud of the progress being made.
The class is consistently doing exceptionally well, scoring a perfect 25 out of 25 on the Soundcheck! Keep practicing those times tables at home!

We have finished constructing our Roman Catapults this week.
They look amazing and we are so proud of the teamwork it took to create these tricky mechanisms! We will be testing and evaluating them next week!

We've been focusing on how to write clear and effective instructions. We looked at the key features of a set of instructions.
The children learned how to use:
- Adverbials of manner (e.g., carefully, quickly) to describe how to perform an action.
- Adberbials of time
- Imperative verbs (bossy verbs like stir, cut, mix) to begin each step.
- How to effectively use bullet points and numbered steps to make instructions easy to follow.

Though our potion making was sadly rained off 🌧️, we made the most of the time!
We had a wonderfully imaginative session brainstorming the names, bizarre ingredients, and magical features of our potions—ready to write the instructions next week.
We ended the lesson by pretending to be witches and wizards, adding our imaginary ingredients to our cauldrons with plenty of theatrical flair!

Reminders for next week:

Monday - We will be watching the Year 1 Christmas Concert

Wednesday -

-We will be watching the EYFS Christmas play

-Please bring in wellies/old shoes again as we will be making our potions!

Friday - Rocksteady concert at 9.15am (parents invited if children play)

The spellings for next week are challenge words:

experiment

remember

naughty

famous

favourite

February

continue

complete

knowledge

material

We hope you have a lovely weekend!

Year 4 Team