Year 4 have continued to persevere and grow in their learning.

Year 4 have continued to use  "The Great Kapok Tree" to aid  their writing work this week. We've  completed our persuasive letters to convince the president of Brasil to act in saving the rainforest. We presented three reasons why he should do so and used modal verbs to strengthen our argument.  This week, we have begun our latest learning journey, to write a newspaper report about a rainforest conference to be held in Brazil as the result of letters written to the president. We have interviewed each other and practiced taking the responses and recording them as direct and reported speech.

In reading, we have practised using our prediction and explaining an author's choice of words to explore extracts from a range of texts, pictures and video clips. These included, extracts from Gregor and the warm bloods and the tale of Custard the dragon.

During the past two weeks, in Maths, we have been learning about multiplication. We have been focusing on the 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12 times tables. We focused on patterns in the numbers to help us remember them and applying our knowledge to real life problems. We have also looked at the commutativity  of the number, that they can be in either order and will have the same answer. We have also begun to divide by 6 and 7. We have thought about how to work out these calculations using manipulatives, drawn and mental methods.

In Science, we have continued our topic of Digestion and Food. We have explored how the populations of different creatures in a food chain effect each other. We have thought about how the number of snow shoe hares in a population affects the number of lynx as changes in prey affect food availability for the predictors.

We have continued with our topic, Why are Rain forests so important? We have explored ways to save the rainforest and have identified cities in Europe, North America and South America. 

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