Happy Wednesday Evening!
Here we are at the "half way" marker of Year 4 - time is FLYING!!!!!!!!!!
A letter came out detailing the DASP Year 4 singing concert, which we are all very excited about and have been auditioning for possible solo/duet parts in our class song! WE look forward to seeing you all there! The day after the concert is our class assembly and then we will be full of excited anticipation for Hooke Court!!!!!!! Not only all this, but also a themed week alongside a new literacy, science and history topic!!!!!!!!
This week we have been working on a collaborative learning project in RE - the question was posed "How do Hindus show commitment to God?" The children worked in groups of 4, rotating the roles of Fairness Manager, Time Keeper, Quality Checker and Resource Manager and had 4 lessons set aside to work as a team to research and present their learning in their chosen way. The adults role was to simply observe, recording notes relating to group dynamics, conversations and, at given times, we would pause and share our notes so that the children could decide if they were positive findings or things that needed to be worked on. Not only was the learning based upon the RE but also on working as part of a team. It was a super successful project, producing models, posters, a Holy book and a lego temple all showing their research and well planned creativity! Very enjoyable learning!
In Literacy this week we have been looking at poetry, and in particular the performance element of poetry. The children have selected a poem from 10 that I presented to them, and in pairs or individually, they have been practising them focusing on the success criteria: volume, pace, expression, eye contact, movement/body language. We saw half today, which were a very high standard indeed, yet again demonstrating great attention to detail with excellent props and use of instruments, also the children using the success criteria in order to achieve the learning objective! Well done - we look forward to seeing the others tomorrow!
I hope you have all been practising your song words for a rehearsal tomorrow!
See you in the morning!
Mrs. J and The Year 4 Team!
Here we are at the "half way" marker of Year 4 - time is FLYING!!!!!!!!!!
A letter came out detailing the DASP Year 4 singing concert, which we are all very excited about and have been auditioning for possible solo/duet parts in our class song! WE look forward to seeing you all there! The day after the concert is our class assembly and then we will be full of excited anticipation for Hooke Court!!!!!!! Not only all this, but also a themed week alongside a new literacy, science and history topic!!!!!!!!
This week we have been working on a collaborative learning project in RE - the question was posed "How do Hindus show commitment to God?" The children worked in groups of 4, rotating the roles of Fairness Manager, Time Keeper, Quality Checker and Resource Manager and had 4 lessons set aside to work as a team to research and present their learning in their chosen way. The adults role was to simply observe, recording notes relating to group dynamics, conversations and, at given times, we would pause and share our notes so that the children could decide if they were positive findings or things that needed to be worked on. Not only was the learning based upon the RE but also on working as part of a team. It was a super successful project, producing models, posters, a Holy book and a lego temple all showing their research and well planned creativity! Very enjoyable learning!
In Literacy this week we have been looking at poetry, and in particular the performance element of poetry. The children have selected a poem from 10 that I presented to them, and in pairs or individually, they have been practising them focusing on the success criteria: volume, pace, expression, eye contact, movement/body language. We saw half today, which were a very high standard indeed, yet again demonstrating great attention to detail with excellent props and use of instruments, also the children using the success criteria in order to achieve the learning objective! Well done - we look forward to seeing the others tomorrow!
I hope you have all been practising your song words for a rehearsal tomorrow!
See you in the morning!
Mrs. J and The Year 4 Team!
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