How to help at home!
Share spoken stories with your child
from your own childhood.
PE Reminder
Please make sure that your
child brings their PE kit to
school on:
Read a range of books together and
complete your child’s reading record.
Practise times-tables at least 3 times a week.
Make sure your child completes their homework and
hands it in on time!
Year 4 will be learning about the
Curriculum Newsletter
ancient Maya Civilisation.
Your children will be discovering facts about
where and how they lived, including their
religious beliefs.
They will find out how their number and
writing systems work.
We will end this theme by identifying and
tasting some of the foods they would have
eaten.
Extended Learning!
Our class text this term
is The Spiderwick
Chronicles—The field
guide.
Year 4
Autumn 2
There will be a spelling test every Monday and new spellings
will then be issued.
Children are expected to practise their times tables regularly
at home and a times table challenge will be completed in
school weekly.
Children will also be asked to complete a theme related project. The project this half term is Who were the Mayans?
THE
MAYANS
Our theme for Autumn 2 is: The Mayans
Humanities
English
In humanities this term, Mrs Dawes will be
teaching us all about the Mayan civilization, who they were, when they were
around and what they were like.
In English this half term, our focus is on the book The
Spiderwick Chronicles: The Field Guide. We will be
developing our reading comprehension skills, as well as
developing an understanding of character and plot. We
will also complete work on Newspapers. Within this unit
we will study examples of newspaper articles and we will
create one of our own. We continue to complete a ‘cold
write’ and ‘hot write’ at the beginning and end of each
unit.
Science
In science this half term we will be looking at
circuits and electricity. We will be focussing on
building accurate circuits in which a bulb will
light and other components will work. We will
also use our growing knowledge to make predictions and justify them.
Outdoor Learning
The children will be able to continue to develop
their skills outside the classroom and apply them
to different contexts.
Outdoor learning will take place on alternate
Wednesdays. We ask that children have appropriate clothing and footwear in school i.e. trainers or wellies and a spare pair of trousers.
Maths
In Maths we will be consolidating and extending the
knowledge of the four rules of number - addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division. In addition
to this, we will be looking at money, negative
numbers, fractions, decimal numbers and shape.
Throughout the half term, we will also continue to
develop our mental maths skills. Please encourage
your child to learn their times tables every night to
support the work done in class.
We are continuing ‘PATHS’ - look out for the
compliment letters that the children bring
home! Each day a different child is chosen to
be a King or Queen, and they are given special
jobs to do throughout the day.
P.E.
This half term we are focussing on tennis.
Computing
We will be learning how to use word processing
software to create interesting posters and information pages.
P.A.T.H.S