This week we made some stained-glass effect decorations for the classroom window. As part of our English this term we then worked together to write up the instructions.
This week Year 4 have been learning all about electricity in our Science lessons. We have been thinking about different power types, building circuits with bulbs, buzzers and motors and finding out about conductors and insulators.
On Tuesday Year 4 went to the pocket park to plant bulbs. It was a glorious day, the sun shone and we had our morning break there and enjoyed the play equipment. Hopefully we will see our daffodils blooming in the Spring!
We finally finished our bread! After a lot of mixing and kneading the Year 4 team baked the bread after school yesterday. The children all tried some at snack time and are bringing some home today. I did say that it might be even more delicious if an adult could warm it up for them...
Today we moved to the design stage of our bread Design and Technology work. We created our class design criteria and planned the flavours that would go well together and whether we would make sweet or savoury bread.
We also spent some time experimenting with rolling out salt dough to see wh...
In Design and Technology this week Year 4 will be researching, designing, creating and evaluating their own bread. Today we did some research on the Warburtons bakery, finding out about its history and tasting some of the different types of bread they produce. The children evaluated the...
Last week in our Computing lessons we were thinking about online safety and also about the benefits of technology. We discussed how many great things technology helps us with in our play and in our learning. We also talked about how it can be important to make sure we spend time off tech...
Year 4 have been developing their pattern making skills in Art and Design lessons this term. We have been working with charcoal, creating flower patterns using a compass and printing. We created a printing block using cardboard, string and glue and then used it to experiment with colour...
This term Year 4 have been learning about the human body, specifically the digestive system and the teeth.
We set up an experiment to see which drink would cause most damage to teeth and tested water, orange juice, milk and cola. We immersed hard-boiled eggs in the liquids for three days an...
Last week Year 4 were learning all about ABBA! We took a trip back to the 1970s and listened to and discussed lots of different ABBA songs, finding out about the band and they style of music they wrote and performed.