Welcome to Chestnut Class
Class Teacher: Miss Hartnett
Teaching Assistants: Mrs Kirk & Miss Clay, Mr Price (Thursday PM)
Spring Term
Maths
This half term we are learning about Length and Perimeter. In this unit we will learn how to covert between metres and kilometres, find perimeters of shapes, work out missing lengths and find solutions involving perimeter.
We will then move on to Fractions where we will look at fractions that are greater than 1, convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions, learn how to identify equivalent fractions and how to simplify fractions.
We will also be continuing with our school wide push towards increasing times tables fluency, so please encourage your child to work on their key instant recall facts and to practise their times tables.
English
Our writing stimulus is the text 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. We will be using this text to write a newspaper report We will enhance our writing by using adjectives, adverbs, fronted adverbials and expanded noun-phrases. We will focus on writing sentences with accuracy, the features of a newspaper report and tense.
In Guided Reading, we are using the text, 'The Midnight Fox' by Betsy Byars.
Our topic for this term is Tomb Raiders. During this topic, we will learn about Ancient Egypt and our focus will centre around the importance of the River Nile, mummification and tombs, Howard Carter, the use of hieroglyphics and how Ancient Egypt ended.
Science
In Science we will be learning about Sound.
P.E
Our P.E days are Wednesday and Friday. Children will need to come to school wearing their full school PE kit:
Plain black jogging bottoms, Plain black hooded jacket, Plain black shorts, Red school PE t-shirt, Plain black trainers
Homework
Homework is sent out weekly. It will be sent out on a Monday and needs to be returned the following Monday. Please encourage your child to practise times tables at least four times per week using TT Rockstars.
Key Information:
INGLEBOROUGH
Our residential to Ingleborough Hall will take place on Wednesday 13th March. All information has been sent out via email. If you have any questions, please get in touch via email.
Our Times Table test will be taking place in June. In class, we have been focusing on times tables practise and the children are learning how knowing your times tables confidently helps them in all aspects of Maths. It is important that children are becoming familiar with the format of the times table test, particularly the timed element. Please ask you child to practise several times a week, ideally every day for 20-25 minutes. Here are some links to websites which have tests similar to the one your child will take in June:
https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/
https://talkingtimestables.uk/y4_ks2_mtc_practice_tests_multiplication_tables_check.php
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
https://collins.co.uk/pages/primary-mathematics-times-tables-test-simulator
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact any member of the Year 4 team.