Year 4 - Summer 1 - Week 3

Date: 5th May 2022 @ 5:25pm

Yet another fantastic week, here in Year 4! 

Connecting our school value ‘Hope’ and our Collective Worship value ‘Perseverance’, we watched inspirational videos displaying how our sporting heroes never give up, despite many setbacks. This led to a discussion that God can help us when we are feeling like we can’t carry on and by always reminding ourselves of our school values, we can use hope to always try our best.

Using Venn diagrams, we rounded amounts of money to the nearest pound. There was no tricking us that an amount could not belong in the middle circle because every amount either rounded up or down. We then hit the shops, buying items with varying amounts of coins and notes but always ensuring our total amount was reached in the least amount of coins possible. Later in the week, we used our black thinking hats to recall our knowledge of money to help us in finding out how much more money we would need to meet a desired total.

David Attenborough is certainly a treasured idol in our classroom, so we were thrilled to use him as a role model for our writing this week. After watching an episode of his Planet Earth documentary, we then watched a section but this time, with no sound. It was our job to create the narration for the clip to explain just what the hairy pig and tiny shrew were up to. Within our writing, we included factual information, lots of description and kept to the same tense using a third person writing style. 

In Science, we took to the playground to sort images into solids, liquids and gases. One image had us debating…is an ice lolly a solid or a liquid? What do you think? We then investigated the process of changing water from a solid, to a liquid, to a gas. We soon discovered that the process was reversible and learnt new STAR vocabulary - condensation and evaporation. 

Continuing our focus on rainforests, we took to creating a line graph and a bar graph in Geography to show the temperature and rainfall throughout the year. It was a big surprise to us that December was not their coldest month and in fact, the temperature does not really change. 

Reminders:

-Love Reading have chosen their 'top book picks' for April and May. More, highly-rated children's reads, from a variety of authors for different age ranges, are shared with us all to enjoy.

-PE lessons remain on a Tuesday and Friday each week.

-Clarinets must be in school every Monday for our Music lesson.