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Weekly Update 15/10/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
The children completed their brilliant Murton Park recounts last week and have finished writing them up in neat. Here are some examples of their super work, which will be going on display.
This week, several children presented their school council representative posters to the class. All children involved presented very well and as a class every child voted for who they thought would be the best representative for the class. Taylor won the vote and is now the Beech Tree class representative. Well done, Taylor!
We have been focusing on column addition this week and the children have been doing so well with it, particularly when it has come to carrying and have been giving great mathematical explanations to explain what they are doing and why they are doing it when it involves carrying. We have also been focusing on word problems, identifying the language that indicates it is an addition problem and picking out the key information in order to solve it. As an end of lesson task, the children created their own wonderful word problems and made sure to include key mathematical language that should go into it. As you can see below, one problem was related to our trip to Murton Park, one was related to our class novel and one was related to TT Rockstars. All super examples of good word problems that include the correct language. We then solved these as a class.
The children have also been working on their Christmas themed artwork. They have worked really hard on them and produced some lovely pieces. Here are a few examples of their fantastic work!
Take care,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 8/10/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been completing their recounts, which revolve around their trip to Murton Park. They have worked extremely hard on them and produced some super pieces of work, which will also be going on display!
As part of our topic work, Beech Tree have also been putting key historical events in chronological order on their timelines.
As part of our series of Viking lessons, the children have been learning about glue, how it was mad during Viking times and what it was used for. They then learnt about modern adhesives and what we use them for today. The children then investigated the strength of different glue, by adding weight into plastic cups that were attached to card that had been glued onto a lolly stick. Wood glue was the strongest as it took the most weight without causing the card to be torn off the lolly stick.
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)
Weekly Update 1/10/21
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
This week, the children have been working on their recounts of their trip to Danelaw at Murton Park. In the lead up to their big write, we have been focusing on expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials. All of their sentence work has revolved around activities on their trip to Murton Park. We have also been working on how to improve our writing and make it more exciting, whilst also making sure that it is punctuated correctly. They have been working extremely hard and they have produced some really lovely pieces of writing which include the key features required for a recount. They should be very proud of the work that they have produced!
In Maths, we have been focusing on negative numbers. This is a brand new concept for Year 4 and it can be tricky to grasp at first, but the children have really impressed me this week with their rapid build up of knowledge regarding negative numbers and their keen attitude to learn from their mistakes.
In PSHE, the theme of the lesson revolved around working cooperatively in a group. The children were given tangram puzzles and were tasked with creating as many different images as possible using the shapes. This task allowed the children to really show off the different skills required to work well together and successfully complete the task with every member of the group contributing in different ways.
The children also created their own name labels using Viking runes. Before beginning the writing, we identified what was unique about the runes e.g. they all have straight lines in them. The children then carefully drew the symbols required for their own name and coloured them in. We also wrote our own secret messages using the runes and as a class we had to work out what the message said.
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)