Norfolk

This week in Norfolk

Week beginning Monday 21.11.22

This week, we have been continuing to practise our nativity songs - the children are sounding fantastic already and are getting very excited! 

In Art, the children have been working hard at copying an intricate William Morris motif. In Science, we investigated what materials would be best at muffling sound - bizarrely, we found that a ruler was effective at muffling sound (we're not sure if it was truly a fair test!). In Computing, the children have been debugging computer programs with bugs in. They had to identify what the bug was in the different animations on Scratch and then work methodically and systematically to identify the bug and debug it. 

Our Class Timetable

This is a typical week in Norfolk 4. Our timetable can change each week as we often have special events or exciting learning opportunities which will change a typical school day. 

Home Learning

This week’s home learning will be due in on Tuesday 29th November. 

Spelling 

We will be checking the children’s knowledge of the spellings below on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. 

Dragons: 

Forgetting, forgotten, beginning, beginner, preferred, gardening, gardener, limiting, limited, brighten 

Robots:  

hitting, hiding, clapped, danced, later, earlier, biggest, nicest, played, golden 

Spelling activity idea: 

Create a wordsearch with all your spelling words in. 

Reading 

Children in Year 4 should be reading for at least 20 minutes a day.  

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. 

Click here for more information about how our school uses Boom Reader.  

Children should bring their Accelerated Reader reading book and bookmark to and from school and home each day. Pupils are asked to change their book when it is finished using the guidance and support provided by the teaching team in each class. 

Maths Fluency 

We will be checking the children’s knowledge of the times tables below on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. 

Practise all times tables up to 12 x 12 by playing the following game:  

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/  

Grammar and Punctuation 

Home Learning folders will come home each Thursday and need to be returned the following Tuesday. 

Please complete the grammar task in your folder.  

Topic Task 

Below is a link to a video outlining your topic task for this week which is linked to our school value: joy.

https://youtu.be/deEs63GfjWI  

Choir song and lyrics:

Carol of the Children - John Rutter - YouTube