Year 4: The Zebras: Blog items
Welcome back!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 4:56pm
Welcome back, hope you all had a great break and have managed to get back into the swing of school again!
This week we have started our investigating living things science topic by looking at mini beasts, drawing and labelling them. In Geography we have been finding out about the countries that make up the UK and starting to learn the capitals.
We have been enjoying The Queens hat story in English and had fun watching windy weather clips, The tornado from the Wizard of Oz and The fantastic flying books of Mr Morris Lessmoore.
Have a great weekend ?
Last day of a fun week!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 27th May 2022 @ 4:48pm
Today we enjoyed making “crown cakes” by adding on jewels, the best bit was eating them on the field! We also put our own slant on the Union Jack by changing the colours.
Hope you all have a fab holiday, remember to tell me all about it in your holiday passports, keep up with reading, mathletics, reading eggs. See you soon ??
Arts week day 4, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 7:19pm
Today we have been learning about the Crown Jewels.How they are kept in the Tower of London and guarded as they have lots of valuable diamonds and gems. We had fun making our own crowns and decorating them with gems...but not ones worth millions!!!
Very proud of the Zebras as they confidently spoke at the Jubilee afternoon tea, explaining what we have been busy creating this week. A great team as they recited our acrostic poem, see if they can remember it!
Jubilee Celebrations, by Mr Pearson
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 12:10pm
As part of Longton Primary Schools Platinum Jubilee Celebrations the children in Y2 - Y6 have been joined together in the afternoons to focus on our performance for local dignities and special guests. The children have performed a drama about the Queen, the school choir has sung a number of songs including the National Anthem, a group of children performed a dance including a dance from each decade of the Queen's reign, poetry has been written and performed, decorations have been made for the VIP's tables and finally a good of children have baked and created sandwiches for an afternoon tea. Reception performed a song and dance and Year 1 showed how creative they have been through arts.
Arts week 3, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 7:25pm
Today we added sparkle to our Queen portraits , they look great. We also designed pictures for our coasters and chose our favourite to use.
This afternoon we painted our coil pots in red, silver and blue and finished off our acrostic QUEEN poems.
More fun tomorrow !
Arts week day 2, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 7:36pm
Today we drew our portraits of the queen and of course they were so much better than Mrs Pratten’s!
We painted them by mixing different colours. Tomorrow we are going to add more detail and texture to them.
This afternoon we made puppets of the queen, making a pattern first to make sure her hat/ crown fitted. We joined it together with staples or pins and then had fun decorating them. They look fantastic! We did a great job and are very proud of them.
Arts week day 1, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 7:27pm
Yesterday we started off our week by getting messy with clay! We had to make a base by squashing the clay flat and then make “wriggly worms” to build up the sides with coils. Tricky but we kept going and they look great. They are drying out to paint later.
We also started our acrostic poems spelling QUEEN. Quite tricky thinking of q and u words to start our sentences but we did well.
We also practised sketching features of the face ready to draw our own portraits of the queen. Hopefully they will be better than Mrs Pratten’s, it bore a striking resemblance to Shrek with a hat! (Apologies to the queen!!)
Super scientists, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 3:52pm
This week we enjoyed exploring what can float and what can sink. Then we had some plasticine in a ball...it sank...how could we make it floa? Well done to all who kept going, Maisie, Frankie and Maya were particularly up for the challenge , well done!
In PSHE we have been looking at who help us at home and out of school. We enjoyed role playing different situations and thinking about how we could help.
Have a great weekend, lots f fun for next week, Arts week??
More Zebra learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 13th May 2022 @ 4:11pm
This week as well as being by the seaside we have also been busy...in Science , sorting materials for our friends to try to guess why they all belong together. Building bridges to discover which materials worked best. We talked about how bridges need to be strong, hard and waterproof.
In our PSHE lessons we enjoyed playing games and thinking about why we like being with our friends.
Today we have been sorting air, are and ear words and learning how to make a half and quarters.
Have a great weekend?
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside..., by Mrs Pratten
Date: 11th May 2022 @ 3:46pm
We have had a fab day today at the seaside,using our old pennies, a nice long ride on the carousel .Then lunch and and ice cream before hitting the beach. The Zebras had a good time building sandcastles and digging to Australia!!!!
The sun shone and of course the wind blew but a lovely, lovely day !
Zebras learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 5:34pm
This week in science we have continued to explore materials, thinking about how we could group different objects so that they were the same in some way. In English we enjoyed working in groups thinking about questions we could ask about our story , The mouse, the frog and the little red hen. In maths we have been grouping objects equally and trying to think of different ways to create equal groups with 12 objects.
We are looking forward to our trip to Southport on Wednesday and compared swimming outfits in history, we’re glad we don’t wear woollen costumes!
Superstar Zebras!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 28th Apr 2022 @ 12:27pm
This week we have carried on with learning all about materials. We used our senses to look and feel what the materials were like. We then thought of words to describe them like, bendy, hard, rough , transparent. We also worked with a partner to describe objects and then try to guess what it was.
Of course we have also been busy practising for our class assembly , a big well done fantastic Zebras, you were amazing!!???
Hope you enjoyed it and enjoy the extra holiday!!
Excellent detectives!!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 22nd Apr 2022 @ 5:42pm
This week, armed with iPads , we were off to find things made from different materials. We looked inside and outside and took photos , we found all sorts.
In phonics we enjoyed looking for ‘ir’ words hidden around. We had to find them and then sound them out and write them down.
We have also been busy practising for our class assembly next week, on Thursday morning, you are all invited!
Have a lovely weekend??
