Year 4

The Explorer

The Explorer

Today we have written questions for the main characters in our text. We have thought about what has happened already in the story and what we have learnt about the characters to inform our ideas.

Orienteering lesson 3

Orienteering lesson 3

We are learning to orientate a map, locate points on the map and travel to the points recording what we find. We worked in small groups using a compass to follow the instructions on our sheets. We travelled to different points in the school grounds. We were developing...

Chronology 

Chronology 

We looked at the features of a historic timeline. We know that mining (our current unit) happened after the Roman Empire and Anglo-Saxons (our previous units).

Classification

Classification

We know animals can be grouped. We grouped: mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, insects, birds and vertebrates/invertebrates.

Evaluating predictions 

Evaluating predictions 

We used a Venn diagram which organised our predictions about the cover and the blurb. We know which predictions are likely to be most accurate.

Tennis lesson 2

Tennis lesson 2

We have continued our work on our forehand technique. We have looked at how use the forehand to hit the ball over the net. Today we tried to hit the ball into space to score a point.