We have had a lovely week in Year 4. In Maths, we have been learning about co-ordinates. We have been reading the co-ordinates on a grid and using them to plot our own points and shapes.
We have done lots of writing in English. We have focused on the fight between the Montagues and Capulets and Romeo getting banished. We have thought about how Romeo and Juliet would have felt about these events and written a retell from their points of view. We used lots of show not tell to describe their feelings.
In Computing, we have started to create simple animations using Purple Mash. We had to draw images in the different frames, making slight changes so that it appears to move.
We all enjoyed our sports day this week! Although it was a bit different than normal, we had great fun and we all tried really hard! Everyone took part in 100m sprint, 2 lap distance race, discuss, bean bag balance race and the assault course.
Miss Holt and Mrs Walker are very proud of Year 4 this week! Once again, we have adapted to remote learning really well.
In Maths, we have been learning about different polygons, including triangles and quadrilaterals. We have identified their properties including the numbers of sides, the types of angles, the lines of symmetry and we have also discussed the difference between parallel and perpendicular lines!
In English, we have continued to look at Romeo and Juliet. This week, we have focused on the big fight scene between the Montagues and the Capulets and we have thought about how the characters would have felt about the events.
In Science, we have been thinking about the different ways that we can classify and group living things. We thought about the characteristics of the living things to sort them in preparation for creating our classification keys next week.
In Music, we have been creating our own graphic scores of the music that could accompany the fight scene in Romeo and Juliet. We decided on different symbols to represent the components of our music to record it.
In Design and Technology, we have created our own recipes for focaccia. We included lots of fronted adverbials and imperative verbs!
We have had a lovely week in Year 4!
In Maths, we have started to look at shape. We have been learning how to identify acute, obtuse and right angles and using our knowledge to order different angles. We have also been investigating lines of symmetry on various shapes.
We enjoyed doing some drama in English this week. We focused on the opening fight scene from Romeo and Juliet and talked about what the atmosphere between the Montagues and the Capulets would be like. Miss Holt split us into two groups and we used our body language and facial expressions to create tension.
In Science, we enjoyed a lovely walk to the Millennium Green. We explored the area to see what living things we could find. We found lots of animals, insects and plants! We are going to think about their characteristics to classify them in the coming weeks.
In D&T, we have started to design our own Italian dish. We are going to make our own focaccia and we have discussed ingredients that would be appropriate to use.
We really enjoyed our PE lesson this week with Mrs Winward. We worked really hard practising the sequence and we think it looked great! Thank you Mrs Winward!
We have had a great first week back in Year 4!
In English, we have begun to learn about one of William Shakespeare’s famous plays, Romeo and Juliet. This week, we have been getting to know the plot of the story. We have created a story mountain of the key events and used drama to help us remember them. We have also researched Shakespeare to find out information about his life ready to write an information text next week. Have a look at the video we have made to summarise the story of Romeo and Juliet below.
In Maths, we have been looking at statistics. We have been reading and interpreting different types of graphs and charts including pictograms, bar charts, line graphs and tally charts.
In Design and Technology, we are focusing on food. This week, we have discussed how to make healthy choices and how the eatwell plate helps us to do this. We have sorted different foods into the five main groups, fruit and vegetables, carbohydrates and starches, protein, dairy and sugars and fats.
We have also started to learn about structures. This week, we have investigated the features of good, stable structures by using art straws to create our own models.
We are very lucky to be doing gymnastics with Mrs Winward in PE this half term and we have loved our first session. We impressed Mrs Winward with our skills that we have remembered from The Autumn term.
In French, we have been learning the days of the week. Madame Wardle taught us actions to remember them. We enjoyed playing a game to practise spelling the words too!
We have had a lovely final week of the half term in Year 4.
In Maths, we have continued to learn about time. We have been converting between hours, minutes and seconds and also days, weeks, months and years. We have used all of our knowledge to solve problems involving time. Some of them were quite tricky as they had more than one step!
In English, we have been writing our own persuasive letters. We looked at an example of a letter to identify the key features. We have written a letter to the Khan who is in charge of the army to persuade him to let women fight too! We thought about our arguments to support our letter and included features such as formal language, rhetorical questions and emotive language. We think we did a good job of convincing him!
