Some children in Year 4 had a wonderful afternoon working with Mrs Lemard to make beautiful Mother’s Day cards . I am sure the mums will treasure them!

What an exciting day for Year 4!  A  whole range of book characters came to school including Varjak Paw, the Iron Man, the Demon Dentist and Captain Underpants. After sharing our masks and enjoying a reading session we set off to the Unicorn Theatre for our long awaited trip to see The Iron Man. And it was worth the wait! Using paper-cut silhouettes, puppetry and stop-motion animation, we felt as if we were inthe world of the Iron Man. He had been eating every single piece of metal in sight: tractors, old cars, fences and even rusty old nails.The angry farmers tried to trap him but the little boy Hogarth befriended him and in the end he saved the world. The best show ever!

Cloud in a glass

We have been learning about the water cycle. To help us to understand this we made clouds in a glass.

Piotr thought that there must be a hole in the foil container but then discovered that the drops of water did not come from the

Precipitation

foil but from the glass. This is called condensation.

Naomi said that if there is ice in a tin foil tray and hot water in  a glass, the hot water will become tepid.

Tarek saw precipitation on the glass.

Brian said that if you look under a very cold tin foil container it will look as if it has been raining.

Year 4 were investigating properties of chocolate and marsmallows.

We predicted what might happen when we held a piece of chocolate or marshmallow in our hand or our mouth and what might hapen if we put them in a microwave. Would it matter how long we left things? Does the temperature make a difference?

Michael learnt that if you leave chocolate in a microwave for 3 minutes on high it will burn. If you do the same with marshmallows they will spread and go crusty.If you touch them a bit breaks off..

Josephine learnt that chocolate can be a liquid and a solid at the same time.

Natatsha learnt that marshmallows turn into a different form of solid when you put it in a microwave on medium heat for 1 minute.

Chocolate and Marshmallow

Year 4’s are working very hard this term. They are learning about different countries in Asia and have been working independently at home on amazing  projects.  They are enjoying the novel Varjak Paw and have researched information about the author S.F. Said and produced fantastic collages of Varjak Paw. Tennis lessons on Friday afternoons are fun and we have some future Wimbledon champions. Children know about acute and obtuse angles and can find more than one line of symmetry on regular shapes. They enjoyed a great trip to the Tate Modern where they were able to work with the artists in residence there.