Goldfinches WB 31.10.22

Date: 20th Oct 2022 @ 7:47pm

Welcome to Goldfinches’ Weekly Blog

Happy half term everybody!

Friday Superstar: Freddie

Top Table: Chloe and Harriet W

This week we have:

…enjoyed doing our best writing yet in Year 4 with our own stories inspired by Gorilla! We discovered what modern day Greece is like in Geography and we learned to create our own Avatar to promote online safety in computing. In Maths we have been amazing at estimating and placing numbers on different number lines.

Book Trade – Message from our new School Councillors 

We will be holding a book trade on the first Friday back after half-term (Friday 5^thNovember) straight after school. In the half-term holiday, we suggest you sort through your books to find any you don’t want anymore. Please bring them in on book trade day to swap your unwanted books for new ones to enjoy. Recommended for adults too. Thank you from, school council. 

After half term we will:

Writing: Launch our magical new Pathways to writing book. Watch this space…

Reading: We will finish reading and discussing stories from ‘A World Full of Animal Stories’ and understand how using inference (the facts from the text + our knowledge of the world) can help us understand what we are reading.

Reading homework: Please comment in your child’s diary when they have read aloud to you and sign when they have read independently to themselves. Please support your child to read for 10-20 minutes daily. In year 4 it is fine to have a mixture of your child reading aloud to you and them reading quietly to themselves.

Spelling: Our spelling focus this week is words from the Y3/4 Statutory word list/

Spellings to learn for our test on Friday5th November: accident, accidental, accidentally, address, answer, appear, arrive, believe, bicycle, breath

We have used different colours to underline the tricky parts to help us practice.

Maths:  We will practise recalling the division facts for the 4x table and use the 4x table to help us learn the 8x table. We will focus on rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 in our place value lessons.

Maths Homework:  

Have a go at the online game ‘Hit the button’ to practise your 4x table and increase your speed with the 4x and division by 4 facts. If you are really fast, try the 8x table. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Play 4x table dominoes (print outs in bags. Cut out the dominoes and match the answers with the questions)

Music: This half term is Goldfinches’ turn to have weekly Ukulele lessons on Thursday afternoons.

Science: We will begin our new topic learning all about teeth, digestion and the effects of a healthy and unhealthy diet.

PE: Our PE day is Friday morning. Please come to school wearing appropriate PE kit- White t-shirt, black/blue plain hoodie and tracksuit bottoms or shorts, hair tied back and earrings removed or covered. As the grass might be wet first thing, please send your child with spare school shoes and socks to change in to after.

Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child.  admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk     01606668270

Have a lovely half term,

Mrs Evans, Mrs Judge and Miss Wilkinson.