Monday, November 26, 2012

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.



Saturday, November 24, 2012

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.









Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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.