Year 4

Year 4KM Beach Trip

Year 4KM had a gorgeous day at the beach exploring. We carried out some fieldwork while using four-figure grid references.

Earthquakes

This young boy worked very hard in geography today. In fact, he works very hard in every lesson. What a role model!

Assembly superstars!

Year 3 and 4 Superstars!

Beatlemania!

What a lovely afternoon celebrating The Beatles!

Special Friendships

Today, we were so happy to be reunited with a couple of our classmates who had been living in another city and were now back in Liverpool. They were welcomed with cheers, hugs and huge smiles by all their friends. Everyone showed kindness. So lovely to see!

Racing Liquids

In Y4 we investigated one of our original questions ‘Are all liquids the same?’ We decided to have liquid races to explore this question. We raced washing up liquid, golden syrup, juice and cooking oil and discovered some are faster than others. We learned the word viscosity in order to describe this characteristic of liquids. We had so much fun doing so!

Celebration Picnic

A few more picnic photos

150 year celebration picnic

Thank you to everyone wo helped make our family picnic such a success, from the generous items on our community table to the fantastic Henna work in aid of Alder Hey hospital to the very generous sharing of food with staff, the day was fabulous.

Refugee Week 2025

After discussing what a refugee is and why this might happen to people, we thought about what we could give a refugee to help them survive their journey to safety or what we would take with us if we became refugees. The most important message we need to remember is a refugee is a person just like us and not just a label.

Superstars 🌟

Year 3 and 4 had a super week!

Refugee Week

This year, the theme for Refugee Week is ‘Community as a Superpower’.

We created a backpack full of useful contents.

Y4 States of Matter

Y4 kicked of their States of Matter topic by observing dancing raisins. We discovered that all states of matter were featured in this observation and refined our explanations to be more scientific!

Particles in States of Matter

To understand how particles move in solids, liquids and gases, Y4 took to the outdoors to explore their movement using the parachute. We kept the particles tight with a little movement in solids, more movement in liquids to fit the space in a level surface and then we allowed the balls to fly everywhere for gases (this was our favourite bit!)

Community as a Superpower

For Refugee Week, we talked about the different communities that we belong to. We also designed welcome baskets for people seeking asylum and refuge. We agreed that working together as a community is a superpower, and spreading kindness makes the world a better place.

Records from the past!

We really enjoyed looking at the old school logbooks last week. There was even an old trophy!

150 Year Celebration

What a lovely picnic this afternoon! A big, huge thank you to all children, parents and staff for all the work and effort everyone has put in for our 150 year celebration. Thank you everyone for coming to celebrate this afternoon.

150 Years of Smithdown!

We have loved learning about the history of our school since it was built in 1874. The past two weeks we have created timelines linked to the school’s History and the city of Liverpool, we have compared inspection reports from 1950 and 1964 with the present and we  created old and new collages of Smithdown\Chatsworth Street school images.

Chatsworth v Smithdown

Year 3 recreated two very old pictures today. Another interesting look at the past of our school.

Eid Al-Adha

Yesterday we celebrated Eid. They produced beautiful posters related to how Eid has changed over the last 150 years (linked to our 150th school celebration).

Exploring an OS Map of Snowdonia

Using an OS Map and key we explored the area around Mount Snowdon in Geography.

150 Years of Smithdown!

Thank you to AS Creatives for another great workshop all 150 years of Smithdown.

Celebrating Eid Al- Ahad

Thank you to our parent volunteers, hennaliverpool.com and Hennabyinaaya for helping us to celebrate Eid Al-Ahad.

Circus Skills

We loved our Circus Skills Workshop today linked to our class text ‘Leon and the Place Between’.

Circus Skills

Year 3 and 4 had a great time learning a variety of circus skills linked to our class text.

Year 4

We designed  plant pots ready for flowers to be handmade and planted.

Exploring characters through illustrations.

Fraction Families

In Maths we made some fraction families.