In Science, we have been learning about the water cycle and how evaporation and condensation are an important part of this. We worked in groups to act out and explain each stage of the cycle. We enjoyed performing our work outdoors in the paddock.
In PE this half term, we have been doing athletics. We have been working on our technique for jumping, including long jump and jumping over hurdles. This week, we have been learning about the technique for shot put with Miss Sivill. We started off with the basic technique to throw it. Then we progressed onto adding a rotation.
In Art, we have been evaluating our work from this half term. We discussed all of the things that we have learnt and what we enjoyed about making our sculptures. We also discussed which part of the process we found the hardest. Miss Dixon also showed us some pictures of the kiln that our sculptures have been fired in.
This week in Maths, we have continued to learn about time. We have been looking at 24-hour clocks and we have been converting from analogue and 12-hour digital clocks to 24-hour time.
In English, we have been very busy writing our own stories based on the plot of Mulan. We have done some excellent writing, showing off our a year 4 skills including fronted adverbials, direct speech, expanded noun phrases and show not tell!
In Science, we have been learning about evaporation and condensation ready for learning about the water cycle next week.
In Computing, we created our own quizzes about Mount Everest to include in our multi media presentations. We created our quizzes on Purple Mash, including various types of questions. We then created a hyperlink to go in our presentations to let our audience access the quiz.
In Art this week, our wonderful finished sculptures were revealed! We enjoyed spending time outside photographing our work. We thought about where we could place the sculptures to make them stand out. We are so proud of them!
We have had a lovely week this week!
In Maths, we have started to learn about time. We have been telling the time to 5 minute and 1 minute intervals on analogue clocks. We have also started to look at digital clocks and how they are different from analogue.
In English, we have planned and started to write our own stories based on the plot of Mulan. We have written an opening to introduce our setting and character. We used expanded noun phrases to be descriptive. We then moved on to our build up, including correctly punctuated direct speech!
In Art, we have started to paint our sculptures before they are fired in the kiln. We have chosen a variety of bright colours. We can’t wait to see them when they are finished!
This week has been Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme has been nature. We have talked about how we look after our mental health and the benefits of spending time outdoors and exercising. This week we have been very lucky to take part in a martial arts workshop. We also had our second outdoor adventure morning where we had to work as a team to complete challenges and also spent time in the woodland cooking tasty treats! We enjoyed it very much!
We have had a great week in Year 4!
In Maths, we have continued to learn about money. We have been comparing amounts of money in pounds and pence to be able to put them in order. We have also been using our knowledge to problem solve and develop our reasoning skills.
In English, we have been doing lots of writing! We have used descriptive techniques including expanded noun phrases to describe the Black mountain and the Yellow River from our text, Mulan. We have also read our link text - The Dragon Slayer and made comparisons between the main characters, Adelita and Mulan.
In Science, we have been learning about states of matter. This week, we carried out an experiment to investigate how long different materials would take to change state when heated. We used boiling water to melt soap, butter, jelly and wax and we observed the changes. We used stopwatches to time how long they took to turn to liquid. We found that the butter had a low melting point compared to the wax and the soap which had a high melting point as they remained solid.
Our sculptures are beginning to take shape! We have been moulding the clay to the shape that we wanted and we have now began to decorate them using the different tools.
In French, we have been using our vocabulary about foods and drinks to be able to say what is good and bad for our health. We practised this by playing a word search game!
We have had a very busy and exciting week in Year 4!
In Maths, we have started to apply our knowledge of decimals to working with money. We have been converting pence to pounds and we have also been adding and subtracting amounts of money using appropriate methods.
In English, we have continued to learn about Mulan. We have used a discriptosaurus to generate our own expanded noun phrases and interesting adjectives to use in our writing next week.
We have loved spending lots of time learning outdoors this week. On Wednesday, we had our outdoor adventure morning. We enjoyed developing our teamwork skills to complete an orienteering challenge in the woodland. We had to look for aliens that had escaped and work together to remember their numbers. We also enjoyed taking part in an archery competition! On Friday, we were very lucky to have a Mulan forest school experience! We became Nature Warriors and completed our training in the woodland. We made our own bows using willow and string and arrows by whittling sticks. After all our hard work, we set up camp around the fire and enjoyed hot chocolate and toasted marshmallows!
