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6 years ago
Posted on 07th Oct 2019 by

Class 4 spellings 07.10.19

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: Homophones (A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning and may also differ in spelling.) e.g. hear / here, main / mane, heal / heel, mail / male, not / knot.

Year 4 – Surfers: Homophones (see above) e.g. medal / meddle, mist / missed, bored / board, which / witch, scene / seen

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the ‘air’ phoneme e.g. air, pair, stair, hair, flair, chair.

6 years ago
Posted on 30th Sep 2019 by

Class 4 spelling patterns 30.09.19

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3 – Seals: Words with the /ur/ sound spelt ‘ear’, e.g. earth, early, heard, learn, searched, earning.

Year 4 – Surfers: Adding the prefixes ‘il’ and ‘ir’ before root words starting with ‘l’ or ‘r’ e.g. illegal, illegible, illogical, irregular, irrelevant, irresistible.

Year 4 – Waves: Words with the trigraph ‘ure’ e.g. cure, lure sure, pure, mixture, picture.

6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Sep 2019 by

Class 4 spelling patterns

The spelling patterns we are learning in Class 4 this week are:

Year 3: long ‘ai’ sound, e.g. rain, container, brain, strain

Year 4: adding the prefix ‘im’ before root words starting with ‘m’ or ‘p’ e.g. immature, immortal, impolite, impatient

6 years ago
Posted on 13th Jan 2019 by

Class 4 spellings to be tested 20.12.19

These are the spelling patterns that we are learning in Class 4 this week:

Year 3 Seals

Words from the Year 3/4 statutory word list (and words derived from these root words: believe, believed, appear, appearing, arrive, arriving, describe, described, continue, continued.

Year 4 Surfers 

Words from the Year 3/4 statutory word list: potatoes, favourite,  material, opposite, minute – plus a selection of other words learnt this half term.

Year 4 Waves

Words with the ‘ou’ phoneme   e.g. out, outing, loud, shout, count, found, sound,  ground, around, mouth.

7 years ago
Posted on 06th Jul 2018 by

Class 4 weekly update

English – We focused on Chapter 19 this week and discussed what happened with Elliot and the wishing pearl in the story.  The children talked about whether a wishing pearl would be a good or bad thing and explained their reasoning.  They then planned and wrote a debate discussing all the reasons for/against a wishing pearl and shared them with the rest of the class.  They had lots of great ideas to share!

Maths – This week we have been working on converting units of measurement.  The children have looked at measures including kilograms/grams, kilometres/metres, millimetres/metres, millilitres/litres.  They have also been converting metric and imperial units of measure.

Topic – The children worked in groups to research an aspect of the Greek Olympics, looking at the different sports they did and the celebrations/entertainment.  They will be presenting their findings to the rest of the class next week.

RE – We have been looking at the ten commandments and what they mean.  The children then made up a modern set of the ten commandments relating to how to live in the world today.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 13th July

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Homework – Solving measuring problems (in their homework books).

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

7 years ago
Posted on 29th Jun 2018 by

Class 4 weekly update

English – We read the Greek myth ‘Pandora’s Box’, which is linked to the characters in our class novel.  The class were introduced to a fancy looking box and discussed if they would be tempted to open it like the character in the story.  The also talked about what might be inside.  They then looked at features of an email and planned, drafted, edited and published their own email explaining an apology from Pandora.

Maths – We have been continuing with work on coordinates this week.  Year 4’s have been focusing on moving points on a grid and describing the movement (left/right, up/down).  Year 5’s have been focusing on translation (movement) on a grid and translation with coordinates.

Topic – Comparing government in Ancient Athens compared to government in modern Britain.  Many of the children were able to discuss what happens in today’s government which was interesting to hear.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 6th July.

