Year 4 have been eager learners over the past two weeks.

Year 4 have taken a real life character from  the book Sea Monsters by Terry Deary, as a basis for their latest piece of work. The great engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel features in the book so the children have used a thinglink to help them access a range of sources to give them factual information about him. They have used this factual information to create a non-chronological report which informs readers about Brunel's life, his steam engines, steam ships and Victorian life. The children have been using formal language and the correct pronouns in their work.

In reading, we have been exploring prediction and summarising passages from our book The Pugs of the Frozen North. We used the text and what we know about the characters to help us make good predictions and practised finding the main points in the text to help us summarise. We have then applied these skills to other texts including one about the Bletchley Park code breakers in World War 2.

In Maths, we have completed our unit extending our knowledge of multiplication and division. We have been focusing on dividing 2 and 3 digit numbers. by a 1 digit number and finding remainders. We have then completed our unit on reading and making graphs. We started with pictograms and bar graphs and then learnt how to make line graphs. We have learnt how to answer questions about the data shown on these graphs and to make comparisons about them.

In Science, we are continuing  our  topic , Electricity. We have used a range of components to test if an object is an electrical conductor and completes the circuit allowing the bulb to light up or an electrical insulator that doesn't allow the electricity to pass through it so the circuit is incomplete and the bulb doesn't light. We have also explored how adding more bulbs to a circuit affects their brightness. The more we added to a circuit, the more dim the bulbs became.

We have continued our History topic, How have children's lives changed? We explored how Lord Shaftesbury helped change the law  during the Victorian era to protect working children and ensure that they received an education. We have also begun to look at changes to children's leisure time.

PE days are Monday and Friday. 

A reminder of weekly homework:

• Reading each day

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

• 15 minutes on TTRS (Soundcheck)

• Century