Year 4 - Spring 2 - Week 4

Date: 16th Mar 2022 @ 5:55pm

What a fantastic week we have had here in Year 4.

To start our week, we took a look at the story of Peter and discovered that following the arrest of Jesus, Peter denied knowing him three times, but after the third denial, he heard the rooster crow and recalled the prediction as Jesus turned to look at him. Peter then began to cry bitterly. With the story in mind, we broke down the key events and outlined the amount of times Peter denied Jesus. We then discussed how Peter denied knowing Jesus to save his own life and how Christians are not afraid to declare their faith in Jesus even when it has meant they would lose their lives.

Our Collective Worship brought sadness and honour to our hearts, as we listened to the Buddhist story of The Monkey King. We identified how this story connects to our value of Sacrifice because the monkey sacrificed himself for the good of others.   

In English, we created guides to show the features of formal letter writing. We had to make sure we put each feature in the right place and used formal language to address the recipient. It was also a week of upleveling, as we researched a variety of synonyms for nouns and frequent words we use in our writing. Year 4 truly are eager to make their choice of vocabulary more exciting, week after week. By the end of the week, we had planned a letter to write to a distant relative and included a description of the volcanic eruption happening in the village. Next week, we are going to begin planning our own version of the story ‘When the Giant Stirred’.

Connecting our understanding of fractions and with decimals this week, the children spent time converting tenths into decimals such as 0.1 and 0.4, before moving on to think about how we can also divide a number by 100 to make hundredths. We use place value charts to allow us to visualise how a number moves past the decimal point and into the tenths and hundredths column, remembering that we also need to add in a zero or two.

It was time to put our clarinets together in our Music lesson and learn our first song, ‘There is a ghost in the house!’. Even though some of our notes are a little squeaky, Miss McArdle is . very impressed with our knowledge of notes and how well we hold a tune! We also had a fantastic dance workshop, led by the brilliant Miss Ashleigh. We used dance to symbolise different forms of bullying and freeze framed stages of emotions during difficult times.

Arriving at school on Friday morning, we were welcomed by an abundance of red.. Yes you guessed it, we started our morning celebrating Red Nose Day. Our morning was filled with a variety of carnival inspired activities, incorporating red noses, to help us to recognise the importance of the day. To add to the celebrations, Year 4 took on Year 3 in an egg and spoon race using a red nose! What a great time we had!

In recognition of National Science Week, our afternoon on Friday was full of Scientific experiments all centred around the theme of Growth. By adding Alka Seltzer to a bottle of coloured water and oil, we made bubbles of carbon dioxide. The bubbles then attached themselves to the blobs of colored water and brought them to the top of the glass. We noticed that when the bubbles popped, the blobs of coloured water fell back to the bottom of the glass. This is definitely an experiment Year 4 will replicate at home.

Year 4, we wish you a restful and enjoyable weekend!

Reminders:

-Please ensure your child’s clarinet is brought to school ready for their Clarinet Lesson on Monday.

-Parent-Teacher Meetings on Wednesday 23rd and 30th March.