Book Club
We started our book club with a recommendation from Freddie. Freddie has been enjoying the book he chose from the school library last week and there is now a waiting list for it!
We shared some of the challenges we’ve completed this week in our Reading Records and reminded ourselves of all the different activities we can choose from. After that, we enjoyed some independent reading in various spaces in the classroom.
Help at home – help your child be ready for next week’s Book Wars we will be having at Book Club on Friday next week. See your child’s Reading Record for full details.
Maths – Column addition
We’ve started the year reviewing column addition. What great mathematicians we have in our class!
Today we have been adding two numbers using equipment to support our understanding about what happens when the column sum is greater than 9.
Help at home – play schools! Ask your child to be the teacher and ‘teach you’ column addition. They might want to make paper tens and ones or draw them. Please let me know if they have been a great teacher and I can reward them with a golden ticket!
Thank you!
As we start the second week of Year 4, I wanted to say thank you for a great start to the year! I can tell this is going to be a great year!
I’ve been so impressed with how quickly the children have settled in to their new routines. We can already respectfully and safely hand out books and equipment and collect it back in again, come in to class ready to learn and get straight in to our morning task. We really are fantastic at being cheerleaders for each other; past the initial embarrassment, they now love saying together “Wow **insert name of classmate**, you’re amazing!” when one of their peers pushes themselves to try something they didn’t believe they could do.
A few of us are still working on having our hands empty, silent voices and eyes on the speaker (which helps us all to concentrate on our learning) so we are working on that as our class target. Every time we achieve our class target we earn a shell. Every time we collect 10 shells we earn an enhancement to our end of term treat. Given how well they are doing I can see this is going to be a BIG treat!
Help at home
Ask your child what is going well for them in Year 4 and what they would like to get better at. If there is anything you or your child need help with please let me know either by email, calling me at school or at pick up. The door is always open!
Living & Learning – Our School Rules
This week we’ve been revisiting our school rules:
We shared some top tips to help us keep our school rules.
Be respectful
Remember 2 wrongs don’t make a right (Max and Arthur)
Always listen to the teacher (Lillie-Jane)
Always listen to your friends (Orianne)
Always respect nature in school (Sophie)
Use fidgets under the table so you don’t distract friends (Orianne and Sophie)
Be ready
When you hear the whistle at playtime you need to freeze. (Monty)
Stop at 2 when it is “3-2-1 stop” (Freddie)
When you hear “3-2-1 stop” you need to listen (Aria)
Be safe
Don’t stand too close to people in the line so you don’t knock them over.
Don’t stand too close to the fence. (Sophie and Orianne)
Help at home
Help at home by discussing our school rules with your child. Ask them when they find it difficult to follow the rules and how they might be able to overcome this.
What do I need to be ready for school each day?
If you have any questions please let me know.
Welcome back, Year 4!
We’ve been busy in school today getting ready to see you tomorrow. I am so excited to see you; I hope you are excited too!
In case you are feeling a little nervous, I thought you might like a sneaky peek at the classroom that’s waiting to welcome you.
You will find your creative Barnabus Project art work in the cloakroom. Your peg is labelled with your name ready for your coat and book bag.
Your place has a tray labelled with your name. Remember the pencil case you decorated last year? That’s in your tray ready for tomorrow’s learning.
You’ll also find some new areas I think you’ll be rather excited about …
A reading den …
and a regulation space …
We will be doing PE in the afternoon tomorrow so please wear your PE kit. If you forget or see this message too late, don’t worry, you will still be able to get fully involved!
I hope you all get a good night’s sleep tonight; I and all your friends will be so excited to see you tomorrow.
Mrs Poole
Being Healthy Week – handwashing
Being Healthy Week – a balance between online and offline time
We have been reflecting about how much time we spend online vs offline and thinking about signs that we may have spent too much time on screens or devices.
Being Healthy Week – dental hygiene
Further to our learning in science about teeth, we took time to reflect on the different ways we can look after our teeth. Some great tips here from Kiara!
Being Healthy Week – the importance of self care in keeping healthy
We enjoyed sharing ideas of how we can practise self care to keep ourselves happy and healthy. Lots of children recognised the importance of sleep and other popular choices included reading and having some time to ourselves.