“Snowmwork”

Dear parents/carers,

Hope you are all safe and well, we are missing the children! But is cabin fever setting in? Are the children starting to get bored?

Following the decision to close schools and with the prospect of further disruption here are some ideas you might want to do at home to keep those brain cells going:-

Curl up under a blanket in your Onesie and read a good book, magazine or newspaper!

The Olaf challenge! Build a mini snowman and design a box/package that will keep it frozen for as long as possible!  This is a science based activity that we will be exploring more next term.

Useful Links:-

BBC Science clips

Bitesize

What does a conductor do?

Insulating a beaker

Testing an ice cube

Suggestions for materials

How to make your own Thermos

The science behind a good thermos

Quiz

What materials are good cold insulators?

Snow art

Paint/sketch a snow scene, make a snowflake out of plasticine/playdough, take photos and make a collage or use PicCollage.

Snow poetry

Write a poem based on snow or ice. Click on the link for examples https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/snow-and-ice-2/

Snow maths

Remember the family measures homework? Can you do something similar?

E.g. height of snowman, time taken for a snowball to melt, differences in temperatures (good negative number work here!) Present how you like!

Please keep up the Mathletics and Timestables Rockstars as well!

Learn your words for the Easter Service:

Click on the links:-

Script

Song words

You can take photos of your work and save them on to your Google Drive, or do it straight on Google Drive or just bring your work in when we see you next!

These are just suggestions for you if you are getting bored! It is optional!

Please stay safe and warm. Hope to see you soon!

Year 4 team

 

 

We hope you are all having an enjoyable half term, well deserved after all the children’s hard work! Here’s what’s coming next  week:-

Easter Service: Parts have been given following some awesome auditions and children will be given scripts and song words to start learning.  Please see below for rehearsal and performance dates and inform your child’s class teacher as soon as possible if your child will be absent for any of the final performances.  We will also be starting rehearsals at the church in the coming weeks. If you can help with escorting us to church and back please let your class teacher know. Here are the dates and times we are due to be rehearsing:-

Friday 9th March 9.30 – 11am

Monday 12th March 1-2.30pm

Tuesday 13th March 1-2.30pm

Friday 16th March 9.30 -11am

Monday 19th March 1-2.30pm

Tuesday 20th March 1-3pm

These are also the dates that we are performing:

Wednesday 21st March 10.45 – 11.45 (dress rehearsal to year 1 and 2)

Thursday 22nd March 1.45 – 2.15 (dress rehearsal to year 3, 5 and 1 year 6 class)

Friday 23rd March 1.45 -2.15 (final performance to parents/carers)

Please make sure your child has a warm coat (the church can get cold) and sensible shoes.

Numeracy: We will be looking at division word problems.  Remember to keep working on those times tables and Rainbow targets!

Literacy: We will begin the week assessing reading and then moving on to looking at Science Fiction stories.  Any reading of this genre would be helpful – why not have a look in the Guilles-Alles library?

Science:  We will begin our topic of ‘Keeping Warm’ which will involve the children planning an exciting investigation.  

First Aid:  Two classes will have their first First Aid session on Tuesday, the other class will have theirs the following week.

Many Thanks

Year 4 Team

A reminder that School Councillors are selling the eggs tomorrow (Thursday).  Don’t forget to bring your £2 if you would like to take part in this competition.

 

If your child is interested in attending a tennis festival for boys and girls in Year 4, please see the poster below and return your slip to the Guernsey Sport’s Commission or email it to Kerri.

Tennis Fest 18-15u8wmc

Year 4 Weekly Update for week beginning 05.02.18

Wow! What an amazing day we had on Friday-we really and truly felt the force! Thank you to all of you who managed to come and join us, we loved seeing you there and hope you enjoyed the day. The children were focused, worked hard and were amazing teammates. Here’s a small snapshot of the day:-

Feel the Force Day film

Some children also requested that we put on the blog the workshops that were on offer in case they wanted to do them at home!  Please click on the link for the instructions and teacher prompts:-

Workshops

Any feedback about our day is very much welcomed so we can continue to improve it-please blog, send us an email or just tell us. Children as well!

Here’s what’s coming next week:-

Science: We will be making a film about our Feel the Force Day looking at the science behind our activities.

Numeracy: We will be doing some averaging and graphs following our readings from Feel the Force Day which can then be used in the film. We will then carry on with our fractions work.

Literacy: We will be writing scripts for our Feel the Force Day films.

PE kit: As we are doing the Daily Mile we would like to suggest that days when the children have PE in the morning they can come to school in their PE kits.

Mrs Dowding’s class: Thursday and Friday

Miss Green’s Class: Monday

Please remember to pack your school uniform!

Book Week: The school will be celebrating book week during the week beginning 5th February. We are lucky enough have a visit from the author A.F.Harrold  on Thursday afternoon. Click on the link to see his website.

This will launch Readathon and on Friday 9th February children are invited to come to school dressed up as a character from a book.  For more information, please see

http://stmartinsprimaryschool.edublogs.org/2018/01/18/book-week-readathon-dress-up-day-book-sale/

There will also be a book sale on Friday 9th. Children can donate books they no longer want and buy books for 50p. Money raised will go towards our school library.

Have a lovely weekend and thank you for your continued support-especially with our science!

Year 4 team

Feel the Force Day

 

Reminder!

Bikes, scooters and skateboards can be brought in TOMORROW-please bring helmets. The workshops and activities will be mainly held outside. Please make sure you have a warm coat and you can come to school in your PE kit and trainers!

Parents we would love to see you-drop in anytime. Click on the link for a timetable of the day.

May the Force be with you!