Welcome to Class 4!
Happy New Year – here’s hoping 2022 will be fabulous for us all! We hope that you have enjoyed a wonderful Christmas break and are raring to go! We cannot wait to start the new year and are really looking forward to what Class 4 will be learning this half term!
ENGLISH
In English, we will be looking at diary writing and journalistic writing. This will link with our Topic work on ‘Ancient Egypt’. We will be working on our key skills in grammar and punctuation as well as our spelling and handwriting. In reading, we will be working on our comprehension skills, in particular our understanding new and rich vocabulary as well as developing out ability to infer and deduce. Our class text for this half term is ‘Secrets of a Sun King’ by Emma Carroll.
MATHS
In mathematics, we will be working on multiplication and division, fractions, decimals and percentages. We will also continue to work on our recall of times-table facts up to 12 x 12. It would be great if you could encourage the children to continue to work on these at home using Times Table Rockstars – I am hoping to start up some competitions online.
TOPIC
Our topic for this term is ‘Ancient Egypt’ which a brilliant topic that the children will love! Then, we will move on to ‘All Around the World’ which will have a geography focus.
In Design Technology we will doing some work making papyrus paper as well as exploring mechanisms like a shaduf! Hopefully, we will also be able to do some sewing. Our Art will focus on drawing cartoons in the style of specific artists and improving our painting skills.
In Science, the children will begin to look at plants and their lifecycles! For computing, we will be looking at programming and repeating patterns.
Our PE sessions will be on a Thursday afternoon with our P.E. coach and on a Friday afternoon with the class teacher. Over the course of the Spring term we will cover tennis, badminton and football.
Please continue to encourage your children to read on a regular basis at home and we will send some further information about homework projects that you can take part in if you choose.
If you have any questions or worries, please do not hesitate to speak to us – we are more than happy to help.