Year 4 - Spring 2 - Week 1
Date: 22nd Feb 2023 @ 5:24pm
What a fantastic first week back!
After learning about Shrove Tuesday and why we refer to the day as Pancake Day, we tasted some scrumptious pancakes flavoured with maple syrup. What a tasty was to start the week! With Ash Wednesday in our sights, we then reflected on how Lent allows Christians to remember Jesus’ fasting in the desert and the things we would give up as a test of our self-discipline. Our focus in RE is to focus on trust and betrayal and how this can be seen in the Easter story, but first we needed to understand what the two terms meant. To do this, we had such fun guiding our trusted friends around our trim trail… blindfolded of course!
Fractions have been our focus in Maths, reminding ourselves of how to represent a whole and beginning to find patterns on number lines to be able to count beyond 1, by adding and taking away fractions. It has been important for us to connect our prior knowledge to recall terms such as equivalence, denominator and numerator. Next week, we will begin to partition mixed numbers and compare and order mixed numbers. With a big focus also on Times Tables this term, we are working hard to complete a daily Multiplication Times Table Check and use our school value of Hope to beat our score each day.
It was time to discover what our new book is for the term and make predictions regarding the setting, character and plot in this term’s English book ‘When the Giant Stirred’. By looking at two variations of the front cover, we soon identified the importance of using expanded noun phrases to describe and specify. We found rich vocabulary to help us use topic specific nouns such as Macaws, Loggerhead Sea Turtles and the Pacific Ocean. Next week, we will use the Moana film to help us understand the duties of villagers and begin to complete diary entries, using fronted adverbials, to outline the daily goings on in the tribal village.
Continuing our project with The Liverpool Football Club Foundation, we created bird feeders to place in our school grounds. We worked together to decorate, prep some bird seed and find the perfect place for them to hang. We hope that we have some little visitors to our mindfulness area soon. We also designed our own hanging wooden plaques to remind us of the important things in our environment that we need to nurture and protect.
In Science, we discovered how our devices, appliances and technology are powered by either the mains or batteries and discovered renewable and non-renewable energy sources. Thinking about the Anglo Saxons, we used a Circle Map and our Black thinking hats to recall any facts we already know about the Saxons and place their time in History on a timeline, adding events before and after 410-1066AD.
A jam packed week, Year 4. Have a restful weekend!
Reminders:
- If your child would like to take their clarinet home after their Music lesson each week, please confirm permission by returning the attached form or via the Year 4 email account (y4@tsp.sefton.school).
- Multiplication Times Tables Check Practise resources can be found on Google Classroom, alongside additional, optional Maths and Reading learning that can be completed at home.
- World Book Day – Thursday 2nd March