Our final week before Christmas! We edited and rewrote our newspaper reports based on the Wizards of Once.

We completed our Christmas crafts - we designed our own cards and decorated our placemats for our Christmas lunch!

Miss Chapman and I were so proud of all the children this week - excellent behaviour at the pantomime where we enjoyed watching Cinderella, great performances at our Christmas production, and readings and traditional carols at our Christmas Church Service. Due to this, every child was awarded Dojo Champion!

Awards:

• A huge well done to our Golden Golden pupil Victoria who always demonstrates the Howard values and goes above and beyond to help others, consistently holding herself to high standards. Miss Chapman and I are so proud of you - a well-loved member of our class!
• So proud of the 14 children who have achieved their 70-point reading certificates and a new book! Hope you enjoy your reading!
• Well done to Skye for being awarded Impeccable Manners from the office - we are so proud of you!

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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Year 4!

Maths: We continued our learning of times tables, focusing on consolidating the 9x tables and the 7x tables.

English: We finished our sentence stacking for our newspaper report and created our narrative map.

Spanish: We learnt about fruits.

Geography: We learnt about food and farming in the Mediterranean.

Maths: We continued with our topic of multiplication and division by focusing on the 6x tables, multiples of 3 and the 9x tables.

Science: We continued our topic of classification and focused on the key features of reptiles, amphibians and mammals.

Spanish: We continued our learning of instruments.

History: We continued our learning of Ancient Greece and looked at different Greek Myths, such as King Midas, where everything he touched turned to gold, Narcissus, who pined away from looking at his own reflection, and Medusa, who would turn you into stone if you looked at her.

D. T: We practised our cooking skills in preparation for baking our apple crumble next week. We practised rubbing in the flour, chopping vegetables and coring apples. Some of us were very helpful to Miss Chapman and helped wash and dry up the equipment!

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!