Good afternoon Year 4!
Highlights of the week:
The children really enjoyed learning about the Ancient Egyptian mummification ritual and we had a fun game of 'wrap the mummy' where we learnt all about this process. Some of the facts were very disgusting! Also, as we have been learning a lot about the Australian bush fires, the children produced some great pieces of nature art to raise awareness for this in the outside area. We also learnt about how solids can change into a liquid by melting chocolate. The class wrote some great pieces of creative writing in role as the particles of the chocolate describing this change in state.
Please note:
Photos:
There are quite a lot of children where we have not had permission for their photos to go on the blog. I have lots of photos that I would love to share of our outdoor learning this week, so if you could please ensure that you have given your consent if you are happy for your child to be photographed.
Reading at home:
There are a large number of children that are not reading at home, which is impacting the rate of their progress. Please can you ensure that reading at home is being done and the children are begin heard read as well as on their own.
Water bottles:
Can you please ensure children are coming to school with a water bottle as we are trying to avoid children leaving the classroom and missing their learning to go to the water fountain.
Next week:
English: Spooky story settings
Spellings group 1:
-guidance.
-guardian.
-guaranty.
-gullible.
-guinea
-Portuguese
-language
-misguide
-baguette
-disguise
Spelling group 2:
shine
shiny
scare
scary
bone
bony
stone
stony
smoke
smoky
Maths: Decimal numbers
Science: This week we did a melting chocolate experiment about melting and cooling which the class loved! So we will be doing our gases experiment next week. Sorry for the previous incorrect information but I felt it was more beneficial for the children to consolidate their understanding of melting and cooling first before completing our gas experiment.
Spanish: Months of the years
History : Who was Tutankhamun?
PSHE: Creating goals
ICT: Begin building our webistes
Have a lovely weekend!
Miss Bradford
