Blog Author: Molly Olenczuk

In Grammar this week, we have started to look at a going deeper year 4 skill of using relative clauses to add extra detail into our writing. We will continue to look at this skill next week!

This week in writing we have written our independent write, it was lovely to see how focussed and determined the children were when writing independently. We look forward to reading these writes! Well done year 4!

This week in Maths we have been tackling a new concept of perimeter. At first we found this quite tricky but by the end of the week we have moved on to finding the missing lengths of rectilinear shapes to find the perimeter.

This week in Writing we have started preparing for our next independent write which is going to be an alternative event. Yesterday we focussed on using high level vocabulary to describe. I was amazed at how the children were able to link the vocabulary they were using such as densely populated to…

This week in Grammar we have focussed on identifying the different types of word classes. We enjoyed identifying these in our independent writes using our IPADS!

This week in Science we have had a look at our experiment to analyse the rate of evaporation of different types of liquids at room temperature. We predicted that the beaker with the lid would have the most amount of evaporation because the lid would create more heat. However our experiment showed…

This week in Science we explored the different stages of the water cycle and discussed the challenging question is the water we drink today the same water dinosaurs drank in the past! 

On Wednesday year 4 started planning for their independent writes. We had some insightful discussions and worked together on whiteboards to create some high level sentences using our year 4 skills together!

This week Year 4 have been practising their multiplication skills, some of us have even challenged ourselves to use our skills to answer difficult reasoning and problem solving questions!

Today Year 4 went down to our local woods in forest school to explore nature on a beautiful frosty morning!

This week in forest school, year 4 have been practicing their knotting skills. Working in groups with their friends, the children have created some amazing nature art pieces within a frame!

This week Year 4 have written an alternative event for their independent write. It has been lovely to see today the children self assessing and editing their own writing to improve, this is a skill we have been focussing on recently. Well done Year 4!