4SP were very excited to learn that they had won the MASHES trophy this week for the most points earned on TT Rock Stars. Please help your child to log on to contribute points to the competition this week! In class, the children have been learning how to divide 2-digit numbers by a 1-digit number. We used two different methods – place value chart/counters and, part/part/whole.  By the end of the week, most children were using the latter method whilst flexibly partitioning the 2-digit numbers to allow the calculation. We have begun to look at division with remainders and will continue next week to embed the learning.

This week the children took part in a SPaG quiz to help them remember all that we learnt this half term.  In English, we looked at journalist style writing so that we could write a newspaper report on the events in George’s Marvellous Medicine.  Ask your child to tell you what should be included in the first paragraph, the main paragraph and ending paragraph! 

The spellings this week are commonly misspelt words: 

with, went, friend, tomorrow, off, of, our, are, interesting, disappear. 

We will check these on 10th February. 

Working scientifically this week, we used the skill of ‘Setting up a test’.  We thought about using a zip line to transport Tiny the Turtle, from the Year 4 area down to the playground, as fast as possible!  The children had to think carefully about different materials to use for the harness and what forces would be in play.  They then had to draw and label their test.  Ask your child to tell you what materials they chose and (more importantly!) why?  Can they use the terms friction, gravity and air resistance correctly?