Food Glorious Food

 

Hello everyone,

I am very excited to launch our new Year 4 Spring 2 topic: Food Glorious Food (yes I did choose this topic but I do promise not to make it all about custard creams!). 

Hopefully, you have already received your flip grid for this week which invites children to either try a new food or to carry out a blindfolded taste test. The first response from a child I received cleverly combined both - so now might be your opportunity to get your child to try that food they normally refuse at the dinner table!

In Wednesday's Art lesson the children will be invited to create a (rough) sculpture out of paper so any newspaper, tissue or scrap paper you have handy will be useful on that day. In Thursday's science lesson I am inviting the children to think about a science experiment using eggs to explore the effects of different liquids on teeth (using egg shells). If you would also like your child to participate in this experiment you will need three raw eggs, three containers and three different liquids   (water, cheap cola and vinegar are the liquids I use). Your child doesn't need to do the experiment at home as I will share my results the following week.   

In Thursday's delivery you will be given grammar and punctuation booklet which will be used in our weekly SPAG lessons. 

Our food topic corresponds with Fair Trade Fortnight. There will be some coverage of fair trade this week in assemblies but year 4 will mainly be covering this topic next week. In preparation for what we are doing next week, if you are able to save any food packaging that either has its country of origin on or has the fair trade logo on it, this will be very helpful.    

As I write this blog there is still uncertainty of what lies before us in the the forthcoming weeks. As ever please contact myself or Mr Spracklen if you have any questions, comments or concerns. We are truly in it together and we will do what we can to support you.

Take care,

Ms Browne & the Year 4 team. xx