Every week in Year 4, the children become more grown up and more loving towards one another. They are growing in resilience and focus before my very eyes! It has been a truly great week of learning.
We began the week with a worship based on last week’s gospel - about allowing God to guide us in our life. We talked about our conscience and how this could be God speaking to our hearts. Children were so reflective and we thought together about times where we have a choice - to follow God’s path or to turn away. We also discussed how God is always there ready to guide us back to him again if we steer away from him.
Children have been trying so hard to let God guide them this week. They have also been inspired by Mary in our RE lessons and have been thinking about how to be more like her - full of grace, humility, faith and courage.
We are all loving our reading now - in fact it is often hard to stop and get on with lessons! We have introduced a ‘Recommended reading’ wall where children recommend to each other a book that they have read recently. There are so many lovely book conversations going on and many children have started writing stories for their friends to read - which are on our book rack in class! Also we have delved into our novel - ‘Charlotte’s Web’ this week. Children are practising so many different reading strategies and we have been practising reading aloud with correct intonation using punctuation to help us.
We have started our new Science topic - Sound and as usual the class were full of questions and interesting facts! We have been BRILLIANT with addition and subtraction this week - solving lots of tricky problems and being real Sadie Spiders! Advent promises were made on Wednesday - thoughtfully done. I believe little elves will be decorating the school ready for Christmas on Friday!
Let’s Celebrate!
I had to award 4 certificates this week! A Lizzie Ladybird certificate went to Jacob O. for really following and acting on advice. A Bobby Bee certificate went to Abi for confidence and enthusiasm, A Clara Clownfish certificate went to Isabella for being great at figuring things out and making connections and a Sadie Spider certificate went to Christian for putting full effort, detail and quality into his work!
PE stars this week were Jacob M and Julia for fantastic teamwork and effort.
Music stars were Grace and Christian - brilliant listening and playing!
Notices
Christmas Arts and Crafts Day - THIS Friday 4th December - Our first fundraiser in Year 4 will be a Christmas Arts and Crafts Day. On this day, children will be making Christmas decorations for our classroom and for home - all things Christmassy. They can wear a Christmas jumper on this day too if they want - with their own trousers, jeans or skirt - obviously weather appropriate! A donation of £1 (or any donation) would be kindly received, but this must be in the form of a £1 coin as we also want to limit the handling and counting out of money.
Christmas Danceathon Day - Tuesday 15th December - This much anticipated annual event will return with a slight twist this year. The children can come to school wearing their PE kits and we will dance the day away to Christmas music when Miss Hornby sounds those school bells. Unfortunately there will be no gathering on the school playground to dance as a school community but we will dance our socks off in class! Again, donations of £1 for this event in the single coin.
Christmas Party Day - Thursday 17th December - This year we will be enjoying those Christmas party games in our classrooms. On this day, children can come to school in their best party clothes. A small snack of a chocolate bar or a packet of crisps with a drink (no fizzy please) can also be brought into school to be enjoyed after the party. We will also be enjoying a Christmas dinner for lunch.
We all hope you have a lovely weekend with your family. God bless,
Mrs Lyons, Miss Forster and Mrs Mather