Welcome to Year 4
A very warm welcome to Year 4. My name is Miss Holtby and this will be my fourth year at St Francis. I am delighted to be teaching Year 4 this year, and I am looking forward to our time together. Before I became a teacher in the UK, I travelled to lots of different countries and taught English to children in Vietnam. I love reading and spending time outdoors and I am excited for us to explore the world around us together. Our classroom will be an interactive and creative space in which everyone is valued.
In Year 4 we will be positive, give everything a go and push ourselves to be the best that we can be.
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Welcome to Wonderful Y4 Class
Your Class Teacher is Miss Holtby.
Supporting Miss Holtby in class is Miss Deben.
We have begun to explore our new class text. Looking at six of the illustrations, we added our inital thoughts and noun phrases to them. This is one of the the images. We’re looking forward to finding out more about the book and will write our own short story in a similar style.
We learnt all about Vincent Van Gogh and after practising his techniques of mixing different shades and tones of yellow, we recreated one of his most famous paintings, Sunflowers.
Please have a look at our suggested reading lists for children in Year 4. These books are a range of bestselling picture books and longer texts to encourage both shared reading, individual reading and reading for pleasure.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/g/great-books-guide-children-8-to-9-years/
A list of Recommended Reads from us is attached below:
Additional Recommended Reads for Year 4
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities
In Year 4, it is expected that children access learning at least 4 times a week using:
Spelling Shed, Maths Shed, Reading Eggs and Timestables Rockstars.
Useful Websites
A great resource for talking games at home – Let’s Get Talking Games
A fantastic website for all sorts of home learning activities and online books – Teachwire Website