Erewash
Welcome to Erewash Class!
Welcome Booklet
Remote Learning
Our Geography unit this half term is...
What makes our world wonderful and unique?
We will be developing our knowledge and understanding about Ancient Egypt.
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This half term, we are Artists!
We will be developing our designing skills...
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Guided Reading
In Guided Reading we will be focussing on the text, “The Valley of the Lost Secrets” by Lesley Parr. This story is set at the start of the Second World War in 1939. The story follows Jimmy, a young boy evacuated from London to a small village in Wales with his younger brother. Struggling with homesickness and the challenges of fitting in, Jimmy feels angry and alone. When he discovers a mysterious skull hidden in a tree, he is drawn into uncovering secrets from the village’s past. As Jimmy investigates, he begins to build friendships and discovers courage, kindness and a sense of belonging in unexpected places. I am sure the children will love this story and we will have some brilliant class and group discussions.
English
In English, we will be writing a diary entry in role as the robot character from The Wild Robot by Peter Brown, focusing on thoughts, feelings and using descriptive language to bring the character to life. The children will explore emotive vocabulary, expanded noun phrases and varied sentence starters to make their writing engaging for the reader.
We will then watch a short film adaptation of The Wild Robot and create a film review, learning how to summarise key events, give balanced opinions and justify our ideas with reasons. The children will use persuasive language and clear paragraphs to present their views.
Maths
In Maths, we will be deepening our knowledge of area, length and perimeter, mass and capacity and fractions.
Recommended Reads
Times Tables
Please remember also to practise your times tables- We aim to have GOLD in all times tables by the end of Year 4 in Erewash Class.
Remember:-
Bronze means you can say the whole table in order- eg "one times two is two, two times two is four....." fluently.
Silver means you can say the answer to any sum from the times table eg "what's 4 x 5? What's 8 X 5 ?
Gold means you can say the reverse division fact- eg in five times table, what's 20 divided by 5? how many fives in 15?
Things to remember!
Reminders!
Don't forget to ask an adult to sign your organiser and hear you read out loud at least four times a week at home!
