Class 4
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
8th January 2024
admin on: Class 4
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you have had a fabulous Christmas and have enjoyed celebrating in 2024!
We all had a very busy and exciting Autumn term and the two weeks rest we have all had at home over the holiday period have certainly been very relaxing indeed!!
Thank you so very, very much to you all for the wonderful messages, cards and Christmas gifts you kindly presented us with during the last week of term; we were very touched indeed and just wanted to pass on an enormous 'thank you' to you all!
With love from,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Scott xx
Friday 15th December 2023
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
What a fun and busy week we have had! As you'd expect, we have been have been working hard to perfect our Christmas performance for you all. I am so very proud of the children this week; they have really risen to the challenge of learning their lines and perfecting the songs. I am hoping you thoroughly enjoy their performance next week. We have a dress rehearsal on Monday and if the children perform as well then as they did in class this afternoon, they will be amazing! Well done everyone!
The children have continued to work exceptionally hard in English again this week. Not only have they completed their own playscripts, but they have now written lovely pieces about two naughty elves creating havoc in the kitchen on Christmas Eve. They have risen well to the challenge of accurately presenting and punctuating conversations between the elves within the text. A job well done everyone!
In maths, we have been working very hard indeed on reading the time; our ultimate aim is to confidently read the time to the nearest minute! This has proved a little challenging to say the least!! We have tried a number of different activities this week and yesterday had fun with a selection of games surrounding time; matching pairs, dominoes and a board game all focused on developing those 'reading the time' skills! Please do keep practising at home too!!
Below, I have added a few images of the children having fun as they played the 'time' games together yesterday. We will continue revisiting 'time' in the New Year!!
Next week, we are very much looking forwards to our dress rehearsal and final performance, as well as a very exciting Christmas party together! Let the festivities begin!!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Mrs Matthews x
