We have had a great couple of weeks in p4b!

Maths and Numeracy 

Triangles

The triangles have finished their work on ‘time’ and have moved onto the topic of ‘measurement and capacity’. Here, we were learning about ml and l and how to read measurements from different containers. We are predicting which jug has the most water in it and testing our predictions to see whether we were correct!

Circles and Squares

We have now completed our topic on area and have moved onto multiplication. The Squares are also moving on to multiplication and have been exploring different concrete and pictorial strategies.

With Mrs Houston, the children have been making fabulous pieces of art using interesting adjectives to describe themselves!

Science

We have been finishing off our topic on inheritance. This week were were learning about genetic disorders and hearing stories from children who were born with different genetic conditions.

We competed the topic by working together in our tables to create a poster all about genes and inheritance. Each group then presented their poster and the children were encouraged to provide feedback in the form of two stars and a wish.

Social Studies

We have discussed as a class what we would like to learn for our next topic. After exploring the options and generating some great ideas, we have all decided on ‘The Oceans’ as our new Social Studies topic.

We have been busy bees in p4b this week!

Marvellous maths!

The squares have finished their topic on data handling. They had great fun today using excel on the iPads to make bar charts of their class survey.

The squares have also been learning about pictographs this week and have created some super examples, recording some inherited traits in the class.

The triangles have been focusing on time, converting from 12hr digital to and analogue. We have been exploring half past and quarter to and past. Today we were delving into am and pm as well.

The circles have been continuing with area this week. We have been looking at how to set out our area sum correctly and today we were exploring shapes which looked different but had equivalent areas. The children have also been creating a floor plan for their dream house and finding the area of each room.

Super Science.

In science this week, we have been looking at genetics and how we pass down our traits from parent to child in our DNA.

To explore this further, we conducted an experiment using three generations of gingerbread men with different coloured gumdrop buttons as an example. We explored how traits are passed down from our grandparents to our parents and then down to their children using coloured sticks to represent genes and DNA.

We were questioning why it is that siblings have the same parents but exhibit different inherited traits.

We learned that there is enough DNA in the human body to travel from the earth to the Sun and back 100 times!

Wonderful Writing.

In writing with Mrs Houston, we have been looking at paragraphing and describing words. We have written some fabulous pieces of work, describing our special person and how to identify a witch.

It has been an exciting few  weeks in the p4b classroom!

We have chosen ‘Inheritance’ as our new science topic. So far we have been learning about variation and adaption; exploring why birds adapt to have varying beak shapes in different environments. We conducted a science experiment using a range of ‘picking up’ tools to see how easy or hard it is for specific beak shapes to grab food of different sizes.

This week we have been learning more about variation in lizards and how they adapt to their environment; evolving over time. We split into two groups and drew the generation before, choosing one lizard in each group we believed had the most beneficial traits when confronted with a predator. We were all surprised at how different each groups’ lizards turned out!

So far in grammar have been recapping our verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs. We now know that an adverb describes a verb and can use them to make our writing more interesting! Today’s activity was to sort different word-types in pairs.

We have been writing about our special person, why they are our special person and using adjectives to describe what makes them wonderful!

We have also been reading ‘The Witches’ as our class novel and have made these spooky ‘Wanted’ posters using adjectives to describe how to spot a Witch.

In art, we have been drawing and painting birds with different beak shapes. Our classroom is starting to look very colourful with our cheeky birds and paper-chain vines and flowers!

In maths, we have finished our topics on fractions (Triangles), tessellation (Squares) and division with remainders (Circles).  We are now moving on to time, area and data handling.

In HWB be have been celebrating our individual traits with colourful hand prints, encouraging the children to think about Inherited vs acquired traits. We have also been looking forward into our year and setting goals for the future.