Misty Mountain, Winding River
In this topic we learnt about the different courses of a river and other features rivers have. We looked at famous rivers and mountains in the world and learnt about how different mountains are formed.
In this topic we learnt about the different courses of a river and other features rivers have. We looked at famous rivers and mountains in the world and learnt about how different mountains are formed.
Year 4 walked up to the River Penk in Perton. There we met Mr Elder from ‘Wild about Perton’. He told us about the source of the river and which other rivers it joined on its journey. We measured the depth of the river at different points and then we inputted the data into a spreadsheet.
We created our own word mat for the topic identifying the key vocabulary.
We studied Vistas in our companion art project. We made our own viewfinders to identify the perfect image.
We studied the three courses of a river and the features of each one.
We modelled how erosion, transportation and deposition impacts a river.
We used Ordnance Survey maps of mountainous landscapes. We looked at contour lines and used a key to find the features. Then 4 figure grid references helped us to locate landmarks.
For our Burps, Bottoms and Bile, topic we started with a challenge. We worked together in groups to predict what the digestive organs in our body look like, and where they’re located. We drew around one member of our group and discussed where each part went before drawing it.
We loved our Egyptian Day! We dressed up as ancient Egyptians, cracked hieroglyphic codes, dug in sand to discover ancient artefacts and role-played scenes from our new English book which is set in ancient Egypt.
We began by following instructions on how to make an Egyptian shaduf for collecting water from the river. Then we wrote our own instructions for mummification.
We opened up a shop in our classroom and wrote shopping lists of things we wanted to buy. We then added pounds and pence to work out the total cost of our list, then used subtraction to compare the difference in cost of some of the items.
During this topic, we explored how sounds are made and how they travel. We investigated how sounds travel through different states of matter – solids, liquids and gases.
Our art project for this topic was called Statues, Statuettes and Figurines. We created Ancient Sumerian figurines using clay.
As historians, we know that primary evidence is really important to help us learn about the past. We enjoy being historical detectives working out what each artefact is, what it is made from and what it tells us about the ancient civilisations.
We used Lego WeDo to create a flood barrier. We had to build the barrier then program it to open and close. This helped us recall our prior knowledge on rivers and flooding.
To make an Autumn Apple Cake, we learned how to peel apples and cut them safely using the bridge hold technique and we practised measuring ingredients and mixing them together. It was delicious!
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Our first book in our Blue Abyss topic is ‘The Whale’ by Vita and Ethan Murrow. It’s a wordless, picture book and we’re using the pictures as inspiration to write our own narrative. In this lesson, we used our inference skills to answer the question, ‘How do we know the character is an explorer?’.
We used our measuring skills to determine the capacity of different containers and the volume of water within them.
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