As Scientists, this half term we will be learning about light.
This week, we examined what light is and how we need light to see. We played the feely-bag game and some items were really hard to determine when we couldn’t see them! We explored how our sight changes when we sat in the dark den and went onto consider what a source of light is. We were able to sort sources of light into the categories of natural and man-made which led to lots of great questions being asked.
Flash the tortoise came to spend the day with us in the HUB. His visit generated lots of discussion, with fabulous questions being asked such as “What does he eat?” and “How big will he grow?”. We handled Flash with care and enjoyed making sure that he had enough to eat and drink as well as enough sunlight which is important for healthy shell growth.
As Musicians, we are learning to play the Glockenspiel! Rehearsals are currently underway and we plan to post a video very soon! Watch this space …..
For our computing lessons, this half term in the HUB we are learning about “IT around us“.
This week we explored what a digital device is and looked at how an input was needed to create an output. Brandon was able to model this for us by using a number function machine!
Our first unit this year is Place Value, a really important unit for us to conquer and build upon.
We have been making great use of our place value tools as we explore partitioning, recording numbers in words and finding more/less than a give number.
We have been working on our times table facts and have found some fun songs to dance and sing to that give us an extra bit of practise!
As Geographers, we started our new unit; ‘How does Life Differ in Hot and Cold Localities‘ by recalling what we have previously learned. We reviewed the names of the worlds continents and oceans using globes and atlases to support us. Aziz was very interested in finding Turkey in the Atlas and on the globe as he spent the summer there this year. We were surprised at the size of Turkey in relation to the UK!
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Earlier this year, Y3/4 submitted a few pieces of work to be considered for the Junior Open Exhibition within the Ferens Gallery in Hull.
We were delighted to learn though our pieces were on display for all to see and appreciate so we decided to take a mini-trip to see our work professionally displayed.
It was really exciting to visit the Gallery. We enjoyed looking at a range of Art work from children across the city and were blown away with the quality of it.
We enjoyed sharing our opinions as we walked around the other parts of the gallery, discussing how the Artists had made their sculpture, collage or edited their photography,
But by far, the best part of the afternoon was the smile on our faces when we found our own Art work!
So Mr Moy wanted to know, which temperature of tea is the best for dunking biscuits? Today, we invited the parents and children of Year Four to carry out an investigation to help him find out!
We made our predictions based on our previous experiences.
We carried out a fair test and measured the temperature of the drinks.
We recorded our results in a variety of ways and analysed the data.
We drew conclusions as to why the coldest tea allowed us to make the greatest number of dunks! We were able to help Mr Moy and now he can happily dunk away each break time thanks to the Year Four Scientists.
Following on from the last enquiry, where we learned how our digestive system works, today we looked at the function of our teeth.
We explored the indentations left after we bit into an apple and how they varied within the class. Using the mirrors, we described the size, shape and position of our teeth.
Did you know that children have 20 teeth yet when we grow our adult set we have 32! We discovered the incisor teeth help us bite, the canines help us to tear and the molars chew and grind our food into smaller pieces that are easier to swallow. 
Grinding the carrot between lego was a great way to model the function of these large teeth and it really helped us to remember it!
