Week 5 (2nd December 2024)
We have finally reached that time of year, I will not speak its name, but we are continuing to work hard to get everything done.
We are beginning to finish work on our American State leaflets and they are looking brilliant!
This week we also had another visit from Isle Listen, where were created beautiful mirrors with words of encouragement on. We were told if we're ever feeling down or struggling to look in our mirrors and read the encouraging words.
Week 4 (25th November 2024)
This week we had a fun filled time, filled with lots of activities around our topic of the USA.
On Thursday, we celebrated the American tradition of Thanksgiving. We played lots of sports and games which are popular in America, including a Baseball tournament. Mr Molyneux taught us the basic rules and we all had a go. It was lots of fun! In the afternoon we got to enjoy our wonderful Thanksgiving Feast. Thank you to everyone who came and joined us for it, we hope you had fun. Thank again for all the wonderful food you brought in to share, we are thankful for it all.
Week 3 (18th November 2024)
This week we continued with our learning of persuasive language in Literacy.
In Maths, we have been looking multiplication and division.
On Thursday we got to have a video call with Mr Molyneux's friend Rebekah, who lives in San Diego. She got up at 5:30 in the morning to talk to us! We had lots of fun getting to ask her questions about how life is different from the Isle of Man. She told us all about how when she was at school she got 2 and a half months holiday! We asked Mr Molyneux and he said NO!
We also got to enjoy pantomime performance of Snow White.
Week 2 (11th November 2024)
We have continued our learning about America this week.
We learnt about what caused the American Revolution and how the original 13 Colonies started the USA as we know it.
This week we also did a Maths test, looking back over everything we have done with addition and subtraction, the children tried really hard and they should be very proud.
We have no begun looking at multiplication and division.
On Friday, it was Children in Need and we got to go and play some games with Year 6 in the sports hall. It was lots of fun and all for a good cause.
Week 1 (4th November 2024)
Welcome back to our second half term!
This half term our topic is looking at both the geography and history of The United States of America.
We've got lots of exciting things planned over the half term, and obviously with everything in the news at the moment it's a perfect time to be looking at this amazing and vast country.
This week though we've already had some much happen, we had stay and learn on Wednesday morning and it was lovely to see so many of you come in and get involved with the STEM activities. As I said on Wednesday, these are by far the best designs of bridges and towers I've seen classes do. So very well done!
On Thursday, we had scooter skills lessons. We learnt about appropriate clothing, how to stay safe on the our scooters (looking for hazards) and how to look after our scooters.
Week 7 (21st October 2024)
Almost at our first half term marker.
This week we completed our first assessed written work where we wrote a suspenseful story.
We also did a science experiment on where we found out how much fizz was in a bottle of cola. We weighed 4 bottles of fizzy drinks and then shook them to get all the gas to the top, we then CAREFULLY let the gas out before reweighing our drinks and finding out how much gas had escaped!
On Thursday we had a full and fun day dedicated to 'Harry Potter'. We took part in lessons with Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood in the movies). We also did a lesson where we learnt how to cast spells and use our wands correctly. We drew our own pictures of Hogwarts which looked amazing! Then in the afternoon we got to enjoy watching the first 'Harry Potter' film.
Have a lovely half term and I looking forward to see you in the a weeks time.
Week 6 (14th October 2024)
Over the half term we have been doing a lot of sketching during art, over the past few weeks we have been attempting to draw a self portrait, using different shades of pencils.
Also this week , some of us got to try a new app on the iPads called 'Sketches',where we again got to show our artistic skills by making some amazing designs.
Finally, we got to look at constellations last week on Friday and have, along with St Thomas's Year 4, created this amazing display over 'Dark Skies' showing how we can stop light pollution so we can see all the wonders above us.
Week 6 (7th October 2024)
The class blew me away this week with how hard they have worked in literacy.
We looked at a scene from 'Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone' we looked at what made the scene and how we could write it in our own words, then improving upon it.
We wrote on sugar paper what phrases we could use to describe what was going on. They did so well and I couldn't have been a prouder teacher.
Week 5 (30th September 2024)
This week we have had a proper 'Rocking' week.
During music, we learnt about British Rock Music and how it has changed through the years, we learnt what instruments we normally find in bands and how the sounds have changed throughout the years.
In literacy, we continued working on our suspense writing, looking at scene settings and how we can make our readers feel like they are in the story.
Mr Molyneux was very mean and gave us a Maths test on Thursday about what we have learnt so far. He was very proud of us as we all did really well!
On Thursday we had Rock Kidz come and visit us and we had so much fun getting to jump around and competing against the teachers doing tasks. Learning about how to be better citizens in our community.
Week 4 (23rd September 2024)
Yet again, it has been a very busy week!
We began innovating our fiction text that we have been looking at in literacy. Nearly every piece of work has been completely OUTSTANDING! The use of adjectives, similes and onomatopoeia has been perfect and really enhanced their work.
In maths this week we looked at number lines to 10,000 as well as introducing roman numerals, which is not an easy task.
So to take a moment and slow ourselves down a bit we are doing Yoga this half term. It really calms us down and is a fun activity to do on a Thursday afternoon.
Week 3 (16th September 2024)
This week has been another busy one.
We started to looker at bigger number lines in maths, while learning about onomatopoeia and starting to use them in our writing in literacy. In Science, we learnt about the water cycle and how it can sometimes effect our weather. On Friday, we learnt about different places on the Isle of Man labelling them in the correct place on a map. The think we enjoyed most this week though was getting to use I.C.T. to make inanimate objects come to life! Here are just a few.
Week 2 (9th September 2024)
Hi everyone, this week has been very busy!
We had a visit from Isle Listen on Thursday, who we will be seeing more off throughout the year. We got to discuss the things that make us happy and what we care about.
During music we has started to write our own Mississippi Blues songs. Mr Molyneux and Mrs Entwistle were very impressed with them and we wanted to share them with you.
Week 1 (4th September 2024)
Hello and welcome to our Year 4 page!
We'll be updating the page throughout the year to let you see all the exciting mischief, I mean learning we'll be getting up too.
This week has been very much a starting off week. Already I have had a fantastic week with the class! They have been outstanding during maths and incredible in literacy!
We also decorated our class wall with Honeycombs to show the kind of caring, inclusive class we want to be. So you will see supportive quotes and our school values amongst them.
Here's to a fantastic year ahead!
