Year Four
Welcome to Year 4's Class Page!
Red Kite class Teacher: Mrs Manning | Crane class Teacher: Mrs Shaw |
Summer 2
A huge welcome back after the May half term holiday! We hope all our families had some opportunity to enjoy some fun in the sun! It was a little temperamental wasn't it!. So let's delve into our FINAL summer term!
This half term our topic has a Science & Technology theme called 'Amazing Animals.' The children will study changing Animals an their habitats/food chains and will focus on Rainforests from a geography perspective.
Communication, Language and Literacy
This half term, children will study a beautiful book, 'Animal Architects,' in CLL. Children will develop their non-chronological writing skills, focusing on reporting facts and organisational skills.
Maths
In maths, children will focus on fractions, decimals, time, shape and space.
Jigsaw
This half term, children will study 'Changing Me'. This includes the following aims:
- know that personal characteristics are inherited from birth parents and this is brought about by an ovum joining with a sperm
- know that babies are made by a sperm joining with an ovum
- know the names of the different internal and external body parts that are needed to make a baby
- know how the female and male body change at puberty
- know that personal hygiene is important during puberty and as an adult
- know that change is a normal part of life and that some cannot be controlled and have to be accepted
- know that change can bring about a range of different emotions
Homework
- daily reading (x5 weekly)
- Times tables (this will be set weekly now in readiness for the Multiplication Check in June)
- Weekly spellings
Homework and spellings will be set on a Friday and due in the following Friday.
This half term your PE day will be a Tuesday, please arrive dressed in school PE kit.