Year 4 - Summer 2 - Week 2

Date: 14th Jun 2022 @ 11:26am

A week full of memory making and learning highlights in Year 4!

‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ is one of the most famous fables and we loved revisiting the story this week to think deeper about our understanding of our Collective Worship value, Truthfulness. In RE, we pulled the Lord’s Prayer apart to analyse the different words and phrases used throughout. We recognised that the Lord’s Prayer is a Christian prayer which Jesus taught his disciples to say and each line has its own meaning. A particular word we analysed was ‘Amen’ which we deduced means ‘So be it’. We concluded that this word is a form of blessing at the end of most prayers.

In English, we continue with our story, ‘Blue John’. Before we started reading the new chapter, we explored our new STAR vocabulary, using our dictionaries to define the words and creating a glossary for future reference. We connected our learning with Geography, discovering new terms such as stalagmites and stalactites. Using Hot Seating, we explored the thoughts and feelings on the Queen of Darkness and used fronted adverbials to create sentences about her actions towards Blue John. Our learning then progressed to spotting features in explanation texts and justifying when a new paragraph should be used. 

We carried out lots of practical activities in Maths to focus on our recall of the 2 to 12 times tables. From a scavenger hunt around our school grounds, to bingo and chanting, we truly have worked hard this week to increase our recall speed. We have also begun our focus on statistics by reading and interpreting pictograms as well as creating our own, using a suitable key and symbol. Next week, we will look at line graphs and answer questions based on the data we can interpret from bar charts. 

With our Mayan masks dry and eye holes cut, it was time to add paint. Using a range of vibrant colours and eye-catching patterns, we chose whether to make a mosaic effect or to symbolise an animal as our design. Our clarinet skills are also going from strength to strength! With the focus and determination we are displaying to perfect our notes, the range of songs we have perfected is ever increasing each week. Mrs McCardle couldn’t be more proud!

The most fun we had this week was certainly when we carried out our bubble investigation. After creating bubble bands out of pipe cleaners, we dipped them in bubble mixture and filled the sky with bubbles! Excitement filled the playground as we used our observation skills to observe if the bubbles were always round, if they always went up in the air and investigated if we could create different coloured bubbles. 

As a school, we are extremely pleased to have achieved GOLD for our School Games Mark this year. This reward is testaement to the dedication and work our Year 4 Sports Ambassadors have put in to support sport and exercise across the school, alongside the other ambassadors. A huge well done to them!

Reminders:

-Mufti Day and the Summer Fair on Friday 24th June.

-Children will need to bring trainers to school on Tuesday 21st to complete a lap of hope around the school.

-Please ensure children have a water bottle in school.