Today we have been learning about what a network is in relation to computing. We learned about our home and school network as well as the network that keeps the world connected. We even started learning the network rap.
What is a network?
Category : Crew Shields Y4 (23/24)
Front adverbials…
Today, we have continued to work on how to use fronted adverbials. We worked together to identify the different types of fronted adverbials.
Fractions with bagels…
In maths, we used bagels to help us understand how to partition a mixed number. Some of us found this quite difficult but after Miss Shields demonstrate we feel a bit more confident with it. We’ll do some more fluency style questions tomorrow to ensure we can apply this knowledge.
What is climate?
In expedition yesterday, we were learning about the difference between weather and climate. We then used some of our reading skills to text mark the information to allow us to answer a range of questions. Miss Shields guided us however this has been a skill we’ve been learning in reading. We then had an opportunity to use the information to answer out questions.
PP1 – Chotting
Yesterday, we completed our Plot point 1 by writing chunk 2. We spent some time chotting our ideas before completing a shared write. This allowed us to see how we can use our chotting in sentences. Some great participation while sharing our ideas.
Demo Comp
In reading today, we completed our demo comprehension. This supports us with being able to answer questions by modelling how to skim and scan. Once we had a couple of questions modelled, we had an opportunity to complete similar questions with our partner.
Book Talk – Reasons to Read
At the beginning of the week, we had our book talk lessons where we heavily focused on vocabulary and ensuring we understood the text. Whole reading, we had some questions to get us thinking about the text but to allow us an opportunity to text mark where we could find the answers.
Scientific Data
On Monday, we started our case study 2 on science. During our first lessons, we looked at a range of data about Svalbard and discussed what this told us about Svalbard. Some of the information was quite alarming as it shows the detrimental effect global warming is having on this country.
Crew Shields – Music 🎶
We continued our music unit ‘The Doot Doot Song’ by warming up doing ‘The stomp canon’. This gave us the chance to warm up our voices and our bodies.
To begin our lesson, we talked about chords and triads. Using glockenspiels, we worked as a group of 3 to play C major, F major and A minor. Once we had practised keeping in time with one another as a group, we then tried playing each chord as a whole class ensemble before moving from chord to chord to create a short 3 bar piece of music.
Finally, we recapped the notes B, A and G on the recorder, and applied this to a short tune where we had to move between the 3 notes seamlessly.
Crew Shields – Music 🎶 ✨
We began our new music unit ‘The Doot Doot Song’ by joining in with a warm up called a stomp canon. This enabled us to warm up our voices as well as adding actions to warm up physically too.
We then looked at the structure of ‘The Doot Doot Song’, thinking about the fact that songs are built using different sections and structures.
We began to learn the song by focusing on the chorus. Although the lyrics are not tricky, they are syncopated (goes against the rhythm/beat) and some of the words need to be staccato (short and detached). We then discussed what chords and triads are before trying to identify the chords used in the song.
We then continued to learn how to play the recorder, this lesson we were introduced to the note āGā.
