We’ve had a productive week finishing our Roman helmets, or cassis as we say in Latin! The children will be able to take these home on Monday, along with their shields, they are ready to ward off any Barbarian invasions.
In maths we have been working on written methods of addition. We’ve used resources to demonstrate how to add 3 digit numbers together and use the key term exchanging when two of the digits add to more than 9. The children should be able to explain this term with hundreds, tens and ones columns.
The real highlight of the week was performing our soliloquies, with special guest Miss Moss Silverson present to see progress the children have made with their writing. We listened to actors performing Roman and Celtic soliloquies on the eve of going to battle and then created our own. We are lucky to have some lively performers in the class that really got into character and gave some fierce speeches!
We have now started our weekly spellings, this weeks focus is -ly endings. New spellings will be added to our Google classroom on Friday afternoon and children will be tested on Thursdays. Please get in touch if you need help with accessing this, thanks to those parents who have already been in touch via google classroom. The children have been told if they are in Green or Blue group.
Owl Class Roman Battle Re-enactment
Week 2 in Owls Class
This week I’ve been so impressed by the Creative Writing everyone has done. I had to pick 4 pieces to share with Mr King for head teachers awards!
It all started when we received a letter from Emperor Claudius asking for recruits to join his Roman army to invade Britannia. We picked our new Roman names, held a mini Boot Camp outside to test our skills and then began to persuade Claudius why we would be a good fit for his army. We also learnt some key Roman terminology so they can tell their pugios from their cassis!
In maths we reminded ourselves of number lines and figured out how to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. We have also begun completing the Year 3 assessments as these weren’t able to happen in June.
Every child should now have a reading record and times table book to take home with them. Ideally these will be practised as often as possible. Just 10 minutes at a time is fine, a little and often is better than one big practice a week. I will award House Points to children that have read 5 times a week and done times tables 3 times a week.
Any questions please get in touch by the school office.
Mr Butler
Week 1 in Owls Class
We had a great first week in Year 4!
It was lovely to meet everyone properly and welcome them into our freshly painted and decorated classroom. To begin life in Owls class we wrote some descriptive poetry about owls with creative illustrations. In maths we are going over our knowledge of place value and particularly focusing on numbers in the thousands. Our topic this term is "I Am Warrior!" and we will be learning all about the Romans. So far we have made Roman Mosaics and begun reading some ancient Roman myths. Can you think of anything we use today that dates back to Roman times?
Mr Butler
Hello from Mr Butler!
I want to say a big hello to everyone involved with Year 4 at Plaistow and Kirdford!
I’m so excited to be full time teaching again and to learn about the wonderful community here! It feels great to be back into the routine of school life after all the uncertainty of 2020 so far.
I have been a qualified teacher for 5 years and worked in a big primary school in Brighton for my first 3 years. I’ve since done 2 years supply teaching and worked at many different schools in all year groups between Reception and Year 6!
My fiancée and I have recently moved to Worthing and I’m still enjoying the drive to work amongst the beautiful South Downs countryside. We love travelling the world together and we are so grateful to have completed our big adventure through South, Central and North America before Lockdown began.
I look forward to meeting all of you soon!
Disaster!
Okay Year 4, today I have had an absolutely embarrassing day!
We are meant to be doing a fire alarm test in school next week so I thought I’d practise with my Year 6 bubble.
While they were busy working away on maths I youtubed ‘Fire alarm sound’, this was a bad idea.
I accidentally chose the exact sound as our actual school alarm, 5 minutes later, half the school were evacuated and the office thought there was a real fire…
Thankfully Mr. King turned my speakers off and realised what had happened…
In short, very funny but very embarrassing…. I think I’ve turned into the school prankster, my mum won’t be happy… Hahaha!
Happy Half Term
Hello Year 4,
I hope you’ve been enjoying a lovely half-term break, filled with fun and relaxation. We have been busy doing lots of walks, picnics and a safe trip to a quiet beach. Tilly has done some baking of chocolate crispy cakes with my wife, with messy results as you can see! :O
It’s not been all fun and games though, I am in the middle of writing 33 end of year reports - mwhahaha! Also a miracle has occurred in our classroom, my desk is TIDY, not only tidy but clear and clean:
It’s a Miracle!
