This week’s learning in Year 4 at a glance!

Year 4

Learning Link: 

All Roads Lead to Rome

In Art, we look at Roman murals, statutes and mosaics and the development of Italy as a centre of artistic excellence, and a source of historical evidence.

As part of our learning in D&T, we will be baking Roman style bread and taking inspiration from this to design our own signature loaf!

Mrs Williams         mrswilliams@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Miss Petley             misspetley@st-thomas.surrey.sch.uk

Curriculum Evening Presentation

Year Group reminders

Week A

Monday: PE for 4G. Maths and SPaG Homework Due.

Tuesday: PE both classes.

Wednesday: Year 4 curriculum evening 6-6.45pm and 7-7.45pm

Reading for Pleasure

RE

LQ: What can we learn about the family of God from Scripture?

In this lesson we will explore what the Scripture says about the family of Jesus, reflecting on Matthew 1:1-17 and begin to understand more about Jesus’s family tree.

LQ: What can we learn about God from Abraham?

In this lesson, we learn more about the first person mentioned in Jesus’ family tree: Abraham. We will use the Old Testament to understand more deeply about why it is important to trust in God.

English

LQ: How do impersonal recounts differ from personal ones?

In this lesson, we will consider the features of impersonal recounts.

LQ: How can we make factual recounts interesting?

In this lesson, we will learn how to ensure impersonal recounts are engaging for the reader using precise, historically accurate  vocabulary and time connectives as fronted adverbials.

LQ: How can we improve our factual recounts?

In this lesson, we will learn how to ensure our impersonal recounts are easy to navigate using sub-headings, colons and careful editing.

Master Readers

Text: Escape from Pompeii by Christina Balit

Monday:  Whole class reading of text

Tuesday: Book Club

Wednesday: Modelled comprehension

Thursday: Independent comprehension and review

Friday:  Edit and review

Focus vocabulary this week:

passage, strutting, awning, scenery

SPAG

Blue Group: L.C. To spell words that are homophones or near homophones

This week’s words: accept, except, knot, not, peace, piece, plain, plane, weather, whether

Green Group: L.C. To spell words where ‘-ing’, ‘-en’ and ‘-ed’ are added to multisyllabic words.

This week’s words: forgetting, forgotten, beginning, propelled, preferred, permitted, regretting, committed, forbidden, equipped

Orange Group: L.C. To spell words with apostrophes for contraction.

This week’s words: can’t, didn’t, hasn’t, couldn’t, it’s, wasn’t, doesn’t, mustn’t, I’ll, she’d

Grammar

Using sub-headings and colons in factual impersonal recounts and rediscovering punctuation used with fronted adverbials.

Maths

LQ: How do you partition numbers with flexibility?

In this lesson, children explore partitioning 4-digit numbers in various ways, not necessarily just into 1,000s, 100s, 10s and 1s. This prepares them for conceptual work with written calculation methods.

LQ: How do you find 1, 10, 100 or 1,000 more or less than a number?

In this lesson, children will find 1,000 more or less than a given number, using their knowledge of place value to help them. Children will also recap their learning on 10 and 100 more.

LQ: What patterns can we find when exploring powers of 10?

In this lesson, children develop their understanding of the relationship between 1,000s, 100s, 10s and 1s, and explore the concept of exchange more fully.

LQ: What have we learnt about place value?

In this lesson we will complete our end of unit check and go through the answers, identifying and addressing any misconceptions to ensure that children are fully ready to progress to our next teaching block.

Science

LQ: What would life be like with no bones?

Building on our knowledge from the last lesson about the human skeleton to hypothesise about what life might be like without a skeleton!

DT

L.C. To follow a recipe, measuring carefully.                                                      

In this lesson the children will work in pairs to make a loaf using a recipe for Roman bread.

Computing

LC: To apply our knowledge of coding.

In this lesson, we will rediscover our prior learning when using Espresso coding and create a simple app following basic commands. We are going to be building on this knowledge so it is important that all children are aware of how to use these functions.

Geography

L.C: To identify physical features of Italy                                                            

In this lesson the children will learn about the difference between a physical and a political map. They will learn about Italy’s main islands, rivers and mountains using an atlas before marking them on their own maps.

French

Music

PE

To develop passing and moving and play within the rules of the game.

Learning for Life

LQ: Okay or not okay?

Learning how to respond politely to different scenarios and situations.

Homework

Spellings: Due 27.09.2024

RE: Homework

Due: 24.09.24 (but you can always bring it in sooner!)

As part of our RE learning, People, where we will explore Jesus’ family, we ask that the children in Year 4 explore their own family tree.

How much can you find about your family?

Start with your parents, brother and sister and then work backwards.

How far back can you go?

Are there any interesting stories about your ancestors?

Are there any stories in your family history that you are not sure if they are true or not?

Do you have any family mysteries you would like to find out more about?

Present your findings as creatively as you would like!