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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 :)
Weekly Update 24/9/22
Mr Kyriacou (n.kyriacou) on: Beech Tree Blog
Hello everyone,
Year 4 had a brilliant day out, travelling back in time to the land of Danelaw at Murton Park near York - where we learnt to live the life of Vikings! The children farmed the land, guarded the village from Anglo-Saxons, ground flour using a millstone, baked biscuits, collected firewood, created their own pottery... and much more besides! We hope you enjoy the pictures below (click the link below for a slideshow of photos)
Year 4 have also been learning about Viking food production in science this week and as part of a practical investigation, they used the method of churning to create butter from cream. Through shaking, the fat molecules come out of position and stick together, which then creates the butter and the left over liquid is buttermilk. They really enjoyed the process and produced some excellent butter. . .which they even tried as well!!!
That's all for now,
Mr Kyriacou :)