Year 4 - Hawthorn
Random Act of Kindness Day
Year 4 have created bright and colourful pictures for the residents at Spring Bank Rest Home for our Random Act of Kindness. We hope the pictures brighten up their day and walls!
Physical Education
Fitness Fun
This half term we have been focusing on fitness in one of our PE sessions. We have been completing lots of fitness activities confidently and achieving a number of personal bests. We have been learning how to co-ordinate our bodies efficiently to perform a combination of movements when exercising!
Breakfast & After school club
Water Cycles
Our unit in English this half term is factual guided tours. The first tour we are going to write about is water around the world. For one of our experience days we learnt about the water cycle and created our own mini water cycles.
Art & Design
Soap Sculptures
During this weeks Art lesson we have been designing and carving soap sculptures. We used a variety of tools – some to carve off small pieces of soap and others to create the detailing on our sculpture. They look amazing!
Art & Design
Maple Shared Learning
Thank you to all the parents who attended shared learning. It was great see parents and children sharing the reading of our text -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We had lots of fun playing Kahoot, children and parents did really well working together and answering the questions about the text Read more
Art & Design
From 2D to 3D
In today’s art lesson we learnt about a Kenyan artist called Magdalene Odundo who creates ceramic pots. As a class we explored how we can use our arm to draw big shapes and how when we draw in 2D, we can used curved lines to create the look of three Read more
Science
Science investigation
Our new Science topic for this half term is light. Today we started off the new topic with an investigation – Compare a range of materials to find out which will let light pass through. We discussed what we needed to do to ensure that the investigation was a fair Read more
Computing
Hour of Code
This week it is ‘Hour of Code’. We completed a coding lesson during our computing time where we practised our basic coding skills.
English
Thesaurus work
In our English lesson this morning, we used the Thesaurus’ to find alternative verbs that we could use in our poems that we are currently writing.