Buzz Buzz
We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!
LikeHello and welcome to Year 4.
Our Year 4 Team: Miss Ansell, Miss Meneely, Mrs Kelly, Miss Brown, Miss Qasem and Miss Walsh.
Our ethos is learning whilst having fun and understanding that making mistakes is perfectly normal; as long as we learn from them!
Click here for the Autumn Term Overview for 2023
Class Timetables
Click here for Miss Meneely’s class timetable
Click here for Miss Ansell’s class timetable.
PE
PE kit is navy blue shorts and a sky blue polo shirt. Trainers or pumps.
Miss Meneely’s class has PE every Tuesday.
Miss Ansell’s class has PE every Tuesday
Reading
Please try and read with your child every night. Really focus on asking questions about their book as this will help them with their reading comprehension.
Times Tables
Our main push this year in Y4 will be times tables knowledge and rapidity. Practising weekly tables and enjoying times tables rockstars (login details can be found inside home reading record) will support you and your child with learning this. Please use the link below for an excellent example of Y4 expectation.
https://www.timestables.co.uk/multiplication-tables-check/
Finally, if there are any questions or concerns please feel free to speak to any of us before or after the school day.
Keep up to date with our latest news by following us on X (formerly twitter) @SmithdownPrimY4
We’ve had a great afternoon making circuits with a light and a buzzer to help us when making our buzz wire game. We also got to have a go at a buzz wire game!
LikeWe have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.
LikeThis afternoon Year 4 have been converting a mosaic into a pixel-style image. Children had to work out how they could convert the different sections into a 14 x 14 grid to ensure their design stayed symmetrical, children designed it onto a piece of paper ready to create a digital version next week.
1This afternoon Year 4 have continued to build on their understand of how Pixels are used. Children used a website to recreate an image in pixel form. Children created it on paper first and then used excel to start to recreate their image.
4This Friday, 8th December 2023, we will be having our very own Santa Dash! A chance to squeeze in an extra fitness session whilst having some festive fun 🏃🏾♀️🏃🏽🏃🏽♂️🎄🎅🏽🤶🏻
Watch this space! 😄
194KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills👍🏼🌟 #smithdownextra
204LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
264KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
234LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci
244KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
244LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today, then working scientifically to test our predictions about positions of components in a circuit @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci
23Great afternoon with 4KM back to doing what we love the most – investigating!! This time, circuits. They took up the challenge of making the light bulb light 💡 #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4
23Kicking our electricity topic off in @SmithdownPrimY4 by thinking about what electrical appliances we have at home #smithdownsci
224KM had a great music lesson this morning🎺 the children also learnt how to play a new note🎼 @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic
244KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards using different colours for positive and negative emotions. The children also discovered how they can portray a mood in still life drawings🎨 #smithdownart
244KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra
184KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms and comparing them to modern day classrooms. The children finished off the lesson with some role play of learning in a Victorian classrooom!! #smithdownhist
284KM had a great art lesson this afternoon🎨 the children started off by exploring the texture of their shoes and then explored textures in still life art work🎨 #smithdownart
204KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets, the children were even able to learn a new note🎺🎼 #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub
244KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English📚 #smithdownenglish
214KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️ #smithdownenglish
214KM celebrated attendance week by creating their own bar graphs using the attendance percentages of the week📚 #smithdownmath
21Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra
22Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra
23Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra
274KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!! The children used a lot of different techniques to create their artwork🎨🍎🍌💐 #smithdownart
21Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic
234KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ⚽️🏀🎾 #smithdownextra
204KM were using dienes and counters to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths 📚📐📏
224KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings 🎨 #Smithdownart
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