Weekly Blog by Keeley and Mair

On Thursday 27^th of March we met a poet called Joseph. He talked to us about a competition from discover and we wrote our own poems. We listened to music called the fun palace then we wrote down ideas.

Two days before we went on a trip to All Hallows Church and learnt about Tudor lifestyle. We used quills and we learnt how to write with them and we danced and sang a very old Tudor song.

We have been learning the vertical method and playing a game to go with it.

Numeracy - Adding with the expanded vertical method

This week we have been moving towards using the column method to add numbers.

We have used the expanded vertical method. This means that we write out the numbers vertically, before adding the units, then the tens, and finally any hundreds (or even thousands). We then find the total.

Take a look at the examples below and the link to Kitty and Mair's work on Youtube!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuTh3pUP8A0

You can see that they have forgot to include one of the hundreds, but luckily they remember before finding the total!


Here is Rebecca's example:

Blog of the Week by Kade and Salim

Matt Baxter has been coming to year 4 to teach us how to make our own comics.

Someone came in to talk to us about dealing with bullying.

KADE: one reason is don’t just hide somewhere stand up for yourself or tell a teacher.

Salim: another reason is to stay near an adult.

In literacy we have been making our own comic strip of Henry VIII.

In numeracy we have been subtracting numbers and were only allowed to partition or use the number line method.

Some of us went to the hackney central museum to see the Tour de France trophy.

By Kade and Salim

Awesome thing + Awesome thing = Awesome thing!

This was the magic formula that our Booklinks illustrator, Matt Baxter, shared with us this week.

Matt, who illustrates for the children's monthly comic The Phoenix, came into our class to share with us his work and his tips for drawing and writing comic strip stories.

We had a great time creating our own crazy characters - there were elephant boxers, teacher cheetahs and even a waiter octopus! Check out some of our sketches below!

Art next week - reminder!

Please remember to bring an old T-Shirt or shirt into school next week. We will be painting using acrylic paints which can stain, so an old shirt will protect your uniform.

Thanks!

Miss Perry