Year 4 have been busy learning and exploring.

Year 4 have explored the book Sea Monsters by Terry Deary, which is a historical story about The Great Western aiming to be the first steam to cross the Atlantic Ocean to aid  their writing work this week. We've  written a diary entry as the character Ben, a cabin boy on the Great Western. We used fronted adverbials and made sure our work was written in past tense. 

In reading, we have been exploring an author's choice of words and the affect it has on the reader. We have explored an extract from Peter Pan, The story of Nu Wa, an information text on the Chinese New Year and our feature book The Pugs of the Frozen North. 

In Maths, we have been continuing to learn about multiplication and division. We have been focusing on multiplying and dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers. We have focused on the column methods of multiplication and using the long and short methods for dividing. We have been using our times tables to help us with both of these.

In Science, we are continuing  our new topic , Electricity. We have used a range of components to create a circuit to light a bulb and explore what happens when we add a switch into our circuit. We used our knowledge to make a buzz wire game. We saw how the game acts like a switch and when the components connect the buzzer works and when they don't touch the switch is open and the buzzer doesn't sound. 

We have continued our History topic, How have children's lives changed? We explored why children in the Tudor and Victorian periods often worked and the types of jobs they had. We have looked at the conditions they had to work in and how we now have laws to protect children from working. 

PE days are Monday and Friday. 

We will be swimming on Wednesdays - Please wear a school PE kit on these days and  remove earrings.

A reminder of weekly homework:

• Reading each day

• Spellings -given out on Friday and tested the following Friday

• 15 minutes on TTRS (Soundcheck)

• Century