Y4S Ascot Blog 2017/18

Wednesday, 7 March 2018

This week, we explored various pieces of art in order to find out more about our topic.

	This Week	Next Week
English	Understanding how Dialogues/Plays links with KS2 production Introduction to our dialogues and plays Experiencing different characters Producing your own play	Using props in your show Identifying costumes Using voice to show character Using actions to show character Using the stage
Maths	Tell the time on a 24 hour clock, using am and pm correctly; convert pm times to 24 hour clock and vice versa; use 24 hour clock in calculating intervals of time; measure and calculate perimeters of rectilinear shapes where each side is labelled in cm and m; find missing lengths in rectilinear composite shapes; find the perimeters of rectilinear shapes with some lengths not marked; convert from one unit of length to another; solve word problems involving lengths including those involving perimeters	Understand place value in 4-digit numbers; partition 4-digit numbers; solve subtraction of 4-digit numbers using column subtraction (decomposition); choose an appropriate method to solve subtractions, either mental or written, and either column or counting up (Frog)
UOI	Unpacking the central idea and using a variety of materials to make a new display for this unit	Identifying the different types of visual art and finding out more about them
Notices and Events	Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every week. Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

A huge thank you to the parents of Y4S for making International Day extremely successful!

	This Week	Next Week
English	We will continue to read various exploration texts and create flow charts to help in writing our own.	We will plan and independently write write our ‘Big Write‘
Math	We will add/subtract amounts of money using various mental and written methods; work on solving word problems and choosing the best methods to do so.	Maths Revision and assessments
UOI	We will decide on a topic to research a make a Google slide presentation.	Presenting our research and doing scientific experiments
Notices and Events	Please ensure that your child is keeping up to date with his/her homework. New homework will be allocated every week. International Week is next week! Help your child be curious about our class country; Indonesia! *Please encourage your children to do extra reading and Mathletics at home!

A huge thank you to the parents in Y4M who came to teach us about different countries!