Eco Club: How to make a tetra pak wallet - HOW TO LINK (click here)

In Eco Club this week we looked at what we could do with waste, we decided to make wallets out of oat milk cartons. Such fun and very easy!

You will need:

• tetra pak carton (oak milk for example)
• scissors
• Stapler
• hole punch
• tape
• elastic band

Romans Romans Romans!

We started our new English sequence this week 'Escape from Pompeii' by Christina Balit, we had fun looking at Roman artefacts and then exploring the front cover of the book and noticing what we see, why it might be there and what we wander about it. E.g. There is a boat with a vase and cloth in it, they might be there as the people have collected their special items as they ran away from the volcano, I wander if they get to safety?

In Art, Mrs White showed the class the Colosseum, and they then set to and made their own from clay using tools and their designs. Absolutely brilliant.  The class have expressed an interest in having a Roman themed day to finish the topic off, this will be in the week before half term. More info to follow.

Have a super weekend, 
Miss Chalcraft, Mrs Graham and Mrs White

Please find below our English working wall at the moment followed by the CLEAPSS Viking Amulet making morning we enjoyed. 

Our working wall shows the process of our teaching sequence for the text 'The Beasties'. It shows drama in acting out the story, to creating our own class shared version, we then brought in special objects to stimulate our minds and imagination, and we ended with writing our own fabulous stories. We then drafted and edited them and have made our final versions into three class books.  

We were very lucky to a have a member of CLEAPSS join our class this morning to trial a Viking Amulet making lesson. The children were told about amulets, shown an example, they were then given a piece of paper to design their own using Viking symbols. The clay was lovely and malleable and the amulets they have made are now drying. These will be strung and sent home next week. 

This weeks blog shows our year 4s learning the strategy and skills needed for Tag Rugby with SAINTS Southwest and also hands-on Science with 'Does it make a circuit or not and why?' in our Electricity topic.  Some overheard findings were 'oh look, wow, the motor is going!', 'This won't work it is only connected on the negative side!', 'This should work, maybe it's the battery?' ' ... hang on a minute, it doesn't work that way, but look now, if you do this ... it does!'

What a super week! In English, we started to think about the common themes in the three mini stories in our text 'The Beasties'. Year 4 will be bringing in a special item next week to then go on to write about in the style of the 10 sentence mini stories they have been studying.  In Art with Mrs White, the children explored different grades of sketching pencils with their caricatures of Roman soldiers. In SCARF (PSHE) we talked and looked at what we enjoy doing and what makes us US! Such fun to share our likes.  Well done Year 4, what a great week! 
Enjoy your weekend!
Miss Chalcraft, Mrs Graham and Mrs White.

We have been so busy, we only took one photo of our ingenious way of up-cycling testing kit plastic bags! We now have digit card holders, see below!  How do you use yours?
We have been setting our classroom up for the term to come, we have started our class text 'The Beasties' so we are finding out about the treasures under our beds and how they might have ended up there!  Our topic this half term will be the Romans and so we will be incorporating Art, DT and History to give the children depth of knowledge.

Times Table Rockstars logons went home today - TTRS link here

We hope you have a super weekend,
Miss Chalcraft, Mrs Graham and Mrs White

You have been wonderful Year 4, thank you.
​Miss Chalcraft, Miss Bennett, Mrs White and Mrs West