Class 4
Friday 25th November
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
The weeks are absolutely flying by! I can't believe we only have 3 weeks left before we break up for Christmas; time certainly flies when you're having lots of fun! We definitely are here in class 4; we love working with your fabulous children. What a super team they are!
We began the week by recording our findings following our investigation on the effects of different drinks on our teeth. The children absolutely loved carefully revealing the eggs and checking the colour changes to the egg white. Thank goodness it worked as expected and both water and milk proved to be harmless! The children were horrified at the colour changes (coke being the worst) caused by the sugary drinks. You never know, you may never be nagged for a drink of juice or coke again!! Hopefully, the children have realized milk and water are the best!!!
The children have really enjoyed art this week too; Richard Symonds would be very proud of the animal art work they have produced this week. We are very impressed indeed!
Our Christmas performance is coming together too; the children are thoroughly enjoying taking on their roles and practising their lines. Next week we will be moving into the hall to practise stage directions so the sooner the children can learn all their lines, the better!
Congratulations everyone on once again winning the 'Mathletics' trophy this week; your hard work is certainly paying off!! Keep it up!!
Can I also add an enormous 'well done' to those of you that joined me at Colne Valley for your wonderful gymnastics festival; you were all amazing!
Have a fabulous weekend everyone! Mine will be a very busy one; I'm hitting the busy floors of Meadowhall!!!
See you all on Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt x
Friday 18th November
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone,
The weeks are really flying by and Christmas is now very much 'just around the corner'!! We are sure you will have heard that our Christmas production, 'Straw and Order' has now finally been cast!! This week we have begun reading through the script together and practising the songs. The children are all just amazing; they are loving every minute! I'm sure you will be in for a treat when you come and watch!
Science has been particularly exciting this week. We have been learning all about dental health and hygiene and as well as creating fabulous health education posters, the children are in the process of conducting a week long investigation to discover the effects of different drinks on our teeth. We are, in fact, using eggs and pretending the egg white is enamel!! The children can't wait to see the results next week! I am sure they'll keep you informed!
The children are loving P.E. at the moment; netball on a Thursday and gymnastics on a Friday. The children are doing so well in gymnastics we have today moved onto synchronised routines and vaults; very impressive indeed!
Despite the dreadful weather earlier in the week, it has been another great one! The children are all amazing and continue to work incredibly hard and with great enthusiasm!
Congratulations everyone on achieving the highly acclaimed 'Spelling Shed' award once again this week; you have worked so hard on those spellings and certainly deserve it! It is standing proudly on our book shelf once more!!
Have a great weekend everyone!
See you all Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
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Friday 11th November
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We've had another wonderful week in class 4 with your super children! They're all working so hard and seem so focused and enthusiastic. They're even becoming a little quieter too!!!
We began the week with some lovely, calming artwork. Whilst some of the class went out into the forest area with Miss Monday, the remainder stayed with me and we worked on beautiful animal pencil sketches, inspired by the work of Richard Symonds. We are continuing with this work next week and adding colour so do keep an eye out for some photos in the next couple of weeks!
The children are really impressing me with their geography knowledge this half term. We have begun by recapping the 7 continents and locating the equator, tropic of Cancer and Capricorn and identifying each of the hemispheres and poles. The children are real fountains of knowledge!
In science we have been identifying and learning the functions of each of our teeth, before we begin learning more about the process of digestion. The children are very much looking forwards to our practical sessions on digestion!
Gymnastics today was super! The children are loving our Friday lessons. They have loved creating wonderful balances, moving in varied ways, vaulting and perfecting their dismounts. I am really impressed with their lovely enthusiasm; well done everyone!
We have all shared 2 minutes silence outdoors today with the rest of the school; an emotional moment where every single child played their part beautifully. We're all very proud of each and every one of them!
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
See you all on Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
Friday 4th November
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
Congratulations year 4 on winning the Key Stage 2 'Mathletics' award this week! Well done for all your hard work!
We've had a wonderful first week back this week! The enthusiasm and hard work from all the children has been wonderful to see! The children thoroughly enjoyed their first coach-led netball session this week; we were very impressed with the skills the children already have. Gymnastics on Friday was equally successful; I was so impressed with the enthusiasm of every single one of the children. It was great to see how much progress the children showed in just their first lesson. Well done everyone!
The children thoroughly enjoyed creating their own acrostic Halloween poems early in the week. I was amazed how quickly they got the idea and began creating their wonderful poems! I guess Halloween being the evening before had helped a little!
Music this week has involved listening to and appraising the wonderful work of Camille Saint-Saens in 'Carvival of the Animals'; the children loved every minute. This was great to see! Mrs Parker, our music co-ordinator, would be very impressed!!
We've been working hard on reading comprehensions this week; it's lovely to see the children improving in their fluency whilst reading and their comprehension too.
We hope you all have a great weekend!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
Friday 21st October
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We have all had a super week this week! The children have really settled well this half term and are working so incredibly hard and putting 100% into all their work; we have been really impressed.
We began the week with some lovely outdoor art work. The children firstly sketched and then added pastel to wonderful landscapes around school.
We have worked incredibly hard on maths this week; multiplication and division. It has proved quite tricky for many of the children, but I do think we have now mastered them both. Any practise at home would be very useful though- particularly division!!
We have ended the week with a fabulous crafty afternoon with buddies in year 1. The children have made some super Halloween crafts. We finished the day very noisily using percussion instruments and ukeleles to create their own musical composition for 'Peter and the Wolf'. The children loved it!
Here are a couple of photos!
Enjoy the half term holiday and see you all very soon!
Mrs Matthews, Mrs Scott and Miss Hewitt
