ICT Day

On Thursday 29th November we enjoyed an ICT curriculum day. We started off our day in the ICT suite where we went on maths, literacy or e-safety games. We then had a talk from Dan Hawbrook who helped us learn how to keep safe when using the internet. In the afternoon we enjoyed using the Pro-Bots. Here are some photos of the day. 

Some photos

With his sarcophagus and tomb painting tile

Using dienes apparatus in maths to practically subtract.
This helped us to understand the expanded column method,
particularly 'borrowing'.

Playing sitting volley ball

Wearing pyjamas for Children in Need Day

Some of our falcon necklaces. 

Our Ancient Egyptian theme display. You can see some of the things we made on our trip to The Collection at Lincoln such as the papyrus. Also underneath are some examples of the fabulous information texts we wrote about pyramids and tombs. 

More of our falcon necklaces

Drama- scenarios to show what makes a good friend.

More drama

.Our homework was to find out about Ancient Egyptian jewellery and design
our own piece. Some children made their own version of Ancient Egyptian jewellery

As part of Children in Need, we had a go at being blindfolded
in order to empathise with people who have difficulties with their sight.

More blindfolded partner work. 

A falcon necklace

And another.....

And another....

More 'friendship' drama

A jewellery homework creation

Another jewellery design. 

A reminder that on Thursday will be our share afternoon so parents/ carers are welcome to come in and share with your child some of their work.

Term 2 so far in Eagle class...

Over the past few weeks we have been busy in Eagle class.

In literacy we have started our unit of Adventure stories and will be starting writing our own next week. We have enjoyed reading several stories which link to our Ancient Egyptian theme, including 'The Time Travelling Cat and the Egyptian Godess'. We thoroughly enjoyed this book and it took us over 5 weeks to read, reading a little each day.

                   

We have also read two shorter stories: 'The plot on the pyramid' and 'The magic and the mummy'. Whilst enjoying these stories, we have been identifying what they teach us about the Ancient Egyptians and also learning about features of stories. We will be using this to help us with our own stories.

As part of our learning about Ancient Egyptian jewellery, we made our own necklaces in the style of this falcon necklace. These are all hanging in our classroom.

In maths, Year 4s have been working really hard to learn new methods to carry out calculations. We have been using the expanded column methods to add and subtract and using the grid method to multiply.

In French, we have been learning to say the days of the week, using actions to help us remember.


Next week on Thursday (29th) will be our ICT day and also share afternoon. We hope that you will be able to join us from 2pm to share with your children some of what they have been learning so far this half term.

Investigate at The Collection, Lincoln

Today we had a fabulous day at The Collection, Lincoln, exploring further our theme of Ancient Egypt. Over the day we took part in 6 different activities and each one was brilliant. We were able to bring home what we had made in the craft sessions. Our 6 activities were:

- drama (acting out the story of Osiris)

- the big dig (becoming archaeologists and digging for artefacts) 

- drawing on papyrus

- making our own amulet

- making a sarcophagus

- a tour of the museum

Here are some photos of our activities. We were divided into groups with children from Osprey class also. 

The Big Dig

Making our sarcophagus 

Sarcophagus making

Making our amulet 

In costume for our drama 

Making a sarcophagus 

In costume as Queen Isis 

Discovering an artefact at the Big Dig

P.S. These photos are from 2 of the cameras taken- I will upload more when I have the photos from the other groups' cameras.

Sarcophaguses

During the last week of term 1 we set ourselves a mini project- to create our own sarcophagus! We have learnt about mummification (including the disgusting parts) and how pharoahs were buried.

Here is a photo of some of them laying out to fully dry over half term. 

By request from the children, we will be this week making a mummy to go inside our sarcophagus! 

Share Afternoon

Thank you to all of you who were able to come to our share afternoon. The children all enjoyed the opportunity to share with you some of their fabulous work from term 1. 

Some of what Eagle Class did in Week 5

In maths, we have been learning about shapes. On Friday we learnt about the features of triangles. Some of us made different triangles using elastic bands and a pegboard. 

On Friday afternoon we presented our harvest work to the rest of the school. As part of our visual literacy work, we looked at lots of different images of harvest. We wrote descriptive poems using wow words, similes and different ways to open sentences. We read out our best line to the rest of the school. 

Gravity Fields Trip

Today Eagle class and Owl class had a brilliant day in Grantham and Woolsthorpe as part of the Gravity Fields festival.

Eagle class firstly went to Woolsthorpe Manor where we met Isaac Newton and learnt a little bit about his life. We had look in his house and had the chance to explore some of his discoveries.

We then went to the George Centre in Grantham for a visit to the Apothecary. We learnt about cures such for baldness and how to see what ailment affected someone from their wee! We then got a bit messy making cures. 

Finally we walked to the Guildhall to see the 'Feel the Force' show which was an exciting and fun interactive presentation to teach us about Newton's theories. 

Thank you to Miss Magan and Mrs Arnold who helped us on our trip, as well as Mrs Williams and Mrs Daly. Eagle class you were really well behaved and a credit to our school. I had spoken with the class beforehand about  the move from the George Center to the Guildhall as it involved walking up Grantham high street and crossing 2 roads, therefore the best listening and behaviour was definitely needed- I am pleased to report that  this went very smoothly and Miss Chadwick was very relieved when we were all safely eating lunch in the Guildhall! Thank you for a lovely day Eagle.