Christmas Scrapbook

Christmas will be filled with many exciting activities so we would like you to spend some time recording these in the form of a Christmas Scrapbook. Postcards, maps, diary entries, special Christmas cards, photographs, art work, plane tickets...anything that shows some of the things you do over the Christmas holidays.

Creative Writing:

As part of your scrap book, please also write a story entitled 'A Christmas to Remember'. Try to include all of the things we have been studying this term:

• Connectives (Firstly, eventually, meanwhile…)

• Similes

• Spellings

• Powerful vocabulary

• Punctuation 

• Handwriting (ascenders and descenders)

• Alliteration

• Metaphors
• Paragraphs

Reading:
There are some 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' reading comprehension activities for you to complete as well as reading every day.

Maths:
Please make sure you complete your active learn online maths activities and keep practising your times tables.

Have a well deserved break and enjoy your Christmas holidays. We look forward to seeing you refreshed and ready to begin our new topic 'Active Planet' on Monday 9th January 2017.

Have a wonderful holiday.

Rainforest Concern

After an inspirational assembly from Joshua Bratt and Lewis Critchley from 4J, the sum of
£154.55 was raised at the cake sale on Friday.

This is enough money to sponsor 3 acres of rainforest!

Rainforest Concern have been in touch to say thank you and have sent a link to their website so that you can access all their educational resources.

Click here  if you want to find out more.

Active Planet

Next term Year 4 will be starting a new IPC topic called 'Active Planet'.
This weekend would be a good opportunity for children to explore what they know about the planets and our solar system.

We will also be having a round-up of all the spellings we have learned this half term. Please use your Look, Cover, Write, Check books to revise spelling patterns and make sure you know what the words mean too!

All about Chocolate

As we are nearing the end of our topic about chocolate, it is time to see how much has been understood and remembered.

We will be completing a book with chapters detailing each of the areas we have studied: History, Geography, Religious Studies and Science.

In order to include as many facts as possible Year 4 will be encouraged to reflect on all the research they have done in class and for homework. The children may want to print out maps, diagrams or pictures to improve the presentation of their book.

Click on the link to look at some of the resources we have used.

All About Chocolate

Thank you!

Thank you for the coins you sent in last week for Children in Need.
Year 4 raised a total of £78.55! (not including £1s brought in for wearing spotty clothes)

The Weekend Challenge is:

To investigate ways of making the total £78.55 using the least amount of coins.

How many £1, £2, 50p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p?


or


To incorporate all of this week's spellings into a story.
Please click Here for the spelling lists.

Reading Comprehension

We have been doing a variety of activities which check that we are understanding what we are reading. We have found out about the chocolate making process and Remembrance Day too.
This weekend the children will bring home a reading comprehension activity based on The Iron Man. They may also choose to write and answer 5 questions about their own reading book.

It is important that the children are able to locate their answers rather than just rely on memory.
We have been reminding the children about PQRS.

P  = Passage (Read the passage carefully)

Q  = Questions (Read the questions carefully)

R  = Re-read the passage

S  = Start answering the questions

Caburys or Frys?

Choose one of these famous chocolate families and find out more about their history.

• Key dates, names and events.
• Their religion (there are other famous confectionary making families who are part of this religion too!)
• What part of the UK did they originate from and set up their factories?

We would like you to use your note taking skills to write down these key facts and more!

The Cadbury Family

The Fry Family