Year 4AK: Blog items
Date: 27th Jan 2020 @ 12:58pm
Well done to 4AR's learning and behaviour stars last week.
Tia won our learning award on Monday for producing some fantastic holiday homework. She displayed lots of great learning skills such as creativity and perseverance to make her 3D model of the Earth.
Jake won our behaviour star for working incredibly hard in all of his lessons. He has pushed himself to share his ideas with the class and he has worked on his presentation.
We are very proud of them both!
Date: 17th Jan 2020 @ 3:05pm
The Tudor lower classes were not in the position to hear the new royal court music or learn the intricate steps of the Tudor Court dances practised by the rich. The lower class dances revolved around country dancing which was danced by couples in round, square or rectangular sets in much simpler and repetitive forms than those of the royal court dance. For our launch, we learned the ‘Gathering Peascods’ dance.
Our Earthquake Survival Documentary
Date: 20th Dec 2019 @ 12:09pm
For our earthquake experience, we created earthquake survival documentaries. We wrote a script and filmed it using the Ipads. We then showcased our documentaries to Miss Bryce's class. We really enjoyed it!
Date: 18th Nov 2019 @ 3:51pm
This half term, we will be finding out about North America and writing disaster stories based around the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. For our launch, we watched a video clip showing all the damage an Earthquake can cause. We then watched an Earthquake drill procedure so we knew what to do in case an earthquake happened. After that, we practised how quickly we could drop, cover and hold. We were very quick!
Date: 11th Nov 2019 @ 2:18pm
For our experience, we invited our grown ups in to school for our Mayan Exhibition so we could show them all of our amazing work and share everything we have learned.
Date: 27th Sep 2019 @ 2:57pm
Year 4 have started learning about the Maya civilisation this half term. This week, we were lucky enough to have a visitor who came to tell us all about this period of time.
He taught us how to count to 10 in the Mayan language and he also taught us about the different ways people could be sacrificed to the gods and goddesses including; decapitation, heart extraction, drowning, being buried alive or being shot by arrows!
We also learned how babies would be trained to be cross eyed by sticking a cacao bean on their noses to make them beautiful!
We especially enjoyed the drama activities, where we dressed up and performed the creation story.
The Decimal Human Number Line!
Date: 11th Jan 2019 @ 3:09pm
This week, we have been delving deeper into our decimal knowledge. One of our fun activities was making a human number line. Some children wrote numbers with two decimal places on whiteboards. The rest of the class had to move them about from smallest to largest. Look at the picture... do you think they got it right or wrong? Why or why not?
Date: 18th Dec 2018 @ 1:28pm
Over the past couple of weeks, 4NS have been getting ready for Christmas. First, we saw Santa on the Santa Bus and we all got a present and sang Jingle Bells.
We performed our song "Please don't buy me a handkerchief" in the outdoor Christmas concert.
Next we had a Christmas party in our classrooms, complete with party games in the hall, a mini-feast in our classrooms and some more games afterwards!
A HUGE thanks to all our children and grown-ups who brought in lots of goodies for us to eat and plates/cups/napkins as well. We appreciate your support!
We hope everyone has a wonderful winter break and we'll see you in the New Year!
Date: 14th Dec 2018 @ 4:02pm
In our Connected Curriculum lesson this week, year 4 tried their hand at being directors, camera people, actors and scriptwriters to produce a mini earthquake movie. They used iPads to film each scene and watched them back to edit the footage together. You can tell by the smiles on their faces that the children thoroughly enjoyed the movie-making process! Great digital literacy skills, year 4!
Date: 5th Dec 2018 @ 5:40pm
Here are the spellings for Spring 1 in Year 4. Spelling lists will be sent home at the beginning of the half term. Please practise the spellings for each week with your child at home using a range of strategies and tick the ones you used on the homework sheet.
Spellings will be tested on Fridays.
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Week |
Spelling rule |
Year 3/4 word list |
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1 (doubling consonant) |
cornered fastened beginning gardening preferred |
enough exercise experience experiment extreme
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2 (‘u’ makes a hard ‘g’) |
guide guitar guarantee guess guilt |
famous favourite February forward fruit |
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3 (‘chuh’ spelt ‘ture’) |
mixture moisture nature adventure picture |
grammar group heard herd heart |
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4 (homophones) |
scene seen male ball bawl |
height history imagine increase |
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5 (Prefixes ‘inter’ and ‘anti’) |
interrupt intercept international antidote antihero |
interest island knowledge learn length |
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6 (‘ian’ has a lot of jobs) |
physician optician magician politician electrician |
library material medicine mention minute |
Date: 4th Dec 2018 @ 4:36pm
This week in Year 4, we have been looking at decimals. Children used place value lines and dice to create random decimal numbers. They then practised saying the numbers out loud, not forgetting to say "point" for the decimal point.
