28th February 2014
Dear Parents/carers,
I hope you had a lovely half term. This week the children started their new topic on rivers Meandering Madness. They have been busy learning the key vocabulary for parts of a river
system. Also the children learnt about the water cycle and are currently carrying out an
experiment to show how the water cycle works.
In maths this week the focus has been multiplication. The children have used arrays,
partitioning and the grid method to help work out the answers to multiplications and to solve
problems. Please support your child learning their times tables, they need to be confident in
all times tables by the end of year 4.
The literacy focus for the next couple of weeks is writing a non-chronological report, the
children have started their research to help them write this, it will be about rivers and
flooding!
Next week we will go to Pulborough Brooks, please ensure your child has a warm coat,
packed lunch and their wellies (in a named carrier) for the trip. I am hopeful that the weather
will stay dry!
Kind regards
Miss Pankhurst and Mrs Campbell
This week’s homework:
Reading: Read as often as possible, if you read silently write me a comment to tell
me what happened.
Topic: Find at least 10 river facts that you can use to help you write your report.
Times tables: Practise your _______ times tables
Spelling: Think of 5 words using the ir or il prefix we learnt this week. Write each
word in a sentence.
Dates for your diary:
Thursday 6th March: Trip to Pulborough Brooks
Friday 7th March: Dress as a character for World Book day celebrations
Monday 10th March: Inset day
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