Spring Term (so far) in Year 4

In Year 4 we have been doing lots of exciting things. It has been so good that even the Canadian Geese wanted to join in! As photographed by Oscar.

We have been busy in PE creating our own dances to a selection of water based songs.

In Geography we have looked at the Water Cycle and today we shared our models with the Year 3 children.  It was interesting because they had just made Anderson Shelters, just like we did last year.
Please ask us to show you the water cycle song! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-59ljA4Bs

In History we have been continuing with the Ancient Egyptians and will soon be debuting our films about Howard Carter's Discovery on here.  We have included one to show today, we hope that you like it.

In Maths we explored perimeter and now we are mastering DECIMALS! Turns out, we are amazing at them, we can order them, say them, record them, find the equivalent fraction, partition them, regroup them and next week we will be looking decimals in money.

In Literacy we are nearly finished our masterpieces and hope to be sharing them on the blog soon.

Check out Purple Mash for more activities and don't forget to keep practising the times tables.

 Try HIT THE BUTTON game 

For an extra challenge try some of these maths investigations on NRICH.

Don't forget WORLD BOOK DAY next Thursday! Who will you be?

The Autumn Term Turns Cold!

This week we did cricket and it was cold but delightful.

We drew our Canopic jars from ancient Egypt and wrote sentences about them.


Today Y4 Michelangelo acted out  Heracles and the 12 labours using actions and words.

Please remember to complete 4 of your reading challenges this half term!

Top 50 books to read in Year 4

Well done, Georgie, Mia, Robin, Colette on writing the first Class Blog!

Remember to check out your 'To Do' list in Purple Mash and bring in your Reading Selfies next week.  The display board is all ready for you fabulous faces to be framed!

New Half Term

With Mrs Hodges we have been doing conjunctions for time or clause.

With Mrs Lawton we acted out how to Mummify an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. The most gruesome bit was removing the brain using a small hook and rolling the body over to let it pour out their nose.

Try some of the Ancient Egyptian mummification games:
https://www.youwouldntwantto.be/mummy-web-book/tomb/
http://cwd.uchicago.edu/Public/botdindex.html

We have also been rounding money to help solve problems. Ask us to help with your shopping this weekend!

Week 8 in Michelangelo Class...

We have had a good week in Year 4 because we've had a good time doing our Egyptian pictures. We used oil pastels, stuck them onto real gold 😉, added real diamonds and emeralds and finished them with our cartouche (Please ask a member of Year 4 if you do not know what they are).

In Maths we looked at the different ways that we could solve maths problems.  Mrs Lawton was impressed with how we working in a group and listened to each other.

We hope you enjoyed the first post we wrote together as a class.
Don't forget to 'like' our weekly 'Climate Change' Tweet.

Welcome to the Michaelangelo Post!

This week in Michaelangelo Class we have been working hard on our times tables. We are trying to recall random multiplication facts at speed.

In our Topic work, we have been looking at different artefacts and deducing information about the Ancient Egyptians. We also learnt about the many Egyptian Gods and Godesses.

In Art we have created our own Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs and Gods. We have used oil pastels to ensure that our work is vibrantly coloured and tried to blend colours together to create depth.  We look forward to sharing them with you when we have finished.

We have finally finished our non-chronological reports on Climate Change and have learnt lots of facts. In our writing we have been very careful to use our author's voice and not write as if we are talking to our friends.


Here are some of the pictures we created so far and we look forward to finishing them next week.