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Y4 Weekly Update: February 15th to 19th, 2016

                                                                                                                                                                        

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we  will write our own Stories From Different Cultures and present them as old fashioned Victorian books.	Next term, we will start on our unit Dramatic Conventions and start planning for our KS2 production by looking at different Horrible Histories plays.
Math	Understand how to divide 2-digit and 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers using place value and mental strategies; divide numbers by 1-digit numbers to give answers between 10 and 25, with remainders; identify factor pairs and use these to solve multiplications and divisions with larger numbers; use Frog to find complements to multiples of 1000; use Frog to find change from £10, £20 and £50	Recognise, use, compare and order decimal numbers; understand place value in decimal numbers; recognise that decimals are tenths; round decimals numbers to the nearest whole number; divide 2-digit numbers by 10 to get decimal numbers; multiply decimal numbers by 10 to get 2-digit numbers; divide 3-digit multiples of ten by 100 to get decimal numbers; multiply decimal numbers by 100 to get 3-digit multiples of ten; add four digit numbers using written method with answers greater than 10 000
Humanities	For Humanities, we will make our own buildings out of recyclable materials and test them with fans and water to see how they would hold together in a hurricane.	Next term, we will start our new unit and look at what we know and what we want to know.
Science	This week we will look at how different types of resistance affects us in our daily lives and how we can reduce and produce different types of resistance.	Next term, we will start our new unit on circuits and conductors and will begin by identifying important vocabulary which will help us to learn about electricity.
Art	This week, we will look at how we could have made improvement on our inventions.	Next term, we will look fine tuning our motor skills by creating props for our KS2 production.
PSHE	In PSHE, we will at changing around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more effective.	Next term, we will look at the positives that have happened this term as well as trying to think of ways to make next term better.
Notices and Events	Please try to log onto your ClassDojo accounts so you can see your child’s behavioral record for the week. Don't forget about getting the correct clothes for your kids for International Week.Have a great holiday and we'll see you back on the 29th of February.