What a fantastic first week back we have had in Year 4 - lots of learning and great work produced!

Maths: We continued our topic of addition and subtraction - we focused on the addition of adding four digit numbers with and without exchanges.

English: We started our new book of The Wizards of Once. We identified the features of a newspaper report by using shapes. We then had an experience day focusing on writing our own wizards headline in preparation for our sentence stacking.

Science: We started our new unit of classification. We classify animals who have a backbone as vertebrates and animals who do not have a backbone, but can have a hard shell for protection as invertebrates. 

Geography: We started our new unit, Mediterranean Europe. We labelled a map of Mediterranean Europe identifying the coastline and even found out that over 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea dried out for thousands of years!

History: We carried on our learning of Ancient Greece. We learnt that philosophy means a love for wisdom and that Ancient Greeks asked questions about the world in a non-religious way. We learnt about the three main Greek philosophers (Plato, Socrates and Aristotle) and their key beliefs.

D. T: We started our new unit of apple crumble. We tasted four different apples and described how they tasted!

Alongside this, we started Spanish and focused on phonic sounds, in particular the alphabet.
In P. E we are participating in Tag Rugby.
We have been working hard on our cursive handwriting and our spelling.
In reading, we read on the theme of Bonfire Night.
This week, we have been using TT Rockstars to practice our times-tables!