Now it’s time to rhyme

Do you remember the poetry competition I posted about a while ago? Well, Alice wrote an incredible poem which has been published in the book alongside a few others from our school.

Here is the link to the ebook if you would like to read the different poems: https://oxfordshire.overdrive.com/media/5592214?cid=1079530. (You need to have a library account but you can see a sample without!)

I wanted to include Alice’s poem in this post so that you could all read her work. She has written an absolutely fantastic poem called ‘Together we cure’.

Together we cure

If I am the sun then you are the rain,

You give me pleasure when I am in pain,

If I am the motorway you are my lane,

We’re always the answer, but sometimes the blame.

If I am the picture then you are the frame,

If I am the starter, you’re always the main,

If I am the pop star, you are the fame,

We’re better together, but sometimes it’s lame.

If I am the pip then you are the core,

If I am the sock then you’d be my drawer,

You are my soothing if I’m ever sore,

Bringing me peace, in times of war.

If I’m the piano, you are my tuner,

If we’re an eclipse, you’d make it Lunar,

If I’m ever uncertain, you’d make me sure,

That together we’re sick bro’, together we cure!

Alice

Great work Alice, well done!

Home Learning – Week 14

Dear Year 4,

I cannot believe that we have reached the end of our home learning and it is nearly time for the summer holidays! You have all worked incredibly hard this year and I am very proud of all of you. Your determination, learning attitude and kindness has been evident throughout Year 4 and lock-down. You should all be incredibly proud of yourselves!

Here is your final week of home learning before the summer holidays:

I hope you enjoy this week’s activities and I’m looking forward to phoning you next week to see what you have been up to!

Stay safe, be kind and keep smiling!

Miss Ross 🙂

Mental Health Week 2020

Next week is ‘Mental Health week 2020’ and the theme this year is Kindness. At school we have taken part in a Mental Health themed day where we looked at different ways we can support and look after our mental health. Now there is something that you can do at home too!

Here is a kindness calendar which you can use next week and beyond if you would like! The aim is to do two acts of kindness a day. One for someone else and one for yourselves.

You can use the pre-made calendar or create your own using the template or by designing your own calendar! You could complete this as a family or by yourselves. It is completely up to you. There is some parental guidance attached too.

As it is difficult to see others at the moment, you could always write them a letter or phone them as an act of kindness.

Please feel free to share any of the acts of kindness you come up with or complete across the week as a comment on this blog post! It would be lovely to share ideas. 🙂

How to share your home learning

Hi Everybody!

Here is a guide of how you can share some of your home learning if you would like to as I know some of you asked when I was chatting with you on the phone! I would love to see and read some of your work 🙂

You can share photographs or documents e.g powerpoint presentations or word documents of your writing.

If there are any problems, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll try and help as best I can!

Useful Websites

Useful websites that we use in school and you might like to share at home.

Story time

Hi everybody,

I have just added the next couple of chapters of Roar onto our class youtube playlist! I hope you are enjoying the story so far. Unfortunately, I am not sure we will be able to finish our story together as we still have quite a few chapters left to read but I will try my best to get as far as we can. If you would like to continue the story, I can give the book to your Year 5 teachers in September to share the ending with you.

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Home learning – week 13

Dear Year 4,

I hope you have enjoyed your home learning this week! Here is your home learning for next week and I have put some more videos up to help you. This week there is a video for division, factor pairs and planning your fact file.

Our times table rockstars competition will begin on Monday at 9 am until Friday at 4pm.

I would love to see some examples of your inspirational people fact files this week!

Stay safe, be kind and keep smiling!

Miss Ross 🙂

Wonderful home learning

Here is Lacey’s letter to Mrs Horbury-Jakeman:

Here are Alice’s descriptions for our Science learning:

REPTILES

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Most reptiles are cold blooded which means their body temperature depends on how warm or cold their surroundings are. All reptiles are covered in a scaly skin whether they are half covered or fully covered. Some reptiles move slow however, some move fast. For example the giant tortoise is on dog the slowest reptiles on earth and then we have the bearded dragon which can move up to 25miles/h, which is incredible. These bearded dragons can grow up to 20-25 inches depending on what gender it is. Overall reptiles are amazing even if you don’t like one simple species of them.

BIRDS 

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All birds are warm blooded, which means their body temperature is a higher temperature then their surroundings. All birds have feathers, like the skin on a human body. Almost all birds have wings, however some birds wings have evolved into different features to use. For example: a penguin, their webbed feat can help with pushing themselves through the water but so can their wings. Their body has become to heavy for its wings to hold and this means it can’t fly. However this animal is still classed as a bird. All birds are related as they are the same species but some have features that others don’t.

What brilliant work! 🙂

Home learning – Week 12

Dear Year 4,

It has been lovely being able to speak to lots of you this week on the phone and hear about the different things you have been up to! It has been great to hear that you have been enjoying the home learning and that you have enjoyed writing your letters to Mrs Horbury-Jakeman. If you would like to post them to the school, she would love to see your work 🙂

Here is your home learning for next week and the resources you will need. There are also some new videos on our youtube page to help you 🙂 There are two activities for maths task two. Please feel free to choose the one you would like to try 🙂

Here are some extra optional resources for you to use when you’re completing your home learning:

Oxfordshire library are offering a summer reading challenge. Please see the leaflet below 🙂

Stay safe, be kind and keep smiling!

Miss Ross 😀

Phone calls

Just to let you all know, I will be phoning you tomorrow to catch up and hear about everything you have been up to over the past few weeks 😊 I’m looking forward to speaking to you all!