In Art, we continued to use the pinch pot technique to create the other half of our sculpture. We then joined them together using slip and started to shape the clay to make our sculptures look realistic!
In computing, we have started to use our Geography knowledge to begin to create a multimedia presentation. We thought about appropriate fonts and colours to make the presentation eye catching for our audience.
In PSHE, we have been learning about sharing photos online with Miss Sivill. We looked at some photos and decided in our pairs whether they were safe or unsafe to share.
We have had another great week in Year 4!
In Maths, we have continued to learn about decimals. We have been ordering and comparing numbers with decimal places and we have also learnt how to convert quarters and halves from fractions to decimals. Miss Holt has been impressed with our place value knowledge!
In English, we have focused on the beginning of our new text, Mulan. We have been thinking about the thoughts and feelings of the characters when Mulan said she was going to fight. Earlier in the week, we did some hot seating where we asked Mulan and her father questions to think about how they would have felt. We then used some of the responses we heard in our writing in role.
In Geography, we have been learning about Asia. We used an atlas to investigate which countries are part of the continent. We then thought about the physical features of Asia including the Himalayas. We have used geographical vocabulary to describe the position of the mountain range such as longitude, latitude and hemisphere.
This half term we are very lucky to have Mrs Dixon, who is an Art specialist working with us! As part of our Amazing Asia topic, we are going to be making our own sculptures based on the work of a Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama. This week, we began to work with the clay. We used the pinch pot technique to make the base of our sculptures ready to carry on next week.
We have been loving our French lessons with Madame Wardle! This week, we have started our new topic about healthy lifestyles and learnt some new vocabulary of different foods and drinks. We have worked on our pronunciation and thought of things that will help us to remember the new words!
We have had a wonderful start to the Summer term in Year 4!
We have been very lucky to learn about Chinese lion dancing in a fantastic workshop. We had lots of fun learning about this tradition and having a go ourselves!
This week, we have started our Amazing Asia topic and we have started to look at our new text in English, Mulan. We have been thinking about the character of Mulan and how we would describe her. We have also been looking at The Ballad of Mulan, which the story is based on. We have investigated unfamiliar vocabulary and analysed the poem to think about its meaning. On Friday, we looked at performance techniques with Miss Warburton to perform the poem.
On Tuesday, we enjoyed our cricket workshop. We had a go at lots of activities including batting, fielding and over arm throwing. In PE this half term, we are doing athletics. This week, we looked at the techniques of the long jump including flight positions. We all enjoyed being out on the field!
In Science, we have been investigating switches and how they control electricity in a circuit. We made our own switches using split pins and a paper clip and found that when the circuit was broken using the switch, it stopped the electricity from flowing through.
We have also had a French lesson with our new specialist teacher, Madame Wardle! We have been learning classroom instructions and actions to help us remember them. What a busy week!
Spring 2 Week 5 W/B 22/3/21
We have loved our short Art project with Mrs Clitheroe over the last two weeks! We have used lots of different skills to create Tutankhamun’s death mask. First, we drew the outline of the mask. This was tricky as there are lots of lines! This week, we have been painting the red, gold and blue colours. We had to use very fine brushes to make sure that the colours did not run. We are so proud of our fantastic art work!
This week in PE, we took part in an obstacle course. We had to completed different challenges using lots of different skills such as skipping, dribbling a football, balancing, throwing a bean bag into a hoop target and jumping over hurdles! We have also really enjoyed taking part in Tri Kidz! We had to run, cycle and ‘swim’ to complete the triathlon. It was tough but we had lots of fun!
Spring 2 Week 4 W/B 15/3/21
We all enjoyed celebrating Comic Relief in school on Friday. We had some wonderful entries to the talent competition in Year 4. Well done to Harry who was the overall winner with his impressions!
In History and English, we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. We are loving this new topic and finding it really interesting! Here are some of the things that we have enjoyed learning about the most.
