The Year 4 Team

Curriculum Overview

This week in Devon

Week beginning 17th November

In English, the children have finished writing their persuasive arguments about whether or not we should kill insects. They used a range of features including emotive language, the power of three and rhetorical questions. We are now moving on to creating a fact file about various beetles using subordinate clauses. 
 

In Science, we have looked at how we hear sounds. We looked at and labelled diagrams of the ear, thinking about the role that each part plays in allowing sound signals to reach our brain! The class did a fantastic job at recalling prior learning and could remember a range of key facts and vocabulary.

In Reading, Devon have been making some great predictions about what might happen later in the book and have used evidence from the text to support these.

In maths, we are continuing with multiplication and the class have been finding links between the times tables. We have covered the 3, 6, 9 and 7 times tables so these would be great ones to test in the car or on the walk to school! Please do keep practising times tables at home using TTRS or even by sharing a bag of sweets! 

On Thursday, the children enjoyed celebrating anti-bullying week by wearing their odd socks. We spoke about how important it is to celebrate the differences between people and how to be an upstander rather than a bystander.

Thank you to everyone for their home learning! It was lovely to see the children sharing their facts and having discussions about all the different information they had found. We're looking forward to sharing the next lot of home learning on Tuesday!

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

All of the children will have an investigative topic-linked learning task to complete, which is rotated over a three-week cycle. The children will focus on one of their three current foundation subjects each week.
To support this, the children are split into 3 groups, which you can see below.
This will be set on a Thursday and due by the following Tuesday.
In class on a Tuesday or Wednesday, the children will then share the outcomes of their research, and the knowledge they have retrieved, within their own group.

Spellings will be set on a Wednesday and tested the following Tuesday each week. Our next spelling test will be on the 25th November. 

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