Electricity
This term, children in Year 4 had a fun time learning about electricity. First, they learned about how electricity is made and gets to our homes. They looked at various devices and appliances that use electricity and then they explored various conductors and insulators to make their own switches. Finally, they had a chance to use various components to build a working circuit.
Year 4 - Deepening Understanding in Maths
This term, in Year 4, pupils are deepening their understanding in Maths by further developing their vocabulary and reasoning skills to explain concepts for solving calculations. We have been using a range of resources to demonstrate how an understanding of place value can be used when multiplying larger numbers.
Year 4 spent last term learning all about La Fruta and they started learning about how Spanish nouns have gender. They played games and completed tasks in pairs and small groups to sort their fruit vocabulary and understand how to recognise masculine and feminine nouns in Spanish. This knowledge will be useful to them as we progress through the rest of the Spanish curriculum via other topics.
For any keen Year 4s who want to continue practising the song we have been learning for our current Spanish topic, here is a link you can use to sing along at home :)
You can fast-forward to 56secs if you just want to do the song or watch from start to see the clips from the Spanish children's TV show
To celebrate World Book Day this month and link with our current Spanish topic of fruit and healthy eating, Year 4 are currently using the Spanish story La Pequeña Oruga Glotona by Eric Carle as a stimulus for our learning.
So far we have been learning some common fruits and learning some key vocabulary to help us follow the story, then we followed the text using our reading and listening skills to complete sorting and ordering activities in groups.
Here's a video you can watch to follow the story yourselves.
Our next lessons will include sorting vocabulary using our grammar knowledge and revising our knowledge of numbers and plurals.
Remember that Linguascope has a whole section on La Fruta which you can be using at home to revise the key vocabulary for our Spanish topic this term!