We have enjoyed Art this week with Mrs Clitheroe. We are completing a portrait of Tutankhamun’s mask using different materials. First, we drew the outline of the mask, taking care of where to position the lines. Then, we added some texture to the bottom of the mask using tissue and PVA glue. We are looking forward to seeing the finished artwork next week!
This week has been Shakespeare week. We have talked about who Shakespeare was and his famous work. We then watched a video about A Midsummer Night’s Dream and did a little bit of drama.
We loved seeing everybody’s favourite book characters around school on Thursday! Well done to everybody for a fantastic effort with dressing up. The costumes were fantastic!
Spring 2 Week 3 W/B 8/3/21
We are all glad to be back together again in Year 4!
In English, we have enjoyed taking part in a drama activity! We had Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, Veruca Salt and Mike Teavee in the hot seat and we thought of lots of interesting questions to ask them. Some of us got into character to answer the questions from their point of view.
We have enjoyed having Mr Richards back with us in Music! We have been using the glockenspiels to improvise blues rhythms.
In History this week, we have been looking at Ancient Egyptian artefacts. We discussed the different sources and thought about what they would have been used for, what they might have been made from and thought about what they tell us about this time period. We also thought about questions that we would like to ask about them.
In PSHE, we have discussed how we all feel about everyone being back in school. We talked about what we liked about being at home and what we missed about school. The children who have been in school also shared their feelings about everyone returning! We have created our own worry monsters to share our feelings.
To celebrate World Book Day, we have been writing letters to our favourite authors. In our letters, we explained why we enjoy their books and talked about our favourite parts of the stories and our favourite characters. We also thought of lots of questions that we would like to ask the authors!
In PE this week, we have been practising yoga positions. We looked at some of the Roman Gods and Goddesses such as Apollo, Jupiter, Minerva and Mars. We thought about different poses that would represent them well. We found our lesson very relaxing!
In English this week, we have been doing a bit of drama in our Charlie and the Chocolate Factory topic! We looked at the part of the story when Mike Teavee gets shrunk by television and we thought about how the other characters would react to the event. We have created freeze frames for the different stages of the event.
1 - Willy Wonka when Mike Teavee is running towards the camera.
2 - The characters in the room when there was a blinding flash of light.
In Music, we have been singing Three Little Birds and we also incorporated clapping rhythms to our performance. We thought it would be a nice message for everyone before coming back to school on Monday!
Spring 2 Blended Learning Week 1 W/B 22/2/21
In Science, we have carried out an investigation to test which materials can muffle sounds the best. We wrapped a device that could make a sound in the different materials and observed the differences in the volume. Here are some of our investigation plans and results.
In Art this week, we have created continuous line drawings while listening to music. We listened to the song ‘Happy’ to draw our continuous line. We then filled in the spaces with different lines and colours.
We are really enjoying learning about Charlie and the Chocolate factory in English. This week, we looked at the part of the story when Violet Beauregarde turns blue and swells up like a blueberry and wrote an accident report about the event.
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 6 W/B 8/2/21
In Maths this week, we have started our Fractions unit. We have been identifying fractions in diagrams, counting in tenths and towards the end of the week, we have been identifying equivalent fractions. We folded strips of paper to investigate them and also had a go at identifying them on a number line.
In English, we have been reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. We have done lots of writing including, a formal letter to ask Mr Wonka for a job in the factory and a setting description of the chocolate room. We have also done a little bit of drama. We have been acting in role as Augustus Gloop to answer interview questions about his experience in the factory. Have a look at some of our responses.
In French, we have been using the phrase ‘Je voudrais’, which we learned last week to write short sentences. Miss Holt gave us some pictures to represent what people would like for different events and festivals. We then created a sentence to show the information. Some of us created our own sentences and used the French dictionaries to find new vocabulary!
This half term, we have really enjoyed learning about the Charleston style of dance. Our remote learners have been practising the different steps and working on typical Charleston facial expressions. The children in school have been working on their own Charleston routine with Mrs Walker. Have a look at our performance, we are very proud of it!
