Yr4 LM CB Term 3 2011-12
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Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary School Year 4 Class Bulletin Term 3 January 2012 Dear Parents / Carers, Welcome to Year 4’s Term 3 Class Bulletin! Our topic for this term is the Ancient Greeks with a particular focus on the Ancient Olympic Games. Children will find out how the games compare with the modern games that we are all excited about witnessing later this summer! We will be visiting the British Museum later this month to view artefacts from Ancient Greece that will help us with our study, including the many beautiful pots and vases on display that have provided historians with clues about this period of history. On our return to school we will make and decorate our own Greek style pots with images of the Games. In Science we will be studying friction with reference to how this force affects us during sporting activities. In PE we will be cr eating our own “Opening Ceremony” during dance lessons and doing outdoor Athletics. At the end of term we aim to do some cooking in preparation for a Greek Banquet, to celebrate the end of our Olympic studies! If you have been on holiday to Greece we would love to see your photos and souvenirs. Mrs Laing & Mrs McCraw [email protected] [email protected] Topics this term Literacy This term we start off with the unit ‘Stories with dilemmas or issues’. We have been reading short stories and discussing styles of writing. We will be creating stories, in groups, in which readers are asked to make their own choices about the direction of the storyline, based on the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. We will publish these stories on Fronter later this term. The unit for the latter part of the term poetry. The children will be learning about performance poetry by listening to and performing poems themselves. Numeracy We will continue with the timestable challenge each Friday. Please support your child with their times tables and look out for their name on our “I beat my target!” success board, in the Year 4 window. We have recently been working on money and decimals and solving real life problems involving spending. This is an area which you can help your child at home by involving them in simple transactions in shops and allowing them to handle coins wherever possible. Important Notes: FRONTER: Find out more and watch our Green Screen Documentary! Year 4 have been using Fronter at school in ICT lessons. Fronter uses a unique log on (USO) which we sent home in a letter to you last term. This USO also gives children home online access to lots of programmes that we use at school. We would like to use Fronter more often as a link between what we are doing in class and at home. On 26 th January we would like to invite you to come in to class to see Fronter in action, during which time you will be able to log on with your child and ask any questions you may have. To encourage you to come, we will be screening the green screen documentary that we created earlier this year. There will be two half-hour sessions, come along at 8:50am OR 3pm. Please speak to Mrs McCraw if you want more information about Fronter.
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Immanuel and St. Andrew CE Primary School Year 4 Class Bulletin
Term 3 January 2012
Dear Parents / Carers,
Welcome to Year 4’s Term 3 Clas s Bul l e t in!
Our topic for this term is the Ancient Greeks with a particular focus on the Ancient Olympic Games. Children will find out how the games compare with the modern games that we are all excited about witnessing later this summer! We will be visiting the British Museum later this month to view artefacts from Ancient Greece that will help us with our study, including the many beautiful pots and vases on display that have provided historians with clues about this period of history. On our return to school we will make and decorate our own Greek style pots with images of the Games. In Science we will be studying friction with reference to how this force affects us during sporting activities. In PE we will be creating our own “Opening Ceremony” during dance lessons and doing outdoor
Athletics. At the end of term we aim to do some cooking in preparation for a Greek Banquet, to celebrate the end of our Olympic studies! If you have been on holiday to Greece we would love to see your photos and souvenirs.
Mrs Laing & Mrs McCraw
[email protected] [email protected]
T o p i c s t h i s t e r mL i t e r a c y
This term we start off with the unit ‘Stories with dilemmas or issues’. We have been reading short stories and discussing styles of writing. We will be creating stories, in groups, in which readers are asked to make their own choices about the direction of the storyline, based on the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series. We will publish these stories on Fronter later this term.The unit for the latter part of the term poetry. The children will be learning about performance poetry by listening to and performing poems themselves.
Nu m e r a c y
We will continue with the timestable challenge each Friday. Please support your child with their times tables and look out for their name on our “I beat my target!” success board, in the Year 4 window.
We have recently been working on money and decimals and solving real life problems involving spending. This is an area which you can help your child at home by involving them in simple transactions in shops and allowing them to handle coins wherever possible.
I m p o r t an t No t e s :
F R O N T E R :F i nd o u t m o r e and w a t c h o u r G r e e n S c r e e nDo c u m e n t a r y !Year 4 have been using Fronter at school in ICT lessons. Fronter uses a unique log on (USO) which we sent home in a letter to you last term. This USO also gives children home online access to lots of programmes that we use at school. We would like to use Fronter more often as a link between what we are doing in class and at home. On 26 th January we would like to invite you to come in to class to see Fronter in action, during which time you will be able
to log on with your child and ask any questions you may have. To encourage you to come, we will be screening the green screen documentary that we created earlier this year.There will be two half-hour sessions, come along at 8:50am OR 3pm.
Please speak to Mrs McCraw if you want more information about Fronter.
8/3/2019 Yr4 LM CB Term 3 2011-12
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