Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a healthy, happy New Year! Thank you all for our lovely presents - you are all very kind and generous!  From 2L staff :)

Thank you so much for the cards, delicious treats, lovely gifts and beautful flowers - we love them all!  It is very kind of you to treat us to such lovely things.  We hope you have a good break over Christmas - enjoy family time together and take time to rest and recuperate after a (very!) long first term. See you in 2026!

Yesterday in guided reading, the children were paired reading. They did really well at this.  One person is the pointer who points to the words and the other person is the reader. They then swap over. 

We had a great time talking about and sharing our pieces of creative homework. We spoke the things we enjoyed about the homework and gave each other some lovely feedback. It was clear to see that everyone had worked so hard creating some amazing pieces of work- well done!  We would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your Chritmas wishes, cards and gifts, and we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!  The Year 4 Team. 

 In RJ, we have been playing a maths game called Dotty Four. This helps us to practise the parts that make 4 (2 and 2, 3 and 1). You take it in turns to roll a 1,2,3 dice and draw that many dots in a square in the grid. The aim of the game is to get 4 dots.  So if you roll a 3, you draw 3 dots. Then the other team has a go. If they roll a 1, they could draw it in the same box to get 4. If they get a 2 or 3, they would have to draw the dots in another box. Miss Johnston got lots of 4s yesterday, but today RJ got the hang of it! __ is a part and ___is a part, the whole is 4. If you want to play it aty home, here a link to show you how to play Dotty Six (very similar!).  https://nrich.maths.org/problems/dotty-six?tab=overview

 We had a surprise Christmas party, playing Musical Bumps, Musical Stars, Move and Freeze, Corners and The Floor is Lava!

 This week, we are playing lots of Christmas- themed games. Today in RJ, we had to give directions for George to reach the decorations. We used the words forwards, backwards and turn. He was doing a lot of turning!