• Year 4 Google Classroom

Welcome to Jaguar Class :) 

Spring 2 2025

Hello again Jaguars, I am so happy to be back in Year 4. 

This page will give you an outline of all the topics we will be studying this half term. I have planned lots of fun and engaging lessons this half term and all I ask is that you work hard and get stuck in! Parents - If you have any questions/queries about anything then please e-mail me on jaguars@parkgate.cheshire.sch.uk. 

Reading:

The children will be given a levelled book from Oxford Owl and this will be changed once a week. It’s important to re-read the book once finished as it will help to build reading skills like being able to summarise. Please ensure reading books are brought into school every so that children can be listened to and work on their reading targets throughout the school week. 

English:

This half term we will be focusing on a book called Leon and the place between. We will be learning all about similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia. 

Guided Reading:

For Guided Reading, we will be reading The Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo. It is about an orphaned white lion cub and it's life after rescue. 

Maths:

This half term, we will be starting our Fractions Unit: 

• Step 1 Understand the whole

• Step 2 Count beyond 1

• Step 3 Partition a mixed number

• Step 4 Number lines with mixed numbers

• Step 5 Compare and order mixed numbers

• Step 6 Understand improper fractions

• Step 7 Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions

• Step 8 Convert improper fractions to mixed numbers

• Step 9 Equivalent fractions on a number line

• Step 10 Equivalent fraction families

• Step 11 Add two or more fractions

• Step 12 Add fractions and mixed numbers

• Step 13 Subtract two fractions

• Step 14 Subtract from whole amounts

• Step 15 Subtract from mixed numbers

Times Tables:

Times tables are really important and by the end of year 4 it is expected that you should recall your times tables up to 12 x 12. In school we will be playing daily times tables games and there will be a weekly times table challenge called Rainbow times tables (This is a timed test. You will progress through the colours once you achieve full marks on each colour) To help you achieve full marks ensure you practice your tables at home too. 

Click on the times tables icon at the bottom of this page for some useful websites and games.

Here is a link with more information about the times tables test:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/869846/2020_Information_for_parents_multiplication_tables_check.pdf

Here is a link to Maths Frame. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

This website gives you an example game of what the test will be like so you can practise one here as much as you like. 

You will have to get used to the time element - I do understand that the time element can upset some children and make them anxious but if we start now and practise as much as we can, we can build up their confidence for when it comes to the actual test. 

Science: Animals Including Humans. Teeth, the digestive system and food chains. 

The skills you will be learning this half term are:

I can use straightforward evidence to answer questions about the functions of human teeth

I can compare animal and human teeth.

I can use a simple practical enquiry to answer questions about the basic parts of the digestive system

I can compare the diets of different animals, and to use the evidence of the food they eat to answer questions

I can construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

PE:

PE will be taught by Mr Hall and Mr Kelly every Tuesdays and Wednesdays. You can wear your full PE kit on these days. Can you also please remember to bring in spare socks and shoes/trainers in case we go out onto the field where it can be set and muddy.

Geography: 

Our History Topic is the Anglo Saxons

The skills that you will be learning this half term are:

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I can use dates and terms accurately and describe the main changes in a period of history

I can use sources of information to form conclusions about the past

I can identify periods of rapid change in history and contrast them with times of relatively little change.

I can describe some of the causes and consequences of  Anglo-Saxon life.

I can use appropriate historical vocabulary to compare and contrast key people/events/artefacts in history.

I can describe the characteristic features of the past, including ideas, beliefs, attitudes and experiences of men, women and children.

 

Art: We will be studying Karla Gerrard. 

PSHE: We will be learning non verbal communication like gestures and sign language. 

RE:

Our focus for this half term will be Christianity through Art. We will be analysing lots of Art against passages of the Bible. 

Computing:  HTML editing. The children will learn to edit web pages and make their own. 

Music: The Orchestra. We will learn the instruments in the Orchestra, about Symphonies and about famous composers.

Homework

English homework will be set on Google Classrooms every Wednesday and expected to be completed for the following week. Maths will be set on My Maths every Wednesday and expected to be completed for the following week. Your child will come home with a letter with their login details. 

Thank you,

Mrs Lea :)