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Today we made our very own Dream Jar from the book The BFG. We loved getting creative using different mediums like glitter and sequins. We talked about what glitter could represent in a dream, glitter can mean happy and exciting , dark colours can mean sad or angry dreams, we call them nightmares.
We had so much fun immersing ourselves in all things Roald Dahl. Our lessons were themed around his books, and one of our favourites was the The Twits arithmetic challenge!
We worked in teams to solve tricky riddles based on Mr. and Mrs. Twit’s silly pranks. To crack the codes, we had to use our knowledge of common multiples – it made maths even more exciting!
It was a brilliant way to learn while exploring the weird and wonderful world of Roald Dahl.
Crew Ramsay have been working in mini crews on their tables, carefully using fine motor skills to create a green paper chain to resemble a crocodile from the linked text “The Enormous Crocodile”. They challenged themselves to see who could create the longest one. Table 2 came out in first place, however, in true crew style we decided to make one enormous crocodile by adding everyone’s together and created a “crew crocodile”.
In Expedition we are learning about The Great Fire Of London and understanding people that help us in our community. The children have used their cutting skills to cut out fires, paint fires and paint their hands to make our firefighters to put the fires out!
We have loved taking part in lots of Roald Dahl themed activities today including creating wanted posters for Miss Trunchbull, baking chocolate treats for Bruce Bogtrotter and drawing in the style of Quentin Blake.
The children learned how important cleaning their teeth properly is and getting all the dirt off with the tooth brush and tooth paste. They did a brilliant job and were very focused on getting the teeth sparkling clean! Even trying on their own teeth! Great work guys 🙂
Today in case study two we began to explore shadows. We used torches to explore how shadows are formed and how the distance and position of the light source affects the length of the shadows.
Then we learnt how the Romans used shadows to tell the time using sundials. The sun made the gnomon cast a shadow and this told them what time of the day it was. Finally we had a go at making our own sundials. Unfortunately the sun wasn’t shining so we had to test them out inside using the torches.
Before starting our addition and subtraction unit we have been looking at part whole models. We used our counters to show how a part + another part creates the whole one.
Miss Trunchbull! Our Year 4 pupils have been putting their creative skills to the test! We have created ‘Wanted Posters’ for the infamous Miss Trunchbull! With their vivid imaginations and artistic flair, they captured her larger-than-life personality (and not in a good way!).
After a quick recap of last weeks lesson, Crew Ramsay have been designing their own inventions. Miss Shields modelled her own invention before children were able to work independently on their own. We had cupcake machines, a machine that built castles, a machine that dropped balloons from the ceiling or made birthday cakes on demand.
