Happy New Year

Here is a short montage of photographs from our year together in Year 4. See you all in 2015.

If you are looking for something fun to do here is an adventure game to keep your English skills ticking over.
Mystery Island

Christmas Activities

A whole week away from school...you must be getting bored!

Here are some Christmas Games and Activities. 

Some are very easy but fun, while others will take some more time.
You can also find out more about some Christmas customs .
Enjoy

Year 4 2014

We have shared a special year together with some wonderful and poignant memories.
Take some time to look through the different blog posts and remember your time in year 4.

Goodbye Mr Spick and thank you.
Here are some words the children think best describe you...
a gentleman, a helper, funny, peaceful and respected.

Thank you Year 4, you have been fun, enthusiastic, interested in English and a pleasure to teach!
You are ready for a holiday but keep checking the blog to prevent the 'Summer Slide'.
To get you started have a look at this game Positioning and Turning

Telling the Time

We have been doing some work on 'Time' this week and found out that there are some things we need to practice a bit more!
Have a go at some of these games when you have the time...

Time Games

17th Century England Research Project

Following our work done on 'The Great Fire of London' and 'The Gunpowder Plot', year 4 have been asked to prepare and produce a history presentation on 17th Century England.
They may produce a poster, a speech, a book, some drama, a model, a history lesson but it should be a group presentation where everybody has participated and worked together.

Here are some useful websites to help with the research:

Life in the 17th Century

17th Century Houses

Children in the 17th century

17th Century Recipes

17th Century Clothes

The Plague

Royalty 1600-1700

Phonics Revision

We are currently revising all of the long vowel phonemes so that we are ready for year 5. Here are some revision activities for keeping your English up to speed. It is not as easy as it sounds...there are 8 different ways of making the long vowel 'a' alone!

Long Vowel Word Maker

We will start with some easier activities and progress each week!

3D Shapes

Year 4 had a lot of fun making some 17th century houses for a 'Great Fire of London' display. We had to design, measure, and make a net for a cube and a square based pyramid/rectangular prism. We copied some geometrical patterns to make the houses look realistic and even drew on thatched roofs.

2 Dimensional Shapes

We have been revisiting polygons this week.

Here is a great website to find out how much you know about 2D shapes.

The Great Fire of London: Revision

Please use the blog to revise for your history exam Year 4!
Click here to see a summary of the events in our Year 4 news broadcasts.

Congratulations Sofia and Guada for a clear and fluent broadcast.

Well done to Nico and Cata W who were the runners up...love the hat!

Year 4H winners are...

 Zoe and Marcos for an excellent news report.

The blog has been updated each time we researched The Great Fire of London.

Year 4 have begun a new history topic, 'The Great Fire of London'. Click here to watch a short programme about it: The Great Fire of London

The fire started on 2nd September 1666 at 2am in a baker's shop in Pudding Lane.

A plaque at the site where the fire began.

The fire spread quickly and we have researched into some of the reasons why. Click here to find out more. Why did the fire spread so quickly?

The fire lasted for 4 days and the events where recorded in a diary by Samuel Pepys who was a friend and advisor to King Charles II. Click here to read more about Samuel Pepys and The Great Fire of London. Samuel Pepys and his diary.

King Charles II

Samuel Pepys

Click here to see Ten Facts About The Great Fire of London.

Book Reviews

Today Year 4 went to kindergarten and helped Miss Gi's class to complete book reviews about the dinosaur books we gave them last week.

We then finished with a story. It was a lovely way to end a fantastic Book Week.

Dinosaur Books

This week the children in sala de 5 came over to Primary to receive their Dinosaur Books. Each book was shared and enjoyed.

Next week year 4 will go to Kindergarten where they will help the younger children to complete a book review about the books they have created.

See it here  Dinosaur Book Review

Teachers' Day

We wanted to thank you for the beautiful handbags we were given today. They are lovely!

Photo taken by Camila

Photo taken by Ramiro

Science Riddles

We have written some riddles. 

Can you guess the object and say whether it is a solid, a liquid or a gas?

1. I am a rectangle with  numbers up my side.

 You use me to measure. 

What am I?

2. Plants use me and people breathe me out.

 What am I?

3. You can watch movies on me. 

You need a remote to control me. 

What am I?

4. I am in the sky and rain falls from me. 

What am I?

5. You can swim in me and animals live in me.
You cannot drink me.
What am I?

Mixed up Materials

This week Year 4 had to solve a scientific problem. Ten mysterious substances had lost their labels so they had to work together as a team of scientists to work out if they were solid or liquid and try to discover what the substances could be.

Dinosaur Project

We are beginning a very exciting topic which will last until September break.


Year 4 will be working in pairs to produce a book about dinosaurs to give to the children in Kindergarten who will be starting their work on Dinosaurs next week.  It is linked with what we are learning about non-fiction texts. Each book must contain the following information and should take into account the fact that the books will be used by 5 year olds.

Every book should include the following:

• Contents page and index (see below for more information)
• Plant-eating dinosaurs.
• The Tyrannosaurus Rex family.
• Armoured dinosaurs
• The Death of Dinosaurs.

We are looking forward to making the books and sharing them with the younger children.

How to do a Contents page:
1. order your pages and number them neatly.
2. write down the name of each chapter and write the page number next to it.
3. the contents page always goes at the front of the book.

How to do an Index page:
1. choose one or two words from each page that you think the 5 year olds may not understand.
2. list them in alphabetical order.
3. you may choose to write a brief definition of the word.
4. write down the page the word appears on.
5. the index page always goes at the back.

Robin Hood

We were very lucky to be able to watch a production of Robin Hood.

Click here to go to the Stage Company Website for some great English workbook activities.

Practical Maths

Guess what we have been doing...

This week we have been using scales, rulers, tape measures and measuring jugs to find out more about units of measure.

French in Year 4

This afternoon we had a visit from a French teacher. Miss Sarah Bonnett spoke to us entirely in French and taught us lots of useful phrases.  We learnt how to sing Happy Birthday in French too!

Year 4 Geography Party

Today Year 4 ended our block of work on Geography as next term we will be studying history. We have learned about many topics including the United Kingdom, Africa, Australia and India. We had a celebration of all the things we have learned by doing activities from each country.

Coordinates to make a Union Flag.

Making a didgeridoo.

Yoga.

Clothes.

Artifacts...

Food from all over the world!

We have had a super 6 months. Well done Year 4!