Class 4
Friday 30th April 2021
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We have had a little of everything this week! We have sun, wind, rain, sleet and some very chilly weather, especially during our fantastic PE session with our coach!
We have had yet another busy week in Year 4. We completed reading our book about the Sphinx. It was a lovely book and got us all thinking about the Ancient Egyptians, adventures and how we remember members of our family too.
In History we have been continuing our interesting work on the Ancient Egyptians. We learnt about pyramids this week. It is amazing to think of the incredible things that are hidden beneath them!
Mrs Pearce has been working hard in the garden with the children. The flowers are just beginning to bloom and the leaves are appearing on the trees, which is lovely to see.
Busy bees!
In Maths we have been looking at times tables, fractions and decimals. See if you can challenge yourself to write your times tables down as quickly as possible. I also MUST mention the fantastic work on Mathletics this week! So many children have been busy on it and Mr C had to give out lots of certificates and I gave out so many house points! Well done for getting us the trophy back. I wonder if we can keep it for another week?
We finished our Friday with a 1 mile run around the school grounds. Miss Watkins even ran a few laps with her ribbons! Well done. I hope they made it to the 1 million miles mark with all of the school children in the country.
Have a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend.
Class 4 Team
Friday 23rd April 2021
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What a lovely, sunny week we have had - let's hope the sunshine is here to stay for a while!
We have had another busy week in class 4. Our book, Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx, has got our imaginations working and we have produced lots of super diary entries. Everyone is trying hard to remember to keep checking sentences to make sure they are the best they can be!
Addition and subtraction using the formal column methods have been our focus in Maths. Mrs Cooper's group have been outside in the playground using chalks to help them remember addition facts.
On Monday afternoon, we took advantage of the sunshine and spent some time on the field playing a bushcraft game. Did you know a stick can be a toothbrush, a golf club and a steering wheel? We didn't either but we do now!
Computing was fun this week. We have started using a Purple Mash program called Logo and enjoyed typing in commands for the computer to follow.
We have also become Royal Embalmers and mummified our own Pharaohs (or tomatoes!). Here are a few pictures of the process:
We had so much fun. We will have to wait and see what might happen with them over the next few weeks.
We also had our sports coach in of Thursday and had a fantastic time outside in the sun running around the school field.
Have a fantastic weekend in the sunshine and see you all next week.
Class 4 Team
Friday 16th April 2021
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I can't quite believe we are already a week into the summer term... where is this year going?
It was lovely to greet such smiley faces on Monday morning and hear all about your Easter adventures.
We made a start on our new book in English, Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx. We have been concentrating on writing super sentences using the correct punctuation. Commas are proving a little tricky but we'll get there! Try looking for commas in your reading books to see how they are used.
I am very impressed with the hard work in maths this week. We have been learning all about negative numbers. Well done everyone!
Arjeta spoke to the class all about the Muslim celebration, Eid. She told us all about fasting during Ramadan and what this means to Muslims. Thank you Arjeta for a really informative and interesting presentation.
Isla brought in the time-capsule that she made during lockdown. With a little help from Emma and Mrs Pearce, she buried it in a secret location on the school grounds (ssshhhh!).
Mrs Pearce was very impressed by our team of enthusiastic gardeners who helped her tidy up the flower beds and vegetable patches outside our classroom window.
I felt so proud of our class during our PSHE lesson. The theme was well-being and we thought about how we could take care of ourselves and each other. We then gave lovely. kind comments to other people - something, that as a class, we do really well.
We have also begun our wonderful topic all about Ancient Egypt and have created a mini museum in class with a few artefacts.
A great start to the new term - keep up the hard work! Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the sunshine.
Class 4 Team
Friday 26th March 2021
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And just like that... another term over! Probably the most unusual term we have ever had but we made it!
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our very quick parents evening on Tuesday. It was lovely to see you all.
This week we have been very busy bees, here are some of the things we have been doing:
Inspired by the book Quest, we have been designing and making our own treasure maps and giving them an authentic look using tea-stains. We can now read and plot coordinates (along the corridor and up the stairs).
As part of our topic, Splash, we made some of our own rain gauges to measure how much rain falls. If you have taken your group's rain gauge home, keep monitoring it so you can tell the class your findings.
Over lock down, we found out about the different features of rivers. We have used this knowledge to make our own river valleys using natural materials. Luckily the weather was kind so we spent the afternoon out on the field.
Over the holidays it would be great if you could all keep an eye on the time! Mrs Cooper has been doing lots of work trying to help you tell the time on an analogue clock - keep working on this please!
We have also been having a go at some Yoga over the past few weeks. We have also tried a little meditation to help us all relax. I certainly felt more relaxed afterwards.
We also made some beautiful paper flowers. We have become beautiful florists and gardeners, helping to welcome in the Spring.
Have the most wonderful holiday and so very well done for coming back into school so positively. Let's hope that the Summer term is a super one!
Well done from the whole Class 4 Team
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Friday 19th March 2021
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Well done everyone for a great week!
We have been on a wonderful adventure, following a mystical map under the ocean, along old, rope bridges and to the top of mountains in our book, Quest.
On Tuesday, we met Craig and Mick who spent the day with us and showed us how to be safe pedestrians. We thought about the different dangers that we need to be aware of when walking near roads and put this into practice when we walked through Netherthong.
A good day was had by all, learning a valuable life skill.
We created some lovely art inspired by paintings of the sea. We used pastels to create seascapes and images of waves. Here are a couple.
In science we learnt about non-Newtonian liquids and had lots of fun playing with it in class.
What a mess, but what a lot of fun!
We also looked at the census we will be completing at the weekend and we looked back through History. Take another look at this census and see if you can remember who lived here and what amazed us so much!
Well done this week Year 4. Again you have been amazing.
The Year 4 Team