We have been using Dienes to enhance our addition skills. The tens and ones helped us to understand partitioning two 2-digit numbers to add them together. This was also a useful reminder to us to add ones together before adding tens. We will build on...
We have spent time working together and getting back into the school routine. We spent our first computing lesson thinking about being responsible digital citizens....
In our Geography lesson, we created bar charts to show the climate in mountain ranges. We then presented them to the class and asked questions about average rainfall and temperatures....
In Writing we tested our summary skills. We played a game where we spoke about the characters, settings and plot from the book Varjak Paw for one minute....
We have been learning about mountain ranges around the world. We used atlases to locate the continents and countries that different mountain ranges are in....
In Geography we have been learning about volcanoes. We learnt about how volcanoes erupt and then did a role play to show this....
In Year 4, we have been learning symmetry in Maths. We found the lines of symmetry for 2d shapes using a mirror....
In Writing, Year 4 have been adding more descriptive details to our sentences. We played a game where we had to use show not tell sentences to describe different parts of a city....