Science and literacy

Last week we embarked on a journey like no other............through the digestive system!!!!!!!! Right to the bitter end!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Following an exciting experiment and demonstration the children were challenged to write up the journey however they chose. They had to include scientific vocabulary as well as their literacy skills...............we had some outstanding independent creations!!!!!!!!! Well done Max, Erin, Isabelle, Amy, Rosie-Drew and Elise - I marked their stories and read them out much to the amusement of the class!!!

Today we continued our research about Florida ready to  feed into persuasive writing, persuading Mr. Farrington to let us go on a class trip there!!!!!!

Take note of any adverts - how do they persuade you to buy into them? What language, imagery, slogans do they use?

Biathle event!!!

What an exciting day we had today!!!!! A huge well done to Bea, Georgia, Jacob, Rocco, Stan and Fynn who represented the school in a schools biathle competition. As you know it was a little chilly this morning, well imagine running a total of 600m in your swimming costume, half of which was run wet having had to also swim 40m? It was a physically tough event, but the teams kept their cool and showed outstanding resilience and stamina to secure 2nd and 5th place medals!!!!!!!!! Super proud!!!!!! I even think some of them want to do more!!!! Wow!!! Great athletes, who also showed brilliant team work, cheering each other on, and even supporting DMS too!!!!

Well done!!!!
Thank you all for coming and taking part!!!! Thanks also to your parents for supporting us!!!!

Year 4 Team xxx


Oooooops! This was meant to be blogged yesterday!!!!!

Concert!

Wowsers!!!!!!! You were AMAZING tonight Year 4, we are soooooooo proud of you, you sang brilliantly and represented the school excellently! I hope you enjoyed yourselves, all that hard work paid off-you sang your socks off!!!!

Mrs. Thomas-we are expecting black hair next week!!!! Mrs. Scott-watch out at Fairthorne, bring your swimmers and snorkel, you're getting wet!!!!! Oh! I have forgotten what I said I'd do..............;-)

A huge thank you to Mr. Macbean for giving up his time to play with us and support us! Thank you Mr. Farrington for coming to watch us, finally thank you to Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Scott for coming along to support us-what a great team and school we are!!!!

Well done Max and Sophie who bravely played piano to the audience while they waited for us to begin-great ambassadors for PoW!!!

Be proud, sleep well!!!

Mrs. Johnson :-))))))

Pedal onwards!!!!!

Keep up the good work with the big pedal-today was our best Year 4 day so far! We are currently in 2nd place as a school, so let's get peddling (for tomorrow, I said it would count if they scoot/cycle home!?!?)

Concert reminder!

Don't forget, tomorrow is concert day..............drop off at St Osmunds Community Sports Hall (huge one to the left of main entrance!) with school stuff. We will walk back in time for lunch!

Again, a reminder about the evening-drop off  BY 6pm in the same place, children will be directed to a holding room ready for concert to begin at 6:30, join us to watch, there will be a donations collection at the end. All children are expected to be there - I have only had one parent who has spoken to me with a very good reason why their child cannot participate! Myself, Mr. Farrington, Mrs. Mewett, Mrs. Scott, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Long will all be there to support you and are looking forward to it!

We were sounding super today,never if I do say so myself!!!! ;-)

Ps please wear smart school uniform in the evening as well!!!!

Thank you,

Mrs. Johnson and The Year 4 Team.

Friday- Comic Relief

This Friday is Comic Relief. Just a quick reminder that we are asking the children to dress funny for money!

 

In assembly on Friday we will be sharing favourite jokes.  Also after school on Friday we will be having a cake sale. Each class will be baking and decorating cakes. However if you are baking this week or would like to donate some cakes for our sale please hand them to the children's class teacher on Friday.

 

All of the school have been learning the 2015 Comic Relief Song 'Put on a funny face'. It is a brilliant song and very catchy.  

PLEASE READ - CONCERT!

There will be a reminder letter to follow...................

Just reminding you all to keep practising your song words - especially Let It Be!

A reminder that the concert is NEXT WEDNESDAY (11th March) - Please drop off at St. Osmunds Sports Hall for 9 - we will be there to meet them (bring a book). We will walk back to school for lunch time.

In the evening please bring your child to the same place by 6pm - concert begins at 6:30 pm and will last approximately 1 hour - everyone is welcome to come and watch free of charge. There will be a collection at the end! Please wear school uniform - ALL children are expected to attend unless there is a very good reason why they cannot and I would ask parents to please let me know ASAP.

Thank you,

Mrs. Johnson

Book Off!!!!

World Book Day - Today we shared some favourite books - it's great to see so many of you keen to share your favourite genres - stories, comics, information books, annuals!
We began a "book off" challenge, where each group had 6 different areas of challenge - they had to complete one of each of the 6 book related activities! Very creative!!!! We will complete this tomorrow!

Keep up the reading!!!!

Mrs. Johnson

Raising the game - subordinate clauses!

Raising the game!!!!!!!

We continued learning about subordinate clauses this week, how they can appear either at the beginning of a sentence (fronted adverbial phrase), or in the middle or at the end of a sentence! I now expect EVERYONE to include them in their writing in order to raise the standard!!!!!!!!

Main clause = a part of a sentence that makes sense on its own. Subordinate clause (extra information) that doesn't make sense if read on its own. Depending on where the subordinate clause is, it will be either followed by a comma, comma before it or either side of it!

Remember = Mummy Clause - Suzy, subordinate clause = baby Alan, baby Arthur and baby Alfred (triplets)

Mrs. Johnson

Fractions!

Fractions are fun, fair and friendly! Introducing..........Super Numerator and Captain Denominator! We have been learning about equivalent fractions this week, how to recognise them in correspondence with shapes and also how to calculate equivalent fractions using our knowledge of times tables and corresponding divisions!

Home learning to follow!

Mrs. Johnson