Year four
Drusillas
On the 17th January 2011 the whole of Year 4 had to opportunity to visit Drusillas Zoo. During their visit they found out about conservation and what the zoo is doing to protect endangered animals. During an educational session the children got hands on and were able to touch some creepy crawlies, such as Silky and Elvis the snakes and Colin the hissing cockroach. Here are some of our favourite photos.
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Literacy
In Literacy we have been looking at playscripts, 4H had fun acting out the disgusting Twits by Roald Dahl. The children wrote their own scene, here are some of their pictures.
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PE haka
As part of our IPC topic the children learnt the Haka. This is a dance performed by tribes to scare their enemies. Take a look at our Haka faces!
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Science
Yr 4 have been exploring the school grounds to investigate the types of trees that can be found there. We then discussed whether these trees would be found in the rainforest of our host country, Brazil! To differentiate the trees we used a classification tree.
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Literacy
Next term we will be learning about information texts. Children will be required to locate key words or phrases, headings, lists, bullet points, captions and key sentences in texts. Children will also be using dictionaries and thesauruses to locate and sequence words in alphabetical order.
Maths
Next term’s topic is Handling data and Measures. We will be investigating, collecting, organising, presenting and interpreting data to answer questions, and will be constructing tables, diagrams, tally charts, pictograms and bar charts to show our findings. We will also be going over using standard metric units to estimate, measure and record measurements.
IPC
Next term in IPC we will be starting our new topic ‘Clean water dirty water’. As part of this topic we will be studying the water cycle and water pollution, and how this affects our host country Ethiopia. The children will enjoy a day of water based activities as part of their entry point.