Class 4
Friday 15th October
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Good afternoon everyone!
We've had another super week here in year 4! The children are so lovely and enthusiastic and working so incredibly hard.
Our visit to the forest on Thursday was so wonderful this week. As I am sure you have heard we are currently enjoying the book 'The Lorax'. The children worked in small drama teams in the forest to each re-enact a section of the story. They all worked together so well and absolutely loved acting out the story in the realistic setting of our forest (no longer endangered!!). We then sat in our gorgeous den area whilst the children took to the central stage, group by group and each performed their section of the story to the rest of the class. I wish I had videoed them as it was just amazing! They were all so confident and will clearly make fabulous actors and actresses!
Another great morning swimming today; I'm so proud of every single one of the children! They are all working so hard and swim so many lengths. I'm just surprised they don't fall asleep in the afternoon!!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you all on Monday!
Mrs Matthews
Friday 8th October
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Hello again everyone!
Friday again! Where does the time go?!
The children continue to work so incredibly hard and impress us every day! We have had another super swimming session this morning; all the children have worked so hard and are having great fun as they develop their skills. I'm so impressed with the standard of their swimming; I have a sneaky feeling we may even see some of them in the Olympics in years to come, never mind our inter-school gala!!
The children are loving our new text in literacy this week; 'The Lorax'! We had great fun re-enacting the story in the forest this week and can't wait to complete our rehearsals and watch the full performance on Thursday. We are all thoroughly enjoying our literacy lessons in the forest; so relaxing and theraputic for us all!
Our dance lessons are going incredibly well too; the dance coach is introducing the children to a new genre of dance every week. They're all loving it! They are now brilliant street, ballet, jazz and even tap dancers. It's amazing how well children can tap dance in trainers!!
Looking forwards to having the opportunity of speaking to you all at parents evening next week!
Have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs Matthews
Friday 1st October
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I can't believe we are already at the end of our 4th week in class 4! It is absolutely flying by!
Once again, the children have worked incredibly hard and are impressing us every single day. I am hoping next week we may have a full team, with no one needing to isolate; fingers crossed!!
The children had a fabulous swimming lesson today and all seem to be developing so much confidence every week. Well done everyone!
We have finally completed our newspaper reports this week; they are looking amazing! There are definitely a few 'journalists' in the making in year 4!! We had great fun role playing in the forest as well as the classroom; the children have become confident environmentalists too!
The rain prevented us going into the forest this week, so we brought the forest into the classroom! The children really enjoyed developing their drawing skills as they carefully sketched a variety of leaves and created artistic patterns too.
Here are just a few examples of their work;
Have a super weekend!
See you next week!
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt
Friday 24th September 2021
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Hello again everyone!
We are having such a brilliant time here in class 4; Miss Hewitt and myself could not wish for a better group of wonderful children!
We thoroughly enjoy ending each week with our visit to the swimming pool; the children have been particularly amazing today! They should sleep tonight as they have all swum length after length today and with smiles on their faces too! It really is a pleasure to take them!
We have really enjoyed our lesson in the forest again this week; I think Miss Hewitt and I enjoy it just as much as the children. Our new den is just fantastic; it really has transformed the learning environment. We'll be using it so much this year; I just love it. Who needs an indoor classroom?!! I've added a few photos of the forest area so you can see the wonderful changes Mrs Pearce and her husband have made. This week we were role playing; the children were having a rather heated deforestation debate. The 'local planning councillor' was being interviewed by 'irate villagers', protesting to the plans to build houses, a shop and MacDonald's (eeek!!) on our forest site. The children were amazing and very animated; wonderful actors!! We plan to write newspaper reports next week.
Here is our wonderful forest...
Have a wonderful weekend!
See you all next week!
Mrs Matthews & Miss Hewitt x
Friday 17th September
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Hello everyone!
What a wonderful week we have all had! The children thoroughly enjoyed our woodland walks yesterday; perfect for our science and literacy this half term. Believe it or not, the children were able to stand completely silently down in the woods and were amazed by all the sounds they heard and how much they could see around them when they really spent time taking note of their surroundings.
They had a fabulous time in our very own school forest too; thanks to Mr and Mrs Pearce we now have an amazing shelter in the forest, great for whole class discussions or activities. The children enjoyed using natural resources to make Roman Numerals. I'll post some photos next week.
Yesterday the children enjoyed harvesting their beans; thanks again to Mrs Pearce and her very green fingers, the children were amazed to find how well their own beans had grown over the Summer. We very much hope you enjoy them!
Next week I will post one or two photos taken this week; both in the forest and collecting the beans!
Thanks for a fantastic week class 4. Miss Hewitt and I absolutely love working with you all!
See you soon,
Mrs Matthews x