What an amazing end to the Autumn Term from the fantastic concert to the entertaining pantomime and exciting parties, we have certainly had a great time. 

Year 4 have written instructions for making a Christmas decoration and have used imperative (bossy) verbs and adverbs to make our instructions clear and precise. We then used the instructions to make our own Christmas themed decorations. Making the concertina folds was definitely the hardest part.

In Reading, we have been practising all our reading skills and have finished our focus book The Pugs of the Frozen North.  We practised retrieving information from the text, summarising and predicting. It all came to a very exciting conclusion thanks to different types of magic snow that only form in a  True Winter.

In Maths, we have completed our unit on graphs and time. In our time unit we focused on converting time between minutes and seconds, minutes and hours, days and weeks and months and years. Our 6, 7, and 12 times tables have helped us with this. We also solved problems involving duration of time so how long a bus journey takes or how long someone works on an art project. When we return in January, we will be starting our unit on fractions. This is another unit where our times tables can really aid us so remember to keep practising them. 

In Science, we have finished  our  topic , Electricity. We have completed a quiz to show our knowledge of electricity and what we have learnt over the unit.

We have finished our History topic, How have children's lives changed? We explored the diseases that children in the past suffered from and some of the traditional remedies for these, e.g. wrapping people with small pox in a red cloth as it was the same colour as the spots, putting mustard and water on your chest to cure influenza and the use of leeches to cure the plague. We also looked at the unusual things that people in the past thought caused diseases e.g. reading too late at night. 

We have completed our DT topic and have made slingshot cars. We developed the chassis from dowling, lolly sticks, plastic wheels and glue. Then designed, made and attached a body. The cars also have a launcher made of an elastic band and a lolly stick which attaches to a paper clip on the chassis to launch the car. This was a challenging activity but we showed perseverance and resilience to make amazing models,

The Year 4 team would like to wish you all a peaceful and happy holiday and look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 6th January.

PE days are Monday and Friday for Topaz and Monday and Tuesday for Amethyst.

A reminder of weekly homework:

• Reading each day

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

• 15 minutes on TTRS (Soundcheck)

• Century