Year 4 - Welcome Back and A few things for next week - 27th February 2019

Welcome back to the second half of year 4!  The children have come back refreshed and ready for the challenges that lie ahead in the next half term.  We are off to Florida for our humanities topic this half term and we have already got to grips with division, teeth and fronted adverbials!  Next week is a busy one and a letter came home today detailing some of the main activities we have going on.


Monday: am 4 children attending PE event.
Wednesday: Bring a packed lunch and we will be going to the printers to discover the process involved in printing a book.
Thursday: Dress up as a book character.
Friday: Orienteering at DMS.

Please note that there will be no swimming next week 6th March as we will be on our trip to the printers.

Our class assembly will be on Friday 29th March.

Year 4 - Home Learning - 18th February 2019

Home learning - Year 4 - Spring Week 6

14th February 2019

A Maths Mystery for the holiday:

Have a go at solving the 5 clues in the Maths Mystery.  The answers you get will help you to determine which of the suspects committed the crime!  Good Luck!

Accuracy in AR

Over the holidays we need to keep going on those AR quizzes!  In the stats displayed in the library Year 4 were in the lead for the number of quizzes attempted and the number of children taking part, but in last place for accuracy!  So, during the holidays please keep going. Do some quizzes, but take your time and make sure you look at the book if you don’t know the answer to the question!

Song Words

Mrs Trevorrow has set us the challenge of learning the words for our year 4 concert songs, look on the dasp music website in the student resources, year 4 singing concert resources to find the words and backing tracks to practise with.

Please remember:

Times Tables Rockstars, Mathletics, AR Reading Quizzes and Purple Mash which can all be accessed at home to support your learning in school.

Year 4 - Terrific Scientific - 18th February 2019

What a wonderful way to end the half term.  From Monday's Pea growing workshop, amazing undersea antics and learning about the dangers of balloons to the amazing Mr G and finally Friday's Science Fair the children had great fun learning about the Science of the environment and how to look after it. 
A big well done to all of those children who brought in an exhibit for the Science Fair, the Mayor of Dorchester didn't expect to have so much fun when he came to visit!  Also very well done to Sophie and Reece, Erin and Jasper for doing such a good job at the official opening of our Eco-Shed.  I don't know about you, but since last week I've been thinking very carefully about how I recycle and buying less plastic packaged foods!


Instructions for growing Peas:
Leave lid on loosely.
Pea should have started sprouting by now.
The root will grow first, then the shoot.
When it reaches the top of the container it is ready to transplant into a pot with some soil.
Please bring the plastic test tube back to school to be recycled.

We would love to see some pictures of your peas as they grow!

Year 4 - Litter Pick - 9th February 2019

As part of our Science Week we intend to go on a litter pick to help change our environment for the better.  In order to do this we will need as many pairs of washing up gloves as possible.  If you have an old pair that need reusing or recycling then please pass them on to us.  Please get your child to bring in their gloves on Tuesday 12th February.
Parents are also invited to come and join us for this event, please ask in class for timings.

Year 4 - Science Week Ahead - Invitations to events

This week looks to be a very exciting week at The Prince of Wales School.  It is Science Week!
We have lots of things going on, if you are able to come along and join in with the following events we would love to see you!
Tuesday - The litter pick, please come and ask about timings and you can help us keep our town clean!
Thursday - Our daily mile takes on a new challenge following along the routes year 4 used to plan our new Walk Zone!  Come and walk with us, please come and ask in class for timings.
Thursday afternoon - The big one, the one you've all been preparing your wonderful experiments for - The Science Fair!  Please come and see what all of our budding scientists at work, please see the school website for timings. 
We look forward to seeing you there!

Year 4 - Home Learning - Friday 8th February 2019

Home learning - Year 4 - Spring Week 5

8th February 2019

Science Fair Challenge- Reminder from last week

On Thursday 14th February we will be holding our Science Fair to celebrate the end of Science Week 2019.  For home learning I would like you to design a science experiment that you can bring along to the Science Fair.  Go for that awe and wonder!

Big Write coming up:

This week we have been looking at the amazing book - Flotsam - and it has really captured the children’s imagination.  Next week we will be having a big write inspired by the book. So far the children have written paragraphs describing the start of the story.  I would like them to write the rest…

Pick one of the following pictures and then imagine that the character in the story gets sucked into the picture and goes on an amazing adventure.  Plan what will happen inside the picture, will the character ever return?

Plan - Talk about this at home and jot down your ideas.

How did the character get sucked into the picture?

What do they see, hear and feel?

How can they breathe under water?

Who do they meet?

What do they discover?

What is the problem in the story?

What does your character do?

How is the problem sorted out?

How does your character get out of the picture?

Please remember:

Times Tables Rockstars, Mathletics, AR Reading Quizzes and Purple Mash which can all be accessed at home to support your learning in school.

Year 4 - Miss Johnson's RWI group spellings 7th February

Name………………………………

Spellings - Miss Johnson’s Read Write Inc Group 7th February 2019

	Check 1	Check 2	Check 3
cheekily
rudely
angrily
sadly
heavily
bossily
heroically
magically
automatically
comically
arrive
surprise
exercise

Year 4 - Junk Required! - 1st February 2019

Please can you help?
After designing out recycled turtle yesterday we need the following (clean) items to create our models:

About 40 2.25 plastic bottles with bumpy bottoms.
Plastic bottle tops all colours
Small and Large tin cans 200g and 400g.
Coloured plastic bags

Please bring any junk into school as early as possible next week, we will recycle any left overs!