Year 4
Autumn Term part 3
Today we have been practising our cutting skills using the bridge and claw methods. We were cutting salad items ready to make our Christmas party sandwiches and wraps as part of our DT work. We also used graters to grate carrots. We then designed our product for another person in the class.
We have also been improving our understanding of multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 in maths and solving questions involving missing numbers.
Autumn Term part 2
Year 4 have really enjoyed writing their stories based on the book FArTHER by Grahams Baker-Smith. We have made an anthology of the stories which is now in our reading corner for us all to share.
We are looking forward to getting into our next unit of work, ‘Leon and the Place Between’ which will enable us to improve both our persuasive and our descriptive writing skills. We will be sharing this writing with other children in the school, who will be our chosen audience for when we write our narratives.
Year 4 are really enjoying learning about the Bronze age and how life changed for people after the Stone age; when new technologies were developed and people started to use metals to make tools, objects and jewellery.
Year 4 are really enjoying the artwork they are creating using charcoal. We have been taking cave painting as our inspiration.
Autumn Term
This term has started really well. We spent time discussing what to do when they get stuck and the children completed their own Learning Pits and went on to share strategies for facing challenges. We now have lots of great inspiring posters and messages around the classroom to ensure a growth mindset.
At the moment we are exploring ways to add and subtract mentally and are developing our fluency and reasoning skills with regular fluency practice. In English we are developing our sentence structure and writing like readers. We are learning to use lots of writers’ tricks like using figurative language and the Rule of 3 to improve our descriptive writing.
Stone Age
All the children have loved learning about the Stone Age and understand what life was like for people in those times. We are learning about rocks and soil in Science and some of the children have brought in fossils and rocks from their collections at home.
Poetry
This week we have been reading the poem Paean (or Eleven uses for a Garden Pea) from the National Poetry day resources. The children explored different everyday objects to work out what other uses they could have, then created their own list poems. We shared them and gave each other feedback on what was good and how to improve their performance.
