Class 4
Friday 24th May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon all!
Class 4 have had a lovely week this week! We began on Monday by creating Ancient Egyptian artefacts with clay. The children absolutely loved it! They have sculpted the most wonderful canopic jars and vases. When the children have carefully painted them, I will add a photo to the blog for you to see. They'll be brilliant!
After completing their research using non-fiction texts and the com0puters, the children have now finally completed their wonderful Ancient Egyptian fact files. They are absolutely fabulous! I am so proud of the children for all their super hard work. You couldn't hear a pin drop in the classroom this morning whilst the children were adding their finishing touches!
Yesterday, the children enjoyed their last badminton session. After practising serving and returning the shuttlecocks and then having rallies with partners, the children enjoyed lots of mini tournaments. Each of the children had the opportunity of playing many matches and also umpiring for their peers too. They really didn't need me at all!! The children have thoroughly enjoyed using our fabulous new badminton nets!
Today, we have enjoyed a full afternoon of science. The children were very excited as they have been creating their own electrical circuits, using bulbs, switches, motors and buzzers. They have then carried out a fair test to sort materials according to whether they were 'conductors' or 'insulators' of electricity.
We very much hope you all have a wonderful bank holiday weekend and a lovely week next week. Let's keep our fingers crossed for more weather like last weekend!
See you all a week on Tuesday!
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce xx
Friday 17th May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
It's been another fun and busy week here in class 4. The children have been working incredibly hard on their Ancient Egyptian adventure stories and have now finally completed their final drafts. I can't wait to read them all this weekend.
The children are loving the Ancient Egyptian topic. They have worked exceptionally well in small groups today as they researched Ancient Egyptian topics. They loved the large collection of non-fiction texts we shared and particularly enjoyed using the computers to further develop their research. Next week, we will be beginning to create exciting Ancient Egyptian fact files; I can't wait! The children are keen to continue researching and then also add exciting photographs and images to illustrate their facts.
Badminton continues to go from strength to strength! The children played mixed doubles in a very exciting mini tournament earlier this week. I am absolutely amazed how quickly they have all developed some superb badminton skills.
Maths has been quite tricky at times, but the children have continued to persevere and have now developed some super confidence in converting units of length, capacity and mass. Today proved a little harder as the children were then applying their knowledge to solve estimating problems. Keep practising on Mirodo everyone and this will get easier and easier!
We have continued working hard on our reading every day; the children all continue to work in a small group with me every week, thus providing them with the opportunity of reading 1 to 1 with me and in some cases with Mrs Pearce too. They also work on comprehensions on a daily basis; believe it or not, even these have at times focused on the Ancient Egyptians! We've read about Egyptian life and Tutankhamun too; there really isn't much we don't know about the Ancient Egyptians here in class 4!
Please enjoy some of the photos from today's research activity.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce xx
Week ending 10th May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone,
We had another wonderful week in class 4 and ended the week on a great big high with our singing performance in Holmfirth Parish Church. What a wonderful way to open the Holmfirth Folk Festival! The children were all absolutely amazing! We have been practising each of the songs for a number of weeks now and it was so worth it! The children were all brilliant. Phil Needham, the organiser and musician, even commented on how well the children sang; I was so very proud of every single one of them. Please enjoy the photos taken during the event in the church on Friday afternoon.
The children have all been very busy working on their Egyptian adventure stories this week; we are looking forwards to reading their final drafts on Monday. The children have certainly risen to the challenge of creating their very own exciting stories.
Class 4 are very much enjoying our Ancient Egyptians topic; they have finally all completed their headdresses and will be using clay to recreate some of the Egyptian artefacts next too. Each of the children are thoroughly enjoying creating fact files as they research the lives of the Ancient Egyptians.
Badminton has certainly been a hit in P.E. Now the children have developed more confidence in their serving and returning skills, they have loved using the nets and playing doubles matches. Next week we will try a mini tournament; it should be fun as the children are becoming more and more skilled and certainly more competitive.
We are all looking forwards to practising orienteering skills on Monday afternoon. Fingers crossed, we will have some more dry weather!
Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend!
See you on Monday,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce
x
Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx
Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx