Year 4: Blog items
Date: 4th Oct 2024 @ 9:19am
Maple class have got a brilliant opportunity from World of Stories to take part in their Buzzing about books scheme. We had lots of amazing books delivered last week and for the first few days we just rotated them around the class looking at the huge variety on offer. Today, we got to pick the book we want to read ourselves and now we will spend some time each day enjoying the books we've chosen.
Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 9:34am
This week, Year 4 have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
They have been using lots of number lines and have started to use their own independently to be able to work out the nearest multiple of 10, 100 or a 1000 before moving on to application questions. Finally, the class have used their number sentences to inform the class of their reasoning. You can see a small selection of children teaching the class on how they have worked out the task.
The children have really impressed Miss Starkey and Miss Crystal with their mathematical skills as rounding can be tricky!
Year 4 - Changing States of Matter
Date: 1st Oct 2024 @ 3:42pm
This week, we looked at changing states of matter. This half term, we have been focusing on solids, liquids and gases. So today we looked at what the terms are called when they change from one to another. We started the lesson by holding a piece of chocolate (solid) in our warm hands. This made the chocolate melt and this happened because we increased the temperature. Later in the lesson, we looked at whether salt would make ice melt quicker. It did because the salt and ice melt to make saltwater and that has more particles in it.
Date: 26th Sep 2024 @ 1:43pm
Today was voting day! Good luck to all the candidates - you were brilliant presenting your manifestos in class.
Date: 24th Sep 2024 @ 3:43pm
Today, we recapped the phonemes è, é, e, eau, eux. We did some listening tasks where we had to listen for the correct phoneme. Then we moved on to looking at the days of the week. We recapped how to pronounce them, put them in the correct order and had a go at asking each other what day it is today and responding.
Date: 23rd Sep 2024 @ 4:41pm
Today we celebrated the European Day of Languages by holding a special assembly. We talked about why it is important to know about other languages and cultures and how this might help us when we grow up. We discussed the characteristics that you need to learn a language including enthusiasm, curiosity, perseverance and self motivation. We ended with a languages quiz and learned a greeting song in French.
Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 9:13am
This week, Year 4 recapped a song they learned in previous music lessons, 'Hoedown Throwdown'. The children then performed parts of the song on a glockenspiel. By the end of the lesson, Year could play a portion of the song together at the same tempo!
Year 4 - Density and Viscosity
Date: 16th Sep 2024 @ 9:21pm
Some tricky new vocabulary for Year 4 today. We learned all about density (heavy) and viscosity (thickness) of liquids and did some little experiments to find out more. Oil is less dense (‘heavy’) than water, so it ‘floats’ on top of the water. The fizzy tablet makes a gas (carbon dioxide). Gases are less dense (‘heavy’) than water or oil, so it goes up through both liquid layers. When the gas goes up, it mixes some of the particles of oil and water together. Different liquids have different viscosities (thicknesses). The more viscous the liquid is, the longer it takes for the bubble to move through. In liquids that are more viscous, the particles are closer together than in less viscous liquids.
Date: 12th Sep 2024 @ 9:17am
Our key question this lesson was "Who was Boudicca and what image do we have of her today?" We started the lesson by recapping what we have learned about the Romans so far. Then we moved on to looking at Boudicca's life and we looked at numerous sources describing her. We used our inference skills to draw conclusion about the type of person Boudicca was and why she revolted against the Romans.
Year 4 - What's are solids, liquids and gases?
Date: 9th Sep 2024 @ 4:07pm
This week, we started our States of Matter unit in Science. We explored what the particles of a solid, liquid and gas look like. During one of the activities, we went outside and acted like particles ourselves.
Year 4 - Should the Romans have invaded Britain?
Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 9:10am
We started our History unit about Romans by going down to the school hall and looking at our World and British History timeline. We found out that the Romans invaded Britain after the Iron Age and this was one of the reasons they invaded. We then looked at arguments for and against the Romans invading and used our oracy skills to have a debate about it.
Year 4 - KIRFs and dictionary practise
Date: 5th Sep 2024 @ 9:07am
Right back at it this week! We have been practising our numbers to 100 for our KIRFs this half term and we have been practising how to use a dictionary. We remembered that the dictionary is in alphabetical order and that we use the first 3 letters of the word to find it.
Date: 15th Jul 2024 @ 4:52pm
Last week, we had an amazing time visiting the farm animals!
Date: 15th Jul 2024 @ 4:48pm
Today in science, we revisited our 'Sound' topic. Firstly, we completed a flashback about how sound travels. Then, we were asked to move around the room and solve 10 clues which gave us a code to escape a recording studio. All of the clues were based on key concepts that we had learnt in Year 4. Therefore, we had to apply our knowledge of these to answer the questions.
Date: 11th Jul 2024 @ 2:23pm
We had a great time visiting the animals this afternoon!
Boundary Choral Speaking competition
Date: 9th Jul 2024 @ 2:46pm
This week we held our annual Choral Speaking competition. From Reception to Year 6, year groups learned poems by heart and performed them to the rest of the school. Once again, the standard was extremely high and we are proud of all the children for taking part. This year's winners are Year 3, who will represent Boundary at the Blackpool Choral Speaking competition on Friday.
Year 4- Together Time (Laurel)
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:42pm
In Laurel, we started our History Day in Together Time. Our key question was 'Who are Blackpool FC?' We started the morning by reasearching what the different elements of the Blackpool FC badge represent. Then, we began to research information about them such as their history, the name of their stadium, some famous players and their current manager.
Year 4- Congratulations Albie!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm
Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library!
Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 1:52pm
For our annual Heritage Day, our key question was 'Who are Blackpool FC?' We started the day by researching what the different parts of the Blackpool badge represent and then researched things such as the name of their stadium, famous players, which trophies they've won and who their current manager is. We then used our artist skills to show our findings.
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 7:36pm
Our key question was 'How do we get from Boundary to the beach and what will we see along the way?'
We found our route using maps in the morning and after lunch we walked the route. Along the way, using clipboards, we wrote down examples of human features and physical features we saw. We decided that there were much more human features than physical.
Year 4 - Together Time (Maple)
Date: 2nd Jul 2024 @ 9:55am
We started our Geography Day during Together Time today. Our question is 'How do we get from Boundary Primary School to the beach and what will we see along the way?' We discussed what fieldwork is and then used maps to mark out our route for our walk this afternoon.
Date: 27th Jun 2024 @ 3:41pm
What a fab week we've had! Not only has it been Sports Day this week, but we researched Paralympian Kadeena Cox, played rounders, had British Vault champion Izzy come in and speak to us, played wheelchair rugby and learned about sea safety from people are the Coastguard.
Date: 25th Jun 2024 @ 1:24pm
We had a great morning in the sun for our Sports Day. The children showed good perseverance and we even saw some people supporting each other when they were unsure what to do. Well done everyone!
Date: 23rd Jun 2024 @ 5:27pm
This year's theme for Music Day was connection! We had a fantastic day learning about syncopated rhythms. We clapped our own rhythms to a nursery rhyme and then created syncopated rhythms with body percussion and a range of different instruments.
