Here is another lesson for Year 4 that I thought I would share. It starts with an activity linking back to being able to count backwards in 25's. The main activity is related to placing numbers on a number line up to 1,000. The main focus to begin with is to get the children to tell you what they know about the number line using the start and end parameters before answering the actual question. You may not need to use all the slides, but my class have struggled recently when I have tried to move on too fast, so fingers crossed this will allow most of the class to stay together. You may want to remove the timings for completing the activities, but they have helped to keep my class on task and focused as they don't want to get left behind.

As we are all on this new mastery journey together, just thought I would share a few lessons resources that I have made. These 3 lessons worked really well with my Y4's and all children were successful. We are experimenting with fluency variation, reasoning, concrete, pictorial and abstract strands of the mastery approach. The 1st lesson involves showing the children exactly what 1000 looks like without scaling it down so we made 10 pages of 100 buns and have them up on display. This has really been a vital step to help all the children in my class move forward with their place value skills so far. Hope you find them useful.

Year 4 - Here are 3 Area lessons I have recently planned that someone may find to be a useful starting point. Ideas are tweaked and adpated from a range of maths resources My NQT team mate used lesson 2 as an observation lesson and it went really well.

Not all children start at part 1, they start at the section which is most relevant to them. Children decide if they are ready to move onto the next section or not. Our school has a real focus on the children being independent and assessing their own understanding.

If you have the job of sorting the Harvest Festival assembly with your class then this is a fun song to brighten it up. Using the Theme tune of ‘Let it go’ from the Disney film Frozen, I have adapted the lyrics to fit a harvest theme. The powerpoint plays in time with the song. My class learnt this and performed it after a little harvest speech. Everyone thought it was great. We had parents watching and the feedback was fantastic. Hope it helps save someone some time. You could always just make a few tweaks so that it fits your harvest theme perfectly. If there are any issues with downloading the PPT - Just let me know and I’ll email it. Sometimes depending upon your device, my timings for the screens to change can be out of sync. You may just have to play with the transition timings. The other option is to remove the sound file and you click along with your own instrumental version of ‘Let it Go!’

This session is the 1st session for introducing the concept of division ready for progressing onto the short written method. The lesson is based around the children using manipulatives (Base 10) to visualise the structure and the concept. The 1st few questions involve no exchanging and then the next few involving exchanging tens for ones. This lesson would then progress onto creating a pictoral representation alongside the short written method. As a school, we are using the terminology for each part of the number sentences so this is included on the slides. Hope some of you find it useful.