Helping your child at home Reading All the

Reading • All the children in class 4 have a reading book which is

• Skills in Reading • Use phonic skills and knowledge to read new

Fiction • Why did the author choose this setting? • What makes this a

Non-Fiction • Why has the writer written this text? • Have you found any

Spelling • Spellings are given to your child each week. They have a spelling

Add the prefix ‘un’ to these root words! undo unfinished un unwell unload unfit

Maths Kirfs • Each Friday the pupils in class 4 have a mental maths

Key Instant Recall Facts This half term KIRFS for class 4 Know all the

Writing Children improve their writing by talking and being able to express their ideas

Try to start your sentences in different ways; this will improve your writing. Begin

Begin with an adjective. Frightened anxious, Henry crept down the dark staircase. Begin with

Topic • Each term the children study either a history based or Geography based

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Helping your child at home

Reading • All the children in class 4 have a reading book which is either a book on one of the schemes or a library book. • Try to listen to your child reading each day and discuss what they have read. Encourage your child to read other materials at home for example recipes, film reviews, jokes etc It is important to talk about what they have read.

• Skills in Reading • Use phonic skills and knowledge to read new words • Read with fluency • Navigate texts by skimming and scanning • Develop comprehension of texts by predicting, deducing, inferring, speculating and making connections.

Fiction • Why did the author choose this setting? • What makes this a successful story? What evidence do you have to justify your opinion? • How could the story be improved or changed for the better? • What was the most exciting part of the story? Explain your answer as fully as you can. • What genre is this story? How do you know? • What was the least exciting part of the story? Explain your answer as fully as you can. • When the author writes in short sentences, what does this tell you?

Non-Fiction • Why has the writer written this text? • Have you found any of the illustrations, diagrams or pictures useful? Why/why not? Try to explain fully • Why did the writer choose to present the information in the way they did? • How could the information be presented better? • What makes this text successful? • Are there any features that it hasn’t got? Why do you think it doesn’t have them? • Can you think of another text that is similar to this one? What are the similarities and differences between them?

Spelling • Spellings are given to your child each week. They have a spelling test each Wednesday. Encourage your child to get into a routine. • The Children in class 4 will be given the rules to learn and these will be tested each week. • eg Prefixes and suffixes.

Add the prefix ‘un’ to these root words! undo unfinished un unwell unload unfit unpack

Maths Kirfs • Each Friday the pupils in class 4 have a mental maths test and the KIRFS help them to improve their work in all areas of maths but particularly in mental maths. • Times tables are also tested each week. Help the children to become fluent in their responses. • Web sites such as conquer maths are fun and help them to improve.

Key Instant Recall Facts This half term KIRFS for class 4 Know all the number bonds for each number to 20 I have a metre of string. I use 67 cm to wrap my parcel. How much string is left? 33 cm are left! (1 decimal place) All decimal bonds to 1: 0. 1 0. 2 0. 3 0. 4 0. 5 0. 6 0. 7 0. 8 0. 9 1. 0 + + + + + Year 6 Know all decimals that total 1 or 10 Know all number bonds to 100 Example of number bonds to 100: Well done, that was quick! Year 5 0. 9 0. 8 0. 7 0. 6 0. 5 0. 4 0. 3 0. 2 0. 1 0. 0 = = = = = 1 1 1 1 1 Know all previous number bonds including decimals Example of decimal bonds to 10: 6. 2 + 3. 8 = 10; 6. 2 + 3. 8 = 10 so 10 - 6. 2 = 3. 8; 10 - 3. 8 = 6. 2 4. 9 + 5. 1 = 10; 5. 1 + 4. 9 = 10 so 10 - 4. 9 = 5. 1; 10 - 5. 1 = 4. 9

Writing Children improve their writing by talking and being able to express their ideas and feelings. We no longer have BIG Talk as a home work but instead this is done in class before the BIG WRITE on Thursday mornings. You can help your child to improve their writing by encouraging them to talk about what they see and what they are doing. Discuss with the children how the writer they are reading uses words.

Try to start your sentences in different ways; this will improve your writing. Begin with an adjective. Begin with a question. Begin with an adverb. Begin with a verb and an adverb. Begin with a time. Begin with a place.

Begin with an adjective. Frightened anxious, Henry crept down the dark staircase. Begin with a verb and an adverb. Walking cheerfully into the room, the student smiled at the teacher.

Topic • Each term the children study either a history based or Geography based topic. • Encourage your child to research an area of the topic they are interested in to share with the rest of the class.