Year 4 fractions

This morning in maths we looked at different fractions and made a fraction family.

Chester Zoo!

We had a great time at Chester Zoo yesterday!

How can we protect our environment?

On Wednesday we enjoyed our final workshop with Chester Zoo (in school).

Another fantastic Chester Zoo Workshop this morning!

Mountain or hill?

We have been learning about the difference between mountains and hills. We went outside to draw a diagram showing what we know.

Habitat Kerplunk

Another great workshop with Lucy from Chester Zoo!

This morning we enjoyed using the seek app to find the names of native creatures and plants in our playground. Thank you to Lucy from Chester Zoo – a great start to our workshops!

Rumpelstiltskin

We have been reading the story of Rumpelstiltskin. It is an old German fairy tale that was written many years ago. These children have worked so hard with their writing. I have been very impressed.

Y4 Classification

Today Y4 explored classification keys. We started by identifying characteristics that separate items. We practiced with liquorice first before applying to animals. Well done Y4!

Y4 Dunking Biscuits

Y4 have been working scientifically and explored how many dunks different types of biscuit could withstand in cold water. We recorded the amount of dunks each biscuit lasted. Some even made it to over 50!

Y4 Deforestation

After learning about deforestation, Y4 rehearsed the poem There’s a Rang Tan in my Bedroom. We learned about how forests are being cut down for palm oil production and focused on intonation in performing.

Classifying animals Y4

Y4 have been busy classifying animals according to their characteristics. We then used this knowledge in a Carroll diagram

What was life like as a local Victorian?

We used freeze frame and role play to show our learning based on the Victorians. This was our final lesson about the Victorian era.

What happened in the Victorian Era?

Using drama and freeze frame we demonstrated significant events/ information from the Victorian Era: Irish families escaping the potato famine, a Victorian classroom, the invention of the Steam Train and living in a workhouse.

Area

This week we have been exploring Area.

Year 4 – Native animal sketching

Year 4 – Area

We used sticky notes to explore area.

World 🌍 Earth Day

This morning we have been learning about renewable and non-renewable energy, including the pros and cons about different types of each.
We then watched a live lesson from BBC Teach about the Water 💦 Cycle.

Everton in the Community

The children had a fantastic day celebrating differences with Everton in the Community. A massive thank you for the wonderful workshops.

Stars of the week

Super hard work this week! Well done Year 3 and 4.

A wonderful day full of Eid celebrations!

Victorian Census Study

We explored the 1851 census before exploring life for the poor in Victorian Liverpool.

Switched On Rail Safety

Today we watched a live assembly from Network Rail and learnt how to stay switched on and safe around trains and railways.

Railway Safety

A very important and informative message from Network Rail this morning. We learnt about the dangers on railways and how to stay safe.

Retrieval Practice

This half term we are learning about the Victorians, but we don’t want to forget what we have learnt about our previous topic on the ancient civilisation of Baghdad. So, we played a game called Quiz, Quiz, Trade. This game involves asking questions  to see how much we have remembered. We did really well!

Silly Hair Day 2025

Y4 Food Chains

Y4 have been busy exploring food chains in the environment. They have learned about the words consumer, producer and predator whilst recapping the process of photosynthesis.

What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution?

In groups we compared an artist’s depiction of an area in Britain in the 1830s to how it had changed by
the 1890s. We discovered the changes in landscape were due to the Industrial Revolution. We then learnt about 7 key changes and ordered them by importance using a diamond nine activity.

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World Book Day

Today, we enjoyed listening to stories and reading some too.

The Dalmatians are safe once again!

Today we had a visit from Cruella De Vil who wanted to steal all of the Dalmatian puppies, luckily the classes were able to find all 101 of them and saved the school! What an amazing World Book Day 2025.

Happy World Book Day

Can we write parts of a non-chronological report in groups?

We learnt about the mythical Kraken and wrote a section of a non- chronological report in groups.

What is our mystery object?

