The Year 4 Team

Curriculum Overview

This week in Devon

Week beginning 3rd November

In English, we have met a few more characters in Beetle Boy. The class enjoyed listening to how Baxter helped Darkus fend off the bullies! Everyone is keen to know what happens next! 
 

In Science, we have looked at how sound travels through the air and allows us to hear things. The children drew some fantastic sound waves, making sure that their peaks and troughs reflected the volume of the sound and the wavelengths showed the pitch.

Devon enjoyed working as a team in PE to untangle themselves and form a straight line and came up with some interesting ways of travelling across a room. They thought well about what level they were moving on and moved sensibly around the room showing consideration of others.

In maths, we have finished learning about area of shapes and will be moving onto multiplication and division. Please make sure you are spending time at home practising your times tables as these will be very useful!

Class Timetable

This is an example timetable of what a typical week in Devon will look like.

PE is on Tuesday and Wednesday this term.

Home Learning

The next spelling test will be Tuesday 11th November.

Please note that Sage and Olive groups have the same set of spellings to reinforce their learning. To extend spelling further, some children may wish to list more adverbs to practice the spelling rules. For example, merrily- drop 'y' and add 'ily'.

The link below will take you to the spelling scheme we are working from in school.

https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/english/primary-spelling/

This document contains spelling strategies that are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words:

Southborough's Spelling Strategies

Times Tables Rockstars! 

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

Reading

Children should bring their Accelerated Reading Book to and from school each day. When they have finished reading, children are asked to complete a quiz before changing their book. 

https://global-zone61.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/6704864

Parents please log your child's reading on the BOOM reader Parent Portal or by using the BOOM reader parent app on your tablet/mobile no more than once a week.

boomreader.co.uk/parents

Below is a list of the 100 most common words that your child is expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4 (please see attachment).

The spelling strategies document below shows what strategies are used in class, and can be used at home to aid learning new words: 

Times Tables Rock Stars

To keep practising the multiplication taught in class, and challenging yourself to keep the ones you already know fresh, don’t forget to log into your Times Tables Rockstars account. 

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

Challenge yourself to beat your score and build your knowledge as you become a Rockstar!

Please ask your class teacher if you need replacement log in details.

This week we are focusing on the multiplication tables for x3, x6 and x9.

If you know them well, maybe challenge yourself with the corresponding division facts. For example:

6 x 7 = 42

42 ÷ 6 = 7

Maths strategies

Please see below attachments for examples from White Rose Maths including the four operations, (add, subtract, multiply, divide) and how we extend learning using reasoning style questions. 

Music Knowledge Organiser