02/05/25
Miss Pillai - 02 May 2025
Well done year 4 for completing another week!
This week in English, we have continued developing our skills in writing a setting description. We have looked at a WABOLL (what a bad one looks like) and worked as a class to improve this using all our writing skills that we have learnt. We also started planning to write a setting description about a mountains. Children were reminded to use the fronted adverbials, similes and conjunctions in their planning sheet. On Friday, we started writing out first draft using the planning sheet.
In shared reading, we have continued reading secrets of the sun king. The children used their inference skills, retrieval skills and vocabulary skills. They also used thesauruses to find synonyms of different words from the text.
In maths, we have continued working on our decimals topic. We learnt how to compare decimals, order decimals, rounding to the nearest whole and showing halves and quarters as decimals.
In art, we have carried on with our vista topic. We looked at different atmospheric images, looking at tone, shading and light. We used pens and soft pencils to practice cross hatching and shading/smudging techniques. The children were then given an atmospheric perspective diagram where they then used these techniques to complete.
In geography this week, we looked at different types of mountains: fold mountains, volcanic mountains, fault-block mountains, dome mountains and plateau mountains. They were then given pictures of mountains and asked to group them together based on what type of mountain they were
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In science, we learnt different classification keys to help group. We played a game of guess who, children had to guess who was picked based on characteristic questions such as: ‘is this person wearing glasses?’ We then went outside into the playground. Children were given chalk and created their own human classification keys. Questions asked: ‘are you a boy?’ with yes/no responses which divides them into 2 categories. Children moved and stood were they needed to based on the questions until children end up on their own.
In French this week, we have started a new French topic called ‘in the classroom’. This lesson, children learnt different items in their backpack such as: pencil, pen, sharpener....
In computing, we have carried on with our topic computing systems and networks. We carried on looking at routers and how they are connected.
As always, please continue to read 5 times a week and play on TTRS for 5 minutes a day, 5 days a week
Spellings:
-Spelling Lists-V452359984.pdf-
