Year 4: Blog items
Date: 27th Sep 2021 @ 6:30pm
This afternoon in Year 4 we swapped our French lesson as yesterday was the European Day of Languages! To celebrate we changed our French lesson and learned all about the different langauges in Europe, which there are 24 of! In Year 4 the langauge that we focussed on was Portugese. We learned about where Portugal is, we learned a bit about Portugese culture and a few words along the way. Here are some of our Year 4's doing an absolutely excellent job at our English to Portugese phrases/numbers match up activity. Tenha um bom dia!
Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 4:26pm
This half term our music theme is Mamma Mia! Today we listened to the song a couple of times (and maybe had a little dance) to introduce ourselves to our topic. We then broke off into our groups and had a discussion about the music. How did it make us feel? What did we think of the song? What instruments could we hear? What musical vocabulary could we think of to help describe the song? Some great discussion and teamwork from Year 4, not to mention the dancing!
Date: 20th Sep 2021 @ 4:52pm
Here are some of our Year 4's bustin' some moves in our dance lessons. What a great way to exercise and keep fit whilst having some fun along the way! Our Year 4's are loving our dance classes this half term and experiencing new movement sequences whilst getting a great core workout at the same time!
Religious Education - Love thy neighbour
Date: 17th Sep 2021 @ 12:06pm
We have recently started our RE journey in Year 4. We have been looking at the way Christians live their lives. We discussed what the term moral means. We found out that our Boundary characteristics and promises are closely related to making the right choices. We looked at a variety of scenarios and we discussed what would be the right choice to make.
Date: 14th Sep 2021 @ 4:13pm
Having spent much of the past year learning remotely and spending much more time online becuase of lockdowns and isolations, this week in our computing lesson we have been learning about Online Safety. We have been discussing how we can all stay safe online and how we can teach others to stay safe online. We worked in groups to create a big sider diagrams outlining the dangers of not staying safe online and how we should behave when accessing the internet. We have all also logged on to our new Google Classroom and completed our independent task through there so we now know how to use it and to log in!
Date: 10th Sep 2021 @ 3:31pm
This week in Year 4 we haven't wasted any time at all in getting back into our reading! We try our hardest to read at least once throughout the day to make sure we are expanding our learning and vocabulary. We have a HUGE range of books in our class libraries and have been taking full advantage of them since we have been back at school. This is especially handy as we are learning about fantasy settings in our Reading into Writing lessons! Remember... as Dr. Seuss says 'The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go.'
Date: 8th Sep 2021 @ 4:36pm
In Year 4, We started our science journey in electricity. We worked in small groups to try and make a light bulb light up. We were given 2 wires, a bulb and a battery. We had to think carefully about where we joined our wires to make sure the circuit was complete. Some of us did this successfully without any help!
Creating coastal erosion clay figures
Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 9:09am
Yesterday in Art, year 4 created the stages of coastal erosion using clay. The children used the skills they have learnt over the past few weeks to create different texture in their clay using their hands and cocktail sticks.
Date: 9th Jul 2021 @ 8:59am
This week in year 4 the children have explored the genre of poetry by reading various classic poems and highlighting the features of them.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 5:01pm
This week the children have took part in various sports day activities to earn points for their house teams. A favourite of theirs was completing the speed bounce and balloon races in their teams.
Date: 2nd Jul 2021 @ 4:56pm
This week the children learnt about how animals are separated into different groups based on their characteristics. The children then had a go at classifying liquorice alsorts into different groups based on what they look like using data branching.
Creating texture with play dough!
Date: 25th Jun 2021 @ 5:07pm
Today in Art, year four explored two of the seven elements of art which were texture and form. They used the play dough to make different forms and create various textures. We also linked this to geography by creating headlands and bays using the play dough which are created through erosion.
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 3:59pm
This week the children have learn about healthy relationships. The children look at various pictures that displayed unhealthy and healthy relationships and what makes them that way. The children have made brilliant points and engaged in lots of discussions around this topic.
Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 3:16pm
In Year 4 we have just been looking at the success criteria of an adventure character description to help us create a character. We worked in small groups to think of all the different features.
Date: 11th Jun 2021 @ 3:45pm
Today in reading into writing, year 4 have been reading different adventure themed character descriptions. The children read through the different character descriptions and found the features of each one so they could compare them.
Date: 8th Jun 2021 @ 3:43pm
Today in RE the children learned about the temptation and sacrifice. Within the session the children were given various scenarios to discuss in their table groups in which a sacrifice may be needed to resolve an issue. The children came up with great ideas.
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 7:55pm
This afternoon, the children designed their own Medusa inspired hair pieces by creating card linkages, loose pivots and a card lever to create a moving hair piece. The children created their prototypes today which went really well.
Date: 14th May 2021 @ 7:46pm
On Monday, year 4 completed a practical activity looking into digestion. As digestion isn't something they can see with their own eyes the children demonstrated all the stages of digestion using crackers, bananas, water, orange juice and tights. The children loved this activity and have learnt a great deal about digestion.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 5:39pm
In year four we have started to make different designs that have levers and linkages involved in order to make them move. We have started to plan and design our own moving design mechanism based Medusa from our previous journey in reading into writing, which was Myths.
Date: 7th May 2021 @ 3:35pm
The children took part in their final forest school session of year 4. They spent time building dens, shaving tree branches, doing finger nitting and looking at the tadpoles in the pond. They really enjoyed this session and said how they were all excited to start forest school again in year 5.
Date: 2nd May 2021 @ 4:18pm
On Thursday Year 4 spent time in forest school enjoying the great outdoors. The children spent time building dens and making smores around the fire.
Date: 2nd May 2021 @ 4:11pm
On Friday, year 4 took part in a DT day inspired by the Tokyo 2021 Olympics. The children had to create a healthy snack bar that would be part of a buffet at the Olympic games opening ceremony party. The children started the day by tasting existing snack bars. Later they created a design brief and then began to design their own healthy snack bar. Once the children had created their healthy snack bar they then went into Redcliffe's to make it. To finish the day the children evaluated their designs and took their creations home. The children thoroughly enjoyed their DT day.
Date: 29th Apr 2021 @ 7:58am
Year 4 had a lovely morning yesterday as they had a virtual visitor. The children completed a workshop on Ramadan as part of their topic question of why do Muslims fast during Ramadan. The children learnt more about why Muslims fast during Ramadan, when Muslims break their fast and the special celebration of Eid.
