Since we returned to school, we have been practising mindfulness every morning in 4G to prepare us for the day ahead.
We have been using www.mindyeti.com for our short meditations. Each session has a different focus to help us with our breathing, emotions and how we relate to other people.
We are really enjoying our mind-yeti and are gettin good at finding our’yeti body’ to help us keep calm.
Some children in 4G have gone over and above in their home learning producing amzing robots to enhance our learning environment.
They should be really proud and have now earnt lots of house points for their house and a shop credit to spend at the end of the term!
Well done guys.
We have had a very busy firstĀ week back and we have done so many things about robots.
We have worked very hard today, doing a reading test and a times table test. These are going to challenge us to improve our learning every week.
We have started to learn a robot song and dance.
We are looking forward to our school trip in October and getting used to our new class.
From 4G
There was a real buzz in the classroom this afternoon when family members joined us to get crafting!
We had several work stations running at the same time – in one area, children and their grown-ups were building our own giant box robot, in another area children were designing their robots from unusual images but the most popular activity was definitely the tin can robot design station. What imagination and creativity – I’m sure you will agree with me at how they have brightened up our learning environment.
We would like to say a big thank you to the parents, carers and family members who were able to join us for our family learning today or who sent tin cans and decorations to enable us to complete our activities – we could not have done it without you.
Thanks
4G
Plover had a robot invasion today, as robots of all shapes and sizes descended on year 3 and 4. Class 4G’s creativity was certainly on show with some amazing costumes and really clever design. Well done to all the children, families and friends that help to create them.
We were getting ‘hooked’ into our class book today – ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We made predictions about the book from the clues on the front cover and then shared the first chapter.
Following this we tried our hand at acting – as we re-enacted the key scenes from Chapter 1 – I think we have some future oscar winners in our midst!
The highlight of the day was definitely this afternoon when the whole of year 4 came together to watch the brilliant film ‘Robots’. We even got to share some popcorn as we watched!
Well done 4G – another fab day!
Wednesday afternoon is the Year 3/4 Family learning event. We are wanting to make tin can robots but we need your help. Pleases could you bring any clean used tin cans into school on Tuesday or Wednesday so the children can make their robot.
Also, we would like old nuts and bolts and general metal bits and bobs to decorate the tin cans with – again, please could these be brought into school on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Thank you
The Year 3/4 Team
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Some examples of what we will be making!
We’ve had a great first day back to kick off our Autumn term expedition “Are Robots the Future?”.
We started the day by thinking about what we already think we know about Robots and then thought about what more we would like to learn, for example, did you you they have robots in space?
We have used are critiquing skills to decide how we can improve our learning environment and then spent some time creating hub-shaped decorations to add to our English display.
This afternoon our collaboration skills we put to the test with a problem solving activity – how do we work together to build a giant robot-shaped puzzle – it was not as simple as it sounds – we really had to talk to our team-mates and plan ahead to ensure we all had a clear role.
We are looking forward to dressing as a robot tomorrow and having a film afternoon.
Just a reminder that we are having our family learning event on Wednesday 4th September 2-3pm – parents and guardians are invited to join in the crafting fun! Please could we have any clean empty tin cans and any nuts, bolts, milk bottle tops etc to help us create our own tin can robots to decorate our room.
4G
Today in 4G we have been creative performers..
We have learnt a poem about being a bucket-filler off by heart and performed it to the whole class. We had to do actions and work together as a team to make sure our performance was great.
We then used the poem as inspiration to write our own acrostic poem.
We have had a great week and got on so well. Mrs Graves has been delighted with her class and cannot wait to get going with the learning in September.
We are bringing home a letter tonight that will tell mums and dads and guardians a little bit more about next term.
Next week we are back with our usual class teacher and looking forward to sports week!
Today Mrs Bailey was our teacher in the morning and took very goodĀ care of us. She was very impressed at how we wanted to improve our writing.
We thought about the future and what we would like to do and then we wrote a letter to our ‘Future Self’ which we will open this time next year – I wonder if what we said today will still be true next year
Finally we critiqued and completed the final version of our bucket picture. I have been so impressed with how we have taken on board the critique of our friends and made improvements with our sketching.
We’ve had a lovely day today, getting to know each other more. We have discussed how every family is different, but the love is the same.
Our afternoon focus was artwork and critique. We have been looking at how we aim to be ‘bucket-fillers’ and not ‘bucket-dippers’. This led on to our artwork, sketching our buckets, completing our first drafts and then critiquing and preparingĀ for our second drafts.
I was so impressed with the critiquing skills and how everyone was ‘kind, helpful and specific’.
I look forward to completing our final versions and the progress we have made.
