Term 4
What an exciting Term 4 it has been, the final term investigating where sounds come from and much more!
Music would not exist without sound. Inspired by the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay the children designed and created their own recycled musical instruments in DT. We’ve been learning about how to write down a melody using graphic notation - the representation of music through our own visual symbols – and perform it together to an audience.
In our Maths learning this term, we have focused on decimals and fractions as different ways of expressing numbers. Our understanding of the number system and decimal place value has been extended to tenths and then hundredths. This includes relating the decimal notation to division of whole numbers by 10 and later 100.
Geography took us to South America where the children have explored it’s physical and human features and compared them to England. They also researched a variety of music venues around the world with a focus on the Sydney Opera House.
In Literacy, we were inspired by Drum Dream Girl by Margarita Engle. Poetry is an important part of our learning in Year 4. The children have written their own marvellous poems using rhyme, alliteration and onomatopoeia words to represent sounds of Wingham Primary School. Some took it further by performing their poems using performance poetry techniques.
On Significant Female into School Day, we welcomed significant female figures from our lives for portrait sketching and poetry. Everyone seemed to really enjoy spending this quality time together.
Everyone in Pine Class is so Eggcellent – Happy Easter!