Year 4 Curriculum Letter – Summer 2

Monday 3^rd June 2024

Dear parents/carers of Year 4 pupil,

We hope you all had a nice half term break.  Here is some key information regarding Summer 2 learning.

Our Topic

Our topic this term is ‘Classification and Conservation’ which is a science based topic. Living Things and their habitats – children will be learning to group living things in a variety of ways, they will explore and use classification keys and consider how environmental changes can affect living things. We will be launching our topic by visiting Devonshire Road Nature reserve.

Key Dates

Cobalt: Tuesday 4^th June 2024 visiting Devonshire Road Nature reserve

Azure: Wednesday 5^th June 2024 visiting Devonshire Road Nature reserve

Turquoise: Wednesday 5^th June 2024 visiting Devonshire Road Nature reserve

P.E. Lessons

Please continue to ensure your child wears the appropriate kit to school.

Every Wednesday and alternative Monday (10^th June, 24^th June, 8^th July and 22^nd July) 

Reading at home:  

Reading is essential to help your child make progress in all areas of the curriculum. We expect children to continue to read for 20 minutes each day and record their reading in their reading journals which we check on Friday mornings.  Parents/carers should comment at least once a week (more often if you like) and monitor whether your child is doing regular independent reading.  You can further support your child by checking they bring their reading book and reading record to school with them everyday.

Maths home learning: 

Mathletics tasks will be set on Tuesdays weekly and and expected in by the following Monday.  In Year 4, children need to continue to learn all the times tables up to x 12.  Please encourage your child to practise their times tables regularly and focus on developing quick recall.  The aim is to be able to recall each timestable fact rather than counting or calculating.  They need to be able to answer quick-fire multiplication questions with time restrictions and would benefit from practising online using websites such as Times Tables Rock Stars (ttrockstars.com) TTRS does not have a hand in date.  Your child can practise times tables and test themselves on TTRS and we will also be using this website as a teaching tool at school.  Two further websites for online learning of the times tables would be: https://www.timestables.co.uk/ and https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button these websites can be used with a time limit to test speed and accuracy.

Home Learning Project: 

This term’s home learning projects are explained on the reverse of this letter. Please continue to assist your child to select and complete their tasks. Thank you so much for all the help you provide your children we were incredibly impressed by all the hard work and effort that went into last term’s projects!

Thank you again for all your support, and as always if you have any questions please do not hesitate to speak to us at collection time or leave a message at the school office.  

Miss Januario, Mrs Legouix and Mrs Lafinhan

Kelvin Grove Year 4 Home Learning – Summer 2, 2024

For this term, your home learning projects are to support your knowledge From Viking and Angola-Saxon Britain. Below are suggested activities and we expect you to complete at least two of them by the end of the term. We would like you to hand in your first activity by the Friday 21^st June and the second by Friday 19^th July. We would like you to enjoy getting creative with your work and are looking forward to seeing what you produce

Learning Objective	Activity
Can I show my knowledge of Viking longboats?	History: Research longboats.  What is a longboat?  Who used them?  What were the features?  What were they ued for?Create a poster about longboats which includes information and a picture or diagram or make a model longboat.  For an extra challenge, can you make a longoat model that floats?
Can I research Viking gods?	English/history: Research Viking gods and choose a way to present what you find out.  You could create a fact file about a Viking god, make 2-3 top trump style cards about Viking gods or choose your own way to present the information.  Make sure you include a picture or drawing to show what the Viking gods might have looked like.
Can I write in role?	Diary entry: Read the information about Viking jobs.  Write a diary entry about a day in the life of a Viking.  What did the Viking men, women and children do?  Choose to write in character as either a man, woman or child and explain what you did in a day and how you felt.
Can I make a musical instrument?	Science: Make a junk model instrument that can produce sound.  You should aim to make an instrument that can make sounds of different pitch or different loudness.  Challenge: make it do both change of pitch and loudness.
Can I create a medieval inspired art piece?	Art: Viking helmets!  Use your mark making skills to produce a sketch of a Viking helmet or produce a collage of one using materials such as diffent types of paper, fabric, old magazines, newspaper, or suitable packaging e.g. crisp packets, sweet wrappers.
Can I develop my knowledge viewing historical artefacts?	Educational visit Visit the British Musuem to view the Saxon and medieval collection.  You could check the museum website before going as they may have activity packs that could be used during your visit.  Ask you teacher to arrange a time for you to tell the class about your visit.  Which artefact impressed you most?  What was it?  What was it used for?  Who might have used it and when?