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Year Four Notice Board

                                                                                Class Reading Books for Autumn Term

                                                                                                                   

                                                                       The Land of Roar (The Land of Roar series, Book 1) by [Jenny McLachlan, Ben Mantle]                                                                 

                                                                    

Notices:
IMPORTANT!  Thursday 7th December - trip to see 'Cinderella' - please send in a small snack that your child can easily carry in their pocket for the panto. They will also carry their water bottles.  
Swimming - Please make sure your child's clothes are labelled and that shoes with laces can be tied independently.
                     - If your child is not swimming e.g. they are not well enough, please send a note in to Mrs Fanshawe or Miss Abdullah
Glue sticks - Many of the children do not have glue sticks. Please send one in for your child to use.
This noticeboard will be updated on Tuesday afternoons to share homework and keep you updated with life in Year 4.
Teachers:
Maple - Mrs Fanshawe
Rowan - Miss Abdullah 
Support Staff
Mrs Miles
Mrs skinner
Dates for the diary

Thursday 7th December - Trip to The Lyric Theatre to see 'Cinderella'

Thursday 14th December - Trip to The Tabard Theatre to see 'The Secret Garden'

 

- Please remember the children should have a healthy snack for morning playtime. 

 

Water Bottles 

Please ensure that your child brings a named water bottle to school with them each day so that they can hydrate regularly throughout the day.

Reading for Pleasure books for class

As part of our focus on reading in school, we would like to develop the lending library of books within each class. This will enable the children to foster a passion and love of reading at Belmont and ensure that they have access to high quality texts.
Please find links to the book list that has a variety of books that we would love to have in class.  Once a book has been donated to the class we will add a tick to show we now have it.  Please check the list to ensure that the book that you would like to donate is one that we don't already have.
These books will be stamped to show who has generously donated them and shared with all the class.
The books come from the Recommended Books for Year 4 List which can be found below.

Y4 recommended book list

 

Love reading 4 schools (Year 4)

Books donated so far

 

 

Autumn term 

Our topic this term is Why Britain?

The below list is part of an initiative called Word Aware that we are using in school. We thought it would be helpful to share this list with you so that you can use some of these words at home when discussing the topic. If your child speaks a different language at home, it would be helpful to discuss and translate these words using your home language. We may add to this list during the topic as new words are introduced. 

Word Aware - Why Britain?

Y4 Summer Learning Tree

 

Knowledge Organisers

Further information about the learning in history and geography is available on our new Knowledge Organisers. These are available on the Maple and Rowan Google Classrooms in the Classwork tab.  The link will be updated when the children have joined their new Google classroom. 

Maple Google Classroom         Rowan Google Classroom

 

Handwriting 

As you may be aware Belmont uses a cursive handwriting scheme for those children who can consistently form all non-cursive letters correctly.
Here is a link to the handwriting guidelines to enable you to support your children practising letter formation at home. 

Belmont Handwriting Guidelines

PE days

Rowan and Maple class on Monday. Children are to come to school in full PE kit .

Rowan and Maple class swimming on Tuesday. Please wear school uniform and bring your swimming kit in a bag.

Weekly Routines

Monday

Bring in Reading Record.

Rowan and Maple Indoor PE.

Tuesday

Bring in homework.

Swimming 

 

Wednesday

French - Maple and Rowan

Thursday

 Bring in ukulele for tuning

Friday

 

Calendar/ Key dates

School Diary

Home Learning

For further information about Home Learning and ideas on how to support your child please click here

Reading

Daily (15-20 mins)

Please ensure that all books are recorded in the reading record along with the dates that reading has taken place. Please sign/initial these entries. Comments about the book and your child's reading are welcomed. Three comments per week is ideal.  

Reading records are checked on Monday,  however;  reading books can be changed on any day.

Children may borrow books from the classroom library and the Junior Library.

Please note that children are responsible for changing their own books. 

Grammar & Punctuation

Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling book

 

Spelling

The words are listed below. These words are set on a Tuesday for a spelling dictation task the following Tuesday. 

Year 3 and 4 Word List

Maths This will be set on Tuesday to be completed by the following Tuesday. The task is available on Google Classroom. 
Times Tables

Children will be tested weekly, in school, on the level they have been given for homework. These websites will help make learning at home fun and maximise results.

Times Tables Challenges can be printed here.  Timestables.co.uk                                                                             Times Tables Rock Stars 

Topmarks Primary Homework Help  Hit the Button 

Creative Home Learning  Details will be on Google Classroom shortly.

 This week:

Grammar & Punctuation

Page 29  Staying in the Same Tense

Page 62  Questions 1 and 2, Punctuating Speech with ! or ?

Page 74 Questions 1 and 2, Prefixes 'sub', 'super' and 'inter'

 

 

Maths Login to google classroom
Spellings

Y4 words

Spelling Rule

Prefixes 'sub' , 'super' and 'inter'. 

continue

submerge

enough

subheading

eighth

superpower

island

supersede

position

interlock

Y4 Calculations Policy

Learning in school this week:
English Historical text - Plan a story
Maths

Multiplication/Negative numbers/Problem solving

Learning next week:
English Historical text- Write a story
Maths Consolidation of units
 

French 

French homework is optional but we recommend children use Year 4's French Google Classroom, Linguascope and Belmont's French Website to consolidate what has been taught in class.

French Google Classroom

French Google Classroom

All year 4 children have be invited to their French Google classroom where they can find French tasks and activities. 

Belmont French Website

Belmont French Website

Go to Belmont's French website to find out what we have been doing in class and for extra activities and videos. The French website is updated regularly. Children must login to their Belmont Google account to access the website.

Linguascope

Linguascope

 We recommend children use Linguascope regularly to learn French and other languages. The Linguascope link and log in details can be found in year 4's French Google classroom.