Hello everyone and Welcome to Year 4!
Year 4 - Boreal Owls
Teacher: Miss Lois MacDonald
TA: Mrs. Julie Grayshon
TA: Miss. Beckie Sharples
TA: Miss. Helen Belcher
Dear Boreal Owls and Parents,
I hope you all had a lovely half term and are ready for another packed term full of fun, laughter and exciting new learning opportunities!
This term, we will be continuing with our topic learning of the Romans but will also be covering the event of Pompeii. Our Science topic this term is Electricity: Circuits and Conductors. I am truly looking forward to exploring both of these exciting topics with Boreal Owls. For more information on what we will be covering this term, please see the curriculum map in important info for Summer Term 2 above.
Summer Term 2 Important information
If you have any questions or wish to discuss anything with me, please let me know.
Kind regards,
Miss MacDonald, Mrs. Grayshon, Miss Sharples and Miss. Belcher
This week we are learning...
English- this week we will be continuing to explore the story of Escape from Pompeii. This week we will be developing ideas for our own story, along with creating a visual story plan.
Spelling- adding the suffix -ous (words ending in 'e' drop the 'e' but not 'ge').
Maths-
Times table focus:
Guided Reading- we will be continuing with our class novel of the One and Only Ivan. We will be reading chapters of the book this week but we will also be exploring the following features:
Topic- we will be looking at and comparing the different types of houses from Roman Britain. We will also looking at recognizing elements that have survived from Roman buildings.
Science- we will learn about insulators and conductors, then either investigate the conductivity of a range of materials, or create models to show how circuits work (or not, if they have insulators in them).
Art- we will be recreating an illustration from Escape from Pompeii using collage.
PSHE- we will be looking at the difference between ourselves and others.
This week the children will also have Transition Day on Thursday, where they will be spending time with their new teacher for next year. In addition to this, they will also be taking part in Sports Day on Friday morning.
Whole Class Guided Reading
This term, we will be exploring a new story. The story we are going to be exploring as a whole class is...
The One and Only Ivan. Written and illustrated by Katherine Applegate.
If you have any copies of the story at home that you would be happy for your child to bring in and use in class, I would be extremely grateful. Having a copy of their own would be extremely useful to have so if you do not have a copy at home but are willing to buy your child a copy of the story that they can bring into and keep at school, would make a huge difference and be truly appreciated. If you did wish to buy a copy of the book, for your child, I have added a link below.
Any books that come in would need to be labelled with your child's name and they will be kept at the front of the classroom, next to my desk, in our guided reading book shelf. Once we have finished the book, the children will then be able to take their copy home and continue to enjoy this book in the future.
Please feel free to speak to me about this if you have any questions or wish to discuss further.
Can you climb the Reading Rainbow?
READING CHALLANGE ALERT!
A new set of reading rainbows are coming to Boreal Owls, this term. As a result of engagement and enthusiasm showed towards this reading challenge, I have upped the level of challenge of the books that are and will be included in this terms reading rainbow!
Are you up for this exciting new challenge?!
The new reading rainbow books have arrived and we are already flying with our reading challenge. Below I have attached images showing the whole class reading rainbow challenge, as well as the Pomegranate reading rainbow challenge.
Whole Class Reading Rainbow
Pomegranate Reading Rainbow