Class 4

CLASS 4 - YEAR 4 and 5

Teacher: Miss Tilley          LSA: Mrs Allen and Mr White

Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Class 4 have been learning about Sir Ernest Shackleton. During this unit, we have worked on using emotive language and powerful vocabulary to create a diary entry of parts of his amazing journey. Check out the display outside class 4! 

Welcome to Class 4!

AUTUMN TERM 2016

Our whole school topic for this half term is Celebrations. In Class 4, our history topic is Victorians with a special focus on Victorian Christmas traditions.

I've been doing research on Victorian chemistry and elements and found a website called Victorian era chemistry.  It has good information on Victorian chemists and a diagram of atoms.

by Max

http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-chemistry.html

Victorian Inventions

Use the link below for more information to help you with your research.   If you find some other useful websites, let me know and we can add them to our page.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/victorians/inventiotimeline.html

Our topic this term is Heroes and Villains and

our Class Book is The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.

You can use the website below to find out about some heroes from history.

http://historysheroes.e2bn.org/

My Maths 

My Maths homework will be set each week.  If you forget your login details or have any questions, please speak to Mrs Whelan.

Maths Olympics

Maths Olympics has been introduced in Class 4 to help children to develop fast recall of their times and divide tables up to 12 x 12 and other key number facts.

Each week, the children will be tested against the clock on the number fact or times table they are working on. Once they can recall all the facts correctly in one minute, they will earn a gold certificate and move onto the next challenge.

So that you and your child know what to practise at home, the children will complete their own achievement sheets each week – a copy of this can be found below.  These will then be kept in their homework folders and I will also keep a record in school.  I am sure the children will enjoy bringing their certificates home to show you.

Many thanks for your continued support; together we can make this a really rewarding activity.

Spellings

This year, we are using spelling lists from the website Shakespeare and More.  The children choose up to 12 spellings to learn and only move onto the next list when they show they can spell their words in their writing.

Use these ideas to learn your spellings

• Spell the word out loud

• Make a wordsearch

• Play hangman

• Anagrams (muddle up the order of the letters and work out the word

• Mnemonic (make a saying or rhyme that helps you to remember tricky words or spelling patterns e.g. I Get Hot Toes - IGHT

• Play the dice game

Throw a 1 = write the word in capital letters, Throw a 2 = write the word with your eyes closed, Throw a 3 =type the word, Throw a 4= Bubble write and colour it in, Throw a 5= Write the word on someone’s back, in the air or on sand (when you go to the beach!), Throw a 6 = write the word out 5 times in joined writing

SUMMER TERM 2016

Our topic this half term is called Where in the World... We will be learning about The Queen and the Royal Family, The Commonwealth, Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics. The children are also choosing their own mini-projects to research. The new homework menu can be found in the homework section.

When we were learning about the Mayans, we cooked tortillas and made guacamole. I thought it would be a good idea to do some Ugandan cooking for our Commonwealth topic. You can read all about it on our Spotlight On display board.

 by Sophie 

Friday Fun - den building in Diamond Time.

We found this really cool website, which shows you the populations of the world. You can have one country in particular or the world. It shows you how many births and deaths there have been this year and today.

Kara and Georgina

http://countrymeters.info/en/World

To all of you going to Porthpean tomorrow, have fun! Hope it stays dry for you - for those of us staying at school, we will be heading out tomorrow for a walk along the canal - don't forget your packed lunch and your coat. 

Find out more about the Commonwealth at this excellent website 

http://www.youngcommonwealth.org/members/

Pourquoi Stories - you can read some more on the page below.

http://www.online-literature.com/poe/165/

Our topic for this half term is The Mayans - the overview is below. In Literacy, we will be learning how to write instructions and explanations and then we will be learning the Mayan Creation Myth and writing our own versions. My Maths is now up and running - if you forget your log in details, please see Mrs Whelan.

Week beginning 23rd May

We have spent this week using statistics from Sports Day in our maths. To finish off the half term, we have applied what we have been learning ... to Smarties.

Week beginning 16th May

This morning, GPS had a musical theme. Find out more on the PowerPoint.

Week beginning 9th May

This week, we will be learning about the Mayan Creation myth. You can watch an animated version here  http://www.mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth/myths/english/2_maya_full.htm

We had a go at making tortillas and guacamole this afternoon - the recipes are below. 

To commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, we will be reading and listening to some of his plays this term.

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeares-life-and-times

A quick note about Summer Term spelling homework ... the children will be given a list of spellings every other week from which to choose 12. They can also choose from their own errors. The back of the blank spelling sheet is lined - the children need to write sentences using the week's grammar focus as well as their spellings, all in their very best handwriting. Any questions, please speak to Mrs Whelan.

SPRING TERM 2016

Welcome Back! We h​ope everyone has had a relaxing half term break.

Our topic for this term is based on the Inspire Unit "Round and Round" - we are calling it "The Miracle Of LIfe". In Literacy, we are starting with a week of poetry before moving onto our class book "The Forgotten Garden" by Caroline Repchuk. In Science, we will be finding out about the life cycles of plants and animals. Music will see us learning and singing rounds and we will be looking at pattern and symmetry in Maths and Art. 

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Thank you to Gill Hobbs, who helped us to create unique Mother's Day plant pots. More photos to follow soon.

Learning About Sikhism - we recently enjoyed a visit from Daya, who told us about the Sikh faith. We dressed up, danced, made chapattis, ate curry and Daya wrote our names in Punjabi.

Happy New Year and welcome back to what is going to be an exciting and busy term for learning. Our first topic is Fever, Fire and Fashion. We will be learning about life in the17th Century. The topic summary is below.  In literacy, we are studying George's Marvellous Medicine. 

Learning in History

We use different sources to find out information in history. We annotated contemporary sketches of the Frost Fairs in groups and then used our reading Thought Bubbles to jot down our own ideas.

Spot the International Space Station

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=Barnstaple#.VpvkFfmLTIU

AUTUMN TERM 2015