Year 4 Children’s Mental Health Week 5.2.21
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we have been taking part in Mindfulness activities such as creating mandalas. We have also been listening to Mindfulness music and taking part in yoga sessions in order to learn the skills of how to be calm and relaxed in order to help with mental wellbeing.
This term, children in Years 3 and 4 have been learning all about vikings. They have learnt about where the vikings came from, how they travelled, what they wore and much more!
We had a fantastic celebration event which showcased all of the spectacular work the children have completed. Thank you to all of the parents are carers who came to share the afternoon with us. What a wonderful day!
| Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 21st September
(To be handed in Wednesday 26th September.) |
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. |
| Literacy/SOLE
As part of our ‘Compass for Life’ learning journey, we have been talking about our values which help us to have a Growth Mindset and reach our goals. Create an Acrostic Poem, using your name as the key word, with each line including our school values and Growth Mindset ideas. Think about how you will display your poem and decorate it ready to go in your SOLE book. Seeks a challenge! Aspires to do her best! Resourceful at all times! Acrostic poem Appreciates collaboration! Has a ‘can do’ attitude!
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dolphin
elephant
photo
orphan
phrase
phonics
alphabet
disappear
regular
remember
As part of the Compass For Life topic, year 3 and 4 spent this afternoon making their inspirational figures out of modroc.
There were a real range of different figures made, including singers, actors, artists, authors, and lots more!
Thank you very much to the parents who came into help with this. We really appreciate it, and the children had a fantastic experience thanks to your help!
| Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 14th September
(To be handed in Wednesday 19th September.) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
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| Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. |
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| SOLE
Continue to design and make a motivational bookmark for your ‘My compass for life’ learning journey. This will be to put in your SOLE books. Here are some ideas again if you haven’t made a start! You have 1 more week to complete this task.
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| Literacy/SOLE
Research the difference between a growth and fixed mindset. What mindset do you have and why? This will help you with ideas for your growth mindset posters.
“I have a ____________ mindset because….” |
Today, in pairs, the children sorted word problems according to whether they were addition or subtraction problems. They highlighted the key words that gave them the clue as to which operation to use.
After reflecting on their new learning, they then answered several of the problems proving that they understood, not only which calculation to use, but also how to use formal column addition and subtraction for numbers up to 5 digits.
Today the children watched a play titled “All equal-All different” from a visiting group focusing on strategies to deal with bullying, including cyber- bullying. The performance was very engaging and humorous in parts. At the end the children were given an opportunity to interview the bully and to engage in discussion around this serious matter.
This entertaining performance is the hook in preparation for next week’s anti-bullying week.
Wow! What a day. It is safe to say all the children of Group 4 and 5 enjoyed themselves today taking on low adventure and Tamakele Island.
The theme for the morning was mud, mud and more mud with the children getting stuck into bogs and wading through rivers. The afternoon was based around teamwork and how to achieve success in different challenges.
Here are a few snaps of the day!
Year 4 held their last creative costume workshop on Friday and more costumes were completed with the help of lots of parents. Thank you so much to all the parents who came to either or both workshops. It has been lovely to see everyone working together and helping one another.
Reminder: we are having our Costume Preview on Monday 6th June from 2.15 in the hall. Please remind your child to bring in their costume on the first day back! Thank-you! We look forward to seeing you at the Costume Show!
Year 4 had a busy afternoon rehearsing for our iCan performance. We don’t want to give too much away but we had three rehearsal sessions running all afternoon: a drumming session, a dance session and a singing session. Wow, you have some amazingly talented children! We are having so much fun and really enjoying watching the children flourish creatively.
Singers: please learn your words to the song off by heart by next week (Verses 1 and 3 and the chorus)
Drummers: practise your rhythms by tapping at home!
Dancers: practise the different moves you do and visualise in your head each step of each dance sequence!
