Welcome to Year 4’s first blog of the year!

We have been very busy these past 2 months and there are lots of exciting things that we want to show you. We all had a great start to the year and have been working really hard since. Have a look below at some great pieces of work and fun activities we have all been involved in!

Maths

We started the year learning about place value, which included understanding the value of numbers up to 10,000. We have been working hard using practical resources to support our learning which has been really useful. Times tables are a huge focus this year due to the times table tests that will take place in June next year, so we have been practising our recall of times tables by taking part in ‘Daily 10’ activities which are timed to improve our arithmetic. This half term we moved onto multiplication and division. We have been focusing on each specific times table up to 12×12 and looking at the relationship between multiplying and dividing in each one. Lots of different activities have helped us embed the learning such as dienes, counters, multiplication squares and 100 squares. Take a loom below at some of the work we’ve been doing:

Science

 

This term we have been looking at the topic of teeth and digestion. We started by looking at our own teeth and exploring the different types and what they are used for. We then looked at how we can look after our teeth and did an experiment looking at how different drinks affect them. This half term we have been exploring our digestive system and how it works. Children have worked hard remembering all the names and functions of our digestive system. We have a very messy experiment coming up this half term that will show how our food moves through our digestive system! Take a look at one of our displays that have been engaging the children in the topic, including key words and enquiry questions!

Reading

Every morning we start our day off with a reading lesson. We have already flown through three books and we are moving onto our next.

Krindlekrax was our first book that we explored. It was a fiction book about a boy called Ruskin who dreamed about being a hero. All three classes really enjoyed this story and were always left on a cliffhanger at the end of each chapter! We were all cheering Ruskin on!

Check out some of the work in our books below!

Our second book was a book called ‘Fly, Eagle, Fly’. It was an African tale telling the story of a farmer and his eagle.

Check out some of the work in our books below!

Our third book was a non-fiction book called So You Think You’ve Got It Bad? A Kid’s Life in Ancient Rome. This book linked with our topic of romans. This book helped us to learn more about how kids lived in Ancient Rome. We learnt new and interesting facts as well as some really gross ones!

Check out some of the work in our books below!

We will now be exploring a variety of poems from a book called Cherry Moon by Zaro Weil

Topic

In year 4 we have been spending the autumn term learning about the romans and roman Britain

We were lucky enough to spend the day as romans. We spent the day as archaeologists, trying interesting roman food and roman soldiers as well as practicing our orienteering skills.

In our topic lessons we have learnt about who the romans were and where they came from, why the roman army was so successful in spreading the roman empire as well as who Boudicca was and how she challenged roman rule

Finally, we were very busy during anti-bullying week with creating our own raps! Have a look below at some examples of these!

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We hope you enjoyed reading our first blog of the year. We look forward to sharing some more of our fantastic work as we go into the new year!

Mrs Clarke, Miss Shah, Miss Connolly and Miss Akhtar.