This week, we have started our self emotional check-in. This has been a really valuable way to recognise and accept our feelings and emotions when we enter the classroom. It makes us more self-aware and empathetic of others who may be feeling a certain way to start the day. In addition, we have been spotting ACE manners and generosity this week for our in-class recognition board. What a great week it has been so far in 4H. Well done everybody. 🙂

Miss Tricia is BACK to continue our Beats, Bones and Bodies project where dance is fused with the learning of certain Science concepts. This week, we were looking at the oesophagus and the muscles that help the food to travel down. Can you remember how many seconds it takes the food to travel from the mouth and down through the oesophagus? In our dance session, we explored what a ‘transition’ is in dance and how this can make a routine look smoother and more interesting.

I’m so impressed with 4H’s attitude to learning this week. We have worked hard on our ACE expectations, our reasoning, particularly with place value in Maths and our learning of the model text ‘Keep off the tracks’. Another highlight from this week has been our Science unit on teeth and digestion where we set up an investigation to explore the effects that different liquids have on teeth (eggs!).

Can you practise our warning tale at home? How well can you remember it?

What a great first week we’ve had in Year 4. It has been wonderful welcoming 4H into the classroom; establishing ourselves as a team and getting into the rhythm of Year 4. Here is a snapshot of what we have got up to this week!

I wonder if you can talk your parent/ carer or someone at home through these key learning moments this week?

What a day we had at Countryside Days at Harrogate Showground! This is always such an exciting, jam-packed day with so many activities that link to our curriculum. Our group’s activities included: trying out cycling on a range of different bikes; weaving with willow to create a natural wreath; exploring 3D nets and the use of leather to create a bag and learning about different cattle and what they produce in Britain. We also ended the day with the legendary sheep shearing, which was entertaining and taught us lots of facts about the British Empire’s relationship with wool trading. The weather was glorious and, as you can see, some hill-rolling was essential. All of us in Year 4 believe Countryside Days is a valuable day that builds cultural capital.

This week, 4SH have been producing some stunning pastel artwork representing Pentecost. We thought carefully about what symbolism we wanted to emphasise within our artwork; what colour we will use and what this represents; choice of paper size and how to blend or not blend pastel and chalk. We practised different parts in our ACE Artists book, reflecting on the impact and going again with reworking ideas. Recapping the skill of gestural drawing has been vital here to reflect the wild nature of the fire and the wind, representing the Holy Spirit.

Currently, we are exploring how to write information texts, specifically about newly-discovered creatures. Armed with our toolkit, washing line, knowledge of our model text and magpie books, the children have loved shared-writing their first two paragraphs this week. It is safe to say that this is our best non-fiction writing yet! Well done everybody. You are becoming fantastic writers and showing that you are nearly ready for Year 5!

As part of our ‘Journeys’ unit this half term, we spent yesterday afternoon creating our own globes using paper maché. We hope to continually add to these during the unit as we learn more about certain geographical features about the world! This includes learning: the equator line, the hemispheres, latitude, longitude, 6-figure grid references and how time zones work. ?

We hope you enjoy our learnt poem for WPD called The Sound Collector!

WBD this year was based on Narnia. We started the day staining paper to begin creating an ancient map, long forgotten in time. We then created our own magical kingdom on the map, thinking about the human and physical features that would exist there. After this, we plotted a base camp all the way to the place where Aslan was captured. The final part of our map making was to write some detailed instructions to the rest of our army on how to rescue Aslan!