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Hobletts Manor Junior School

Learning and Achieving Together

Citron

Citron 2024-2025

Welcome to Year 4 and Team Citron

Your teacher is Miss Palmer

Your teaching assistants are Miss Blackwell, Miss Routledge & Mrs Green

In English, we continued our non-fiction module, learning about explanation texts. We wrote explanations for how a dishwasher works and focussed on the accurate use of commas after adverbial phrases and subordinate clauses. We then designed our own vacuum cleaners in preparation for writing our own explanations next week. We will use a range of sentence structures and punctuation, and make sure our explanations are user-friendly and use lots of technical vocabulary.

During our Maths lessons this week, we have used measuring cylinders to learn how to convert between litres and millilitres. We have also practiced estimating, comparing and measuring with a range of measures and have completed both a mass and capacity challenge. For our capacity challenge, we ordered and compared 6 cups of water from fullest to least full. We then estimated how many ml of water we thought each cup contained. Finally, we used measuring cylinders to find out how much water was actually in each cup. For our mass challenge, we ordered and compared a range of 6 objects from most to least heavy. We then estimated how heavy in grams we thought each object was. Finally, we used sets of digital scales to weigh each object. We have also continued to work on our 2x tables and are making some good progress. Next week, we will look at a range of word problems involving different measures.

This week in history, we learnt about Robert Snooks and why he is significant in Hemel Hempstead. We learnt Highwaymen did a few hundred years ago, and we placed Robert Snooks on the timeline in our classroom. We created a wanted poster to describe him and to explain why he was a dangerous man. The reward for his capture was £300, which was a lot of money in those days!

In D.T this week, we started exploring and designing our own Christmas decorations. We really enjoyed looking at a variety of decorations and discussing the different embellishments and creative effects they give when hung on a Christmas tree. We have chosen our design templates, colours and embellishment we would like to include. Now we have to wait till next week to begin sewing, we know it will be worth the wait though!

PE days for Team Citron will be Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Our library day is Friday - please bring books into school every week.