Robins class

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In English we have started a new book: Rama and the Demon King (an Ancient Tale from India) by Jessica Souhami.

Sports day is on Friday 11th July. Have a look at the chart for your child’s house and their team colour.


Goodbye chicks

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Today the chicks have gone to live in a farm, they are ready for the freedom as they have started growing feathers and trying to jump ready to fly. The children really enjoyed watching them growing and changing this week (they grew really quickly) and we have learnt a lot about how chickens develop. Some of the chicks really relaxed when being held by calm children.


Story mountains

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This week we finished the book Journey then used story mountains to plot how the story had developed. At the end of the story the boy and girl go off on a magic bicycle. The children then used story mountains and story boards to plan their own stories which started where this story finished. They then started writing their stories. The stories needed to say what the characters and setting were at the start, then include a build up, a problem, resolution (how the problem was solved) and an ending. Something you could ask your children to do is to make up a story including a problem and a resolution ( how it is solved).


Chicks

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We have had eggs in an incubator in school and 9 chicks have hatched. Today the children got a chance to go and see them. They all enjoyed watching them and some enjoyed holding them. In computing the children used their ICT skills to create stop frame animations of chicks hatching from eggs. (Reposting as I forgot the photos)


Chicks

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We have had eggs in school in an incubator and 9 of them have now hatched. Robins class has the chance to go and see them this morning. All of the children liked watching the chicks and some enjoyed holding them. A few of the chicks fell asleep while being held and the children were all very calm and responsible. All the children asked lots of really good questions. In computing they made animations of chicks coming out of eggs.


English

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As part of our learning this week we have been writing patterned poems about flying on a magic carpet.
We looked at verbs that could be used instead of flying e.g. gliding, floating, shooting etc.
We thought about if those verbs related to movement that was fast, slow or either then thought about adverbs that would describe the movement e.g. swiftly, carefully, slowly, quickly etc.
We then used the words we had collected to write lines of a poem with the order: verb, adverb, preposition, adjective, noun.
When they had finished drafting their poems they wrote them in their best handwriting, then illustrated them carefully to show what each line meant and they also signed their poems onto video. Excellent, careful concentration from all the class.


Robins class this week

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This week Robins went into town to ask people about their jobs and how they get to work. They used this information to create a bar chart on ways people get to work. They also looked at services within St Albans.
They continued improving their cricket skills this week by competing against each other using what they have learnt.
In Maths this week Year 4 have been learning how to plot points on a graph.
As part of the Geography work this term Robins had created a birthday card to send to David Attenborough, and he has responded to the birthday card this week.


Thinking blocks

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In English today the children used a picture stimulus and worked together in small groups to brainstorm ideas of what the character saw and felt when she was flying on a magic carpet, having escaped from a cage. They came up with a lot of creative noun phrases and then combined noun phrases and feelings in sentences to write text for that picture in the story. They worked together really well.


Robins class this week

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This week Robin’s have been learning about the difference between hardware and software in computing. They have been looking at all the parts that make up a computer and trying to label it all using the laptop as a guide.
On Tuesday Robins went with Woodpeckers to go swimming practising their skills in the water like backstroke, front crawl and diving.
Year 4 have been continuing their work with databases in science. They each worked in pairs to create a database to separate 6 different animals and tested out their work in another class.
In PE Robins class was with Woodpeckers playing cricket this week improving their skills and played a match together.


Noun phases, dialogue and adjective alphabet.

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This week Robins class have continued work on the wordless book The Journey, using it to develop story writing skills. This week they have focused on setting a scene using interesting noun phrases AND writing and including dialogue. In preparation the pupils created an adjective alphabet using dictionaries to find at least two adjectives for each letter ( x was difficult and we cheated a bit by allowing ex!) This was then typed up in Widget and we have been using the list for a starter game. A good game to play at home is to go through the alphabet and see if you can name an adjective for every letter ( you can also play this game with nouns or verbs). Or you can give them one letter and ask them to find as many words from a particular word class ( noun, verb, adjective etc. as they can). All the children worked really hard on story writing, finding quiet placed in the classroom to concentrate on their work and using dictionaries, thesaurus and information from the working walls to support them. They will be continuing and finishing them tomorrow.


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