In groups we investigated a mystery object. What was it? What was it used for? Who would have owned and used it?

Year 4 English

We worked hard to plan and write a non-chronological report. We worked in groups to write a specific paragraph.

Ancient Civilisations – AS Creatives

Thank you to AS Creatives for our workshop this afternoon focusing on Ancient Civilisations.

Football Competition

Great work from Year 3 and Year 4 boys and girls! They all worked well as a team to play in a 5 a side football competition organised by Everton.

Year 4 Early Civilisations Workshop

We had the best morning using drama to learn about early civilisations, with a focus on Baghdad (Early Islamic Civilisations).

Food Chains

Y4 have been exploring food chains this afternoon to build on their knowledge of animals and living things.

International Mother Language Day

On February 21st, it was International Mother Language Day. To celebrate, we have been learning words and phrases in different languages. The children have been fantastic teachers.

Year 4 Ukulele

We love our Wednesday morning ukulele lessons.

Investigating the 3x 6x 9x table.

We found patterns within each multiplication table and common multiples!

Mosaics! Mosaics! Mosaics!

We made a ceramic mosaic tile in groups using glass tesserae. Our designs are stunning!

Amazing Roman inspired mosaics by Year 4

Year 4 Multiplication

A great morning exploring the relationship between multiples and three and multiples of six.

Year 4 Computing- Pixel Art

This half term Year 4 have been focusing on what pixels are and pixel artwork in their computing lessons. Children looked at how the amount of pixels can impact the quality of images, how we can use binary code to create different pixel images, explored how to create pixel images and used their knowledge of excel to create a pixel based image of a mosaic that they created.

Safer Internet Day 2025

Today we learnt how to keep ourselves and others safe from scams. We learnt what phishing meant and how to look out for it!

Y4 Safer Internet Day 2025

We explored scamming, what is meant by the word phishing and identified how to spot phishing scams such as spelling mistakes, suspicious email addresses, and personal information requests.

The Digestive System

Today Y4 explored the process of digestion by replicating their own model. It was a messy activity and we learned so much!

Wonderful Math’s work investigating Commutative Law.

Creating our own mosaic tiles!

Sustainability Project LJMU

Y3 & 4 were lucky enough to work with students from LJMU to learn about sustainability.. We made bracelets out of plastic bags. 

Superstars

Year 3 and 4 stars of the week!

Y4 Eggsperiment

Y4 have been busy learning all about human and animal teeth this half term. We decided to investigate the effect different drinks had on our teeth. We discovered some shocking conclusions!

Happy Lunar New Year

For Chinese New Year we have had a great time making snakes and performing a dragon dance!

Art – mosaics

Year 4 designed their Roman inspired mosaics using technology before creating their own paper version.

We’re very excited to create our mosaics next week using tiles.

Chinese New Year Workshop (Year 4)

Who was Al- Zahrawi and what did he achieve?

Yesterday we used pictorial artefacts to investigate a mystery person. We generated questions and then answered them using the internet. Finally some children were hot-seated in role.

Star of the week 💫

Well done to our year 3 and year 4 children who received a star of the week certificate this week. Well done everyone and keep up the great work!

Complimentary Colours

Yesterday we created artwork using a colour wheel to discover complimentary colours. We then created mosaic patterns inspired by Gaudi’s Trencadis technique. The media we used was oil pastel.

An assembly of celebrations

A massive well done to all the children who received a star of the week certificate, a dojo badge or a TTRockstars medal for their efforts this week. What an amazing assembly! It was filled with happiness and rounds of applauses for our friends. 🥳

Fun in the snow yesterday!

Conscience alley role play

We used role play to decide if the witch from our class text should give back the stolen happy endings. We thought of lots of reasons for and against.

Fun in the snow

Parent & carers craft afternoon

A wonderful afternoon with our fabulous parents and carers.

Year 4 PE

We love our PE lessons. Another great session with Everton in the Community.

