The children in year 4 have begun the year by investigating poems that create images in our minds. They have used their senses to gather ideas and have written some beautiful poetry entitled ‘Silence Listens’. In literacy the children have also been exploring stories with fantasy settings and are currently writing their own ‘Dragon Stories’, which will be published into books during book week and shared with their buddies from the reception class. We are looking forward to combining literacy with R.E and reading a range of stories from other countries and cultures later in the term.

We have already been learning about the celebration of Divali where we made masks and acted out the story of Rama and Sita in the forest area, and we are looking forward to preparing and celebrating our own mini Divali in our class.

In Numeracy, the children are currently developing their data handling skills by investigating the hypothesis ‘The bigger the object, the faster it falls’. Through this investigation the children are using their measuring skills to measure height, length, mass, area and time. We are looking forward to making parachutes to test the hypothesis and recording and presenting our results using ICT.

Through our Geography topic, ‘The View from our Window’, the children have been thinking about how views change over time and how humans have an affect on the land. We will soon be going on a class trip to visit a local town and village to compare the housing and buildings in the contrasting areas.

In art, drawing has been the main focus so far. The children have had experience using a range of drawing materials and have created some amazing line drawings in response to music. During this term, the children will be investigating a range of bags and their uses and will be designing and making their own bag taking into consideration appropriate materials and joining techniques.