Class 4
Friday 17th May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
It's been another fun and busy week here in class 4. The children have been working incredibly hard on their Ancient Egyptian adventure stories and have now finally completed their final drafts. I can't wait to read them all this weekend.
The children are loving the Ancient Egyptian topic. They have worked exceptionally well in small groups today as they researched Ancient Egyptian topics. They loved the large collection of non-fiction texts we shared and particularly enjoyed using the computers to further develop their research. Next week, we will be beginning to create exciting Ancient Egyptian fact files; I can't wait! The children are keen to continue researching and then also add exciting photographs and images to illustrate their facts.
Badminton continues to go from strength to strength! The children played mixed doubles in a very exciting mini tournament earlier this week. I am absolutely amazed how quickly they have all developed some superb badminton skills.
Maths has been quite tricky at times, but the children have continued to persevere and have now developed some super confidence in converting units of length, capacity and mass. Today proved a little harder as the children were then applying their knowledge to solve estimating problems. Keep practising on Mirodo everyone and this will get easier and easier!
We have continued working hard on our reading every day; the children all continue to work in a small group with me every week, thus providing them with the opportunity of reading 1 to 1 with me and in some cases with Mrs Pearce too. They also work on comprehensions on a daily basis; believe it or not, even these have at times focused on the Ancient Egyptians! We've read about Egyptian life and Tutankhamun too; there really isn't much we don't know about the Ancient Egyptians here in class 4!
Please enjoy some of the photos from today's research activity.
Enjoy your weekend,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce xx
Week ending 10th May
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone,
We had another wonderful week in class 4 and ended the week on a great big high with our singing performance in Holmfirth Parish Church. What a wonderful way to open the Holmfirth Folk Festival! The children were all absolutely amazing! We have been practising each of the songs for a number of weeks now and it was so worth it! The children were all brilliant. Phil Needham, the organiser and musician, even commented on how well the children sang; I was so very proud of every single one of them. Please enjoy the photos taken during the event in the church on Friday afternoon.
The children have all been very busy working on their Egyptian adventure stories this week; we are looking forwards to reading their final drafts on Monday. The children have certainly risen to the challenge of creating their very own exciting stories.
Class 4 are very much enjoying our Ancient Egyptians topic; they have finally all completed their headdresses and will be using clay to recreate some of the Egyptian artefacts next too. Each of the children are thoroughly enjoying creating fact files as they research the lives of the Ancient Egyptians.
Badminton has certainly been a hit in P.E. Now the children have developed more confidence in their serving and returning skills, they have loved using the nets and playing doubles matches. Next week we will try a mini tournament; it should be fun as the children are becoming more and more skilled and certainly more competitive.
We are all looking forwards to practising orienteering skills on Monday afternoon. Fingers crossed, we will have some more dry weather!
Hope you are all enjoying a wonderful weekend!
See you on Monday,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce
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Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx
Friday 3rd May
admin on: Class 4
Good evening everyone!
It's been another very busy but fun week here in class 4. The children are absolutely loving our Ancient Egyptians topic; not only are they enjoying learning lots of exciting historical facts in history, they are enjoying applying their learning to their art work and also their writing in literacy too. The children have enjoyed beginning to learn about Howard Carter's exciting discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb and are developing a bank of interesting facts about the lives of the Ancient Egyptians too.
In literacy, having heard the exciting story of 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx', the children have been planning their very own Egyptian adventure stories too. They are cleverly using the facts they are learning in history to enrich their writing; I can't wait to read the exciting adventure stories they are all creating!
P.E. continues to inspire the children; they are loving developing great badminton skills and are getting quite competitive with each other as they play different skills-building games. I have been so impressed how well the children have adapted to badminton.
Our music lessons sound just gorgeous at the moment; the children are practising their folk festival songs most days. The corridor down Key Stage 2 sounds wonderful on an afternoon; I can't wait for the children to perform in the church next Friday.
We have been very busy working on statistics this week; the children's problem solving skills when interpreting data is improving all the time.
As it was polling day yesterday, the children had their very own ballot in class too. They loved it! I have to admit, it wasn't a vote for their favourite mayor or councillor though! As they had successfully filled the treasure pot, I decided to allow the children to have a democratic vote (voting slip and ballot box included of course) on the reward they should all receive! Their choices were a tasty treat, stories outdoors, team games outside or extra playtime. After carefully counting all their ballot papers, it was the 'extra playtime' the children selected. They loved 15 minutes extra time to play on the field and trim trail just before assembly today; a very well-deserved treat I think!
Hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the Bank Holiday.
See you on Tuesday,
Mrs Matthews & Mrs Pearce
xx
Week ending 26th April
admin on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
Here's a little round-up of some of the activities class 4 got up to last week! We had another great week!
The children have continued to enjoy working on activities linked to our text 'The Egyptian Cinderella'. This week the children worked in small groups to role play a section of the story each, so that we were able to complete the whole story as a class. The children were absolutely amazing! Their confidence is really lovely to see; they enjoyed performing their plays to each other and have found them really useful when completing their own compositions of the story.
This week we will be beginning to explore our new text, 'Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx'. We will be using this text to enthuse the children to begin their very own adventure stories. Do wish us look as I know this may prove to be a challenge!!
In view of our forthcoming singing performance in the Holmfirth Parish Church on May 10th, the children have been working exceptionally hard in their music lessons to learn and practise the songs. They will be performing alongside other schools in the Holme Valley as part of the opening act of the Holmfirth Folk Festival weekend; it should be a very exciting event and I know the children are really looking forwards to performing together.
Science has been fun this week too; we have recreated the water cycle whilst growing cress and on Monday will be investigating whether or not the rate of evaporation is affected by a raise in temperature. We are hoping for at least a little corner of sunshine on Monday morning so we can compare 2 different locations; keep your fingers tightly crossed!
The children loved P.E. this week; not only are they continuing to enjoy weekly swimming sessions, we have also now begun badminton lessons too. I was very impressed with the children's enthusiasm and progress on Thursday, very impressive indeed!
Hope you have all had a wonderful weekend. Looking forwards to seeing you all on Monday!
See you tomorrow,
Mrs Matthews and Mrs Pearce
