Amazing Amigos

A belated Happy New year to you all!!

My name is Fidler and I have taken over from Mrs Caballero as your child’s new class teacher. It has been great fun this week getting to know all the children.

This half term our new topic will be “The Super Saxons”. We will find out who the Anglo Saxons were and all about their life style. We will write our names using the runic alphabet and speak some Anglo Saxon words. We will also complete some weaving activities. We will share what we have learnt in our topic with parents during the last week of term. In English we will writing a non-chronological report based on Michael Morpurgo’s story Beowulf and complete some poetry.  We will, as a class, read another Michael Morpurgo book called Why the Whales Came. Our maths lessons will focus on Fractions of amounts, adding and subtracting fractions and decimals. As always please keep on regularly practicing your times tables. They really do make a difference to all maths work that is done in class.

We have a new learning platform in school called Skoolbo. At this moment in time if I can please ask that you log on regularly and take part in the daily challenges that are on the front page. The more your child goes on the games the more the platform will be able to match to your child’s development. Happy exploring!!! The more times they go on, the more points they are able to earn. And we all know what points make!!!

PE kit
Our PE days are Tuesday and Wednesday. Please make sure your child has their P.E kit in school on these days.

Targets:
Reading

• I can identify main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarise these
• I can analyse and evaluate how specific information is organized within a non fiction text
• I can record information from a range of non-fiction texts
• I can navigate texts using contents and index pages in order to locate and retrieve information in print and on screen 

Science:

• I can explore and explain how objects attract and repel in relation to objects and other magnets.
• I can describe how magnets work.
• I can predict whether magnets will attract or repel and give a reason.
• I can predict whether objects will be magnetic and carry out an enquiry to test this out.

Homework:
Your child will continue to receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday.

Spellings will be handed out on a Wednesday to be tested the following Monday. Children can take their books home so that you can see their results, but they must have their book back in school every Monday. Please continue to learn and practice the spellings from the Y3 and Y4 word list.

Dates for the diary

• Safer Internet Day: Tuesday 5^th February
• World Book Day: Thursday 7^th March
• World Maths Day: Tuesday 12^th March
• Parent Evening: Thursday 28^th March and Monday 1^st April

If you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help then please do not hesitate to ask.

Kind regards Mr Fidler
(Class teacher  Year 4 )

iHola amigos!  This half term our new topic will be ‘Shop ‘til You Drop’!  We will explore where we buy different goods and learn all about how goods are transported, both locally and globally.  We will also use what we learn to run our own Enterprise by designing and making a product for the Christmas Fair.   In English we will having lots of debates as we learn how to write a discussion text (balanced argument) and we will continue reading our class book ‘There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom’.  Our maths lessons will focus on multiplication and division, so please keep practising your times tables as knowing these will make lessons much easier for you! 

Thankyou to everyone who supported our reading challenge and came to the Reading Party!  If you missed out this time, then make sure you begin reading at home to earn your invitation to the Christmas Special Reading Party!  You only need 20 comments in your reading record by Monday 17^th December!  You can do it Amigos!

Targets

Homework
Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday. 

Spellings will be handed out on a Wednesday to be tested the following Monday.  Children can then take their books home so that you can see their results, but they must have their book back in school every Monday.  There will be no spellings to learn during Anti-Bullying week and no test on Monday 19^th November.  Please continue to practise the Y3&4 word list that was sent home in September.

Dates for the Diary

• Monday 12^th – Friday 16^th November – Anti-bullying Week 
• Friday 16^th November – Children In Need fundraising event – please send in cupcakes/baked goods for our class Bake Sale!
• Saturday 1^st December – School Christmas Fair
• Friday 14^th December – We will sell our Enterprise products in the School Hall Christmas Fair
• Friday 21^st December – KS2 Christmas Party

If you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help then please do not hesitate to ask!

Mrs Caballero

Welcome back Amazing Amigos!  I hope that you have had a lovely Summer holiday and are now refreshed and ready to take on the challenges of Year 4! 

We have had a busy start to the week, learning our new model text – ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’.

This will give us the techniques, language and grammar skills needed to write our own magnificent myths, as well as launching our new topic – Groovy Greeks!

To help us develop our reading skills, we would like to ask you to hear your child read for 10 minutes at least 3 times a week and sign their reading record.  This can be their class book or a book from their Lexiled reading list, which can be found by logging into Reading Pro.  We appreciate your support with this, we know how busy life can be but those extra reading sessions will help your children to achieve their highest potential.  As a reward for reading regularly, each child will be awarded a sticker for each day that they read.  If they get 30 stickers this half term, then they will be invited to our ‘Rocking Reading Party at the end of the half-term!  You can do it Amazing Amigos!

In maths, we will continue our Place Value topic by learning how to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.  This will be followed by learning how to count in Roman Numerals, so please keep a look out for examples of these for us to practise on!  Then we will focus on practical and formal methods of addition and subtraction of numbers up to 1000.

Finally, I hope that our children have a wonderful year and it is a pleasure to be working with you all! 

Targets 

Science 

Passport

Homework

Your child will receive homework every Friday to be handed in the following Wednesday.  

Spellings will be handed out on a Wednesday to be tested the following Monday.  Children can then take their books home so that you can see their results but they must have their book back in school every Monday.  Last year we made the decision to send 6 spellings home instead of 10 so that pupils can put extra effort into learning them and doing their best on their spelling test – you can do it Amazing Amigos! 

This week I am sending home a copy of the words that children need to be able to spell correctly in Years 3 & 4.  Some of these will be sent home for the spelling tests but you may want to work through them with your child over the year as they will be tested on them in July. 

Water Bottles & PE Kit

Children are encouraged to bring drinks bottles to school with water so they can have a drink in class.

This half term, outdoor PE will be on a Tuesday afternoon and indoor on a Wednesday afternoon. Please ensure your child has appropriate kit in school on these days or they will not be permitted to take part.  Long hair must be tied back and jewellery (including earrings) should be removed.

Parent Helpers 

We now have a volunteer to hear readers in our class however we still need more help to give our children as many opportunities to read as possible.  We would also be grateful if anyone would be able to test pupils on their times tables – we will give you a sheet with the answers on so don’t worry if you’re rusty!  Even 20 minutes would be appreciated so please get in touch.

Dates for the Diary

Wednesday 24^th October: Class Celebration - A performance of our musical project ‘Heroes of Troy’!

Friday 12^th October: INSET Day 

If you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to help then please do not hesitate to ask!

Mrs Caballero