Category: Year Four Update

Curriculum objective: To explain how to calculate all operations. Task: This week we are going to be practicing all of our operations. Explain to someone at home how you would work out these calculations using columns or a number line. Red and Orange – 26 x 5      16 ÷ 2… Read More»

Year 4 Talk Homework – Writing Curriculum objective: Use simple organisational devices (for example, headings and sub headings). Task:  Next week we will be looking at non-fiction report writing. We will be researching features of report writing and researching a Stone Age topic in order to write our own reports.… Read More»

Talk homework maths

Curriculum objective: To add and subtract fractions This week we have been learning all about fractions.  For homework this week I would like you to tell someone what you have now learnt and explain how you would work out the answers to the calculations below. Do use a diagram to… Read More»

We would like to invite your child to dress up for our Stone Age Day. Your child might like to dress up as a cave man/woman from the Stone Age era, or as a Celt from the Iron Age era. Also, your child will already have their Stone Age jewellery… Read More»

Year 4 Talk Homework – Writing Curriculum objective: In narratives begin to create setting, character and plot. Task:  This week we have been looking at the Cave Baby story by Julia Donaldson, in which a curious Stone Age cave baby sneaks out one night to explore.  Next week we will… Read More»

Curriculum objective: To recognise the place value of each digit in a three-digit and 4 digit number. Task: We would like you to practice your counting and mental addition and subtraction at home to demonstrate a sound understanding of place value. (Th, H, T, U) Examples: Have a go at… Read More»

Talk homework maths week 2

Curriculum objective: To add and subtract numbers mentally. Task: In Maths this week we have been looking at adding and subtracting three digit numbers using formal written methods. Next week we will be looking at the mental strategies we could use to help us calculate multiplication and division. Talk with… Read More»

Curriculum objective: In narratives create setting, character and plot. Task: In Literacy next week we will be developing ideas to write our own story. The story will be based on the story of ‘The Croods’. Your story will start with you waking up in the story with ‘The Croods ’at… Read More»