Clore Shalom School
Year 4
Summer 1
Week 5
Science - Investigating pitch ๐ต ๐
Art - Willow Pattern Design
Week 4
Science - Creating models of the ear ๐๐๐ถ
Week 3
Coronation Celebration ๐ฌ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ง ๐
History - Crime and Punishment
Week 1
Art - Optical illusion lenticular print ๐ผ ๐จ
Science - Exploring how sound is made ๐๐
Ivrit - Writing practice.
Ivrit - reading words with three vowels.
Ivrit - Four in a row to practice reading words with Kamatz, Patach and Tzeirh.
Spring 2
Week 6
Whole Class Reward Day
As part of our no book day, children asked if they could do some Israeli Dancing.
Pesach activities ๐
History - Our Campaign to make Elstree Studios a listed building ๐ฅ
Week 5
Trip to the Cage
Roman Workshop
Science Creating models of carnivore, omnivore and herbivore teeth ๐ฆท
Week 4
Lego Challenge
Creating Prototypes and Making Pitches
3D Printing
Week 3
Israel 75 Project ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐ผ
Week 2
Pictures of what we have been up to this week are below.
Next week:
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Writing our own narrative poems
World Book Day - Drama with Perform ๐ญ ๐
Maths - Equivalent Fractions ๐งฎ
History - What makes a building special? ๐ ๐ฐ
Week 1
Music - Learning to sing in a round ๐ถ
Computing - Exploring Animation ๐ป โ๏ธ
Maths - Timestable tennis ๐พ
Ivrit - bingo game with three letters words.
IVRIT: We played 4 in a row with two teams with all letters and vowels
Ivrit
Ivrit: We played board games with two syllable words with vowel โAaโ and โEeโ.
Ivrit phrases
Ivrit - reading more complex words.
Ivrit - We practiced reading words with the vowels Patach and Kamatz.
Spring 1
Week 6
Geography - Creating our own rivers from their source to their mouth ๐ง ๐
Science - Teeth and their different functions ๐ฆท ๐ชฅ ๐ฉโโ๏ธ
Art - Word sculptures ๐จ๐จ
Music - Rehearsing โRock Around The Clockโ
Maths - Times table tennis ๐ ๐พ
Week 5
English - Using drama techniques to explore our story ๐ญ ๐ญ
Maths - Exploring Decimals ๐งฎ
Music - Working on our walking base line ๐ต ๐ถ
Week 4
We had a fantastic start to our week with some members of year 4 performing in our music assembly. Well done to those superstars! Below are some of their performances.
Art - Making maracas ๐จ ๐ต
Geography -Exploring rivers ๐ง ๐ ๐บ
Week 3
Science - Creating a model digestive system ๐ฅช๐ฆท๐
Computing - Coding objects and backgrounds ๐ป ๐ ๐ฆ
Music - Rockin around the clock โฐ ๐ถ
Maths - Exploring reflection ๐ช ๐ช
Week 2
English - Creating an advert to persuade people to attend the wizard school ๐ช ๐งโโ๏ธ ๐งโโ๏ธ
Maths - Exploring the properties of shape ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ
DT Week - Baking Biscuits ๐ช๐ฉโ๐ณ๐งโ๐ณ
We had an exciting week testing and developing our own biscuits and the children learnt many baking tips and tricks. For example, you must make sure to mix any added ingredients such as chocolate into the dough and not just place them on the top as this causes them to burn. We discussed the difference between a company logo and a specific biscuit’s packaging design as well as creating our own bags using origami.
Week 1
Science - Identifying the organs in the digestive system ๐๐๐ฝ
After learning all about what happens to an apple after it enters the mouth, and asking lots of questions about where a baby grows because there is acid in the stomach, we created our own 3D diagrams of the digestive system using play dough.
Art - Creating art in the style of Archimboldo ๐ฅฌ๐๐ ๐ผ
Geography - Exploring where rainfall goes when it falls to earth ๐ง๐ง๐ชจ
We learnt that when rain falls from the sky to the earth it can continue to travel down as run off or by infiltrating and then percolating the material it falls on. We investigated which materials rain might infiltrate and what my cause rain to run off.
Autumn 2
DT building pavilion structures
Week 1
Science - Understanding how particles are different in solids liquids and gases! ๐งช๐งช
In science today children were left fascinated and highly curious about how our world is made! They understood that everything in our world is made from different types of particles and atoms. After grasping how particles are arranged differently in solids, liquids and gases they began to ask many philosophical questions such as:
Is god made of atoms?
Who made particles?
Feel free to discuss these at home!
Maths - Prove that 5 x 6 = 30
Week 7
Art - Printing a geometric pattern ๐จ๐ต๐ฅ
English - Black History Month - Poetry ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐
Over the past two weeks we have been exploring poetry by the black poet Valerie Bloom. We have written metaphors about her home country (Jamaica) and even learnt to say some words in Jamaican patois! We have sung about ‘Pinda Cake’ and written poems inspired by her poem ‘Granny is’
Science - Seirian Sumners ๐๐งช๐งฌ๐ฆ
