Year 4 have been looking at different types of mountains as part of their geography learning. We looked at the five mains types and identified the common features of each. We then worked in groups to look at different world mountains, and to see if we could group them into the right categories.
Year 4 had a brilliant virtual lesson today with an author, Jamie Hammond. Jamie told us all about how he is an author and illustrator of ‘Grumpfort, the World’s Worst Monster Hunter’ and what inspired him to write his book. We all took a quiz to see which monster character we would be and even completed a draw along with him to create one of the monsters from his story! We all enjoyed hearing about the story and has inspired lots of us to want to read it! Miss Marley treated us to reading some during our guided reading session today!
As part of our whole school oracy focus, we are beginning to explore linguistics this half term. Year 4 loved their oracy challenge last week around word choice, and enjoyed playing the word association game to help us understand the importance of the words we choose.
Year 4 have loved starting their new science topic, Grouping and Classifying. We started to look at single and multi strand classification, and how we can group and classify objects by asking different questions.
Year 4 loved taking advantage of the spring weather last week, and took the opportunity to take their reading for pleasure into the nature garden. We loved taking our reading books outside and enjoyed reading in the sunshine ☀️
Year 4 have had a great day looking further into character education, with our class focus being centred around friendship. We spent the morning reflecting on our characters, thinking about what made us good friends, and what we would like to develop further in ourselves. We then made a friendship tree, writing on the leaves advice on how to be a good friend. At the end of the morning, we made a friendship circle, passing on positive comments to each other, to show how this can build up self esteem and spread positivity.
Year 4 had a fab jam packed World Book Day yesterday! Our class book to focus on was ‘Animal’ by . We started the day reading the book as a class. We then looked at our own books from home with an animal focus, and shared these with each other. We then focused on animal illustrations, picking our favourite to sketch.
After this, we used our sticky knowledge from Year 3 and Year 2 around clay modelling, bringing our animal sketches to life and creating our own 3D animals.
In the afternoon, we used our animal characters to create a story, bringing them life! We used all of our physical oracy skills to perform our stories and recorded them to share with the class.
Amazing work Year 4, you all embraced your tasks across the whole day!
Yesterday, KS2 Lego Club had a fantastic time taking part in the Lego League Challenge Competition! We worked on our coding skills, on our motorised robot and presented our innovate project to a range of judges. It was all about creating a marine app to support marine biologists and their research! We were super lucky and won a trophy for our amazing innovative research!
For pancake day, Year 4 decided to celebrate with a ‘Pancakes and Poetry’ morning! We started our day by thinking of some adventurous adjectives in early work to describe our pancakes!
As we are currently looking at narrative poems in English, we spent our English lesson looking at some different poems and performing them, alongside eating some yummy pancakes!
We thought about all of the physical oracy skills we looked at last half term so we could incorporate these into our poetry performances. Super work Year 4!
Last week, following on from Miss Dixon’s worship, Year 4 were looking further at the zones of regulation. We thought about what triggers our emotions, and discussed strategies as a class to help us get back to our optimal ‘green zone’.