Year 4 Ukulele

We’ve been working so hard this half term in music. The improvement in our playing is amazing!

A great way to start our Monday with a B -Tales Production. 🎄

A visit from B-Tales!

B-tales shared the story of Jonah and the Christmas twist.

Geographers!

Some amazing work of Mount Etna in Year 4 today. So many facts and wonderful diagrams – well done!

4LA’s Sporting Superstars

Year 4 English

This week we are writing our own twisted tale narrative. We spent this morning exploring what a good one looks like, locating features and writing our own alternative ending.

English Role Play

Year 4 had a fun creative morning today. They loved playing the witch and Jub. We also used macaroni to add inverted commas into our speech that we had acted out.

NRG workshop

Year 4 have learnt lots today about saving energy and money with Dr Watts and Dr Sparks.

English drama activity

Year 4 had a fun morning creating speech and acting it out. We loved being the villainous witch and sweet, little Jub. We used macaroni to add inverted commas to our speech.

NRG workshop

Year 4 learnt lots about saving energy and money. A massive thank you to Dr. Watts and Dr. Sparks.

Children in Need 2024

Children in Need – maths

Year 4 spent this morning exploring Children in Need themed problems and discussing possible answers.

Remembrance Day

Never judge a book by its cover 👏

In PSHE we discussed how we should not make assumptions about people by how they look. We must not be judgemental.

Timetables in RE

In RE we looked at the difference between a Christian’s daily timetable and our daily timetables. We discovered some similarities and some differences.

Remembrance Day

We did our one minute silence. After, we used our sketching skills to create some Remembrance Day artwork.

Some superb still life drawings 🎨👩‍🎨👨🏻‍🎨

Diwali Celebrations

Year 4 had such a great morning at our Diwali workshop. We wore some traditional Hindu clothing, learned some traditional dance, and even got to paint and create our own diya lanterns. 

Diwali Workshop

Diwali lanterns

We are having so much fun making our Diwali lanterns with rangoli patterns.

A day in the life of a Roman soldier 🛡️

Deva Roman Experience

Year 4 had “the best day ever” in Chester. We experienced life as a Roman soldier and learnt more about the Roman invasion in Britannia.

Y4 String telephones

As part of their sound topic, Y4 have been investigating which mediums sound travels through. We did this by experimenting with string telephones. We had so much fun talking to our friends on our telephones but only some of them passed the message through!

What’s in the mystery box?

We found some items in our box to help us with predicting what our new class text is about.

Estimating on a number line to 10,000

Rounding to the nearest 10,100 and 1000.

What a great first attempt at a twisted narrative! 👏✏️

Year 4 Everton in the Community

A great PE session focused on our football skills. We love working with Everton in the Community to improve our skills, teamwork and resilience.

Year 4 Temple trip

Year 4 had a very exciting morning visiting a local temple. We asked lots of questions related to our Hinduism unit.

Setting Descriptions 🌟

Hinduism … What is Moksha?

we learned about reincarniation and how Muslims believe if you have good Moksha you will be reborn, if you don’t you will come back as an animal.

PSHE… our learning charters

What is a colour wheel? 🎨

We had so much fun painting our colour wheels and understanding how different colours are made. We discussed primary and secondary colours.

Spanish 🇪🇸 Descriptions

Danny Butler Event

We had the best day doing our sponsored event with Danny Butler. We couldn’t believe his bike skills! Wow!

Ukulele

We loved our morning learning the C and F chord.

Comparing Giorgio Morandi with modern day life artists 👨🏻‍🎨 🎨

I made my work soooo much better 🌟 ✍️

I used fronted adverbials, conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions and personification. ⭐️🥳

What happens in chapter 5 with Mr Gum?

Teamwork makes the dream work 💫

Year 4 Still Life

Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon exploring traditional and contemporary still life artwork. They produced gestural drawings for a piece of artwork by Giorgi Morandi.

How did Rome begin?

How to develop accuracy?

