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Lancasters!

We are a lovely mix of curious and passionate young learners from year 4 . We are looking forward to sharing with you all the fantastic learning that takes place in our classroom. In Lancasters, we strive to always try our best whilst having fun along the way, so please keep checking our class web page for news and updates. We are taught by Miss Gilpin (Mrs Robinson on a Tuesday afternoon) and also have the wonderful Miss Aslin and Mrs Fordy to help us with our learning. Our PE lessons are on a Monday and Tuesday so the children need to come into school dressed in weather appropriate kits on these days. 

Homework

Each week there will be a 10 minute session set on Times Table Rockstars. The log in details can be found on the inside of your child's reading record. On a Monday, one of the adults in class will check your child's reading record to see that they have recorded 3 reading sessions throughout the week. These can be completed in school or at home reading with an adult or independently. 

Autumn- Term 2

Hello and welcome back to school! We hope you had a wonderful half term break. We are so excited to have you back in year 4 with lots of exciting learning planned. Our theme this term is 'Food Glorious Food'. In English this term we will be basing our learning on the texts 'Iron Giant' by Ted Hughes' with 'The Wild Robot' by Peter Brown as our supporting text. We will be understanding and exploring features of description by identifying powerful vocabulary and descriptive techniques, use of sensory language and exploring character and settings through discussion and drama. We will create our own setting and character descriptions and later on in the term, we will create our own engaging set of instructions based on 'How to capture an iron giant'. In our Book Dive lessons we will use the books ‘Revolting Rhymes’ by Roald Dahl and 'Stich Head' by Guy Bass. 

In Geography this term our learning is based around the question ‘Where does our food come from?' To start the term, we will be exploring picture sources, packaging and extracts to try and see where the food we often eat comes from. We will find out how the environment in temperate and tropical climate are being used and explore how land use changes in tropical biomes. We will discuss how humans are impacting on this. We will then focus on the food production of Italy and exploring how their Mediterranean climate allows them to grow. To end the topic, we will focus on the UK and what food grows here. 

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In Science this term we are focusing on ‘Sound’. We will begin by exploring how different musical instruments create sound. We will learn how sound travels and how the ear picks up the vibrations. We will be exploring pitch and know how there are patterns between the pitch of a sound and the object that produces it. We will then investigate how volume can be altered by using different materials and how it can change in relation to distance. 

Find below our knowledge overview for what we are doing across all the subject areas this term. 

In Year 4, we have the MTC (Multiplication Times Table Check). This doesn't happen until towards the end of the school year, however it's really important that we get lots of practice at knowing our times tables!

Times Table Resources

Please find below some links to practise your times tables below: