Beech Tree Class Blog 2023-2024
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Weekly Update 1/10/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been working on their recounts of their trip to Danelaw at Murton Park. In the lead up to their big write, we have been focusing on expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. All of their sentence work has revolved around activities on their trip to Murton Park. We have also been working on how to improve our writing and make it more exciting, whilst also making sure that it is punctuated correctly. They have been working extremely hard and they have produced some really lovely pieces of writing which include the key features required for a recount. They should be very proud of the work that they have produced!
In Maths, we have been focusing on negative numbers. This is a brand new concept for Year 4 and it can be tricky to grasp at first, but the children have really impressed me this week with their rapid build up of knowledge regarding negative numbers and their keen attitude to learn from their mistakes.
In PSHE, the theme of the lesson revolved around working cooperatively in a group. The children were given tangram puzzles and were tasked with creating as many different images as possible using the shapes. This task allowed the children to really show off the different skills required to work well together and successfully complete the task with every member of the group contributing in different ways.
The children also created their own name labels using Viking runes. Before beginning the writing, we identified what was unique about the runes e.g. they all have straight lines in them. The children then carefully drew the symbols required for their own name and coloured them in. We also wrote our own secret messages using the runes and as a class we had to work out what the message said.
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 24/9/22
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Year 4 had a brilliant day out, travelling back in time to the land of Danelaw at Murton Park near York - where we learnt to live the life of Vikings! The children farmed the land, guarded the village from Anglo-Saxons, ground flour using a millstone, baked biscuits, collected firewood, created their own pottery... and much more besides! We hope you enjoy the pictures below (click the link below for a slideshow of photos)
Year 4 have also been learning about Viking food production in science this week and as part of a practical investigation, they used the method of churning to create butter from cream. Through shaking, the fat molecules come out of position and stick together, which then creates the butter and the left over liquid is buttermilk. They really enjoyed the process and produced some excellent butter. . .which they even tried as well!!!
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 17/9/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Beech Tree, have had another busy and exciting week. The children all went for their first swimming lessons, which they absolutely loved and they represented Rufford Park really well! Beech Tree have also won the Extreme Reader challenge for LKS2, which means that we have £100 to spend on a range of new books for our class! Very exciting!
This week, the children also performed freeze frames from scenes that appear in James and the Giant Peach. They worked in groups of three, created some amazing freeze frames and had lots of fun working together on them!
The children also did some dictionary work to find out the meaning of tricky vocabulary that will appear in the next chapter of our class novel, James and the Giant Peach.
In science, we had class discussions about what science is, who scientists are, different types of scientists, what they look like, what they do and how science has helped the world. We also looked at the different stages of an investigation and the children arranged them in the correct order.
The children have also started doing some planting and will continue to do so over the next few weeks.
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou