Welcome back to a sunny, warm Term 5! The children have come back eager to learn and with wonderful learning attitudes! What have we been learning?

English

We began our new book, 'Wizards of Once' which is full of magic and wonder! We met our main characters, Wish and Xar and wrote some fantastic character descriptions.  We used a range of verbs and adverbs, nouns and adjectives to vary our vocabulary. We also wrote beautiful similes, comparing our characters to animals. 

We have been reminding ourselves how to accurately punctuate sentences, remembering our commas between adjectives. We are also working very hard to improve our spelling. Please see below for extra information about spelling.

Maths

This week we have been looking at place value, understanding how to partition numbers in different, more complex ways.  We used the manipulative to understand problems like 14 hundreds and 12 tens. We have been spotting number patterns and jumping in steps of 25, 50 and 100. We have solved problems with place value and have a GREAT understanding of number!

Please can you continue to practise your times tables as much as possible as we prepare for the Year 4 Multiplication check. 

Values

Our Values topic is 'Be Here, Be You, Belong!' This is an incredibly important learning journey where the children learn about the importance of being themselves. In Year 4 we really value the importance of being unique but working as a team. We value each and every member of the class and accept everyone! We read the book, 'Can I join your club?' which highlighted the importance of making others feel included. We also read a book called 'The Only Way is Badger'. He wanted everyone to be JUST LIKE HIM... but it sadly didn't go well for him! We learnt that yes, of COURSE we should love and be proud of who we are, but we must accept our friends for who they are too!