Year 4

This week in year 4, we have been looking at the poem Lucy Grey by William Wordsworth. The class looked at
he language used in the poem and acted the story out to reinforce what the narrative was about. In science we have started our new topic on electricity. The students had a discussion about what the world would be like without electricity. Finally, we designed our Roman peg doll that we will be making in D&T.

Words ending week 8/11/19

Welcome back to Autumn 2

What a busy week we have had! Year 4 did a fantastic job delivering an assembly to the whole school on Diwali. Children in the class learnt their lines off by heart and spoke in a very loud clear voice for all the other students to hear. Other members of the class acted out the story of Rita and Sita brilliantly and the performance was enjoyed by all.

Week ending 1/11/19

Can you believe that we have already finished the first half term? Time has flown! Over the break the children’s homework is to practise their spellings that they have been given over the first half term. I will be giving them a dictation test when they are back incorporating some of the spellings from Autumn term 1. Also, Magali our French teacher has asked the students to draw a flag of their country and write a word from their culture and explain it. For example, I would draw the Australian Flag and a word that is part of my culture is G'day. G'day means good day, how are you?

Enjoy your break and your time off.

Week ending 11/10/2019

We have had a busy week in year 4! In English we have been focusing on using adjectives to write a character description of the evil King Amulius from the story of Romulus and Remus. Some of the words we have used in our work include; deceitful, horrid, wicked and ruthless. In maths we have been practising our column method for addition with exchanging. We have also finished our Dean Russo tigers which look absolutely brilliant and are now on display outside the art room. Finally we conducted our science experiment which involved eggs being soaked in either mouthwash, vinegar and coke for over a week. We then did a fair test and dropped the eggs from a meter height to see what happened to it. It was very interesting and messy.

Week ending 4/10/2019

This week in year 4 we have been rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and thousands. All students tried really hard on this difficult subject. We have also started our Dean Russo tigers. They are looking great! We will be finishing them off next week.

Week ending 27/9/2019

This week in year 4 we have finished off our work on "The Day the Crayons Quit". We wrote some fantastic informal complaint letters focusing on using different conjunctions. Next week, we are starting our extending writing on our Romans topic. We Have been practicing the story of Romulus and Remus and will be retelling it in our English.

Spelling words week ending 20/9/2019

Welcome to Year 4

Year 4 2019-2020

Welcome back all to school and to your new year 4 class. This year your year 4 teacher is Miss Cook and I'm very excited about this year and getting to know you. We will also have Miss Ogneva, Hina,  Chevonne, Nydia and Richard working with us.

Swimming will be on a Monday and PE will be on a Wednesday. Please make sure that you have the correct PE kit for both those days. 

Homework is given out on a Friday and will consist of spellings and times tables, which you will be tested on every week. 

Spelling words for week ending 13/9/2019

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Summer Term 2019

Welcome back year 4 to the final term this year. This term we will be studying the Ancient Egyptians in history and our science topic is Sound.

I order to help you find some good website we have set up a wibki page with websites that we think you will find useful and interesting. To access these links simply click on the image below or on the link underneath it.

https://www.wibki.com/schoolwebsites

Don't forget that we will also be having a times tables test later this term and practising your times tables every week will really help you. There are links on the maths page of the wibki page to help you.

Wimbledon Common Trip 2019

All of year 4 visited Wimbledon common on our annual trip there. Thankfully it was a beautiful day and the rain stayed away. We travelled there by bus and once there walked around the common using maps and compasses to help us navigate around. There was so much to see and we used our tree and bird keys to help us identify many of the species that live on the common. We also spotted a rabbit - for some reason it ran away from us? We also saw a lot of different birds species and they too flew away too! We even saw a few frogs in the grass areas near the pond and yes you guessed it - they hopped away! As we got closer to lunch time we managed to climb up and down the hills that are near the windmill. It was quite exhausting climbing up but well worth it when we were able to run down; some children even rolled down the hill. Mahy of the children had never been to the common and were amazed at how big it was and that there was so much to see. Hopefully some of them may return there again over the summer. It's just a but ride away from Putney bridge on the 93 so why not pack a picnic and race your parents and friends down the hill!

Homework 24.5.19

Homework 17.5.19

Homework 10.5.19

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Homework 26.4.19

Homework 5.4.19

You have all been given your two maths papers from your test this week. Over the spring holiday you need to go through the ones that you got wrong. Please get your adult to sign your tests.

