Highlights from Year 4

Maths

In Maths we have been learning about bar whole models and to partition numbers to find their true value. This helped us when we looked at multiplication and how to divide numbers by breaking them up. Year 4 was very pleased with themselves after just a week of giving them a go!

Please continue to practice your times tables on ttrockstars.com

Another great website to practice for our MTC is on urbrainy.com

Writing

We have been looking at description text and balanced argument texts this term. These texts have brought a lot of discussion about who had the best description of their haunted house and who made the best argument about whether ‘children should wear school uniforms’. We looked at key features like rhetorical questions, fronted adverbials, and comparative and contrastive conjunctions to help us write good quality balanced arguments.

Science

‘Animals in their habitat’ was our focus topic for Science this term. Looking at different animals and grouping them according to their characteristics. This sparked up some great investigation on a wider species group which helped build our world knowledge about the animal kingdom. We investigated vertebrates and invertebrates and found animals with and without backbones. This was fun! We then looked at classification keys that helped us to identify different animals and types of British plants. Year 4 enjoyed working in groups creating their own classification keys and passing them around for children to identify their mystery animal.

Art

Vivienne Westwood has inspired us to become great fashion designers this term. We looked closely at types of stitching, tones and textures. We found that the world of fashion is vast and forever evolving. We were able to explore our own creativity in designing our own clothes, deciding what colour would suit better, thinking about tones and types of materials. We continue to think what types of skills would be necessary to sew our designs. In our most recent art lesson, we used our practical skills to create our own sewing designs using needles and thread. Watch out Ranikhet! Designers in the making!

Spanish

Learning Spanish this term also meant lots of giggles and tongue twisters! We had to practice good memory skills and concentration remembering our Spanish words and phrases! Our unit was ‘La Familia’ which means ‘The Family’. We have learnt how to pronounce our family members in Spanish as well going around in class asking questions like “Tienes un hermano?” or “Tienes una hermana?” (Asking if we have you have a brother or a sister)

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Move Outside - Wellbeing Day

We had a fabulous time visiting the woods on our Wellbeing Day. We also helped the community by picking up some litter on our trip. We hope this will inspire others to also keep our woods clean.