This week, we have been getting to grips with being able to respond quickly and accurately to mental arithmetic questions – particularly times tables. We have been playing ‘Hit the Button‘ which is a quick fire game against the clock. It would be great if your child could have a go at this at home and keep learning their times tables.

We have also been looking at the features of instruction texts. We have carried out activities involving following, reading and responding to verbal and written instructions. The features of instruction texts have been looked at closely and the children will get chance to write their own set of instructions following a baking session tomorrow!

In Class Worship, we discussed ‘Attitude of Gratitude’. The children thought of ways that they have ever shown or experienced gratitude in return for being generous.

In Design and Technology, we made further progress with investigating and evaluating the effectiveness of a variety of levers and linkages. We drew diagrams of products featuring levers and labelled and commented on the design and mechanism. We will move onto developing ideas for our own product using levers.

A busy week in Class 4 again since half term.

In English the children have been writing play scripts based on a chapter of Charlotte’s Web.  They enjoyed performing each other’s play scripts in our lesson this morning.

In maths we have been working on multiplication and division, practising times tables and simple division problems.

In History we have looked at different objects and inventions and found out when and where they were invented to create a class time line of inventions.  Next week we will be exploring some Stone Age to Iron Age artefacts from the local library.

In Science we have just begun our new topic on ‘sound.’  We carried out a listening walk around school to try and identify different sounds and where they come from.  We also explored instruments and how they make sounds.

On Monday, the children in Class 4 began to explore the features of a play script. The children were able to recall features from previous work and could relate to some of the features from having played the role of characters in plays and performances in school. The children worked in small groups on Tuesday, to perform ‘The Meeting’ scene from Chapter 12 of Charlotte’s Web.

In Maths, the children carried out activities relating to doubling and halving. They used the partitioning method to double 3 digit numbers and to halve 3 digit even numbers. Some children revisited and practised the written division method too – they refer to this as the ‘Bus Stop’ method.

The children enjoyed learning the days of the week in French. They were given a word search to do during the lesson and were encouraged to recite the days of the week as they completed this. A ‘Chatterbox’ game was given out for the children to make and play at home – it was nice to see a few children had already had a go at doing this by Tuesday.

During Class Worship, we started to think in depth about ‘Generosity’. We discussed the three main things that God encourages us to generous with – our time, talent and treasures. We put our heads together to think of ways we have all been generous with our time, talent and treasures.

In PE, the class carried out activities involving balancing in different ways and practised the skills in jumping and landing safely – head up, looking forward, jumping upwards instead of forwards, strong body tension and using our ankles, hips and knees as ‘shock absorbers’.

On Tuesday, the class started their new Design and Technology unit of work. The time, the children will be working with levers and linkages to create a product – this will be decided next week. The children used a useful website programme to learn about the different levers and linkages that can be used to enable things to move. Here is the link to the website.

See you on Monday 🙂

Mrs Conde