Happy New Year!

Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday and New Year. We have been sharing our holiday news and have written some lovely stories about our favourite part!

We explored our speaking and listening skills - the part where the partner had to pretend not to be listening was both amusing yet frustrating for the 'talker' as you can see!

We have been going around in circles in maths! Using compasses to draw them, learning the different parts of them and even drawing hexagons and triangles within them. It is certainly a skill to master the compass - Mrs Wallace, Mrs Pye and I have been very impressed with the children's persistence!
Here we are writing all that we already know about circles:

Here we are identifying and writing all the key parts of circles:

 ...and here we are mastering the compass!

In PSHE we have been thinking about all the different ways we use to communicate with one another. We thought of many ways using the internet, social media, sign language, being a conductor - the list was endless! We then used our decoding skills to master some braille and morse code!

Our new topic this half term is Out of the Shadows. We looked at our shadows and have been exploring why they are so long!

 We have also been planning a puppet show which involved making some shadow puppets:

Lots of great new learning in 2020 so far! As you can see we have soon got back into the swing of things in Year 4! Have a great weekend everyone!