Year 4 - Spring 2 - Week 4
Date: 14th Mar 2023 @ 10:36am
A week of reflecting about the power of the brain this week in Year 4 and reminding ourselves just how creative and critical we can be.
Reflecting on our Collective Worship value of Forgiveness and connecting the value to our RE lesson, we focused on Peter’s denial and Jesus’ forgiveness. We questioned why Peter betrayed Jesus and the denial he showed in the courtyard. We the importance of forgiving others and why Jesus encourages forgiveness too.
Focusing on the thoughts, feelings and dialogue one of the villagers may be experiencing in our story, we created a Bridge map with the support of some fantastic villagers in our classroom room, roleplaying the role to support our writing. We deduced from a given text different spelling, punctuation and grammar elements that should be present in our writing and looked at the power of using different nouns/noun phrases to enhance our writing.
Continuing our focus on fractions, we unpicked different ways to represent a mixed fraction and how in turn, it shows an improper fraction. Then our focus shifted to adding and subtracting a fraction with the same denominator before securing our understanding using the Learning by Questions website. Next week, we will begin to develop an awareness of decimals and their relationship with fractions.
To acknowledge Brain Awareness Week, we looked into our own brains by creating Brain Hats. Placing the hats on our heads, we were able to look at both sides of the brain to help us recognise its essential functions, as well as how the different lobes support us every day. We also reflected on our thinking maps, thinking hats and unique 4C model with focus on how these tools we have in school support us with our learning and enable our brains to create deeper thinking.
The classroom was full of dancing gloop on Wednesday, as we joined the rest of the school in celebrating British Science Week with a theme surrounding the weird and wonderful creations in George’s Marvellous Medicine. Our experiment not only allowed us to feel like George in the story but also developed our understanding that cornflour is made up of lots of tiny starch particles and when it is mixed with water, the starch particles become suspended in liquid as the water moves in between them.
In support of the work we have been carrying out with the LFC Foundation, we headed down to the National Trust and toured the environmental areas that are of a concern to the National Trust due to littering and animal habitats. After being set the challenge of thinking of strategies we could use to encourage visitors to the site to use the bins or take their rubbish home, we presented our Litter Slogans to The National Trust for use around the beach area. We are hopeful that our catchy slogans encourage visitors to “Not be the pollution, be the solution!
Red nose filled the classroom on Friday as we completed lots of fun and games – all with a red theme – in aid of Red Nose Day. It was our mission to ensure we came together to raise smiles in recognition of helping others through tough times in their lives. We should did have the best afternoon!
Sending our best wishes to all our TSP mums, nannas, grandmas and inspirational women in our children’s lives. We hope you have a lovely Mother’s Day and a fantastic week!