What have Y4 been up to?
Autumn Term 1
Week 8
Wow! What a week. We've taken part in lots of exciting activities this week. Our week began with a morning of pond dipping to finish off our Science topic: Animals and their habitats. We all walked to Dothill Nature Reserve and went pond dipping in Tee Lake, unfortunately we didn't catch much much, but we had lots of fun! We also completed a Scavenger hunt in the woods looking for wildlife and plants in their natural habitat. Miss Jobe and Mrs Maltby would like to thank all the adults that came with us, we couldn't have done it without you.
On Wednesday we had an exciting French Cafe experience in our classrooms. This half term we have been learning French words for different foods. The experience gave us the opportunity to practice using our new vocabulary to order food. We enjoyed eating croissants, pain au chocolate, grapes and strawberries, some of us even tried some brie and camembert!
Please Read for Monday 19th October :
Week 7
This week was another busy week for Year 4! We had our enrichment week, all centred around Diversity, which meant we got the opportunity to really explore Music from Around the World. We loved the music we got to listen to, especially the Gospel choir and the Samba! After this, we really got stuck in designing some art projects based around all these types of music and some instruments that we liked.
Week 6
We've had a busy week, this week. On Monday we enjoyed sharing a craft afternoon, making spiders, with some of our Grandparents. On Monday and Wednesday both classes visited All Saints Church and took part in a Harvest Experience Workshop. Both classes were a credit to our school and had a lovely time. We have also been learning to use coordinates in Maths and practising our colours to describe fruit and vegetables in French.
Please check ParentPay as there are several letters and permission requests for future activities and trips.
Week 5
This week, year 4 have been battling the concept of time in our maths lessons! Something that can be a bit tricky to understand the first time round are topics such as: am and pm and converting times from analogue to digital clocks and vice versa. Year 4 have blown us away with their resilience and attitude towards this week of maths activities!
Reminder for parents: Next week we will be attending All Saints Church for our Harvest Experience Workshop. 4ML will be attending on Monday 5th October and 4J will be attending on Wednesday 7th October.
Week 4
This week year 4 have advanced their skillset and learning in their Tag Rugby topic in P.E and have been learning to defend! After we further developed our tag rugby skills, we then enjoyed a whole class game of 'Foxes and Farmers', which was a lot of fun and good sportsmanship. We are now getting ready to develop our defensive and tagging skills ready to practise mini-tag rugby games!
Week 3
This week Year 4 have been writing setting descriptions about 'The Journey' book we have been looking at. The children wrote amazing descriptions using expanded noun phrases and similes. In Maths this week we have been practising subtraction using the column method. This work ended with an investigation activity, the children had to solve addition and subtraction calculations and then decide how to sort the calculation depending upon its answer.
In French we have learnt the names of different types of fruit. We have learnt how discuss with our friends which fruits we liked, disliked, loved or liked a little. In P.E we learnt how to dodge and defend, whilst in Science we used the laptops to research a habitat of our choice and write a fact file about it.
Reminder for parents: Next Tuesday after school there is an information meeting about the Year 4 Multiplication Check.
Week 2
A fantastic second week in Year 4. In Maths this week we have been reminding ourselves how to use column addition and have solved calculations with 4-digits for the first time. We have continued reading 'Charlotte's Web' in our reading lessons, we visited the library on Wednesday so we all now have a reading book. Miss Jobe and Mrs Maltby are looking forward to seeing every-ones reading diaries next week.
In our writing lessons this week we have been looking at the beautiful picture book 'Journey'. We have continued learning about habitats in Science and in our French lessons we have been learning to count to 20. The children particularly enjoyed this short video and counting along:
Les chiffres et les nombres de 1 a 20 - alain le lait (French numbers from 1 to 20) - YouTube
In P.E we did our first lesson of tag rugby. 4LM discovered we have two Rugby experts in our class who play for Telford Hornets. They were really helpful at showing us how to hold and throw a rugby ball correctly.
Thank-you to the parents who attended our Welcome to Year 4 presentation on Tuesday. If you were unable to attend the slides used can be found in the Important Information section in the Year 4 class pages.
Week 1
What a fantastic first week in Year 4! We have settled back into school life wonderfully and are looking forward to a fabulous first half term.
We have started reading our class text 'Charlotte's Web' and have written some lovely setting descriptions during our writing lessons.
During our maths lessons this week, we have been learning about the value of each digit in a 4-digit number and reminding ourselves about what negative numbers are.
