Year 4 blog. Friday 10th December "Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man." (Pope Francis)

What a lovely week in Year 4. Our classroom is looking a little more Christmassy as we put our tree up and decorated with tinsel. Children are still working harder than ever! In maths, children have practised many mental strategies for addition and subtraction and they are now selecting the most efficient one to use - reasoning about the numbers in their calculations, which is lovely to see. We have started learning all about fairy tales, using ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin,’ as our model. Children have been practising lots of grammar skills and are now applying these to their own stories which they have created.

This afternoon, children shared their wonderful homework with each other, finding out about Christmas in many different cultures. We also made snowflakes to decorate our class!

In other news, Children have performed in class a medley of recorder songs - some Christmas ones and some others. I have put them in order that they learned them so you can see their progress. Enjoy!

Let’s Celebrate!

These children have met their reading targets this week: Christian, Owen, Rosa and Edi

This week our certificate winners are:

1. Iris (Sadie Spider/Kiki Chameleon) For trying so hard and putting so much thought into all she does

2. Harvey (Tommy Turtle) for being a brave learner and having a go.

3. Emilia (Kiki Chameleon) For using her creativity and listening to advice.

Music stars this week were Dominic and Rosa.

Notices

• Linked to our upcoming Science topic of Solids, Liquids and Gases, there will be a ‘Cosmetic Chemistry,’ trip after holidays on Wednesday 26th January to UCLAN, Preston. The cost of the trip will be £11 payable on ParentPay by January 19th

• Thursday 16th December Christmas dinner and party day. Children can wear party/Christmas clothes and bring in one special snack and their own drink (non-fizzy)

• Children now no longer need a shoebox after Christmas, as the topic has been changed!

• Children break up on Friday 17th December at 2:00pm

Have a lovely weekend everyone. God bless,

Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Woodrow.