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 5 W/B 1/2/21
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 4 W/B 25/1/21
In English this week, our theme has been all about water. We have done lots of writing including, a travel brochure for the Lake District and a speech about the water crisis. We have been thinking about persuasive techniques that we can use in our writing to have an impact on the audience. We have also written some beautiful fee verse poems about water!
In Maths, we have been using the chunking method to divide. We started with dividing 2 digit numbers and then moved on to 3 digit numbers. We have also been doing calculations which involve remainders!
In art this week, we have continued to look at how we can create texture in our art work. This week, we have been focusing on creating texture in landscapes. Some of us have used pencils to draw our landscapes and some of us have used paints and watercolours. We used different things to create the textures such as scrunched up paper, lolly sticks, tissue and cotton buds.
This week, we have been practising our volley ball skills. We watched Mr Hassey’s videos and completed the challenges. We had lots of fun!
This week, we have been investigating the effect that an object can have on the pitch of a sound. We have created our own guitars with elastic bands to investigate pitch. We found that the tighter the elastic band, the higher the pitch. The looser the band, the lower the pitch.
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 3 W/B 18/1/21
This week in Maths, we have been multiplying using different methods. We started off by partitioning the numbers to multiply them. Then, we moved on to the formal written method, the grid method. We have been using the grid method to solve problems. We have also talked about choosing the most appropriate method for the calculation that we are doing.
In English, we have been learning about inspirational people. We have scanned a text about Eugenie Clark for dates to discover the key events in her life. We have written a newspaper report about when Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel and we have also created our own quizzes about Martin Luther King including different types of questions!
In Art, we have been creating different textures in our drawings. We are going to be looking at how to create textures more in Art next week.
In History, we have been looking at how the Roman Empire spread and which countries were invaded. We identified these countries on a world map to see the extent of the spread of the empire. We did a fantastic job using the atlases to help us!
In Science, we have conducted an investigation to see the effect that the volume of a sound has on the vibrations. We covered a bowl with cling film and put a few grains of rice on top. We then used a drum to make a loud sound and gradually made the sound quieter. We observed the rice to see how the volume affected it. We found that the louder the volume, the more the rice vibrated. Some of the rice even bounced off the cling film!
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 2 W/B 11/1/21
Spring 1 Blended Learning Week 1 W/B 4/1/21
We are back! Miss Holt is so proud of how Year 4 have settled straight back into school this week, despite the strange circumstances again AND a snow day! We have adapted to our remote learning wonderfully once again!
In Computing, we have been practising our coding skills from the Autumn term. We explored the Hour of Code website to complete various challenges. We all really enjoyed it!
In English, we have completed some activities relating to our Guided Reading text from last half term, The Song of Sky and Sand. First, we generated adjectives to describe the characters feelings when the sunbird appeared in the desert. We placed these on the zone of relevance. Then, we used these ideas to do some writing in role as the characters.
In PE this half term, we are looking at the Charleston style of dance. In school, we practised our first three moves for our routine and worked on our facial expressions. The children who are learning remotely researched the dance style and had a go at some of the moves they had discovered. This is our first attempt at performing the dance moves, we had lots of fun!
We have had a very busy week this week. We have finished our Elf Enterprise stockings! We have used the running stitch, over stitch and sewn buttons on to the felt. We then stuffed our stockings to make them 3D and added a ribbon to hang them on our trees. We have worked really hard on these and we are so proud of them! We think they look great!
In History, we have been learning about The Industrial Revolution. This week, we researched a significant person from this time period, Samuel Crompton. We used the computing suite to research key information such as who he was, what he invented and how he contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
We have all enjoyed our last week before the Christmas holidays! We really enjoyed the virtual pantomime, Covidella and the Masked Ball!
Factual Footprints Week 4 W/B 7/12/20
Factual Footprints Week 3 W/B 30/11/20
In Science, we have been learning about how living things can be classified in various ways. We have looked how vertebrates can be classified into reptiles, amphibians, mammals, birds, insects and fish and how invertebrates can be classified into groups of snails, slugs, worms, spiders and insects. We have also looked at more specific classification groups such as molluscs, arachnids, echinoderms, insects, annelids and crustaceans. We chose a living thing and created our own top trumps cards to record their classification.