It has been a week of many interesting learning opportunities in Year 4! We have begun our fantastic new novel, “The Firework Maker’s daughter in English. Already we are falling in love with it and have been practising all our Year 4 comprehension strategies. We also now have two ‘Dictionary Divas’ in class who always look up words for us. Each day becomes an opportunity to expand our repertoire of words we understand.
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This week we have learned that sometimes our emotions can be confusing and complicated as we grow up. After collecting lots of different emotion words, children reflected on strategies they could use to help them deal with their own emotions in a healthy way. We learned that this is called our ‘Emotional Health.’
We also looked together at the poem above, ‘Leisure,’ by W.H Davies and talked about how good it is for us sometimes to just do nothing and appreciate the beauty around us!
Engagement in Science this week has been great! We have been learning about how water changes state and the processes of evaporation and condensation. We made our own puddle (called Bob) and drew round it all day, watching it shrink until it no longer existed because it had all evaporated into gas. We have carried out class experiments to discover how to speed up the process of evaporation and even today made it rain in the classroom! Now we are putting it all together to learn about the Water Cycle.
A beautiful class worship was carried out by Steph, Amber and Asher about God’s power in our lives. This was my favourite part of the week as it is so special seeing children leading us all in reflection.
Let’s Celebrate!
This week, Kai received a Tommy Turtle/Lizzie Ladybird certificate for having such a good go at everything and striving to get better. Asher received a Kiki Chameleon/Sadie Spider certificate for always giving his best and reflecting deeply on all learning.
PE stars this week: Jacob O and Isabella - super effort!
Music stars were Lena and Jack for excellent participation and listening.
Notices:
Nearly everyone has signed up for our Virtual parents’ meetings. I really look forward to touching base with you all and talking about how your child is getting along. Please sign up if you have not done so.
Who can predict this weather! One minute it is like the middle of Summer and the next day it is freezing! Whatever the weather, have a beautiful weekend and have some time to stand and stare!
Mrs Lyons, Mrs Mather and Miss Forster.