Year 4 - Summer 1 - Week 5
Date: 19th May 2022 @ 11:23am
This week has truly been one to remember!
Taking a look at a range of notice boards on display in churches across our locality, we were able to deduce the way Christians want to live and the community they create. We found that church notice boards commonly tell us that we need to help others and when events take place that support and bring the community together. Year 4 reflected on how they use the notice boards in our school church to find out when services take place and when events are on that they can attend.
Taking into account all we have learnt this term about non-chronological reports, we began researching information we could use in our own information booklet to prompt the dangers our rainforests face. After choosing a suitable heading, we discuss relevant subheadings we could include to help categorise our facts into their own paragraphs. Year 4 worked hard to even plan pictures they could use to accompany their facts and bing their information booklet to life. We can’t wait to add more factual information next week, following our visit to Chester Zoo.
It was time to tackle time in Maths this week and to help us along the way, we designed our own clock faces with annotations of the key aspects of time we needed to remember. Ater recapping where we can find o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to, we moved onto identify the time to 5 minutes. It was helpful for us to use our school day to understand things that happen in the AM and those that happen in the PM, before writing times using the 24-hour clock. Next week we will look at ordering time and digital clocks.
With our school values of Hope and Nurture in Mind, we created posters in Geography to encourage others to act now and help save our rainforests. We used our black thinking hats to recall facts about the rainforest and the dangers they face. In Science, we made our own water cycle diagrams using sandwich bags and labelled them with white board pens. It was fascinating to see how the water we placed at the bottom of the bag evaporated when placed in front of the sunlight.
What a fantastic surprise we had in Music, as we were given the opportunity to have a Music lesson with the brilliant Mr Fogg. By creating rhythms, we ordered a variety of drinks from McDonalds, based on the different beats we made on the drums.
It is no surprise that the highlight of our week was our trip to Chester Zoo. What a fantastic day out we had full of laughter, animal spotting and of course fun! After exploring the Zoo grounds and taking time to discover our favourite animals, we focused our attention on the rainforest, clearly built to house a variety of plants and animals inside the zoo. We thought about the equipment needed for such an adventure before exploring why the rainforest is so important to both people and wildlife.
At Chester Zoo, we also discussed the classification of animals in the rainforest, their adaptations, life cycles and food chains. Of course it’s not all good news, so we also discovered the threats to the rainforest and how actions such as recycling and buying sustainable products can help save this wonderful and important habitat!
Reminders:
-RSE lessons will be taking place in class next week.
-Following half term, pupils return back to school on Monday 6th June.