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Y4 Weekly Update: September 14th to 18th , 2015
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English
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This week, we started our new story, Awongaleema as part of the unit Stories From Another Culture. We learned the vocabulary words and were able to retell the story.
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Next week, we will be looking at recreating the story of Awongaleema using different forms of punctuation as well as different connectives.
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Math
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In Maths, we learned × and ÷ facts for the 6 and 9 times-table and identified patterns; multiply multiples of 10 by single-digit numbers; multiply 2-digit numbers by single-digit numbers (the grid method) and find fractions of amounts.
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In Maths we will look at telling and writing the time to the minute on analogue and digital clocks; calculate time intervals; measure in metres, centimetres and millimetres; convert lengths between units and record using decimal notation.
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Humanities
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For Humanities, we looked at Asia as a continent as well as its culture and its geographical layout. We located it on our world map and wrote about it using the skills we have learned in Literacy.
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Next week, we will look at Africa as a continent and look at some of the tribal aspects of African culture along with its people.
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Science
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This week, we looked at how animals adapt to their habitats especially those here in Asia. We also looked at how the animals protect themselves against predators such as man.
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Next week, we will look at grouping different organisms together as well as what food chains are.
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Art
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In Art, we finished off our shape poems of creatures from the continents we have looked at.
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Next week, we will create our own Japanese Blossom trees.
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PSHE
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This week, we looked at how other students go to school from around the world and how we are lucky at our own school.
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Next week we will look at sportsmanship and how we can play hard but play fair was well.
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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. Please also make sure that your child brings a marker and glue with them to school in their pencil case.
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