Team 4 Wb 23.9.24

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 5:17pm

What another busy week we have had in Team 4!

In our English learning this week, we continued reading our class text. We learnt that Hannah loved gorillas however her dad was too busy to take her to the zoo to see her favourite animal. We then read that on the night before her birthday she received a gift which was a toy gorilla. She threw the gorilla on the floor as she was disappointed it wasn’t real but then it came to life overnight. Using this information, we practiced using fronted adverbials to show when and how the gorilla came to life. We also continued practising our spellings. Our focus this week was on the prefixes –dis –in and –un and we learnt how these prefixes change the root words meaning. You can support this learning at home by practicing the following words with your child:

• Unkind
• Unhappy
• Invisible
• Disappointed
• Uncover

In maths this week, we finished our learning about place value. We explored how to round to the nearest ten and hundred and then we also completed a review of all our learning so far in Team 4. We also completed our weekly times table challenge and also practised our times tables on TT Rockstars. Next week we will begin our next unit which is focussing on addition and subtraction.

In our afternoon learning, in geography we explored which countries were North, South, East and West of the United Kingdom and in circle time we explored stereotypes in sport and the negative impact they can have on people. In No Outsiders we read a story called ‘The Flower’ about a child who finds a seed which brings colour to his life as it grows into a flower and in art we continued drawing our portraits and adding colour and texture to them.  

Just a couple of reminders for next week:

• We are currently involved in a TT Rockstars battle with Team 6 and we are winning! Please encourage your child to log on to TT Rockstars for 10-15 minutes each day.
• Reading records will be checked and books swapped on Please ensure reading records and books are brought in on this day and that your child has five reads logged in their record for this week.
• Mouse Mania next Friday is crafts so the children do not need to bring anything in.
• On Thursday we will be swimming as usual. Please ensure your child brings in their swimming costume, goggles (if needed), a towel and also a coat.  

Have a great weekend Team 4!

Mr L and Mrs Caroe