Class 4
Friday 25th March
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We've had a wonderful week this week! The children are absolutely loving our 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' text in literacy and were delighted to find real chocolate featured as part of our science yesterday!!
The children together made chocolate crispy buns during their practical science lesson!! The focus was to read and record the temperature at which water boils and also butter and chocolate melt. The children were so excited and thoroughly enjoyed learning as they baked! They practised their weighing skills obviously too!! Below are a few of the photos taken during the science session. Believe it or not, only one themometer perished!!!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you next week!
Mrs Matthews, Miss Gee and Miss Hewitt
xx
Friday 18th March
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
Once again, we've had a really lovely week with class 4; the children continue to amaze us with their hard work and lovely kindness. Today we enjoyed rugby outdoors in the gorgeous Spring sunshine. Not only did the children show super determination in the lesson, but also made us feel so proud with the wonderful way in which they supported each other.
We followed our rugby lesson with our Comic Relief egg and spoon race. This was such great fun and once again the children were fabulous; cheering each other on and demonstrating great resilience. Congratulations to our winner, Autumn and our runner-up, Noah! Well done everyone!
This afternoon we have been really busy with our science; we're conducting a number of investigations to help with our understanding of 'evaporation' and 'condensation'. It was great to see the children loving every minute of the practical activities; but we were definitely very busy!
Our 'Secret Garden' display is now complete and ,thanks to Miss Hewitt, is looking wonderful in the back of our classroom. Our next one will be 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'; we're loving this text and all the activities it lends itself to. A great choice of book I think!
Here are a few images taken from today's fun and also a little peep at our 'Secret Garden' display.
Friday 4th March
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
Wow! Another week has gone already! Where does the time go? The children have certainly settled back into things very quickly and are, once again, working incredibly hard.
We had a brilliant day yesterday for World Book Day. The children began by drawing a picture taken from their favourite book and telling others why they'd chosen it. We then read and focused our activities around the gorgeous picture book 'Molly and the Storm'. Although it unfortunately reminded us all of the dreadful weather and floods we've been enduring recently, it focuses on the fabulous qualities of kindness and thoughtfulness, especially for those in need. It helped us consider the extreme kindness being shown towards the families in the Ukraine at the moment. The children thoroughly enjoyed submerging themselves in the text as they created gorgeous pastel drawings of the setting and mapping the journey the family of mice take. The children then went on to create story maps and worked together to create 3D story boxes too. I was very impressed with the fabulous D.T. skills and team work the children demonstrated as they worked. Finally, the children enjoyed role playing the story too; we saw some very impressive acting!!
Here are some of the books the children said were their favourites;
Thank goodness 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' was one!!!!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you soon,
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt
Friday 18th February
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
The children have continued to work incredibly hard all half term and I am sure they are all ready for a very well earned rest this week. I just hope the weather improves as quickly as possible. It definitely can't really get any worse!!
We had our final golf lesson with Rochelle this week; the children thoroughly enjoyed the tournament they took part in. The progress the children have all made with their golf has been fabulous to see; from putting to driving, very impressive!
Today we took things a little easier and had a very relaxing mindfulness session before lunch, followed by a fun yoga session. They absolutely loved it! We are looking forwards to more yoga, as well as gymnastics and tag rugby next half term.
Have a wonderful restful week everyone!
See you on the Tuesday!
Love from,
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt
Friday 12th February
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
What a wonderfully relaxing end to our 6th week in class 4! This week has been 'Children's Mental Health Awareness Week' and just now, considering the continuing epidemic, it remains a the forefront of all our minds. The children were almost asleep by the end of the day yesterday! We had a fabulous session in the forest before lunch. The children thoroughly enjoyed decorating the woodland with lovely bright colours; creating natural wind chimes and adding flashes of colour to branches and trunks. It felt like our magical 'secret garden'!
We continued with our relaxing theme after our maths in the afternoon too! We practised a number of effective relaxing breathing techniques; the children tried them all and found each of them so calming as they focused purely on the different techniques they were learning. We will keep practising those so they become 2nd nature. As I discussed with the children, learning relaxation techniques is invaluable in life for all of us. Miss Hewitt and I thoroughly enjoyed joining in! We tried meditation and yoga once again too. A number of the children have suggested we begin our yoga club at school again. I will certainly speak to Mrs Lindley again as yoga is one of her many skills!
The children have absolutely loved sharing 'The Secret Garden' with us this half term. We finished reading the book this week; the children clapped to express how much they'd enjoyed it as I completed the final page!! They have really loved it! Their writing has been wonderful to see too and the progress they have made is superb. Well done class 4. I have added a couple of examples below!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you soon,
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt xx
