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Year 4 - Beavers
Year 4 Beavers
Welcome to Beaver's class page!
Class teacher - Mr Brown abrown@inspiream.org.uk
Teaching Assistant - Miss Egarr
Forest School is on a Tuesday. Children should bring in their Forest School kit every Tuesday and will get changed at school.
PE is on a Thursday. Children should come into school dressed in their PE kit.
What are we learning this term?
Main Experiences:
Term 1
Winter is Looming - This is an Art based experience where children will be learning how to weave. Once they have grasped the skills of weaving they will be designing and weaving a book mark.
Raiders to Settlers - In this History and English Experience we will be learning about life in Anglo Saxon Britain. We have organised an exciting hook where some Viking experts will be visiting Seal for the day. Throughout this experience we will be reading the book Anglo-Saxon Boy to help familiarise ourselves with some of the key historical events that happened during this time.
Term 2
Changes that Matter - This experience will be a combination of Science, Geograpy and English. The children will be learning about states of matter and the water cycle. Thye will use this knowledge to produce an explanation text which we will be sharing with experts.
Discrete Experiences
English - The Lighthouse. For the first few weeks of term we will be writing a narrative based on an animation called 'The Lighthouse'.
Reading - Anglo Saxon Boy by Tony Bradman. We will be reading this novel throughout Term 1. Focussing on the skills of retrieval, prediciton and inference whilst also discussing a range of new vocabulary.
Maths- Place Value up - The children will be counting, ordering, comparing, problem solving and reasoning with numbers up to 10,000. Addition and Subtraction - Children will be adding and subtracting numbers to 10,000 using a range of mental and written methods.
PE - Hockey and Dance with a professional dance teacher.
RE - Our key question is; What do Christians learn from the Creation story? Throughout this experience, we will read the creation story and reflect on its meaning.
Wellbeing – In Wellbeing we will be learning how to discuss and manage our emotions.
MFL - Our French focus is 'Our School' which will include counting in French numbers and learning school related vocabulary and phrases.
How can you support at home?
Reading
Please ensure children are reading recgularly at home. This can be recorded in the children's reading records and will be checked regulalry by and adult in school. Further information about home reading can be found in your child's reading record.
Times Tables
Times Tables are extremely important in Year 4. Each child has a login to Times Table Rock Stars to support them with learning their times tables. Please encourage the children to log on and practise regularly at home. We will be organising some Year 4 tournaments and competitions for Times Table Rock Stars, so keep a look out for them in the future.
Term 1 - Winter is Looming
Winter is Looming
HOOK
To begin this Art-based experience the class had a go at some paper weaving to familiarise themselves with the weft and warp threads.
Outcome
The children have each made a woven book mark which they can take home and use when reading at home or gift to someone special. Children have used the tabby weave technique to weave their bookmarks, some children have also deepened these skills further by using the closed slot technique to weave multiple colours on the same row and the rya technique to add tassels to the bottom of their bookmark.
Term 1 - Raiders to Settlers
Raiders to Settlers
HOOK
An exciting workshop (26th September) led by Viking experts that will teach the children all about life in Anglo-Saxon times and include amulet making, dressing up and a battle simulation.
OUTCOME
The children took part in a Year 4 quiz to test their knowledge about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings.
Term 2 - Changes that Matter
Hook
Outcome
Times Tables
Times tables are extremely important in Year 4. To help with this, children have access to Times Table Rock Stars.
Here are some other useful websites to help with practising times tables:
Recommended Book List - Year 4
Max and the Millions – Ross Montgomery
Desirable – Frank Cottrell Boyce
My Brother is a Superhero – David Solomons
There’s a Werewolf in my Tent – Pamela Butchart
The 13 Storey Treehouse – Andy Griffiths
Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor – Jon Scie
The Peppermint Pig – Nina Bawden
Operation Gadgetman – Malorie Blackman
The Children of Green Knowe – Lucy Boston
How to train your Dragon – Cressida Cowell
Lizzie Dripping – Helen Cresswell
The Great Elephant Chase – Gillian Cross
The Twitts – Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
War Game – Michael Foreman
Toad Rage – Morris Gleitzman
The Last Castaways – Harry Horse
The Falcon’s Malteser – Anthony Horowitz
The House that Sailed Away – Pat Hutchins
Fairy Tales – Terry Jones
The Hodgeheg – Dick King Smith
The Worst Witch – Kill Murphy
The Way to Sattin Shore – Philippa Pearce
The Firework maker’s Daughter – Philip Pullman
The Suitcase Kid – Jacqueline Wilson
George’s Marvellous Medicine –Roald Dahl
Billionaire Boy – David Williams
Cliffhanger – Jacqueline Wilson
The Legend of Captain Crow’s Teeth – Eoin Colfer
The Invisible Dog – Dick King Smith
The Battle of Bubble Sqeak – Philippa Pearce
Give Peas a Chance – Morris Gleitzman
The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips – Michael Morpurgo
The Yearling – Marjorie Rawlings
The Buried Crown - Ally Sherrick
Learning Experience 2023-2024
Changes that Matter!
Throughout this experience, the children are learning about the water cycle. They are also learning about the states of matter and how these are represented throughout the water cycle. The children will also be learning about the features of an explanation text in English.
Hook:
The children learnt about what happens to materials when they are heated or cooled. We held a science experiment in which children had to find the quickest way to melt something. We also completed a whole-class evaporation experiment and found the place in school which had the highest amount of evaporation.
Outcome:
The children will be creating an explanation text about the the process of the water cycle. These will include all the features of an explanation text. The winning one will go onto TES for educators around the world to use, to help inform and teach others. You can see a few examples of our written work below, can you spot the headings, subheadings, diagrams, formal language and technical vocabulary in our work?
From Settlers to Raiders!
During this experience, the children were learning about story writing and description, with a focus on expanded noun-phrases and fronted adverbials. We learnt about the lifestyles, battles and leaders of the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. The children's English outcome was then to write a descriptive narrative about the Battle of Stamford Bridge. A Battle which changed the future history of Britain and ended Viking rule.
Our hook:
We took part in a Viking afternoon. We learnt about Vikings, raided some other classrooms and wrote our own Kenning poems inspired by the Vikings.
Our outcomes:
For our History outcome, we had Viking and Anglo-Saxon Day where the children from Four Elms and Maypole schools joined us for a Anglo-Saxon & Viking Quiz.
Need a Tudor?
During this learning experience, we will be learning about the Tudors with a focus on Henry VIII and changes he made when he was King of England. This learning experience will be a combination of history and English and we will be applying our historical knowledge to write Henry VIII diary entries.
Hook
We went on a trip to Leeds Castle to learn about who the Tudors were. We also learnt all about Henry VIII and the famous Fields of Cloth of Gold festival.
Outcome
Below you can see some of our Henry VIII diary entries about the time when Henry visited France for the Field of Cloth of Gold Festival. The children have really got into the character of Henry VIII and the rivalry between him and the King of France - Francis I. To help make their diaries more authentic, they tea-stained paper and have written their work up using handwriting pen.
