Class 4
Friday 9th February
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone,
We had a very busy Monday this week; the children prepared and cooked their vegetable soups in small groups. They absolutely loved every single minute! The corridor smelt delightful! The children promise us their soups tasted equally wonderful too!
In history, we have focused on the introduction of the London Underground in 1863; the children loved hearing all about it and were amazed how soon the underground networks grew and how enormously beneficial they were for people living and working in London. The children have really loved learning all about the changes brought about by the Industrialists.
P.E. was great fun; we combined our netball and rugby skills in our own version of an exciting attacking and defending game. The children played in mini teams and amazed me with the progress of their skills.
The children have worked incredibly hard with Miss Nipe on their wonderful descriptions of the Secret Garden; they really have developed some super sentences, using a widening collection of exciting adjectives and adverbs with every task. Their grammar and spelling is improving all the time too.
Maths has been a little tricky this week; we have been focusing on decimal numbers. The children have been practising counting in tenths and hundredths and have continued to work hard on those tricky times tables.
Have a wonderful week with your gorgeous children next week; let's hope the weather is kind to us all. Enjoy the soup-making photos below too!
See you on the 19th January!
From Mrs Matthews and Miss Nipe x
Friday 2nd February
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We have had another very busy week here in class 4! We began with some wonderful xylophone playing at the beginning of the week; the children are so great at playing in time with each other now, even when playing tricky chords too. They're very impressive indeed!
On Monday, the children were delighted to discover they would be making vegetable soup in small groups next week and so spent a little time designing their recipes ready for cooking, tasting and evaluating early next week! Should be very exciting! Thank heavens Miss Nipe (our student teacher) will be back with us on Monday to help!!
The children are continuing to enjoy working on 'The Secret Garden' in English; they have written wonderful diary entries in the role of Mary this week and have created the most impressive pastel drawings of the garden. Next week, they will be describing in detail how the garden looked, sounded and felt next week.
The Industrial Revolution continues to interest the children in history; they are so enthusiastic and very keen to both ask and answer questions. We've been focusing on the enormous benefits the development of the railways must have had on families, factory workers and shop owners in the 1800s. We will be looking at the development of the London Underground next week.
The children worked really well in RSE this week; we have been focusing on how emotions and feelings can change during puberty. The children were fabulous; I gave them all a different 'letter' to discuss together and asked them what advice they would give the writer of the letter who was struggling with their emotions. The responses the children gave were so thoughtful and empathetic. What a wonderful group of mature children I teach!
Finally, we have had an interesting science lesson this afternoon. We are investigating 'sound' at the moment. The children have carried out 3 small investigations to find out how sounds can be altered. They have discovered how volume and pitch can vary. The children blew across 3 bottles with differing amounts of water in (it's trickier than it looks too!!). They created sounds using the rulers; vibrating them at different lengths on the desks and finally bounced marbles on the lids of different containers. In a noisy classroom, it wasn't as easy as we'd have hoped, but we did finally master each of the investigations and learnt a great deal! Below are just a couple of photos.
Have a wonderful weekend together!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews x
Friday 26th January
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
I can't believe it's the weekend again! We've had a wonderful week once again and filled our week with lots of fun activities!
Music has been once again rather noisy, as the children have been working on their xylophones! They're actually all progressing beautifully as they play together; very impressive indeed!
This afternoon however, was a little less tuneful as we investigated how sounds are actually made in our science lesson! The children followed a circuit of different groups of percussion instruments to deduce what it was that actually vibrated to create the sound.
Maths was very exciting earlier in the week too as the children worked practically together to measure length, mass and capacity. Please have a look at the photos below!
The children are continuing to thoroughly enjoy all aspects of P.E. at the moment; they are developing great attacking and defending skills they could clearly apply to a wide range of sports.
History involved learning all about the wonderful achievement of Robert Stevenson and his steam locomotive 'The Rocket'. The children wrote wonderful newspaper articles in the role of journalists reporting on the Rainhill Trials.
We're all continuing to enjoy 'The Secret Garden'; the children have written super character descriptions of Mary and are currently in the process of editing their diary entries for Mary too. They are absolutely loving watching the clips of a version of the film as we share the text too.
Do have a wonderful weekend and I'll look forward to seeing you all again on Monday.
See you soon,
Mrs Matthews
Week ending Friday 19.1.24
admin on: Class 4
Good morning everyone!
We had another wonderful week here in class 4! It's an absolute pleasure teaching class 4; they really are a super group of children and work so hard at everything they do.
We began the week with the start of our new text; 'The Secret Garden'! The children are thoroughly enjoying sharing the text, watching clips of the film, role playing different scenes and developing a super understanding of the different characters. With group work and sharing interesting ideas, the children are really developing their descriptive writing. I'm very impressed with them all.
If you'd have walked past our classroom on Monday afternoon last week you would have heard a wonderful sound! The children were playing xylophones together! They are beginning to learn how to play chords and triads whilst playing to a steady beat; they seem quite a talented bunch!!
Maths has been busy this week; the children are learning how to convert different units of measurement. This has proved quite tricky for many of the children, but with hard work, the children have made some brilliant progress.
In science, we have been focusing on food chains this week; the children have developed a super understanding of ecosystems. Next week, we are beginning a selection of investigations surrounding sound.
The children are continuing to really impress me in art; their album cover designs are fabulous. This next week, we will be moving things on a little further and using paints to develop their final versions. The children have really enjoyed incorporating art into their English work this week too; Mary Lennox illustrations have really impressed me. I can't wait to see pastel drawings of the secret garden too!
Hope you are all enjoying a lovely weekend together and aren't struggling too much with the dreadful weather.
See you all next week,
Mrs Matthews x
Friday 12th January 2024
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We've had a wonderful first week back; it has, as always, been incredibly busy, but great fun too!!
We began with role play in English, before the children worked on perfecting their punctuation skills as they presented speech in their writing. They've worked really hard and done an incredible job!
Art has involved recreating a number of album covers; we're linking our art to our science this half term! We will be focusing on our ears and hearing. We have a number of investigations to conduct; great fun for a class of budding scientists!
In a final session on digestion, we all enjoyed a very active and hands on lesson in science today!! Using tights, bananas, bread and apple juice, we recreated the digestive system. There was a mixture of reactions to using our hands as teeth and manually recreating the intestinal peristalsis as the food passed down the tights, but the excitement as the children learnt was wonderful to see (and I am sure was heard across the school)!!!
We started our new history topic this week; we are exploring events during the Industrial Revolution and discovering how transport dramatically changed during those years. I was amazed just how much the children grasped even in our first lesson. We worked practically and in pairs; always a good thing!!
P.E. was fun too again this week; we have been working hard to develop the skills necessary for rugby and similar sports. The children have thoroughly enjoyed working in teams to compete for spaces and tags! The unit is called; 'Duel, Win, Lose'; a great name for the fun games we played this week!
Well done everyone for all your incredibly hard work this week. Keep practising those times tables and reading the time too. Keep practising those 24 hour conversions as well!!
Please enjoy some of our recent photos; some of today's science and then a collection taken during our final week in school (visiting Greenacres and performing our Christmas play for you all)!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews
