Well, what a first week back it has been! Team CB have been so incredibly busy this week with lots of new learning taking place.
This week, Team CB have completed their Spring assessments and I could not be more proud of the progress they have shown. What an excellent job the class have all done at learning new skills this year! They should all be so very proud of themselves as their reading, writing, SPAG and maths have developed fantastically since our last checkpoint. Elsewhere, this week the class have moved away from Anglo Saxons and started to explore the Vikings. The class received a visit from a Viking who was planning to raid Lindisfarne Monastery. Through hot seating, the class deduced why this was happening and how it affected the Anglo Saxon citizens. Children generated their own lines of inquiry before developing an understanding of who the Vikings were and when they arrived in Britain. This week has also been a very exciting week as it was the first of our Swimming sessions. The class absolutely loved swimming and were brilliant at listening to the expectations given, following instructions and trying really hard to master new skills. I cannot wait to see how the children progress over the coming months! I'm sure by the end of the Summer they will all be absolutely brilliant swimmers! Keep up the great work Year 4. Be sure to check back next week to see what Team CB have been getting up to, we will have a creative writing session inspired by Harry Potter, as well as lots of exciting events centred around World Book Day!
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Another half term has flown by and I could not be more thrilled at the level of commitment the class have shown towards their learning this half term. They have met any challenge head on, and shown great determination in the desire to succeed. I feel that as we come back from half term, I will be greeted with the same enthusiasm and engagement towards learning.
This week, we have been busy concluding our learning of Area in maths. We have investigated closely how area can be calculated through counting squares, creating shapes by given areas and comparing areas. The class really enjoyed the work they did around area and now have a really clear understanding of the difference between area and perimeter. During the first week back, Team CB will showing everything they know when we take on a Maths Reasoning and Arithmetic paper. I'm sure the whole team will do amazingly well. Meanwhile, in Literacy we have spent this week further understanding some key SPAG concepts. As a team we have explored determiners, paragraphs, plural and possessive as well as fronted adverbials to name but a few. Spectacular Space Cadets truly were superstars, giving it their all in what can be some tricky concepts to master! As in Maths, the first week back our superstars will undertake a SPAG and reading challenge to see what we have remembered! Good luck! Elsewhere, this week we have also been learning about Anglo Saxon superstitions. Did you know that the Anglo Saxons were pagan and believed in more than one god? Our class have been researching such information to compile their own fact files. I know these are going to be simply fantastic to read! It is with that, that I wish all the class a very restful half term and hope they have chance to relax and enjoy time with friends and family. Please remember, Year 4 will begin swimming after half term so make sure they come equipped with all they may need! What a busy week we have had in Team CB! This week in our Maths, we completed our learning linked to finding the perimeter, before we moved on to investigating area. The class hand very hands on experiences, where they used resources to understand that area of a shape is the amount of space taken up by the shapes surface. From this, the class then investigated finding the area through counting squares, and understanding the importance of recording their answer with cm2. Next week, we will continue to master the concept of area.
In our Literacy this week, we have been fetching our writing to life from our Anglo Saxon newspaper reports. The class have been working really hard, to edit their writing and uplevel the content within it. They then published their piece and delivered a flurry of newspapers to the school to share the earth-shattering news. I'm sure the children of park street were very much shocked to hear what was currently happening! In our Science this week we headed down to the nature reserve in order to complete an invertebrate hunt using a classification key. The class were fantastic at using the key and assessing the questions to determine what species they could have. The class certainly came back with a buzz about them and were eager to share the types of invertebrate they had found and what classification they belonged to. In our history, the class have used different drama techniques to support in their understanding of the structure of Anglo Saxon society. They worked their way from National structures, to the roles assigned within villages and why all roles were vital to supporting one another. Check in with us next week to see what we get up to in our final week before half term. |
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