3 February 2016

The Invasion of Chester!

Year 4 have had a fantastic day!  We arrived in Chester ready to become Roman soldiers.  We began our day setting off from a port in Rome to travel by boat to Deva (Roman Chester).  We had to row all the way there which was extremely tiring!  When we had arrived in Deva we were greeted by a…

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2 February 2016

Roman Roads

This afternoon we have been using the coordinates skills we learned in Maths last week to help us to read maps.  We had a list of towns and cities and the Roman roads that were built to connect the two.

We learned about how Roman roads were made and that we can still see some roads today.

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27 January 2016

Roman coins

Yesterday we looked at a collection of replica Roman coins.  We used pencil to sketch the coins and today we have used clay to create our own Roman coins. 

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22 January 2016

Maths Challenges

Miss Moss has set us a challenge. Some of us had to use our times tables knowledge to recreate a multiplication grid. We worked together to place the jigsaw pieces into the correct place on the grid.

Another group were working on their calculations. They calculated some rather difficult…

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19 January 2016

Danger'ous' Suffixes

This morning we have been transforming nouns into adjectives. We have looked at the different rules when adding the suffix 'ous' to root words.

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14 January 2016

Stop Motion!

This morning we had a first look at stop motion animation. We used equipment from the classroom to create our own animation. It's a very long process but definitely worth the effort!

 

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13 January 2016

Dance Superstars

We have continued our dance routine from last week.  We did very well with some of the complicated rhythms!

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7 January 2016

Class Governor Drop In

Today our class governor, Mr Hall, came in to see us. He had a look at what we have been doing in Maths and English and is looking forward to coming on our trip to Chester!

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6 January 2016

Dance Stars

We have really enjoyed our first danced lesson.  We warmed up and stretched our muscles before beginning to learn a new routine.  Miss Moss is looking forward to joining in next week!

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6 January 2016

More!

We have been learning a new sentence type today.  We use different sentence types to make our writing more exciting and interesting. 

Our new sentence type is called the '2 more' sentence.  It includes an emotion word, comma and an action.

An example from Charley,

The more afraid she was,…

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5 January 2016

Remembering the Romans

To begin our topic about the Romans in Britain, Miss Moss asked us to show her what we can remember from our previous History topic about the Romans.

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17 December 2015

Names in Code

This morning we have been using the Hopscotch app to write our names using code. We used straight lines and then tried to use code to put our names in cursive.

 

 

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