Homework 29.3.19

Word of the week  = glimpse 

noun

1.  

   a momentary or partial view.

   "she caught a glimpse of the ocean"

   synonyms:

   brief look, quick look;

   •  

verb

1.  

   see or perceive briefly or partially.

   "he glimpsed a figure standing in the shade"

   synonyms:

   catch sight of, catch/get a glimpse of, see briefly, get a sight of, notice, discern, spot, spy, sight, note, pick out, make out; More

Can you use it in a sentence as a verb or a noun?

Family weekend at the Victoria and Albert Museum

On Saturday Mrs Thompson, Miss Cook and Yemi met a group of year 4 student outside school and travelled to the V&A museum together. We had a fantastic day creating designs in both 2 and 3d. We were also able to go and watch a short play aboutPolito's Royal Menagerie. We even had a few past students join us! Thanks to Yemi, the artist that has been working with us and to all the parents for getting up early on a Saturday and coming with us to the museum.

Homework 22.3.19

If you want some help making a paper plane for our science week challenge why not try this website. Click on the link below to go to the site. Remember to bring in your planes on Wednesday 13th March.

http://www.amazingpaperairplanes.com/simpledesigns.html

Homework Friday 8th March 2019

Year 4 Multiplication test

As of next year the government are introducing a times tables text for the year 4 students. You will have to answer 25 questions and you will be given 6 seconds to answer each one. If you want to practice your times tables and make sure you are ready for this test click on the link below to take you to the Collins free times tables test

When you go to the website you will be able to change the settings so that you can practice specific times tables or all of them. You can also change the number of questions and the amount of time.

Homework Friday 1st March

Homework Friday 15th February

Homework Friday 8th February

For pirate week we had great fun learning about the golden age of pirates. We learnt nautical terms, pirate language, details about what it was like to be a pirate and we even met Barnacle Bill. To honour him we have written an acrostic poem about him.

Homework 1.2.2019

Maths Olympics

In order to improve our times tables every week we challenge ourselves with a Maths Olympics test. The test is limited to 3 minutes exactly and ranges between 24 and 100 questions. As you move up the medals, it becomes more challenging. Below is a list of the times tables that you need to complete for each level. Every week we expect you to practice the times tables for the level that you are on. By the end of the year, you need to know all the times tables up to 12x12.

If you want t practice online try using this website to help you

http://www.timestables.me.uk/

Spellings 25.1.19

If there are any words that you are not familiar with please make sure that you look them up in a dictionary or speak to someone on your family about them.

Set A

Happy New Year 2019!

Welcome back year 4! Mrs Thompson and Miss Cook are really looking forward to the spring term as we have some exciting things planned.

In English, we are going to be reading the Butterfly Lion in our guided reading sessions. We have chosen this book not only because its a great book but it is also written by Michael Morpurgo whose farm we are going to visit in the summer term (There are still some place available for this amazing trip so if you are interested please speak to your teacher or to Janet in the office)

We will be working with an artist and The Victoria and Albert Museum this term on a project. This will involve us visiting the museum to create some artwork which will eventually be displayed in the V&A! There will also be an opportunity for you and your parents to visit a weekend workshop at the museum where you will have the opportunity to work with the artist creating some of your own artwork. The artist will also be coming into school on the 15th  January and you will have the chance to meet her. Yemi is a textiles artist and before she went to university studied at the Fulham girls school!

Letters will be sent home shortly to tell you what dates we will be visiting the museum and when the open morning is. Luckily you should all have a fabulous calendar that your child made which you can mark these dates on!

Money Money Money....

We have been very lucky to have Cecelia from Ooberkids come into year 4. Over the next few weeks she will be teaching us all about money. Our first lesson involved learning about economics and what makes a market. 

On  the Ooberkids website there are a lot of videos that you can watch to help you learn more about this very useful topic.

To find out more click on the image below or go to this website

https://members.ooberkidsrepublic.com/

Year 4 2018-2019

Welcome back all to school and to your new year 4 class. This year your year 4 teachers are Mrs Thompson and Miss Cooke and we are both really excited about this year. We will also have Chevonne, Jonathan and Nydia working with us.

Swimming will be on a Monday and PE will be on a Wednesday. Please make sure that you have the correct PE kit for both those days. 

Homework is given out on a Friday and will consist of spellings and times tables, which you will be tested on every week. 

Welcome to Year 4!

Have you seen the Kids' Zone? Play games, and visit some cool websites. You can vote for your favourites!