Year 4
Alex video
Mrs Southwell's play dough recipe ( by popular request)
200g plain flour
100g salt
1 tablespoon oil
300ml water
2 tsp cream of tartar
few drops of food colour
200g plain flour
1. Put the flour, salt, cream of tartar into a bowl which fits in your microwave.
2. Add the oil and the food colouring to the water.
3. Stir the liquid into the flour until it is smooth.
4. Put into the microwave on FULL power for 1 minute. ( Be careful it will be hot!)
5. Take out and STIR really well
6. Put into the microwave on FULL power for 1 minute. Remove and stir well.
7. Put into the microwave for 1 minute and then remove and stir well.
It should becoming away from the edges and be almost like play dough. Then when it is a bit cooler, knead it until it is soft and flexible. Enjoy!
Keep in an airtight bag and it won't dry out. The cream of tartar is important!
Hagg farm was fab. Look at our pictures!
It rained a bit at Hagg Farm on Tuesday but we still had fun! Watch our slide show...
Hagg Farm was great wasn't it? Here's Day 3 for 4SH and 4I
Hagg Farm
Hagg Farm packing list
Here's an overview of the exciting teaching and learning taking palce this term in Year 4.
Recommended books for our year group...how many have you read?
Amazing homework in Year 4
Didn't we have a lovely day the day we went to Wollaton?
Here's this week's maths homework. Remember to set it out carefully.
Grid multiplication
What amazing homework you have all been producing. We loved your teeth films, powerpoints, quizzes and posters. Check out Ruby's amazing video below and enjoy Isabella's powerpoint quiz.
Isabella's teeth presentation
Welcome back!
This term we will be explorers, finding out whether Henry VIII was a hero or a villain. We have a great number of exciting things planned including a trip to Wollaton Hall. We are also learning about teeth. Here are some websites you can use to find out about teeth
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/teethandeating/usesofteeth/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/teeth_eating/read/1/
You can also use MyMaths and Purple Mash to help you learn. Remember to stay safe on line.
What we are learning this term
Homework
Welcome to the Year 4 page. Here you will find photographs from our lessons to celebrate our learning, reminders for homework tasks and links to help with learning times tables and spellings.
If you have any ideas about what to include, please let us know!
This week we have been learning about how food is digested.
We used a plastic bag to represent the stomach and orange juice to represent the gastric juices in the stomach. We looked to see what would happen to the bread we put in!
Then we mixed some porridge and placed that in the plastic bag (stomach).
We then passed it through a pair of tights to see what happens when food travels through the small and large intestine.
We learnt that
- gastric juices break down food in the stomach
- vitamins and minerals are passed into the blood stream through the walls of the intestine
- the food loses water as it is absorbed back into the body
Travel back a few thousand years to the times of the Ancient Egyptians.
See what happened on Egyptian Day
4S Egyptians
What is wrong with these girls?
Doesn't our princess look beautiful?
Find out about Egyptian burial
What did the mourners do ?
Newspaper 23/09/15
Year 4 Autumn Letter to parents
Crystal Maze
In the first week we completed The Crystal Maze challenge.
We had to work together in teams to crack the mathematical codes.
What a sense of achievement when we finally completed our mission!
English
In our English lessons we are learning to retell an event, This article tells us what happened in the Heb Sed Festival. Look at the powerpoint to see pictures of the actions we are using to help us remember it.
King Pepi Triumphs again!
Here are the links to the reverse partitioning game we played in Friday's maths lesson.
How far can you progress through the challenges?
Can you beat your time?
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Reverse-Partitioning-Puzzle-4-Digit-373
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Reverse-Partitioning-Puzzle-3-Digits-372
http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Reverse-Partitioning-Puzzle-2-Digits-371