Year 4

Welcome to Year 4

Year 4 2020-2021

Welcome back all to school and to your new year 4 class. This year, Miss Jarmson, Miss Gething and Grace will work in Year 4. We are excited about this year and getting to know you. 

Swimming will be on a Tuesday. Please make sure you bring your full swimming kit on this day.

PE will be on a Thursday. Please make sure that you come into school already dressed in your PE kit on this day.

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

Homework

Just a reminder, that homework will be uploaded to Google Classroom. Your child has the login details glued into their reading record and the video above will advise you. We have also logged on in class. However, if you have further issues please let Miss Jarmson or Miss Gething know.

08/12/2020

Home Learning

If you are looking for any home learning, then you can find it on the Google Classroom page for your child. Your child has been given login details already and should have stuck these into their reading record. If you are having issues accessing Google Classroom then watch the video above. If you are still having issues then please let us know. 

Homework spelling words 

Date - 13.11.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. You should have been given a group now. 4J your groups can be found in your reading records.  Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

Homework spelling words 

Date - 06.11.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. You should have been given a group now. 4J your groups can be found in your reading records.  Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

Homework spelling words 

Date - 22.10.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words the Friday after half term. You should have been given a group so please learn the words from the group you have been given. Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

This week the words are homophones or near homophones. Remember, a homophone is two words that sound the same but have different spellings and meanings.

Windrush Child Poem

We are learning a poem called Windrush Child. We have included a copy of the poem below if you want to learn it at home! Follow this link if you want to hear John Agard read the poem!  https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/windrush-child

Windrush child

Poem from Under the Moon & Over the Sea by John Agard

Behind you
Windrush child
palm trees wave goodbye

above you
Windrush child
seabirds asking why

around you
Windrush child
blue water rolling by

beside you
Windrush child
your Windrush mum and dad

think of storytime yard
and mango mornings

and new beginnings
doors closing and opening

will things turn out right?
At least the ship will arrive
in midsummer light

and you Windrush child
think of Grandmother
telling you don't forget to write

and with one last hug
walk good walk good
and the sea's wheel carries on spinning

and from that place England
you tell her in a letter
of your Windrush adventure

stepping in a big ship
not knowing how long the journey
or that you're stepping into history

bringing your Caribbean eye
to another horizon
Grandmother's words your shining beacon

learning how to fly
the kite of your dreams
in an English sky

Windrush child
walking good walking good
in a mind-opening
meeting of snow and sun

Homework spelling words 

Date - 16.10.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. You should have been given a group now. 4J your groups can be found in your reading records.  Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

The same homework will also be on Google Classroom this week. See if you can find it and let us know it is working correctly.

Homework spelling words 

Date - 09.10.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. This week, you can choose to do either the red or the blue group. Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

The same homework will also be on Google Classroom this week. See if you can find it and let us know it is working correctly.

Homework spelling words 

Date - 02.10.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. This week, you can choose to do either the red or the blue group. Parent/carers: Please sign the spelling test from the previous week.

Homework spelling words 

Date - 25.09.2020

Please learn your spelling words off by heart at home. You will then be tested on these words next Friday. This week, you can choose to do either the red or the blue group.  

In year 4 we have been lucky enough to make our own gelato. We put milk, sugar and vanilla in one freezer bag, and then put ice and salt in another. We shook it for 10 mins and the liquid became a solid.

We have been working very hard in year 4 on our timetables and have been practising on computers to help us with our learning. If you would like to practise at home please clink on the link below.

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

Happy Friday!

This week for homework children need to practise their spellings and 8 timetables. For maths homework your child will either have a perimeter sheet or they will need to write out all of the timetables.

We have had a very busy week in Year 4.  In English we have been writing descriptive sentences about how Harry Potter is feeling. We have been focusing on using fronted adverbials and conjunctions. In Maths we have been dividing using the bus stop method. In Science we created our own water cycle which also links in with our Geography. Look at the pictures below.

Happy Friday! For home work this week students must practise their spellings, fill out their maths sheets and practise their 3 and 4 times tables as we will be testing them on this everyday.

Year 4 has been working very hard this week. In maths we have been multiplying 2 digit and 1 digit numbers, as well as 3 digit and 1 digit numbers. In English we have started to look at diary entries in relation to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which is our class book.

For homework this week, students must practise their spellings, fill out their maths sheets and practise their 3 times tables as we will be testing them on this everyday.

Welcome back to Spring 1

Welcome to 2020! We have started this term off strong. We have looked at different states of matter and have had debates about jelly and shaving cream being liquids or solids. In English we are reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which we are all enjoying. This term in homework, everyone will continue to get the spellings, but we will also be adding in some maths for the children to complete. If you have any questions please feel free to organise a meeting.

Spellings week ending 10/1/2020

Hard to believe that the first term of year 4 is almost over!! We have had such a busy week designing and creating our torches. We created a simple circuit and used split pins and a paper clip to create our working torches. Thank you to all the parents who brought in toilet paper rolls for us to use.

This is our knowledge organiser with pictures of our art and design project. Fell free to pop in and have a look at our learning.

Spellings week ending 14/3/19

Words ending week 6/12/19

Only three weeks left in the Autumn term, this year is already moving at rapid speed! We have been working very hard on our science topic of electricity. We have designed circuits and understand what we need to do to make it work correctly. Below are some pictures of us working hard.

Just a quick reminder that homework is given out on a Friday and needs to be returned on a Tuesday signed by a responsible adult. Children must also practise their time tables every night, as they are now being tested on them twice a week. Furthermore the reading record must be signed by a responsible adult every day, even if the child has not finished the book. If you have any questions please let me know.

Words ending week 29/11/19

Words ending week 22/11/19

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

Homework 3.5.19

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!