In after school club they made water caterpillars and then watched them wiggle when placed in the water.
Category : Curriculum
Water Caterpillar
AMAZING Mathematicians!
This week in our Achievers Assembly, we celebrated all of those Year 4s in school we have achieved 25/25 on the Multiplications Tables Check (MTC) that we complete weekly in school. These children have absolutely smashed it and have been able to correctly complete 25 questions in a record breaking 2 and a half minutes, some children even quicker! Massive congratulations to you all!
All Year 4 children will complete the National MTC test in June. For any children who have not yet passed they have the next 3 months to practise their timetables as much as they can! I know all staff in year 3/4 classes have planned lots of exciting activities to help children to learn these in the upcoming months! Hopefully as the weeks pass we will get to celebrate lots more of the children passing this test!
For those of you that want to practise at home, please use the following link: https://urbrainy.com/mtc
These websites are also helpful in helping children to learn their timestables: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button, https://ttrockstars.com and https://www.timestables.co.uk
Reading Champions!
This week we had lots of children who were awarded for reading at home. It is great to see the increase in numbers and how much children are enjoying reading every night at home. BIG thank you to all of those grown ups at home who are spending the time listening to their child/ren read, the benefits are HUGE! After having a peek at some reading records this week it is also great to see the lovely comments from grown ups!
We also celebrated the Crews who have been collectively reading the most at home, Crew Godley won it for Week 2 and Week 3 in KS1 and Crew Boswell for Week 2 and Crew Shields for Week 3 in KS2.
Well done to all of our amazing readers and parents! I wonder if we might have even more Reading Champions later this week?!
Arithmetic progression in MI
Today children in MI completed an arithmetic paper. We have been working so hard on all areas of arithmetic ensuring we are thinking about the methods we need to use. I am blown away by the results today and scores are reflecting the hard work MI are putting in. It is so lovely to see children’s faces when they have shown improvements and it is also fantastic to see children applying all the skills that they have been taught. I am so proud of you all, keep up the hard work 🙂
We can cut veg!
We have been practising our cutting skills whilst making a couscous salad. Michael has blown us away with his culinary skills 👨🍳
Sketching techniques
Yesterday, we explored a range of sketching pencils and how they create a different effect when using sketching techniques. When we’d had an opportunity to use each of the pencils, we had a go at applying this to a small section of Edgar Degas artwork.
MI continue writing their newspaper reports
Today we continued to write our newspaper reports where we used some direct speech to quote what the victims wife would have said about the events that had happened. We used the knowledge we had gained in our grammar lesson earlier in the morning to write our quotes effectively, remembering all the features of speech.
MI maths learning
We explored patterns and fractions in our magic maths lesson then we moved onto capacity in our main maths lesson. We converted between ml and L when answering questions and used our knowledge of dividing and multiplying by 1000 to help us with this. There was lots of great collaboration throughout the lesson today, great work MI 🙂
Art – Edgar Degas
It has been lovely today as we started our 3rd and final case study of our current expedition. Children were researching Edgar Degas who was a french impressionist known for his drawings of ballerinas.
As a crew we had the opportunity to recreate some of his work using skills we have learning previously. The children have done a super job considering they don’t particularly like art as they feel it is the subject they are least confident in. However, they did not let this deter them from putting 100% effort in. It was especially nice hearing them share in crew how they felt happy because they thought they’d be terrible but had actually done a really good job.
