Hello Class 4,

I hope you are all having a great half term so far.  Thank you for your lovely card and get well messages, they made my day when I read them all.  I’m trying to rest as much as I can and look forward to seeing you all after the holidays.

Mrs Thomas

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 8th June

25-5-18

Homework – Greek half term homework

Half Term Homework

Our topic this term is all about ‘Ancient Greece’.  Your task is to research any aspect about the Greeks using books, internet, own knowledge etc.

Ideas for research:

• Food
• School
• Olympics
• …..

You can choose how you produce your findings – e.g. poster, leaflet, booklet.  Make it as interesting and informative as possible and include some illustrations too.

We look forward to seeing all you projects after the holidays!

English – Analysing features of a poem.  Then planning, drafting and editing rhyming poems based on one of the characters in our class novel study.  The children were asked to include features such as alliteration, similes, metaphors and personification.  They came up with some great ideas to describe the character of Patricia!

Maths – Year 4 have been identifying angles and comparing and ordering angles.  Year 5 have been measuring angles in degrees and measuring with a protractor.

Topic – Comparing the two main cities in Ancient Greece – Athens and Sparta.  The children did their own research to compare both places to find the differences and similarities.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 25th May

18-5-18

Homework – In books.  Using commas in sentences.

We have had a lovely day doing lots of ‘Royal wedding’ based activities.  Photos to follow.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – We have been gathering and inferring information on a key character in the story and supporting ideas with evidence from the text.  We then planned and wrote a chapter from another character’s point of view.  The children were asked to think about using lots of detail to extend their writing- e.g. adventurous adjectives/verbs/adverbs, alliteration, similes etc.

Maths – Year 4 children have been looking at using rounding to estimate money and using the four operations to solve problems.  Year 5 children have been looking at decimal sequences and multiplying/dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000.

Topic – Understanding the religion of Ancient Greece and finding key information about the Greek Gods and Goddesses and what they were responsible for.  The children completed fact files using their own research.

R.E.- Looking at artwork based on the Pentecost and completing a piece of artwork based on their knowledge of the story.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 18th May

11-5-18

Homework – in books.  Multiplying decimals or solving money problems.

Have a great weekend!

MrsThomas

English – Research into Stonehenge, then planning, drafting, editing a non-chronological report about Stonehenge.  At the end of the week the children published their writing in the form of leaflets. They spent some time on these and have produced some wonderful pieces of work, thinking carefully about layout and presentation.

Maths – Year 4 children have been using money to find totals, convert pounds and pence, ordering amounts of money and comparing amounts.  Year 5 children have been adding and subtracting decimals with a different amount of decimal places.

Topic – We looked at a range of Greek artefacts and buildings and discussed what they might have been used for.  Lots of great discussion in class about the children’s ideas and then we found out what they actually were.

Art – The children have made a great start making their Greek tragedy masks using papier mache – a very messy but fun afternoon!

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 11th May.

4-5-18

Homework – Reading comprehension.

Have a lovely long weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – Presenting information about the zodiac council from the class novel study and researching what it would be like, who is on the council and everyone’s role on it.  Then looking at features of a letter and planning, drafting, editing and publishing a persuasive letter in response to a job vacancy on the council.

Maths – Year 5’s have been adding and subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places. Year 4’s have been rounding decimals and finding halves and quarters of numbers.

Topic – We have been looking at timelines in history and seeing where Ancient Greece lies.  Then we looked at and arranged events from Ancient Greek times in chronological order.

RE – Using a story bucket of objects linked to the story of the Pentecost and discussing how these are represented in the story.

Art – We have started to make our Greek masks.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 4th May

27-4-18

Homework – Subtracting decimals or rounding decimals to the nearest whole number.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – We have started our new novel study for the term, ‘Who let the Gods out?’ by Maz Evans.  The children have been looking at signs of the zodiac and making models of their own constellation and writing a description about their own their own sign.  We have started reading the book and the children have enjoyed it so far.  They wrote a character description based on the main character, Elliot and were asked to include lots of interesting adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions and similes/metaphors to add detail to their sentences.

Maths – We have started a new block on decimals.  Some children have been making a whole and writing decimals by understanding the value of each digit.  Other children have been adding decimals within 1 and subtracting decimals within 1 using the column method to work out their answers.

Topic – We have started our new topic on ‘Ancient Greece’ and discussed in groups/as a class about what they know about Greece.  They had lots of ideas and enjoyed talking about their own experiences of the country.

Art – We have started looking at Greek tragedy and comedy masks and have designed our own masks to start making next week.

RE  – Introducing the idea of the Kingdom of God and what happened on the day of the Pentecost.

Homework – Handed out today – Adverbs.  Due in Wednesday 25th April.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 27th April.

Spellings 20.4.18

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

English – This week we have been looking at features and language used in newspapers and the children have started to plan a newspaper report based on the battle between Peter and the wolf in the class novel study.  We will continue with these next week and publishing them using the laptops.  The children have also worked hard with their reading and writing assessments this week.  Well done!

Maths – This week we have been reading and interpreting information in tables, timetables and graphs.  The children have been solving a range of reasoning problems and explaining their answers carefully.

Geography – We have been describing and understanding the key aspects of earthquakes and using maps to locate the countries affected.  The children designed their own posters about how to stay safe during an earthquake.

RE – This week we have been focussing on the run up to Easter and when Jesus washed his disciples feet.  The children discussed what Jesus washing the disciples feet teaches Christians and how Christians could follow the example of Jesus being a servant.

Homework will be set on Monday 26th March and will be due in after the Easter holidays.

Spellings – to be tested on 20th April (after the holidays).

23-3-18

Well done Class 4 with our class assembly, you all worked really hard!

Wishing all of Year 4 a great time in Condover next week.

Mrs Thomas

English – This week we have been evaluating a range of adverts, looking at how the information is presented and analysing the key features.  They used this to then plan, edit and publish their own advert based on the weapons the children were given in ‘The lion, the witch and the wardrobe’.  They have worked really hard to design their own adverts and they all look great.

Maths – This week we have been looking at bar charts (Year 4) and line graphs (Year 5) and drawing and interpreting the data provided.  They have also been using bar charts and line graphs to solve problems and extracting information from a table.

Science – We have been identifying the effects of friction, using bikes and a range of surfaces to compare and explain where there would be more/less friction and why.  We had lots of good discussion about this in class.

Geography – We have been describing and understanding the key aspects of earthquakes and what some of the effects of these.  The children were very interested in the pictures we looked at showing places devastated by earthquakes.  They also worked in groups to make their own seismograph out of a tin can to record their own seismic waves.

Homework – To design their own advert. Please find this in the link: Friday 16th March 2018

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 23rd March.

16-3-18

Hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Thomas