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The children have been great at identifying and using the vocabulary 'big and small'. We looked at a range of objects from the environment and sorted them into groups in pairs. We told our friends why we thought one was big and one was small. 

Today we began creating our art inspired by textile artists by painting our sea inspired background on fabric. We found it tricky at first but the results were great! 

This week we have been learning how Hindu's celebrate Diwali. We looked at 'Rangoli Patterns'. These are patterns drawn on the ground and traditionally decorated in sand. We loved the look of them and used our fine motor skills to decorate our own. 

We used the tweezers to pick up different…

Today we used our i pad to create pictures of hedgehogs. We used different colours and techniques to draw their spikes, spines and to add detail to our picture. 

In Geography this week, we learnt about how the oceans regulate temperature, rainfall and gases in the air. We then discussed how the atmosphere is like a greenhouse around the Earth and this is called the Greenhouse Effect. 

Today we used base ten to help us in subtracting across the ten. We used the base ten to help us with our understanding of exchanging. 

Today in computing we used a paint programme on purple mash to create our own hedgehog, linked to our non chronological report in writing. The children worked extremely hard and paid great attention to detail. What super stars

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 in Art we have begun our new Art topic - Exploring Watercolour. We have used the watercolours to try out a variety of techniques and to experiment with colour mixing.

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! 

Odd socks day! Why did we wear odd socks to School? Well the children in Year One can tell you. 

“It is okay to be different. We need to be kind to each other” - Darasimi

”We are wearing odd socks to show it’s okay to be different” - Hamd

”Bullying is not okay. It means being unkind over…

During our class assembly we discussed Children in Need. We learnt what ‘charity’ and ‘fundraising’ means. In our computing lesson, we have logged on to Purple Mash using a username and password and we used the paint tool to draw our own picture of the emblem, Pudsey…