Another super term has come to an end!

Welcome to the last blog post from year 4 for the Spring term. It has been a whirlwind term with the year 3 and 4 performance taking centre stage. We have been working really hard to put the performance together which has consisted of learning lines, following stage directions, practising songs and getting costumes put together. We are all incredibly proud of the final product and we do hope that all the parents enjoyed the show if they were able to come and watch! Let’s take a look and see what fabulous things the children have been learning about…

 

From the Year 4 team: Mrs Clarke, Miss Connolly and Miss Shah

School Trip to the Science Museum!

This term the children were lucky enough to visit the science museum in London to deepen their learning of living things and their habitats, which is our topic in science. The children explored the museum and really enjoyed the 3D interactive film about habitats in Antarctica. The children were so engaged and the adults were also really blown away by the effects!

Maths

This term, we learnt about fractions. Within this unit, the children understood the meaning of a whole. They are now able to count beyond 1 using fractions, partition mixed numbers, and use a number line to support ordering fractions. We then moved onto learning about mixed fractions, and the children are now able to convert between mixed numbers and improper fractions. Every lesson, we explore and understand new vocabulary to support children with their learning of mathematical terminology. We encourage the use of these through class discussions, partnerships, and while they work in their books. While learning about fractions, we used a variety of concrete resources as well as models to support children’s learning and help them progress to attempting more complex abstract questions. Check out some of our awesome learning below!

Writing and reading

This half term we concentrated on exploring the features of and writing our own discussion text. We started off our unit by having a class debate about ‘One day will robots replace teachers?’ This helped engaged the children as they were able to explore different points for and against. In this unit, the children really delved deep into what makes a good discussion. We spent time carefully exploring the different features and annotating our model text. We discussed features such as fronted adverbials for cohesion to make our paragraphs flow, determiners and quantifiers as well as subordinate clauses. Our final piece of writing was a discussion about ‘Should trees be cut down in the rainforest?’ The children wrote an introduction, a paragraph for and against and a concluding paragraph independently.

In our reading lessons, we have been looking at a variety of different texts and genres. This term, we explored a non-fiction text called ‘Amazing Rivers: 100+ Waterways That Will Boggle Your Mind (Our Amazing World)’. This book linked brilliantly with our topic lessons about the Amazon River. The children have been able to explore the features of a non-fiction text and compare them to fiction texts. We then moved onto exploring poetry and the features of poetry. The children had a go at writing their own poetry based on the poem ‘First Day’ by Matt Goodfellow.

World Book Day

World book day was a fantastic day. We got to share our love for reading with the Year 2 students with our buddy reading activity. We also read by torch light and even created some art work based on the book ‘Moon’s Ramadan’. The children also had the opportunity to show off their costumes during the fashion show which was enjoyed by all!

We really hope you enjoyed reading about our learning and looking at some of the photos taken. We hope you all have a fantastic break, however you are spending it, and we look forward to welcoming the children back to school on Monday 15th April. Happy Easter and Ramadan Mubarak to everyone who is celebrating!