Christmas Time!

We have come to the end of a brilliant term for Class 4! I am so very proud of everything each child has achieved in our time together since September and can't wait to see the progress we make next term. The children started the week by finishing off their warm tasks for maths and writing. Having marked these and looked back through their books, it is very pleasing to see how far they have come already.

Since getting the hard work out of the way, we have been enjoying some Christmas based lessons and activities. The children have created their own cartoon characters using coordinates, decorated baubles, written Christmas poems, made Christmas board games and much more. On top of all this, we also enjoyed a lovely Christmas party Monday afternoon. Thank you all for the fantastic food items!

 

 

Last week the Year 5s joined in with Oaks and Acorns where they made Christmas pompoms with people from the community...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Children and I have had a fantastic term together and I am excited for what the next will have in store for us.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us in Class 4!!!!

Christmas is Coming

In Class 4 we have been continuing our work on classic fiction in English and have been looking at the different devices and grammar that make a successful story. We have looked at descriptive devices such as: personification, pathetic fallacy, metaphors and how to punctuate and use speech correctly. This will lead us into next week when we will complete a warm write in the form of an adaptation of A Christmas Carol. 

Maths is now completely focused on division and the various methods: chucking, short division and long division. Division can be a tricky area but the children are doing extremely well and are working hard to be secure in their chosen method. 

Theme is now firmly focused around the Victorians and we have already looked at the Victorian police, Queen Victoria and Christmas decorations... 

 PE also had a Christmas theme this week as the children took part in a festive mini Olympics...

Tudors and Classic Fiction

This has been a fantastic week in Class 4 which began with the painting of our Tudor houses. The children enjoyed getting very messy and creative. I hope they went home having more paint on their boxes than themselves. Today we started to put on the detail for the outside of the house and will be moving onto making the roofs Monday.

In maths we have continued with multiplication and looked at square and cube numbers. Next week we will move into division.

We have started our English topic of classic fiction and started a mini author study of Charles Dickens. We looked at three different novels which he wrote and questioned how his life impacted on his ideas for the stories and characters. 

Year 4 have been focusing on how sound travels and whether sound travels through solid objects. We conducted an experiment to find out from how far away we could hear a pin drop as it hits a table.