Over the last few weeks, year 4 have been very busy carrying out their DT project, making pavilions. Children used glue guns to piece their work together.
This week, we have celebrated Anti-Bullying week by wearing odd socks and carrying out some 'top secret mission' work to put a stop to bullying.
This week, Year 4 have been getting stuck into their new Literacy topic. We followed a set of instructions to create a paper boat. We had to dig deep and find determination, but every child felt incredibly proud of their achievements after. We also used musical instruments to create a sound scape ready for writing about. We thought about vocabulary that went along with it our creation.
What a very busy start we have had to Year 4! Over the last couple of weeks, we have been visited by James Mayhew, who captivated us with his live illustrations and story telling. From this we began to explore his books and generate lots of wonderful vocabulary.
We have kicked-started our new History topic – Anglo-Saxons and are very much looking forward to our workshop.
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Year 4 have really thrown themselves into and enjoyed the end of term activities! This week they had a well-being workshop with a Speaker from the charity MIND. We learnt all about the 5 Ways to Well-being. We took part in a range of fun activities to boost our health and well-being.
Wow! Year 4 have been super busy over the last few weeks. We have taken part in sports week, sports day, Science Day, MasterChef and so much more! The children all showed great teamwork and resilience when working together and all had fun whilst doing so!
For Science day, we made catapults and looked at different objects to see which would make the best flying golden snitch!
This week, we have been Master Chefs. The children created their own seasonal crumble. They had to peel, chop, weigh and mix their ingredients. The children worked very hard and thoroughly enjoyed tasting their delicious creations.
This week Year 4 have started their new Literacy topic. To begin with we have carried out lots of research on the digestive system and recreated the process by using food, orange juice to represent stomach acid, a plastic bag to represent the stomach, tights for the small intestine and a cup with an opening for the large intestine! As you can imagine, things got pretty gross! What a fun hands on Literacy lesson we had! The last couple of weeks have been very busy in year 4 with trips to a botanical garden and VE Day celebrations!
We launched our new Science topic called 'Human Impact' with an enquiry into pollution around our school. We carried out a litter pick and analysed the results. We found out that the most common waste was plastic, with lots of this coming from wrappers from break-time snacks. We discussed next steps that could help with this and created posters to remind everyone about the steps that we need to take to reduce this. In Maths, we have enjoyed using our knowledge of measures for length, mass and volume to convert and compare measurements and solve problems. In Literacy, we have enjoyed designing hybrid characters and settings for our narrative writing based on the animation "The Lost Thing" and are looking forward to using these ideas in our next independent write.
To finish off our DT project, year 4 created the housing of their torches that their adults helped them to create. Children used different materials and thought about the design specifications to ensure they created a fully functional torch with a simple circuit. We are certain we have lots of electricians on our hands! Great work Year 4!
Year 4 would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the adults that joined us to help finish off our torches for our D&T unit. We created electrical circuits and switches to create a sim0le circuit. We then constructed a case for our torch out of plastic bottles and tin foil. We had a wonderful morning working together!
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To celebrate National Story Telling week, we based our literacy learning on the book 'Journey'. We took part in a range of activities including role play, drawing illustrations, writing paragraphs and publishing. We then shared our work with Year 1 children, who were also exploring the same text. We loved spending time with the younger children!
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