Chiddingstone Church of England School
Educating for life in all its fullness - John 10:10
Year 4
13th September 2024
Y4 have had a busy first full week in the classroom, and everyone is making fantastic progress. The children have really enjoyed exploring the Greek Myth, Daedalus and Icarus. We have created storyboards to recount the myth and have put ourselves in Daedalus’s shoes to write some moving diary entries about his imprisonment.
In topic work, the children have used a range of maps to investigate the geography of Ancient Greece. I have been very impressed by the children’s knowledge of global geography, Greece and its many islands. Today, we have used our historical investigation skills to gather information about what life may have been like in Ancient Greece. I’m sure the children will be able to tell you some of the interesting facts they discovered!
In maths, we have continued to build confidence in place value to five digits and have been exploring different ways to represent a number, recording it pictorially, in numerals and in words. With their newfound confidence, the children have looked at comparing and ordering, and investigating patterns.
We have enjoyed the start of our class text, Helping Hercules, meeting the main characters Susan and Hercules himself. The children have all received a yellow reading diary to record their own reading, please also use this to record any reading you do with them at home.
Spellings - This week’s spelling rule is ‘words with the prefix ‘in’, meaning ‘not’ or ‘into’.
Spelling test: incomplete, incorrect, inactive, infinite, insecure
Challenge words: inaccurate, indefinite, inedible, inability, indecisive
Times Tables - Today Yr4 have reminded themselves how to log onto, and use, Times Table Rock Stars (TTRS). All the children have the same login details as last year. We have stuck them into reading diaries for safekeeping. Please encourage your child to spend some time practising their times tables this week on their school TTRS account as we will be using TTRS throughout the year to support our learning.
Date for the diary - Curriculum Meeting, Wednesday 18th September at 3.00pm. The meeting will be held at school, but we will send out a zoom link for those who cannot attend in person.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Chapman
Daily Life in Ancient Greece
6th September 2024
A very warm welcome to Year 4. It has been an absolute pleasure to welcome the children into the classroom this week. I have been incredibly impressed with how well everyone has settled in, getting used to our new classroom and routines.
We have started our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’ with a review of where Ancient Greece falls in world history and drawing connections between this topic and the children’s knowledge about the Romans. The children have enjoyed learning about some of the Greek Gods, I have been very impressed by their existing knowledge.
In maths this week we have started working with five-digit numbers in place value. We have been recalling how to count on in 1’s 10’s, 25’s, 100’s and 1000’s, checking our place value knowledge and explaining our understanding in our maths journals.
Today we have looked at this week’s spelling rule, words with /aw/ spelt with augh and au. There will be a short spelling dictation test on Tuesday on the first five spelling words, the remaining words are to stretch the children who need a challenge.
- caught, naughty, taught, cause, author
- daughter, autumn, clause, astronaut, applaud
Date for the diary, our curriculum meeting will be Wednesday 18th September 2024 at 3pm. More details to follow.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Chapman