on As part of our ‘Opening up a world of opportunities’ week we had a visit from Dr Millard who is a doctor in a hospital.He gave a very interesting and inspirational talk. Children loved the opportunity to ask questions.
What did you learn? What information did you enjoy most?
Oh go on then- tell everybody about the surgery video clip…
on Well done to everybody who has commented on this magnificent and spectacular blog (even if I do say so myself!)
on Literacy- Next week in Literacy we will be starting a new unit on recounts and newspaper reports. Please read some newspaper articles over the weekend and try to bring some newspapers into school on Monday as we will be investigating the features of newspaper reports.
Do you know any features of newspapers already? If you have been to newspaper club then you should be able to remember the features.
Numeracy-Next week we will be solving numeracy puzzles and problems related to money. Check that you know how to use the money notation and that you can convert from pounds to pence and vice versa. Also practice the written methods for addition and subtraction. Finally remind yourself of QUACK and how to use it.
Topic- The parents assembly is fast approaching so next week will be all about preparing for that. Please do some more research on South Africa, and in particular Nelson Mandela. On Monday you will be making some notes about Nelson Mandela’s life and then turn these into a narration and a short drama piece about his life.
You will then do rotated tasks for the rest of the week. You will decide which order to work in but you must get your South African/World cup nation food menu advert finished, design and make an African mask, learn the words to the African songs and also prepare your drama piece for the assembly.
What a busy week!
I hope you all have a wonderful and fun-filled weekend. See you on Monday.
on Listen to the wonderful Aboriginal stories that we have written, published and now recorded for the blog. Below is a small selection of the stories. I will add some more next week. Children have written these stories by themselves with some help from their writing partner in class. The rich vocabulary has all been chosen by the children themselves using the ‘VOCABULARY wall ‘ and words ‘stolen’ from their reading to help them.
I think these stories are fantastic and I am very proud of everyone in Year 4 for working so hard on this topic. It has been great fun to read all of your stories. Don’t forget that the finished books are now in the class library. Why don’t you sign one out as your reading book and share it with your family at home?
Miss Martindale
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on Here is an exclusive sneak preview of us rehearsing our drumming for the parents assembly. Please tell us what you think!
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