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Y4 Weekly Update: February 8th to 12th, 2016

                                                                                                                                                                        

	This Week	Next Week
English	This week, we  will chunk up the parts of our novel into manageable sections and create a story mountain as well as ‘boxing up’.	Next week, we will write our own Stories From Different Cultures and present them as old fashioned Victorian books.
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	Next week, we will consolidate our learning and prepare for our half term test at the end of the week.
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 week, we will look at the countries we are studying for International Week and write up reports on them in class.
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 week we will finish our unit on Friction with a review class and a short test.
Art	This week, we will look at how we could have made improvement on our inventions.	Next week, we will draw Victorian pictures to create dust jackets for the books we have written in Literacy.
PSHE	In PSHE, we will at changing around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more effective.	Next week 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.