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Y4
Weekly Update: February 1st to 5th, 2016
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This Week
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Next Week
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English
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This week, we are starting our new
unit called Stories With Historical settings, where we will read and listen
to the story of Oliver Twist, a famous novel by Charles Dickens.
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Next week, we will chunk up the
parts of our novel into manageable sections and create a story mountain as
well as ‘boxing up’.
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Math
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Recognise and
compare acute, right and obtuse angles; draw lines of a given length;
identify perpendicular and parallel lines; recognise and draw line symmetry
in shapes; sort 2D shapes according to their properties; draw shapes with
given properties and explain reasoning; draw the other half of symmetrical
shapes
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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
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Humanities
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For Humanities, we will look at
hurricanes and things we should do if a hurricane is ever upon us, including
making our own hurricane survival kit.
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Next week, we will make our own buildings
out of recyclable materials and test them wioth fans and water to see how
they would hold together in a hurricane.
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Science
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This week we will look at
different types of resistance including water resistance and how to measure
it.
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Next 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.
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Art
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This week, we will show our
inventions to the class and present them as well as critique them
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Next week, we will look at how we
could have made improvement on our inventions.
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PSHE
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In PSHE, we will at changing
around some of our class jobs and making our classroom cleaner and more
effective.
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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.
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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 behavioral record for the
week.
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