Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 1

Date: 7th Jun 2022 @ 4:04pm

Year 4 have been busy bees in their first week back!

To explore our new collective worship value ‘Truthfulness’, we created a web of lies. One lie led to another and before long, it became apparent that telling lies over times created a tangled web of dishonesty. We then looked at how we can use our five fingers on ours hands to represent different people we think of when we pray. We recognised that when we pray we think about those who we love, those who teach and guide us and for those who may be sick or unwell.

In English we have moved onto a new story about the life of Blue John. From the cover, we were able to make inferences about why John is blue and what this could mean, we also discussed the ring around Blue John and what that might represent. After exploring the first two chapters, we then used our prior knowledge of paragraphing to write our own three paragraph summaries about how rain is created. This also connected our learning to last term’s Science topic – States of Matter. We ended the week with a fun interactive activity where we took to the Hot Seat to roleplay and improvise an interview with the Queen of Darkness.

We have continued to develop our understanding of time in Maths this week. We have learnt how many days are in each month of the year, remembering this through a helpful rhyme. We also started to look at digital time in more depth, recognising the difference between 12 and 24-hour time. This was achieved by using number cards to see how many times of the day we could create with just four numbers!

Our new topic in History looks at the Mayan Civilisation which is very exciting! We delved into some enquiry-based learning where we created six questions which we would like to answer about the mysterious ruins the Mayans discovered. We linked our Historical findings to our Art lesson, where we started to create our own Mayan Mask out of papier-mâché. It was interesting to find out that these masks could have been worn for a variety of different reasons and can symbolise the three stages of life.

On Thursday, we began to retell the fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears in Spanish. We used our craft skills to make a minibook from A3 paper where we practiced our Spanish writing, using accents to indicate stresses on the word. It was then time to get more artistic with our beautiful illustrations.

This week we were also able to develop our map reading skills in PE by learning about Orienteering. Collaboratively, we solved riddles to gain letters which would be included in the anagram which we had to figure out This was a lovely way for our trainee teachers to say ‘thank you’ for the experience they have had in our Year 4 classroom community. We also began to learn about the footwork rule in Netball, where we had to practice keeping one foot ‘glued’ to the floor and using the other foot to pivot on.

Have a wonderful weekend, Year 4.

Reminders:

-The children would really benefit from practising their times tables at home next week, in any spare time they may have.

-As the weather is getting warmer, please ensure children bring a water bottle to school.

-Clarinets must be returned to school for our lesson on Monday afternoons.