29-6-18

Homework – (for Year 4’s only) English: using apostrophes for missing letters and to show possession.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

7 years ago
Posted on 22nd Jun 2018 by

Class 4 weekly update

English – Writing events of Chapter 16 from the perspective of either the character Millicent or Colin.  We discussed the key events in the chapter and made a plan of our first person narrative, making notes on the events/feelings of the characters and recording a range of cohesive devises to use in our work.  Then we wrote a first draft of our narrative and edited and improved our ideas.  The children all worked really hard to include all the features we discussed.

Maths – We have started a new unit: ‘Position and Direction’.  Year 4 children have been describing position and drawing on a grid using a set of coordinates.  Year 5 children have been looking at position of points/shapes in the first quadrant and reflection of points/shapes with coordinates.

Topic – We continued to compare schools in Ancient Greece and modern Britain. The children did further research to find out lots more interesting facts of their own to compare schools.

RE – We discussed the behavior of Adam and Eve and whether what they did was right or wrong.  They also talked about the part of the story where they ate the fruit is known as ‘the Fall’.  The children then used the events in the story to produce the front page for the ‘Eden Times’ newspaper to describe what happened.

Spellings – To be tested on THURSDAY 28TH JUNE due to Year 5’s going to Arthog on Friday.

Spellings 22-6-18

Homework – Maths work on coordinates / angles.

Well done Class 4, you’ve all worked hard this week!  It’s great to be back and lovely to see you all.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs Thomas

7 years ago
Posted on 15th Jun 2018 by

Class 4 weekly update

English – We have been focussing on the character Zeus in our class novel – the king of the Greek gods!  The children started by creating mind maps to sort facts, opinions and key characteristic of Zeus using evidence in the story to support their ideas.  Then they ordered some of the key events of his life on a timeline and added descriptive phrases to this.  They used the information gathered to draft, edit/improve and publish a biography about Zeus.  Some of the key features they focussed on were ensuring they wrote in past tense, use of third person, ordering events in chronological order, using time connectives, paragraphs, emotive language and quotes.

Maths – Year 4 children have been looking at time this week and solving problems involving hours/minutes/seconds, years/months/weeks and using analogue to digital time (12 hour and 24 hour).  Year 5’s have been continuing to solve problems about properties of shapes – calculating lengths and angles in shapes, regular and irregular polygons and reasoning about 3D shapes.

Topic – They have been comparing schooling in Ancient Athens with schooling in modern Britain.  They researched some information and came up with lots in interesting facts and comparisons.

RE – They used the timeline of the Bible (the ‘frieze’) and found the events of creation, God and the ‘Fall’ through the images shown.  Then they listened to the story of Adam and Eve and discussed the hidden meaning/message in the story – temptation!  Then they worked in groups to take on the roles of the man, woman, snake and God with one person interviewing each character.  They thought very hard to think of interesting questions and answering in role.

Spellings – To be tested on Friday 22nd June.

Spellings 15-6-18

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all very soon.

Mrs Thomas

 

 

7 years ago
Posted on 08th Jun 2018 by

Class 4 weekly update

English – We have looked at the key features of a newspaper report and planned and written our own reports based on the wedding of Zeus in ‘Who let the god’s out?’  We have focussed particularly on ensuring the headline is short and snappy, effective use of paragraphs to describe what happened and included quotations, captions/photos, facts and opinions using the text to support our ideas.

Maths – Year 4’s have been finding lines of symmetry and completing a symmetrical figure.  Year 5’s have been calculating angles on a straight line and calculating angles around a point.

Topic – We have been understanding the factors that decided the power of the Ancient Greek city states.  The children were split into groups to plan an argument for one of the opinions, e.g. the long walls, navy, army, slaves.  They used information in groups to plan their argument and presented this to the rest of the class.

RE – We started our new topic ‘What do Christians learn from the creation story?’  The children discussed what ‘temptation’ means and discussed/wrote about who is being tempted and by what.

Art – Designing and making a Greek patterned tile in a mosaic style.

Spellings – to be tested on Friday 15th June –   Spellings 8-6-18

I hope you’ve all had a good week – I’ve heard that you have all been working very hard!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Thomas

7 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2018 by

Class 4 spellings and homework

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!