Year 4 - Teal
Your Teal team are:
Lisa Berryman (Teaching Assistant)
Helen Wingfield (Teaching Assistant)
Penny Harrison (Teaching Assistant)
Please check back to this page regularly to check out what your child has been up to.
Activities in Teal class 2020/21
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Creating art inspired by Kandinsky and our science learning about sound! The children studied a painting by Kandinsky in which he tried to show sound through images. They then picked their own sound to present through art, using shape, 3D effects and painting, and choosing colours they thought portrayed their sound.
Making Roman aqueducts in history! The children used junk modelling to recreate the Roman aqueduct, and had to build a model able to transport 'water' (a bouncy ball)!
To keep the children calm before our exciting Romans WOW day, we asked them to make posters and mind maps of everything they know about the Romans. Look how many facts they came up with! What fabulous Year 4 historians!
Inspired by a beautiful illustration in the book we are currently reading in English (The King Who Banned the Dark), the children made firework pictures using black sugar paper and oil pastels. As always, the children showed their brilliant creativity, by taking a basic idea and making it their own, each achieving super results!
In our DT lessons this half term we have been learning how to make levers. The children each made four different types of lever, understanding which parts needed to pivot and which were fixed. Then they incorporated one or more of the lever types into their scenes, using the levers to create moving characters.
As part of our learning about the Romans, we studied aqueducts - how they were built, what they were for and how they worked. Then the children used everyday materials to create their own aqueducts, capable of transporting 'water' (ping pong balls!). The children were super-inventive and built some highly effective aqueducts!
Our science investigation into tooth decay using eggs is complete and here are the results! The children put eggs in different liquids and closely monitored the changes to the egg shells over a number of days. Like true scientists, they made predictions and analysed and explained their findings using scientific language. They also enjoyed squeezing the rather disgusting eggs at the very end!
To start off our learning about the human digestive system, we went to the playground, drew around each other using chalk, and added to our human shapes every part of the digestive system we knew about and could name! The children displayed an impressive prior knowledge about digestion!
Inspired by the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf, the children were given free rein to create a picture using materials of their choice to represent the evil monster Grendel. Some quite scary results!
Making rune stones during outdoor classroom day, as part of our Anglo-Saxon learning.
During cultural diversity week, Teal's country was Greece. Among many other activities, we made Greek butter cookies (Kourabiedes) and we learned about the role of the Chorus in Greek Tragedy. The children donned masks and learned to speak lines from real plays in unison, while moving in sync as well!
