Year 4 Blog

This week the blog of the week is written by Amelia.

This week we learnt about coordinates and where to put them on a grid. We also learnt about apostrophes where to put them and when to use them. We learnt about translation on a grid .This means that you have to slide them to a new…

Today we have been using Scratch Junior on the iPads to use coding to create a scene with two characters having a conversation.

We needed to think carefully about the timings and check our programming constantly to debug any coding.

Each week a child in Year 4 will compose a blog entry about our work during the week.  This week the blog entry comes from Olivia.

This week we have been doing perimeter and area in numeracy and in literacy we have been doing about information text about our superheroes. In topic we have been…

This afternoon we have had our class council session. We use this time to discuss as a class any issues put forward anonymously. 

We use our reading bookmarks in class every time we read our reading books or have a 'talk for reading' session.

Year Four's planting area is now ready to be filled with plants.  We will be discussing what types of plants we want and how we might find them.

In computing we have been learning about coding.  Mr Choudry asked us to write a set of instructions for a computer to make a bowl of cereal. It was much more complicated than we thought!

Following our topic last half term these two decided to create the union flag using pegs and a peg board. Very impressive!

This afternoon we have been investigating different materials. We picked an item from a bag and described them in 3 different ways.  We discussed the different materials and sorted the objects into different categories.

We have been thinking about heroes. We have written everything we can think of to do with the word hero.

In class we are beginning to look at Superheroes.  Today we have used adjectives to describe some of our favourite heroes.  We are really looking forward to what might be coming up!

Miss Moss is extremely grateful to those who have brought in their action figures and comics to add to her…

We have created our own water cycle diagrams using craft materials.