Year 4’s art work for Theme entailed an art exhibition. The art exhibition was an opportunity for parents to buy their children’s amazing work so that we could raise money to adopt a pig just like Wilbur.

The children worked well to study the design of a web, they then recreated the designs, creating web designs with chalk and on corkboards. Well done for your fantastic efforts.

Thank you to the parents for supporting this causes. Great news – we have now officially adopted a pig!

This afternoon, Year 4 had a gymnastics class. They learnt and practiced various techniques on different carousels. For example, handstands, cartwheels, forward rolls and backward rolls. Although some of the children were not confident, all of the children tried their best which was great to see. They were also highly supportive of each other.

Well done Year 4!

In our Theme lesson today, we sorted different foods into food groups. This was an engaging lesson which reinforced the previous lesson’s learnings of food group. Also, discussing the purpose of each group.

In our English lesson, we wrote a play-script to show the communication between Fern and Wilbur (in Charlotte’s Web). We acted it out too. Tomorrow, we will be converting our play-scripts into dialogue.

Throughout the week, in Maths, we have been practicing columnar addition and subtraction. The children will be showing their problem solving skills for homework this week, by solving addition and subtraction word problems. In addition, Year 4 should continue to practice their 6 times tables.

The children have spellings to learn which are homophones. Now, you may think the spellings are easy but this week’s test will assess whether the children can choose and write the correct homophone – depending on the context in which it is read in. Year 4 will also need to rewrite a paragraph but will need to insert the correct punctuation too.

Can you spot any homophones within this blog?

In our Respect lesson today, Year 4 discussed the different feelings we experience. We discussed experiences and feelings of: anxiety, happiness, joy and sadness, to name but a few.

To all the children, who were feeling anxious about football and gymnastics competitions, we have every faith that you will be successful.

On Wednesday, we had our class prayer service which proved to be an amazing time of reflection. The focus of our prayer service was gratitude. We shared what and who we were thankful for. We all agreed that we were thankful for each other too.

Thank you Miss Drumgoole for leading such a wonderful prayer service.

~Let’s have an attitude of gratitude to start each day~

What are you grateful for today?

During our English lesson this week, we read the poem ‘The Monster Spider on the Ceiling’ which was beautifully written by Paul Cookson. The children worked in groups to rehearse the poem, they also created actions to the poem to help them remember it. The main strategy used was text mapping, this strategy helped support the children’s remembrance of the poem. The children worked exceptionally well. I wonder if the children will still be able to recite the poem next week?