As scientists we will be, 

• As scientists, we will be studying sound.  We will be investigating sound as vibrations and looking at volume, pitch, how sound travels and changes over distance.  We will also be creating our own musical instruments which will make a variety of sounds.

This year, Year 4s will take part in the compulsory Times Tables Check. Children will answer 25 questions, with only 6 seconds to answer each question.

Please ensure that you regularly practise and test your child on their times tables.  At the end of Year 4, children should know the all times tables up to 12x12.  It is always useful to practise the times tables as this really helps children with a range of mathematics work in school.  If you have access to the internet, a Google search for ‘maths games’ is always a fun idea!  Children can also be tested to earn their exciting Maths Challenge badges! 

English

In English, we will be creating our own Narnia setting and character descriptions. As well as this, we will write our own non chronological reports.   

How can you help at home?

It is important to read a variety of texts with your child.  This can be anything from their reading books to newspapers and leaflets.  This will help to extend your child’s vocabulary and their understanding of different text types, which will in turn help to improve their writing.

Geography

As geographers, we will be exploring the world.  We will look at lines of latitude and longitude, the equator, the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and the Antarctic Circle.

 As mathematicians, we will

• recall multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12
• use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including: multiplying by 0 and 1; dividing by 1; multiplying together three numbers
• recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations
• multiply two-digit and three-digit numbers by a one-digit number using formal written layout
• solve problems involving multiplying and adding, including using the distributive law to multiply two digit numbers by one digit, integer scaling problems and harder correspondence problems such as n objects are connected to m objects.
• recognise and show, using diagrams, families of common equivalent fractions
• count up and down in hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when dividing an object by one hundred and dividing tenths by ten.
• solve problems involving increasingly harder fractions to calculate quantities, and fractions to divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number

How can you help at home?

https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/

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