Welcome to 4S
Homework will be handed out on a Monday and collected on a Friday.
Remember to bring your PE kit into school on a Monday and leave it in school all week.
Hello and welcome to our class page. We have worked hard and have had lots of fun learning about a variety of different topics this term, including;
As a class, we had the opportunity to take part in a Band Aid style singing project at St Francis of Assisi alongside three other schools. We were given a part of the Shakin Steven’s song, ‘Merry Christmas everyone’ to practise and perform at their school in a recording studio. We performed it on a very wintery, Christmassy set and we had a lot of fun. Please see the link below for our finished video:
We spent the first half of the term learning about Newspaper Reports. We got to read real life newspaper reports and highlight all the features we could find. We found out about ‘a snake in a drain’ and all about who won the Great British Bake Off. We learnt about what makes a good headline and got to create our own about a cat on a computer and a car in a flood. Eventually, we became news reporters, reporting live from the Amazon Rainforest. There had been a rare bird spotted and we just had to report it. From this, we then went on to write our own newspaper report based around this. We had so much fun.
We have also produced some work based around the poem, ‘Twas the night before Christmas’. We worked in partners to practise a verse from the poem and added our own actions to it. We even became each other’s critiques – giving each other a star and wish after every performance. Alongside our drama performances, we have annotated the features of the poem, learnt about and created our own rhymes and similes and devised our own poems, based around the original. At the end of the topic, we wrote the poem as a story.
In Maths, we have been learning all about fractions. We have learnt what equivalent fractions are and have added and subtracted fractions also. Towards the end of term, we took part in a Christmas quiz. We had so much fun answering loads of tricky word problems and each correct answer revealed a part of a Christmas picture. We all worked so hard together to figure out
In Science, we have learnt all about the digestive system and the teeth. We have explored these in so many practical ways, from making the digestive system out of sugar paper and sticking it onto a plastic apron, mixing up bananas and crackers and squeezing it through tights to show what happens in the small intestines and making the different types of teeth out of play-dough. We have loved it and have learnt so much.
In Topic, we have continued to learn all about the rainforest. We learnt about the different layers of the rainforest and all about the different tribes living in The Amazon. We received a letter from a little boy from one of the tribes so we wrote back to him. At the end of the topic, we worked hard in partners to create a PowerPoint, including all the information we had learnt about the Rainforests. We can’t wait to present these to the class.
PowerPoints made by Oussama and Julia:
