Mathematics
Outdoor Maths
This morning the children have learnt all about perimeter. We used metre sticks, tape measures and trundle wheels to measure the distance around the shapes we had drawn on the playground.
Mathematics
Maths fun!
We had a lovely morning in Maths! We just started ‘subtraction’ and used every day word problems to solve the calculations. For example, Mrs Nuttall had 10 bananas and she ate 2. How many did she have left? Putting the calculations into real life problems help the children to understand Read more…
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Work at it Whizz
We have been talking lots about growth mindset and Whizz has been busy this week working with children that have been pushing themselves and trying hard with their work. Here’s just a few of the children he’s been working with this week. Throughout the week he worked with Leigh, Riley Read more…
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Useful websites
Last year at Parents Evening, quite a few parents asked for useful links to help with their child’s learning, particularly for Phonics and Maths. I have copied and pasted a number of websites we use regularly at school to support your child’s learning. I hope these are helpful 🙂 Read more…
Mathematics
“Work-At-It” Wiz
Sometimes we can find some lessons challenging, but in Year 4 we know it is important to have the right mindset. Our class rabbit called ‘Work- at- it’ Wiz has a growth mindset; he believes that if you put in effort, you can get better at everything. Â He tries hard Read more…
Mathematics
One more and one less
We have been practising one more and one less and started by making numbers with cubes. Some of us went outdoors to use our 100 square to JUMP as high as we could to the next number. We had lots of fun and love learning outdoors!
Mathematics
We are all different in Willows… and that’s BRILLIANT!
For our Science lesson, we looked at similarities and differences between ourselves and our friends. We looked at our fingerprints and how they’re different from our talk partner’s finger prints. We then set up a bar graph with hair colour down the bottom and numbers along the side. They Read more…
Mathematics
Place Value Fun
Year 4 have been busy this morning representing 1000s, 100s, 10s and 1s using counters. There was some excellent discussion using mathematical words. We have even worked on challenges in groups to solve problems.
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Willows are having fun!
We have had lots of fun this week, getting to know the lovely children of Willows. They have wonderful manners and are very well behaved! We have already learnt a lot about the children of Willows and we can’t wait for the year ahead. We have been counting amounts Read more…
Mathematics
3D shapes
We explored 3D shapes and their properties today. We started the lesson by having a game of Bingo where the teacher described the shapes and they had to work out which one she was thinking of. We then did a boys v girls game to try and name the Read more…