Year 4 Ukulele

A wonderful morning learning the ukulele. We even had some amazing solo performances!

Year 4 Computing

On Thursday afternoon children continued to create programs using repeat loops. This program consisted of using repeat and forever loops to allow a pattern to be created using the pen tool on Scratch.

Ukulele Time

Year 4- Repetition Loops Scratch

Year 4 continued to look at how we can use repeat loops to benefit code. They focused on being able to use a repeat loops to get two separate characters to move in different ways, one moving when the mouse is moving and the other to move by itself and change direction when hitting a wall.

Black History Month ‘24

Some AMAZING entries for the Merseyside Police competition! Children have worked hard creating lovely pieces of work with great messages as well. Well done to everyone who has submitted already. Last day tomorrow (Friday 13th September).

Year 4 History Enquiry

Year 4 generated questions and predicted events around Roman artefacts.

Historical Enquiry – The Romans 🏺🏛️

Cheque Presentation

A massive thank you to all parents and children who donated money to Alder Hey. The children on the school council were very lucky to be invited down to Alder Hey for a cheque presentation.
The money raised is going to help brighten the lives of children and their families, all over the country, who require the help of Alder Hey.

4KM had a great day at the beach looking at coastal processes and playing in the sand🏝⛱!!!

To the beach, let’s go… 🐚🏖

Well one to our stars of the week in year 3 and 4⭐️!!!

Spanish Day 🇪🇸

Happy Spanish day🇪🇸!!!

Well done to our stars of the week!!!

Sports day!

Super morning with our LKS2 sports day! We had a great day for it and we all tried our best with every activity.

A great morning for sports day!

Singing Assembly!

I love starting off our Wednesdays with our singing assembly. It puts a smile on all our faces and gets us ready for our work.

Year 4 enjoyed test testing ingredients for our Ramen recipe.

Fantastic Family Picnic

A fantastic community picnic. The sun shone.

An amazing community food table with so many lovely dishes to share.

Year 3 and 4 had great morning during their rugby skills training!

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4KM created some amazing posters for refugee week!!

Girls’ rugby

Year 3 and 4 girls had a super experience with an introduction into rugby. They had a chance of practising kicking, tackling and their footwork.

Our Mythical Creature Clay Sculptures…

4KM had a great afternoon exploring and creating sculptures using different media🎨

4KM had a great afternoon discussing what it means to be loved and creating their own collage about a person special to them❤️

Check out our sketches ✍️

Buzz Wire Games

What is a sculpture?

Year 4

Children have built on their knowledge of coding in Scratch. They have created a program today using repeat loops, controlling a character with a mouse as well as including a Score variable.

4KM had a great PHSE lesson coming up with different ways to cope with various scenarios.

Well done to our year 3 and 4 stars of the week⭐️

4KM had a great morning working with the Hope university students learning about light and sound??!!

Year 4 had a great day at the Deva Roman experience in Chester!! They even walked around as Roman soldiers!!

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The Smithdown Romans!

What a great day we had in Chester at the Deva Experience! We marched the streets of Chester and learned lots of interesting facts about the Roman Empire.

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!

More circus skills fun this afternoon??‍♀️?!!!

What fabulous writers!

We have been working towards writing a Kenning Poem and today all of our hard work paid off.

World book day 2024???!!!

Year 4 had so much fun during their circus skills morning??‍♀️?!!!

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World Book Day 2024

What an amazing day in 4LA.

Year 4 have been working hard as illustrators this world book day??!!!

Happy world book day 2024???!!!

4KM had a great morning learning how to tell the time!!!⏰

Superstars in Year 3 and 4! Stars of the week for some amazing work and attitude.

Year 4 had so much fun at their campfire toasting marshmallows and drinking hot chocolate??!!!

We love Wednesdays! It’s time for ?

Which colours compliment each other?

How has tech changed through time?

Where do we put our money? Peter from MyBnk came to tell us…

Year 4 had a great afternoon learning how to manage their money??

