This week, we have been putting the final touches to our Viking purses. We used the templates we had already cut out in felt. We used back stitching to put both parts together and even added a button to make sure it would seal. A special mention goes to all Year 4 support staff who supported the children amazingly.
The children were incredibly resilient this week as temperatures soared. In order to combat the warm weather, we started the day by taking part in some outdoor reading in the shade. We all really enjoyed our relaxing start to the day before we took on the heat.
On Wednesday, we took part in our Sports Day at Leeds Beckett Headingley Campus. Despite the weather, we still had a fantastic day. Staff were so proud of the children’s sportsmanship, teamwork and resilience throughout the different activities.
In Maths, we have been learning about lots of different types of angles such as acute, obtuse and right angles. We used a piece of artwork by Kandisky to help identify them in a real life context.
On Tuesday, we visited Harrogate Showground to take part in Countryside Days. We started the day by learning all about sheep and were even treated to an impromptu dance routine. We then took part in a variety of different activities such as learning about willow weaving to watching a sheep dog show.
This week, we have been learning all about things we can do to support our own mental health. On Wednesday, we took part in the Big Sing – which involved us singing as part of a school wide choir on the playground. We then came to school dressed in green to show our support for mental health week.
We completed our shared write all about an underwater creature. On Wednesday, we created our own elusive species which is in preparation for our hot writing next week. The children loved the opportunity to sketch and label their very own monster of the deep. We even had the chance to take on the role of world leading expert on our particular animal and give a presentation to the rest of the class.
This week, we continued our fantastic Roots and Routes project which is focusing on our local area and what we love about it and what we would like to change. We designed images to show this and then used paint pens to draw our designs on to rocks.
This week, we started designing our animal mosaics which we will be making later in the half term. We started the session by drawing outlines of an animal of our choice and then drew squares to represent the coloured pieces of paper we will be using.
It has been a fantastic start to this Summer term!
We have all come back refreshed and ready to take on our new learning. This week, we started our new writing topic which is a piece of non-fiction all about an underwater creature. We have been learning lots of interesting vocabulary like bioluminescent and protruding. We used this to start building different sentence types.
On Wednesday afternoon, we started to explore Garagaband. We created drum patterns using the beat sequencer and then started to create a simple four note pattern. We learnt about the different notes on a piano and realised that they repeat themselves started at A and going to G but not to H!
This Week, we looked at creating pointillism drawings using our creature designs from last week. We looked at simplifying our initial designs and adding spots in the style of the pointillist movement.
