Year 4 Weekly Blog - 13.9.19

Date: 13th Sep 2019 @ 8:25am

This week in Year 4, we have been working extremely hard and enjoying the following activities:

• Maths  - We have been focusing on place value this week and have been focusing on the following objectives:
  • To understand that a 4 digit number is made up of 1000s, 100s, 10s and 1s
  • To partition numbers using the expanded form
  • To order and compare numbers
  • To solve reasoning and partitioning problems.
• English – We have started our work on our focus text this week which is The Lost Happy Endings. The children will finish the week by writing a description.
• Science – Electricity  - To identify common appliances that run on electricity
• Spelling – Adding the prefix im
• Music, Computing and French
• P.E.

Next week, we shall be enjoying the following activities:

• Maths - We will continue our work on place value and focus on rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
• English – We shall continue our work on The Lost Happy Endings and focus on the fantastic vocabulary in the book and look at using a range of synonyms.
• Science – Electricity  - To construct a simple circuit identifying and naming its basic parts and to identify whether or not a lamp will light
• Spelling – Adding the prefix im
• Music, Computing and French
• P.E.