Finally ,of course, it goes without saying that the classroom is a sad and empty place without you all. With all the new guidance and how clean and tidy (:O) we have to be I have had to de-clutter our entire room. It is now very minimalist but quite sad feeling. At least it will have 10 Year 6s to brighten it up on Monday. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your half term. Miss you Year 4 and take care, Mr. Ind & family x
Happy Weekend!
Oh Owl Class since moving over to Google Classroom I have really slacked off my blog! Shocking. So I will try to update it every week from now on, with a personal touch. I have to say it was really lovely to be able to scroll back through the photos of all we have done over the last year. I went back all the way, through the trade fair, electricity, potions and to the Romans and Bignor.
My father in law has one of the coolest jobs in the world (I think, and definitely thought so at 5 years old!). He is a train driver and he took this photo of the train he was driving from Chichester to Southampton Central, it is the Southern Rail tribute to the NHS. Amazing!
Elsewhere we have done lots of walks as a family and I have tried to do less eating. Oscar keeps beating me at garden football (I might be going easy on him!) and Tilly is the mini menace as usual. I hope you’re all enjoying the bonus family time too. Missing you all very much. Take care and I will blog soon. Mr Ind :)
P.S. Can you spot me up a tree in one of the photos?
Work of the Week for last week!
Sound the trumpets! I have a work of the week award for last week. This amazing model shows the journey of a river from source to mouth. Great work, very creative. 😃
Here is a quick guide to accessing and handing in work on Google Classroom
Please note most of the time I will not be providing individual feedback on the work. I will be providing the answers the next day in order for the children to self-mark their work. I am absolutely happy to answer queries or make suggestions if they are stuck on any concepts etc. Obviously I (like all of you) are juggling with home educating and looking after my own children! So stay safe and kind and do what you can. :)
Welcome back!
Dear lovely Owls,
Welcome back! I hope you had a lovely Easter break. In order to streamline my output I will now be positing all work onto ONLY Google Classroom for Year 4.
We are the first class to trial it completely on its own.
Please ask your parents to check their e-mails for instruction how to get on.
The classroom can be found at: https://classroom.google.com/w/NjEyNTI2MTc0MDFa/t/all
Password to join is: utidmrh
P.S. Make sure you are logged out of all your google accounts.
Hard work!
Technical Issues
Hey Owl Class, MASSIVE apologies that I haven’t been able to phone you today. I will make sure I have called everyone by Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Promise!
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Happy Easter!
Have a lovely Easter break everyone!
Work will start again on Monday 20th April.
Please try your best to log into Google Classroom and familiarise yourself with how it works - I will be posting on here after Easter Holidays!
Thursday's decimal table answers
Use to self-mark!
Friday's work
ENGLISH
Friday – COMPREHENSION DAY – YAY!
Now I’ve written some questions for you all to answer based on the opening of Chapter 1:
MATHS
Now have a go at building some decimals of your own:
http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/decimalDemonstrator
Maybe even write some down and compare them using more than, less than or equal to signs
> < =
Remember that just because 0.4534 is longer does NOT mean it is bigger than 0.5 à always look in the largest place value column (e.g. here it is the tenths and 5/10 > than 4/10).
P.S. Don’t forget I am still setting a weekly competition on Times Tables Rockstars – this week we are taking on Year 6 – oooo!!!!
WELL DONE TO ALL THE GIRLS OF P&K SCHOOL WHO BEAT THE BOYS IN LAST WEEK’S COMPETITION!
TUESDAY’S MATHS ANSWERS:
WEDNESDAY’S MATHS ANSWERS:
Today is Thursday - that means phone call day!
I got around 1/3 of the class done last week so it could be your turn this week! Keep your ears open and I look forward to a friendly chat, I am not frightening on the phone, promise!
P.S. Answers for Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s maths are going up at 11am!
Thursday's English & Maths
Today (2nd April) is my grandparent’s wedding anniversary. It is their diamond wedding anniversary - how many years of marriage is that? Can you research it and find out? Here is a picture of all my grandparents on my graduation day - I miss them all very much. The couple celebrating today are the ones to the left of the picture. I managed to ask Buckingham Palace to write them a telegram and they also received a lovely message from the Queen.
ENGLISH - Reading & VIPERS
MATHS
