Christmas decoration morning

Thanks to everyone who came this morning to help year 4 get festive, our classroom looked like the glitter fairy had paid a visit but we liked it, one child said it looked like a disco dance floor!

I may be biased but Year 4 looks the most Christmassy classroom in the whole of the school!

Here are some photos, can you spot the photo bomber??

Poetry Learning Log

What a pleasure it was reading all of your lovely poetry, and really nice to see so many of you writing a variety of types, well done!

Also an apology for my mistake, I mixed the Haiku and Cinquain syllables up, so well observed if you noticed that one!

Here are some examples of the year 4 poetry learning logs;

What is your favourite type of poem?

Gold book (30/11/15)

Year 4 Gold book

 

Issy

Issy is always a golden girl, she is quiet and respectful and can always be seen to be doing the right thing, well done!

 

Mia 

Mia always set a good example, she is ready to learn and she joins in class discussions, a real golden girl!

Anti bullying Week

This week our whole school is taking part in anti-bullying week, we started the week with a whole school assembly and throughout the week each class is taking part in different activities (photos to follow).

Here are some useful website links;

http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/anti-bullying-week/

http://www.antibullyingweek.co.uk

The theme this year is "Make a noise about bullying" so let's get making some noise!!

Landmark Learning Log Homework

The last learning log homeworks were fantastic! Very informative and really well presented.

Here are just a handful of examples...

Tell me something about a landmark that you have found out...

Gold book (23/11/15)

Here is year 4's gold book children

Tiegan

Tiegan is in the gold book this week for the amount of effort she has been putting in the last week, she has been trying really hard and challenging herself during lessons and her confidence is growing, please keep this up because you are doing brilliantly!

Edward 

I could put Edward in the gold book every week for his fantastic maths work, he always excels himself in lessons, his mental maths ability puts mine to shame and he loves a mathematical challenge, a real pleasure to teach!

Gold book (16/11/15)

Kayden 
Kayden is in the gold book this week because we have seen such a great improvement in his handwriting, it is now neat and well presented. He is also a super star during our CLIC session, his mental maths is fab!

Karis 
Karis is in the Gold book this week because of the great understanding she shows when she is reading, her comprehension skills are great and she can discuss and infer from the text, a skill that is greatly needed, well done!

Remembrance Day

This year, as a way to show our respect to those who are and have served our country, each class made a poppy wreath.

Our Year 4 wreath was made up of an individual poppy made by every member of our class.

Here are some photos of the laid wreaths in the assembly;

Ours is the large one on the floor on the right.

This is Mrs Longhawn's clay poppy from the Tower of London, it is very beautiful!

Also Mrs Longhawn's assembly was extremely moving, telling us the history about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

Finally, thank you to everyone for being so respectful during the 2 minute silence.

Bonfire safety

I've just found this website about Bonfire safety, if you are out and about this weekend please take care!

http://www.bonfire-night-safety.co.uk

Gold book (9/11/15)

Here are this weeks year 4 gold book 

Myles 
Myles is in the gold book this week for his consistently great attitude, he comes into school everyday ready to learn, setting a fantastic example and always willing to help. A real golden boy!

Bobby
Bobby is in the gold book this week for his fantastic literacy and big write work, he has used lots of detail, varied openers and all was correctly punctuated, a real pleasure to mark, well done!

Gold Book (2/11/15)

Here is this weeks Year 4 Gold Book

Rose B
Rose is in the gold book this week for her fantastic Big Writes over the last few weeks, her writing has been interesting, correctly punctuated and a pleasure to read and mark, well done, please keep it up!

Kayne 
Kayne is in the gold book this week for his fantastic art work during the Big Draw and our Black History month activity, he drew a picture that told a story and depicted the Red Summer, he has a great eye for art, well done!

Brazil Learning Log

As usual the learning logs were amazing!!! 

Here are some photos;

Tell me what you found out about Brazil...

Gold book (22/10/15)

Here is this weeks Year 4 Gold Book

Rose B
Rose is in the gold book this week for her fantastic Big Writes over the last few weeks, her writing has been interesting, correctly punctuated and a pleasure to read and mark, well done, please keep it up!

Kayne 
Kayne is in the gold book this week for his fantastic art work during the Big Draw and our Black History month activity, he drew a picture that told a story and depicted the Red Summer, he has a great eye for art, well done!

Big Draw Morning

This morning our whole school took part in the Big Draw (link to website; http://www.thebigdraw.org) this years theme was to draw a picture that told a story.

So laden with a large piece of plain paper, a pencil and some coloured pencils year 4 set about drawing pictures that told a story, here are some examples, can you tell what story they are telling?

What story did your picture tell? 

Black History Month

October is Black History Month and as part of this we have looked at an African American artist called Jacob Lawrence, he painted a series of 60 slides depicting the African American migration from the south of America to the north, here is a link to a website showing his work; 

http://www.phillipscollection.org/migration_series/index.html

We drew our own versions of the migration series, here are some examples;

In the south the black people had to work in the fields so the white people.

When the people migrated north the homes were cramped.

There were different water fountains for the black and white people.

During the Red Summer, white people bombed the black peoples homes.

An example of segregation.

I was so impressed by the children's work, what part of the series did you draw?