Year 4 Pixel Mosaics

This 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.

4KM had an amazing morning learning a Chinese dance and carrying the Chinese dragon???!!!

Year 4 Pixel Art

This 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.

Year 4KM’s amazing stars of the week??!!!

Silver Dojo Award – 200 dojos to these SUPERSTARS in 4LA

Stars of the Week in 4LA

Year 3 and 4 had an amazing time watching a Christmas performance! We all had a good laugh and got involved.

Year 4 had some much fun doing their Santa dash??

Santa Dash 2023 ??????‍♀️????‍♂️

This 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! ?

Year 4 had a great geography lesson moving crackers like tectonic plates!!

Year 4 had an amazing geography lesson creating their own structures of the earth’s layers, and how they link to earthquakes!?

Year 4 have had an amazing children in need?!!

What an amazing biography!

How do you solve calculations with regrouping?

Happy Diwali

Year 4 celebrations for Diwali. We love our Diwali lanterns!

Let’s put our mapping skills into practice ?

Remembrance Day 2023

Remembrance Day – ‘We will remember them’

What a day! Year 4 really enjoyed learning about the Hindu culture.

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC???

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC progressing their teamwork skills??? #smithdownextra

4LA exploring conductors & insulators

4LA exploring conductors & insulators @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week

4KM exploring conductors & insulators this week @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits

4LA hard at work exploring switches in circuits #smithdownsci

4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits

4KM testing predictions about complete and incomplete circuits #smithdownsci @SmithdownPrimY4

4LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today

4LA ~ Sorting mains and battery powered appliances today, then working scientifically to test our predictions about positions of components in a circuit @SmithdownPrimY4 #smithdownsci

Great afternoon with 4KM back to doing what we love the most – investigating!

Great 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

Kicking our electricity topic off in year 4

Kicking our electricity topic off in @SmithdownPrimY4 by thinking about what electrical appliances we have at home #smithdownsci

4KM had a great music lesson this morning?

4KM had a great music lesson this morning? the children also learnt how to play a new note? @ResonateHub #smithdownmusic

4KM had an amazing art lesson creating their own mood boards…

4KM 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

4KM had a great PE lesson…

4KM had a great PE lesson with @EITC improving their teamwork and game skills!! #smithdownextra

4KM had a great history lesson this afternoon learning all about the Victorian classrooms…

4KM 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

4KM had a great art lesson this afternoon?

4KM 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

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets…

4KM had a great music lesson playing their trumpets, the children were even able to learn a new note?? #smithdownmusic @ResonateHub

4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English?

4KM had a great morning editing their own transformation narratives in English? #smithdownenglish

Acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️

4KM created their own posters and acrostic poems all about attendance week⭐️ #smithdownenglish

Using the attendance percentages of the week?

4KM celebrated attendance week by creating their own bar graphs using the attendance percentages of the week? #smithdownmath

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork…

Our PE lesson today was all about teamwork and how different strategies can help a team win ⭐️ @EITC #smithdownextra

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️

Well done to our amazing stars of the week⭐️ keep up the hard work girls!! #smithdownextra

Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!!

Another amazing PE lesson from @EITC all about teamwork!! The children played different games to help with their teamwork skills⭐️ #smithdownextra

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!!

4KM had a great afternoon creating their own still life artwork!! The children used a lot of different techniques to create their artwork???? #smithdownart

Year 4 had a wonderful morning!

Year 4 had a wonderful morning! They were amazing learning their first note on their trumpets. #smithdownmusic

4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills…

4KM had a great time developing their ball skills and teamwork skills during our PE lesson with @EITC ⚽️?? #smithdownextra

4KM were using dienes and counters…

4KM were using dienes and counters to work out many different ways in which hundreds can make 1000 #smithdownmaths ???

The children explored his life and paintings ?

4KM had a great afternoon completing their artist study about Paul Cezanne. The children explored his life and paintings ? #Smithdownart