Wednesday's Work - oh the alliteration!!

MOST EXCITING THING - ONLINE HISTORY LESSON - ON FACEBOOK: ASK/BADGER YOUR MUMS AND DADS TO TAKE PART:

Taking place in a secret WW2 bunker - incredible!

https://www.facebook.com/events/s/live-history-lesson-from-secre/682955445790269/

https://localfamily.events/Event/Details?id=free-live-history-lesson-from-secret-ww2-bunker-in-liverpool-86036

The lesson will also discuss the Battle of The Atlantic, the role of Liverpool during the war, rationing, air raids and more.
All free of charge and any child who completes the lesson will get a free pass to Western Approaches worth £8 when we eventually re-open.

English - Beginning to look at persuasion and collecting facts about Venice.

Please do have a hunt around the house - you may have some touristy leaflets lurking about.

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Maths - Revising equivalence! (YAY - I can hear the excitement from your parent teachers!)

Also have a watch of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJCN-nfYXOI&feature=emb_title&time_continue=1&app=desktop

He explains a lot about yesterday’s consecutive number challenge.

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“https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-viking-sagas/zvrmy9q

Watch these wonderful Viking sagas. Featuring Odin, Loki, Freya, Thor and many other gods, goddesses, giants and an array of unusual creatures!

Try the sequencing tasks at the end too!”
— Mr. Ind

Tuesday’s Work

Remember if you find this too challenging or too straightforward you can always look on the blogs of other classes.

English

Try this SPaG work - revision of Y3 skills mostly. Also remember there are weekly spellings: This week’s 5 spellings: the ‘u’ sound spelt ‘ou’ young, touch, double, trouble, country

Have a test on Thursday like normal!

As we do in spelling sessions: use them in sentences, draw them, write them, look them up!

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Maths

Have a go at this. It's all about representing fractions differently:

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WIDER CURRICULUM - try to complete the first two tasks of the Home Topic Book.

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Home Learning

Dear Year 4, I know this is a strange time but we will get through it. I'll still be here to ask questions to and chat to. I will keep you updated each day with the sort of work we would be doing in class. I will try to make it as fun as possible without requiring loads of equipment. Take care of yourselves and your families. I shall miss seeing you all each day. Smile and be kind. We will all be together again!

I will be setting work, daily where possible, on here and where possible on Google Classroom (for those of you who can access it in our group trial - once we’ve ironed out the creases we will ensure everyone has access to it).

Have fun and take care,

Mr. Ind

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Buzzwire Games

In Science, on Wednesday afternoon we all collaborated and created buzz wire games in order to show off our knowledge and understanding of electricity. There was lots of good science on show, including lots of good vocabulary like conductor, insulator, component, circuit, symbol. A fantastic end to a truly shocking topic (sorry!). Well done Owl Class. :)

World Book Day Fun!

What an amazing day we had! Year 4 had such fun building their dens and then sharing and reading books in them. We were also joined by our friends from Year 1 who joined in. I even had some curious Squirrels attempting to storm into my own den! Thankfully my mini cakes were well hidden. What a lovely day sharing our love of books and reading.

You'll really DIG this...

On Tuesday afternoon, we did a spot of excavation in a hunt for Anglo-Saxon artefacts. After learning about the Sutton Hoo find we carried out our own archaeological dig in the Environmental Area. We discovered bones, a skull, some charm bracelets and ceramic items more likely to date from the Roman Era (hence the Waitrose trademark!).

Oh how charming!

This week in DT we have been designing, creating and evaluating Anglo-Saxon charm bracelets and necklaces. We used a variety of tools to help us and included various wooden beads, minerals and glass in many different designs. Some of us even included runes on them - fancy!

Library Time and Drama in English

We have really enjoyed library time over the last few weeks - many children being completely engrossed in their books - it’s great to see! We also did a little acting and drama during English this week. Acting out important elements of Chapter 6 in the Thief Lord through the use of freeze frames. Here are just a selection of some really funny photos!

Shocking! Year 4 ELECTRICITY

We have just started a new unit of science, based on electricity. This week we created circuits and then drew them. We also did an experiment to test the conductivity of different classroom items - some of us were amazed that the pencil lead (which is graphite) was a conductor of electricity!

Great science and recording in tables.

ART WEEK 2020!

ART WEEK 2020!

What a fantastic start to the new year; a whole week of art!

We really enjoyed exploring Paolo Uccello’s painting, The Battle of San Romano we have produced lots of amazing artwork after being inspired by the painting, its story and the renaissance as a whole. Mr. Ind even showed us his university dissertation on royal portraiture. We have had a great week of art and learning.

2nd International Potion Awards - MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Congratulations to all of our prize winners. What an amazing event to end our Potions topic with. The children mixed and created a whole variety of hideous concoctions to create the most amazing potions. There were shape-shifting potions, luck potions and whole lot of love potions! The speeches made were excellent and the children were quick to acknowledge not only the hard work of their classmates but also how much their parents had helped them with providing bottles. A really great way to sign off on a super half term. Now for a rest. To all the Owl Families I wish you a peaceful, restful Christmas filled with plenty of reason to be merry (and plenty of pigs in blankets too!).

Sublime Sublimation

This morning Year 4 had great fun exploring and observing sublimation. Sublimation is the process by which a substance goes from solid to gas without going through the intermediate state of liquid. It was incredible how much fun (I and everyone!) had. In the afternoon we tested 10 different household substances using an indicator to determine whether they were acidic, alkaline or neutral - we had some fascinating results.

SUPER SCIENCE WORK OWLS!

Double, double, toil and trouble!

On Monday afternoon we continued exploring potions in a practical way. Cue the white coats and the goggles! We made magic slime, magic cabbage colour-changing potion, a scented perfume and a fizzing potion. The children had to carry out the experiment and write down their observations including why the reaction took place. There was a plethora of brilliant science vocabulary on show. I heard: solid, liquid, gas, particles, non-Newtonian fluid, neutral, acid, alkali, indicator, neutralise, carbon dioxide, change of state and many more. Seriously impressive - well done Year 4!