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Life in 4A
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Reading
In our school we love reading. To grow our love of reading we: read everyday at story time as a class, currently we are reading Little Badman; every child has the opportunity to complete a page in our reading scrapbook; we complete a reading identity so we can see how we grow as a reader our the year; we also spend time each week reading any book we like from either the class library or our beautiful reading garden.
World Children's Day
Art
In art we having been studying the work of Caravaggio, how he uses contrast to paint still life. We used his style to create our own still life of a plant.
DT
In DT we looked at mechanical systems by creating our own slingshot cars, using lollipop sticks, wood, card and glue. We learnt how designers of cars must consider the cars purpose when designing to reduce or increase air resistance. Our designer that we researched was Sir William Lyons, who found Jaguar. Once we assembling our cars we tested them.
Science
In science we learnt about states of matter. What are the three states of matter and how do we change the state of objects using temperature. We also looked at the water cycle and why it is important.
In science we learnt about sound. We did lots of investigations to find out: how sound travels, and how does distance affect the volume of the sound; what sound is, and can we see soundwaves; what is pitch and what affects the pitch on a guitar string. As we investigated with used computers to data-log our results and turned them into a bar chart on J2E.
Maths
In maths we are working on place value up to 10000. We learnt a poem to help us with rounding. We also looked at roman numerals using lollipop sticks.
PE
In PE we played basketball. We practiced our ball control when dribbling and passing.
Currently in PE we have been learning how to play cricket. Each week we have focused on a new skill, bowling, throwing, catching, fielding and batting.
English
In English we learnt how to write a persuasive letter, as our chairs went on strike we needed to convince them to come back. We read the book 'I wanna an Iguana' to support our learning.