It has been a very productive week for year 4. We continued expanding our knowledge about how to stay safe around electrical appliances. We identified some potential hazards! In Maths we continued with multiplication of 2 and 3 digit numbers with a single digit. We learned and practiced both informal and formal method. In Literacy, we planned our final write for the ‘Small in the City’ unit. We’ll be writing a recount. In History, we continued to explore different aspects of Roman army and identified some key featured which made them very successful. We designed Roman shields as well. In ...
What a jam-packed week for Year 4. In Literacy, we continued with our whole school engage and explore unit and created very effective ‘Lost’ posters. we used a variety of grammatical tools to make our writing more purposeful including tone, relevant information, and emotive language. In Maths, we continued with multiplication and division unit. We are working on how to partition a bigger number using non-standardised partitioning to help us multiply it with a smaller number. We are also learning about factors and related facts. In Science, we explored different ways to generate electricity. In History, we explored how the ...
Happy New Year!
We had a nice start of the year where we are engaging and exploring in the whole school unit in Literacy called, ‘Small in the City’. We are loving it and had a good discussion about how one might feel small in a big city, what are the advantages and disadvantages of a big city etc. We looked forward to write a range of different pieces including poetry, diary entries and small sections of a narrative. In Maths we continued to learn multiplication of two and three digit numbers with a single number using a variety of different ...
It has been a very busy week. Despite the heavy snow, we continued our learning. Year 4 practiced beautifully for their Christmas concert as well as the carol service on the19th of December. We started our DT project where we looked into textile technology. We explored different types of material and fabric as well as some stitching techniques. We learned how to do a running stitch, back stitch and over stitch. Let’s just say that we started from threading our needles and finally we are very proud to say that we have made some beautiful product where we appliquéd a ...
We are gearing up for a brilliant December this year with lots of learning and super fun. In Literacy, we used a number of strategies to edit our work ensuring that we are incorporating prior learning. We continued to learn various techniques to measure area of a rectilinear shape. In Science, we put our scientific hat on and designed simple scientific investigations to test the impact of distance on the sound we hear. In Geography, we visited North America (virtually) and explored human features of different North American countries. In French, we learned numbers from 1-70. It was DECO DAY ...
