Year 4 - Portal stories
This term, Year 4 pupils have been developing their writing skills, using dialogue and adverbials of manner to create their own story about a character who travels through a portal.
We started by reading the book 'Leon and the place between' which is about a boy who believes in magic and is somehow taken into a different world.
To start us thinking about the topic, we created and presented our own magic card tricks.
Children in Year 4 have been learning the third
grammatical person in Spanish. The questions and answers in the language changes
slightly from the first to the third person, and the children have shown great
listening skills to recognise one from the other. They did a reading and a
listening task using whiteboards.
This week in Nursery, we have been learning about the days of the week, inspired by the book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." We discovered that there are seven days in a week by singing a catchy song from Singing Walrus. For our Literacy activities, we ordered the story using pictures from the book, which we glued down independently according to the days.
At our creative table, we engaged in fruit printing, using different fruits to paint over cut-out stencils. It was fun to see how the paint left behind a silhouette when we removed the stencil. Our favourite print was the pineapple!
The children in Year 4 have done a brilliant job with their new maths topic - FRACTIONS!
So far, we have recapped our fractions learning from Year 3 and have used practical resources to help us identify equivalent fractions and order fractions with the same and different denominators. This week, we will be counting in fractions and decimals over 1.
If you would like to support your child with their learning, please look through the following online resources:
Fraction Strips | Free Virtual Manipulatives | Toy Theater
Fraction Circles | Free Virtual Manipulatives | Toy Theater
Please also encourage your child to work through their Fractions activities set on Mathletics.
In Nursery children participated by dressing up in outfits inspired by their favourite words or books. We engaged in shared reading of our favourite stories, including "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" and our class book, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar." We also enjoyed various activities based on these books, such as cutting and sticking letters and sampling fruits mentioned in the stories.
Year 2 started their Music lessons this half term by listening to pieces of music about minibeasts. The children then had to move their body like a minibeast and perform a dance lasting 4 beats. Take a look at some of our photos where we were dragonflies, bumblebees and woodlice.
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To kick off our adventure, we created a colourful story map, outlining the sequence of events in our tale. Each child contributed ideas, and we worked together to visualise the caterpillar's journey through vibrant fruit illustrations. Once our story map was complete, we took it a step further by adding lively actions that corresponded with each part of the story.
The highlight of our lesson was when we acted out the roles of the hungry caterpillar and pretended to munch on a variety of delicious fruits, from juicy strawberries to plump plums. The laughter and joy in the classroom were contagious as we immersed ourselves in the caterpillar's world, helping to solidify our understanding of storytelling in a fun and engaging way.
The children in Pear enjoyed taking part in lots of activities linked to some of our favourite stories on World Book Day.
We had a tea party with the Tiger from 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea.'
