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Y4 Weekly Update: August 31st to September 4th, 2015
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English
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This week, we looked at different types of poetry with a New Zealand setting. The students learned about a shape poem, a Haiku, an acrostic poem and a simile poem. Finally, we wrote our stop motion video scripts.
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Next week, we are looking at different imagery we can create through writing including similes and metaphors.
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Math
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In Maths, we looked at setting our books out correctly as well as partitioning numbers and recombining them.
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In Maths we will be looking at number bonds, plus adding two and three digit numbers together by partitioning and recombining them.
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Humanities
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For Humanities, we started to look at the world as a series of continents. We looked at North America and it’s history of native cultures.
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Next week, we will look at Asia as a continent and some of the activities people do that are distinctly ‘Asian’.
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Science
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This week, we started our unit on ‘Habitats’. We looked at what makes something alive and the difference between plants and animals.
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Next week, we will look at different types of habitats for living things, in particular animals in Antarctica.
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Art
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In Art, we made backgrounds for our stop motion videos. We also did a Zenography project which focuses on increasing focus and fine motor skills.
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Next week, we will design our own shape poem pictures to use with Literacy.
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PSHE
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This week, we looked at working together and how to act outside of the classroom.
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Next week we will look at settling down to our work quickly and focusing on instructions.
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Notices and Events
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Please try to log onto your ClassDojo accounts so you can see your child’s behavioural record for the week.
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