We had a great time talking about and sharing our pieces of creative homework. We spoke the things we enjoyed about the homework and gave each other some lovely feedback. It was clear to see that everyone had worked so hard creating some amazing pieces of work- well done!  We would also like to take this opportunity to say thank you for your Chritmas wishes, cards and gifts, and we wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!  The Year 4 Team. 

 In RJ, we have been playing a maths game called Dotty Four. This helps us to practise the parts that make 4 (2 and 2, 3 and 1). You take it in turns to roll a 1,2,3 dice and draw that many dots in a square in the grid. The aim of the game is to get 4 dots.  So if you roll a 3, you draw 3 dots. Then the other team has a go. If they roll a 1, they could draw it in the same box to get 4. If they get a 2 or 3, they would have to draw the dots in another box. Miss Johnston got lots of 4s yesterday, but today RJ got the hang of it! __ is a part and ___is a part, the whole is 4. If you want to play it aty home, here a link to show you how to play Dotty Six (very similar!).  https://nrich.maths.org/problems/dotty-six?tab=overview

 We had a surprise Christmas party, playing Musical Bumps, Musical Stars, Move and Freeze, Corners and The Floor is Lava!

 This week, we are playing lots of Christmas- themed games. Today in RJ, we had to give directions for George to reach the decorations. We used the words forwards, backwards and turn. He was doing a lot of turning!

 Today, we were lucky enough to get a visit from Father Christmas and one of his elves!  He read us the story of 'The Night Before Christmas' and treated us to a special sweet treat each! We were very excited and very polite!

 We had a special visitor today!

 In Science, we completed our topic of 'Animals including humans', by looking at our sense of smell.  We were able to use our past learning on our other four senses, to understand how we smell.   We covered our eyes and Mrs Brown gave us different things to smell.  We came up with some amazing new vocabulary to describe the smells such as, 'calm', 'strong', 'peaceful', 'pleasant' and 'unpleasant'.