Year 4 - Autumn 1 - Week 6
Date: 11th Oct 2023 @ 11:11am
The rain definitely hasn’t dampened our spirits this week!
Taking on the role of David, we defeated Goliath in our RE lesson. With tennis balls at the ready, we took aim at our Goliath targets and shouted out the Christian values that David displayed when defeating Goliath. When thinking about our Collective Worship value of Thankfulness, this week, we decided to spot values in our friends that we are so thankful to be able to share with them, such as kindness, caring, nurturing and happiness.
After finishing the story ‘Gorilla’ and finding out about the change of events in Hannah’s life following the gorilla’s visit, we set to the task of dividing the story into its opening, build up, problem, resolution and ending. Using copies of the pages of the book, we divided the story up and then summarised the events within each of a story map groups. This helped us to create a story plan of the Gorilla story, which we then edited to put our own twist on the original story. Even though the main events of our stories remained the same as the original book, our character ideas and settings changed to create our own twist on this much loved classic. Next week, we will write our own versions of the Gorilla story, using our plans to help structure our paragraphs and apply our understanding of fronted adverbials in our writing.
In Maths, we took the time to recap the steps of setting up the column addition model to support our addition calculations. We reminded ourselves of the importance of putting one digit in each box, to keep our place value columns clear. When adding, we considered if any exchanges needed to be made and hid any numbers needed to be ‘carried’ under the carpet we created by drawing two distinct lines under our calculation. Later in the week, we considered how we can connect our understanding to alter our method slightly, to support us with subtraction. Next week, we will use of column method to subtract two numbers where an exchange needs to take place, before thinking about how we count back into negative numbers.
We had a great day we have celebrating Hello Yellow Day in support of mental health awareness. To acknowledge the day, we designed a very special mini-me, to show the special connection we have as a class and the TSP Family we are so proud to be a part of.
Mrs McCardle from Sefton Music Services continues to be impressed with the amazing progress we are making in reading musical notes and the notes we can play on our recorder. When swimming, we are recapping the three main strokes over 10m and 25m, using our school value of hope to not give up on our strokes until we reach the very end of the pool.
The Year 4 virtual classroom can be found on Google Classroom but will also be attached to our blog this week and next, should your child wish to carry out any additional learning at home over half-term.