Blog Author: Mrs Mayor

Every Friday, Miss Helen is coming into school and working with Year 4 to teach them lots of new dance skills. She is incorporating the children’s knowledge of electricity and building on what they have learnt each week to create a dance routine. Today the children had to become a circuit, working…

As part of our topic on electricity, we have been learning about static electricity and seeing it in action. We rubbed a balloon on our hair to charge the balloon and make our hair stand on end. We also used the balloon to lift pieces of paper from the table and make them dance, our balloon…

We have started our ‘Let’s Travel!’ topic in class and within that we are going to be learning all about electricity, circuits and conductors and switches. Our first lesson this week was talking about all the components that make up a simple circuit. The children all managed to make the bulb light…

This week, we have been learning about how the water cycle works and we are going to be writing an explanation text to describe the process. We have used lots of new vocabulary such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We have drawn the water cycle on a food bag and put water in the…

We dressed up as different animals today to raise money and donations for the charity ‘Animal Care’. How many different animals can you see in Y4?

In science, we have been investigating the question ‘Which solids dissolve in water?’ We mixed a variety of solids with water to find out, then we tried to retrieve the original solid by filtering them using a funnel and filter paper and recorded the results. We used different scientific…

We have completed our class Intrasports today. We practised dribbling the ball and played mini invasion games using the skills we have been taught last half term.

Today, we have been learning about evaporation. Lots of different materials could be seen hanging around school because Y4 were trying to find out where the best place was to dry our washing. We had a discussion about the most suitable conditions to dry clothes and decided that it needed to be…

Today we were investigating whether gas weighs anything. We had a selection of fizzy drinks and we weighed them. Then we shook them to make them go flat and released the gas out of them, which is called carbon dioxide. We weighed them again to see if they were lighter and they were, which proved…

We have been discussing what makes drinks fizzy and learnt that a gas called carbon dioxide is added to drinks. A man called Joseph Priestley invented the carbonation process to create fizzy drinks. We put raisins into a glass of lemonade and watched them dance. Bubbles of carbon dioxide…

Today, we have been making ‘gloop’, which is also sometimes called Oobleck. We mixed water and cornflour together to create a mixture that is a non-Newtonian fluid. The cornflour doesn’t dissolve in the cold water so when stress is put on the mixture such as squeezing or hitting it, it acts like a…

We have been discussing how we could separate solids today. Remembering their learning from Y3, the children discussed how magnets could be used if there was metal involved. We also investigated how to separate different sized solids using a variety of sieves.