Can you say the decimal numbers on these children's place value lines?
School council representative voting day
Date: 4th Dec 2018 @ 4:29pm
A couple of weeks ago, the whole school had the opportunity to vote for their class school council representative. Some children chose to prepare a speech at home, explaining why they would be a good choice. They had to remember what Mrs Ranyard told them in assembly about being a good listener and sticking to a project for the benefit of others.
After they delivered their speeches, the rest of the class had special ballot papers to choose the best person for the role. The downstairs meeting room was converted into a polling station, complete with private booths, just like adults use in real life!
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 10:26pm
Every Wednesday morning year 4 go swimming to East Manchester Lesiure Centre. At first some of the children were scared to get into the water but now everybody is doing really well with their swimming through perseverance!
Some children have already received their 5metres and 10metres certificates.
Keep it up year 4!!!
Year 4 are computer programmers!!
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 10:22pm
This half term in year 4 we are learning to be computer programmers. We are using a program called turtle art to explore sequencing a set of instructions.
If you want to practise using this at home you can download here http://www.icompute-uk.com/primary-computing-resources.html
This week we practised dragging programming blocks to draw a variety of shapes. We then used the repeat button to make the instructions simpler.
We are looking forward to extending our knowledge next week.
Date: 25th Nov 2018 @ 9:55pm
As part of our school improvement goals to improve spelling at Ravensbury we will be using a new spelling programme called No Nonsense Spelling.
Spelling lists will be sent home at the beginning of each half term. Please practise the spellings for each week with your child at home using a range of strategies and tick the ones you used on the homework sheet.
Spellings will be tested on Fridays.
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Spellings tested on: |
Spelling rule |
Year 3/4 word list |
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9th November |
treasure measure pleasure enclosure closure |
accident accidentally actual actually address |
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16th November |
Joe’s pencil case James’ bicycle Hannah’s book Alice’s ice cream Mrs Hughes’ car |
answer appear arrive believe bicycle |
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23rd November |
peace piece main mane fare fair |
breath breathe build busy business |
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30th November |
they weigh eight grey sleigh |
calendar caught centre century certain circle |
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7th December |
young touch trouble country does* blood* |
complete consider continue decide describe |
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14th December |
chef brochure parachute machine |
different difficult disappear early earth |
Date: 23rd Nov 2018 @ 1:15pm
Today, year 4 were practising their editing skills in pairs. They reviewed the 5 parts of their disaster story by checking for punctuation, missing words and making sense. Then they used purple pen to fix their errors and improve their work with juicy adjectives and adverbs!
Great job, year 4!
Date: 15th Nov 2018 @ 10:28am
Today, Year 4 used 0-9 dice to play a 4 times tables game. They had to roll the dice and times the number by 4. If the number was in their line, they could cross it out on the page. First person to cross all the numbers out wins! You can download the template below to play at home with your child. There is a random number generator on google that you could use instead of a dice. Click here to use it.
Date: 15th Nov 2018 @ 8:20am
To help us with our newspaper report, Year 4 tried their hand at some drama by pretending to be reporters and the infamous Mayan god of chocolate, Kukulkan.
They used pens as microphones and writing jotters to note down quotes from Kukulkan after he had stolen a cacao tree from Paradise. Clearly a controversy that would make quite a news story!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:48pm
In year 4 we are having a real push on children learning their times tables and division facts and we need your help at home! We are starting with 4,8,3 and 6. Please try and learn them at home and include the division facts. The children need to be really quick when they recall the facts. We will be having 10 minute practice times every day in school and a test each Friday where they will be able to achieve a bronze, sliver or gold level certificate. Remember repetition is the key! Keep on learning.
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 4:04pm
Year 4 were lucky enough to receive a visit from a Mayan man! Big Nose was head-to-toe in traditional Mayan dress with a magnificent headdress to show his importance in his community. He brought raw cacao for us to try and helped us to create drama performances about Mayan culture.
What an amazing day!
Date: 14th Nov 2018 @ 3:58pm
Year 4 had the opportunity to work with Mrs McAffer to create Mayan tiles and headdresses.
The tiles were made out of clay and painted once it had dried.
The headdresses were drawn onto card and coloured in using oil pastels before being cut out.