Spring fun!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 1st Apr 2022 @ 4:58pm
Well done to all those children who made an Easter bonnet, they all looked fantastic.
Today the sun shone for our Spring walk to the Brickcroft but it was a bit chilly!
We did manage to spot lots of flowers and trees that we have been learning about at school.
Thank you to all our lovely helpers, have a great Easter, don’t eat too many eggs!
More photos!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 5:01pm
Photos of capacity work! I tried to put too many on?
Busy busy!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 30th Mar 2022 @ 4:21pm
This week in maths we have been finding out about volume, how full or empty a container is and capacity , how big or small the container is. We filled up different containers with a spoon and then a cup. The spoon took ages...because it holds less!
A very exciting week in DT we got to make our own smoothies! We have been chopping, slicin, blitzing and loving it!!! Of course we also got to taste too- delicious!
Dont forget the Brickcroft on Friday... warm coats I think!
This weeks amazing learning, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Mar 2022 @ 2:36pm
This week in maths we have enjoyed finding out about mass, how much things weigh and wether they are heavy or light. We used balance scales to watch what happened too, we thought they were a bit like a seesaw. We have enjoyed the sunshine with some fun phonics outside. In DT today we loved trying smoothies, they tasted delicious.We had to be smoothie detectives and work out what was in each one. Then we tried each ingredient , described them and ticked if we liked it or not. We can’t wait till next week when we get to prepare and chop up fruit to put in smoothies ourselves! Have a go at the weekend at making your own smoothie , tell me all about it on Monday.
On Monday we will be changing school library books , don’t forget to bring them in so you can have a new one for the holidays.
Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine?
Busy busy, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Mar 2022 @ 2:04pm
This week we have continued to find out more about plants, naming and identifying plants that grow in the garden.We looked around school too to see what was growing.Have a look in your garden over the weekend - what can you see? Can you name them? How can you find out what they are? In DT this week a good link to our Science work, we were sorting items into fruit or vegetable. We learnt that if they have seeds they are a fruit, we enjoyed tasting some! ??
World Book Day 2022, by Mrs Fletcher
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 4:27pm
What a wonderful day we have had celebrating world book day !
The day started with a whole school assembly to introduce the teme and to share a story we wrote as a school in 2020. It was also when the stimulus for this year's whole school write was revealed. Our youngest children, the Lions started the story and it was then emailed from class to class to be developed. It finally reached year 6 this afternoon and they proofread the story and then added to it. At 2.45 we met back in the hall for the world premiere reading of The Magic Potion. Wow !!!! What a story! Well done, again Longton. Please take some time to share the story as a a family and to ask your child which part their class wrote.
Every class has met up via an online meeting with classes at Barden Primary School in Burnley and Reception and Key Stage 1 have had a visit from Librarian Tom.
At Longton, as well as the World Book Day voucher we like to give the children a book as a gift. Your child will have a lovely book in their book bags this evening. Please enjoy reading them.
World book day, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 3rd Mar 2022 @ 3:56pm
We had a great world book day.We all helped write a fantastic story, each class adding and building on it,look out for it later on the blog. We enjoyed a story session with Tom from the library. We loved sharing our favourite stories with our friends and finally finished our chapter book, Harry the poisonous centipede which we have loved!
First week back, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 25th Feb 2022 @ 3:51pm
This week we have been looking at seeds and bulbs and thinking about what a plant is.We have planted sunflower seeds and sweet peas , a big thank you to Chloe’s mum for bringing some in for us to plant :) In history we have been looking at different bridges and their designers and working out which bridge was the oldest /newest and who designed which one - looking for clues in the photos.
Have a lovely weekend.
Finished windmills, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 10th Feb 2022 @ 3:50pm
Some of our finished wonderful windmills??
Wonderful windmills!, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 9th Feb 2022 @ 5:43pm
We have been working hard in DT designing and making windmills.We finished them yesterday and enjoyed sharing our designs with our friends. It had to stand up, Have turbines and an axle.
In art we have enjoyed finishing off our terrific texture pictures.We have made cold landscapes and they look great!
Today we also had an exciting visitor to school, a police dog handler who bought his dogs, Maverick and Goose.We enjoyed meeting them and learnt how clever they are at helping the police.
Home work for the holidays is the holiday passport, I do enjoy reading what you get up to in the holidays.Books I have will come on Thursday, quite a few children must have them still at home, please help the children complete 2 pages with pictures, photos, writing,posters ,stickers however you want to do it!
Dont forget the valentine shop at school to tomorrow and the disco in the evening.Busy Busy!!
Assembly blog, by Mrs Catterall
Date: 6th Feb 2022 @ 3:07pm
Today in assembly on Tuesday we talked about, animals and how they are the same and if they work well together. The animals we saw were penguins, dolphins and whales, zebras and ostriches and a crocodile and a bird. We also talked about when it’s important to work together.
Our Thursday picture news assembly asked the question ‘What type of events do you think deserve a celebration?’ This question came about as the Queen announced a special competition ahead of her Platinum Jubilee later this year. On the 6th February Queen Elizabeth will have reigned for 70 years!
The competition is to design a pudding. There will also be a 4 day bank holiday in June and other events too. We all like celebrating birthdays and weddings and fireworks.
Winter walk, by Mrs Pratten
Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 4:10pm
Today we had a great walk to the Brickcroft, we saw lots of birds and squirrels.We enjoyed feeding the ducks and the other birds too. We were glad of hot chocolate too warm us up as it was cold!! We also saw trees without leaves as well as some evergreen trees. A lovely morning.
A big thank you to all our helpers for coming along with us, my iPad died unfortunately so not too many photos but you will get the flavour. Have a lovely weekend ?
