Year 4 has had another busy week. The children have learnt how to use ‘Book Creator’ to record their ideas, speech and photos. They have used that knowledge to create beautiful documents explaining their understanding of the Stations of the Cross.

In Science, the children have conducted practical investigations about gases. Their favourite was to make gas using water and effervescent tablets and then catch that using a  balloon! The children could see the gas created as their flat balloons suddenly inflated.

The class have also immersed themselves in a new art form, called Zentangle. It uses a particular technique of drawing parallel, straight and curved lines, to fill small pre-designed spaces. The children created beautiful pictures.

The children have had their weekly violin lesson and their repertoire of songs is getting larger over  the weeks.

Finally, on Friday, the class took part in the school’s first Lenten charity event selling and buying toys and books.

Thank you very much for your contributions in supporting the charities we have chosen this Lent.

Have a nice weekend!

 

The children have been learning about Hinduism as part of our whole school focus -‘ Other Faith Week’.   They have completed their own  research about the main pillars of this faith as part of their Home Learning and they have been introduced to Gods and Goddesses through RE.

Today, we  visited the Neasden Temple in North-West London. The children had an opportunity to look around the wonderful Mandir and the Prayer hall. They listened to an introduction about the temple, explored the temple and took part in a prayer service.  They learned about the history of the building itself and viewed the exhibition gallery.

This week, the children have also focused on Internet safety. The children took part in a computing workshop called ‘Game Over’, where through role play and drama they learnt about the risks of online gaming.

Today, a Valentine’s Day disco will crown the week, which judging from the lovely outfits many of year 4 have decided to attend :).

Have a great half-term.

 

Mrs McNamara and Ms Varga

This week the children have been continuing their work on Fractions  and Converting units of Measure through problem solving.

As most of the Year 4 class are part of choir, the classroom was rather empty on Wednesday when the children went off to the O2. For the children who remained, they had a creative RE lesson painting symbols to represent the seven Sacraments using water colours.

The experience of being at the O2 and performing was amazing.  The children were excitedly telling us all about how the sound of thousands of children singing together was a memorable experience.

In English, we have continued to look at fronted adverbials and their use at the beginning of a sentence to describe the action that follows.  They have begun to plan to write a narrative and the ideas have been flowing!

Have a wonderful weekend.

Homework for this week:  Here are two Maths Problems to solve Martin Luther and Safer Internet Day

Spellings ‘ure’ words – spelling test on Monday (4th).

Grammar questions on SPAG.com

 

Pictures of our fun in the snow…great teamwork in making our class snowman!

 

 

Here are some of the wonderful lamps that the children made in class.

 

 

 

 

 

Another week in Year 4 has whizzed by!

In R.E, we have been learning about ‘sacramental people’ and how we can see God in the world and others. The children examined the storybook, ‘Maybe God is like that too.’ which is about a young boy who asks his grandma where God is in their city.  An ordinary day in his city opens this young boy’s eyes to God’s Spirit at work all around him. The children shared their experiences of  the words joy, faithfulness, self-control and discussed that while they experience these, there too is God.

They met Mike form the Canal and Water Trust on Tuesday and alongside Year 3,  took part in an assembly where they learnt how to keep safe when near a canal. The children listened carefully and joined in the activities that Mike set them to do.

As we are studying play scripts, the children were given the opportunity to show their plays to the rest of the class. Some groups still have to show theirs but the children have worked extremely hard in taking on their character(s) personality and developing their ability to be playful, be creative, curious, imaginative and bold!

I have recorded these on video and hope that I can upload them onto this blog……more information will follow!

 

Well done.

 

Homework has been set and explained to the children.

Have a lovely weekend.

 

Mrs McNamara and Ms Varga