Year 4: Blog items
Year 4- Finding Features of News Articles
Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 1:06pm
In Reading into Writing, Year 4 have been identifying structural and language features of newspaper reports and online news articles. Firstly, we looked at some examples of newspaper articles and highlighted the features that we noticed. After this, we used our digital literacy skills to look at some news articles online and were given post it notes to label the features that we found. We will continue to read and annotate a range of news articles and will plan and write our own news article in the next couple of weeks.
Year 4 - UK Flashback and discovering what a river is
Date: 9th Jan 2024 @ 8:25pm
Today we started our Geography unit about Rivers. To start the lesson, we did our flashback about the UK; naming the countries, capital cities, oceans and seas. Then we used information around the room to discover what a river is. Afterwards, we looked for some of the longest rivers in the world on a map.
Date: 22nd Dec 2023 @ 8:44am
What an afternoon!! And a special guest appearance...
Date: 21st Dec 2023 @ 11:48am
We really tested our tired Christmas brains this morning! Miss Crystal and Miss Bates were really proud of how well we worked together to solve this NRich problem.
Date: 20th Dec 2023 @ 11:46am
Today we used our Art pathway skills (Storytelling through drawing) to draw and paint a scene from the Christmas Story. We used the medium of watercolours for the background and we used a stencil to cut out a silhouette for Mary, Joseph and the donkey.
Date: 18th Dec 2023 @ 9:23am
Continuing with our focus on oracy this year, together we wrote our discussion guidelines. These are rules that we all agree we need to follow to be able to have good oracy skills. Afterwards, we introduced two new oracy groupings: Nest and Traverse. Previously, we have used the groupings Pair, Trio and Circle. The children were brilliant at remembering how the groupinga worked and what was expected of them whilst listening and speaking.
Date: 15th Dec 2023 @ 9:15am
One of Santa's elves has been visiting us recently. Today, we brought a snowman from the North Pole to visit us. Unfortunately, the snowman had melted. We discussed why he had melted and used our States of Matter knowledge from Science to work out that the classroom was too hot. Someone asked if we could take him to the freezer but we realised we couldn't because he would then freeze in the shape of the container.
Year 4 - Storytelling through drawing
Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 4:34pm
Today we evaluated our art from last week (based on the poem 'A Day in Autumn'). We used evaluation post it notes and stem sentences to write about our illustrations. Then we used our reflections to start our final pieces.
Year 4 - Elf-lympics and Christmas dinner!
Date: 11th Dec 2023 @ 7:49pm
Today we took part in the Elf-lympics playing for points for our houses. Then we enjoyed a yummy Christmas Dinner in our Christmas jumpers!
Year 4 - Commitment and sacrifice
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 9:47pm
Today we practised our oracy skills when discussing how we sacrifice things to be committed to things we love. Just like Muslims are committed during Ramadan. We used an oracy grouping called 'Circle' where one person spoke and everyone had to listen to what they are committed to and what they sacrifice. Everyone outside the circle had to use their listening skills.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 4:28pm
Year 4 have been focusing on writing playscripts. This week, we have watched a couple of the scenes from Arthur Christmas and have written a film script of these scenes as a class. We have thoroughly enjoyed looking at the main features of play/film scripts and using these in our own shared writing. We look forward to planning and drafting our own film scripts later on this half term.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 3:52pm
This half term we have been learning to present ourselves. We have learned to answer the questions "Common tu t'appelle?", "Quel âge as tu?" and "Où habites-tu?" We have also been responding to the questions "Ca va?". Lots of our work has been verbal, but here's some of our written work.
Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 9:02am
This week, we learned about what enterprise means. We were then told that we had an enterprise project for the school Christmas Fair. Next, we went into Redcliffes and made reindeer food ready to sell at the Christmas Fair in a few weeks time.
Year 4- Laurel's Reading Champions
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 7:57pm
Well done to our new Reading Champions in Laurel. You have read three times this week and been on Reading Plus for half an hour. Hopefully there will be more pupils in Laurel that can earn their Reading Champion badges! Keep up the good work!
Year 4 - Acting from a filmscript
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 10:15am
In Reading into Writing we have been looking at playscripts and filmscripts. Today we had a go at acting out part of the filmscript from Arthur Christmas.
Year 4 - Most effective toothpaste
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:50am
This week we tested which the most effective toothpaste is. We observe how damaged egg shells (representing our teeth enamel) were after leaving them in white vinegar for 24 hours. We had one control egg, one egg covered in children's toothpaste, one egg covered in a toothpaste which cost £1 and one egg covered in a toothpaste which cost £5. Which do you think was the most effective? Ask a Year 4 child for the answer!
Date: 30th Nov 2023 @ 8:46am
After learning new rolls and jumps (pike, straddle and forward straddle), we have started to look at how we can put them into a sequence ready to perform to the rest of the class.
Date: 24th Nov 2023 @ 2:12pm
Today we recapped what the internet is. Then we used our previously learnt image editing skills such as cropping and cloning to retouch images.
Date: 20th Nov 2023 @ 8:31pm
Last week, we were introduced to the digestive system. Using our new knowledge, today we made our own digestive system to represent what it's like inside our bodies.
Date: 20th Nov 2023 @ 1:44pm
In RE we are learning about Islam. Today, we researched more about Eid Al-Fitr. We found out lots of information about Eid from around the classroom and then we used all the information we gathered as a table to make a Google Slide. This gave us chance to practise our digital literacy skills too.
Year 4 - Storytelling through drawing
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 3:01pm
Today we practised the medium of charcoal. We did some mark making first, then we set scenes to draw.
Year 4 - More Reading Champions!
Date: 14th Nov 2023 @ 2:57pm
We have three more Reading Champions in Maple class this week ! Well done you three.
Date: 13th Nov 2023 @ 8:52pm
Our focus this Anti-Bullying Week was : To know how bullying takes place within a group and the different roles people play.
In the morning, we took part in the BBC's Live Lesson.
Then, in the afternoon, we used resources from the Anti-Bullying Alliance's website to look at and discuss the roles that are involved in bullying. We looked at different scenarios and discussed who was playing which role and how the scenarios could be handled.
To finish the day, in our odd socks, we listened to a Now, Press, Play experience based on Anti-Bullying Week where numerous scenarios played out and we got to hear and feel how the characters were thinking and feeling.
Date: 10th Nov 2023 @ 4:42pm
This half-term, Year 4 our topic in science is Animals including Humans. Over the past couple of weeks, we have been looking at the functions of each one of our teeth. After this, we modelled our own teeth using playdough. We have also looked at why it is important that we brush our teeth twice a day. To test why we need to do this, we put 6 eggs into a range of different liquids and observed what happened to their shells. We found that the driinks with the most sugar caused the egg shells to decay and discolour. This showed us that too many sugary drinks can damage our teeth.
Date: 9th Nov 2023 @ 9:05am
In preparation for Remembrance Day over the weekend, we have been busy doing an art activitiy to make poppy art. We have spoken about why we celebrate Remembrance Day and practise a new medium using clay in art. Year 3 created the background of our clay art using charcoal. We have also been looking at some famous Remembrance poems and some children have used their best handwriting to rewrite them.
