Class 4 Blog

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had an enjoyable Tuesday and have all been working hard at home. Here are your activities for Wednesday 1st July . Here are some  spellings for you to practise at home. Can someone test you on them when you are ready? Miss Dimond will be in touch with your tasks for the rest of the week. I hope you have a great weekend and I will speak to you next week!  Miss Greenwood 

Hi Class 4, I hope you've had a good Monday and haven't been too cold. Where has the sun disappeared to?! Here are your tasks for  Tuesday 30th June . Look out in the next few days for some more chapters of Gangsta Granny! Miss Greenwood

Hi Class 4, Miss Greenwood here! It's so lovely to be back, I only wish it could be with you all. Thank you to Miss Dimond for taking such good care of you while I've been gone. I'm sure you're all glad to hear that it's not goodbye just yet. We'll be sharing the class until the end of the term! I'll be taking over the blog for some of the days but all of the tasks and activities will be similar. I can't wait to see what you're all getting up to and I'm looking forward to catching up with you all soon. Here are your tasks for  Monday 29th June . Have a lovely day! Miss Greenwood

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a good day in this super hot weather! I am so sorry for the delay in posting the blog. There are some nice activities for you to finish off the week. If you feel that you would like more English tasks, you could have a go at writing your own Viking story. Here are your tasks:  Friday 26th June Remember that Miss Greenwood will be taking over the blog on Monday, I'm sure she will have some exciting activities for you! I will still be around so this is not a goodbye yet luckily!  I will be posting updates of your excellent work tomorrow too! Have a fantastic day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I am starting off my blog post with some exciting news for you all . You will be so excited to hear that Miss Greenwood will be back with you on Monday so she will get to see all the fantastic work you are doing at home. Until then end of term, I will still be in and around school so I might see some of you. I have had the best 7 months being your class teacher and I really hope you enjoy your last few weeks of term, I have no doubts that you will with Miss Greenwood. I want to say a big thank you to you all for being such a fab first class! I'm going to really miss seeing all of your work everyday, you have all worked incredibly hard and should be so proud of yourselves! But for now, I will make the most of the tasks that I have set for you so here are your tasks for Thursday:  Thursday 25th June . Have a great day in the sun! Miss Dimond

Charlie made a fantastic zoo out of items in his home. This zoo looks great Charlie! Well done! I can see that you have really thought about the different habitats. Charlotte has created an excellent impressionist painting of a sunset reflecting in the water! I can really see how you've used your brush strokes in an impressionist way! Great job. Charlotte also created a fantastic model of the Solar System! I am so impressed with the planets you have made here Charlotte! Well done!   It's also great to see you enjoying the science experiments! This looks like a snowstorm and a rain cloud in a jar, I'm glad to see that they were successful!    James has also had a go at the different science experiments from last week! Its great to see your rain cloud in a jar worked well! It's great that you also tried the rainbow experiment! It looked like it was successful! Well done James! James also sent me a PowerPo

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a good day and made the most of the beautiful sunshine! Here are your tasks for tomorrow:  Wednesday 24th Jun e Have a great day in the sun! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you enjoyed learning about the vikings today! Tomorrow we are looking at Viking warriors. Here are your tasks for tomorrow:  Tuesday 23rd June If you would like to practice your spellings, I have also attached them. Try and practice once a week if you can. Here are the  Spellings . Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good Afternoon Class 4, I hope you had a lovely weekend. I saw some great Science experiments and activities last week which I will share on the blog. I hope you all enjoyed the different investigations. This week, we are returning back to our daily English and Maths activities with an Wider-Curriculum activity in the afternoon. This week we are going back to our history topics to find out about the Vikings. Here are your Monday 22nd June Have great day, Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you're having a great day, did you enjoy finding about your own topic? I'm interested to see what your topics were. Tomorrow we are looking at gravity and Isaac Newton. Here are your tasks for Friday:  Friday 19th June . Our friends from Open the Book have shared another story with us:  The Great Parade . I hope you enjoy. Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you have had a great day despite the stormy weather! I have seen some of your experiments and I am so glad you have enjoyed them! Tomorrow you are going on a virtual tour of Chester Zoo! Here are Thursday's tasks:  Thursday 18th June . Have a good day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you're all having a lovely day. We loved making the rain cloud in a jar at school! Did you find out any interesting facts about the weather? Tomorrow we are looking at David Attenborough and the Animal Kingdom. Tomorrow's experiment asks for lard but you could always see if butter works if you don't have any! Here are your tasks for Wednesday:  Wednesday 17th June Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello class 4, I hope you have had a great weekend and have enjoyed your first day of science week! We had lots of fun making paper plate solar systems in school. Tomorrow, we are looking at the weather.  Some of the suggested activities  are investigations that require materials such as shaving foam and food colouring. Please don't feel you have to complete these if you don't have all of the resources. Here are the activities for Tuesday:  Thursday 16th June Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, *Monday's task is below this post on the blog* I hope you've all had a lovely week. I just wanted to share some of the amazing art that I have seen this week. Once again, I am very impressed with what you have all created. Toby created a fantastic reflection of the sun in his impressionist painting. I am really pleased you enjoyed this activity and  I really love the colours you have used to create a sunset too! Well done Toby Flora has created an excellent landscape in the impressionist style. I am really impressed with the different shades of colour used in the sky, the sun, the water and on the hill! Great job Flora!   James T had a lovely morning last week creating an impressive Monet inspired landscape. I really like the idea to use glue spreaders to help with the impressionist style! The colours really stand out next to each other in both pieces and the boats in the water look great too. Well done James!   Ed has been very busy wit

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you all had an excellent weekend! Our topic for this week is Science which is always fun!  To start off our Science Week, we are looking at Outer Space, I always find Outer Space a fascinating topic so I hope you enjoy it. Here are your tasks:  Monday 15th June There are lots of suggested activities for you to do but please don't feel you have to complete them all, you could pick and choose your favourites! The activities focus on Astronauts/Cosmonauts, The Solar System and the recent Space X expedition. Did anyone watch the Space X launch? Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you all enjoyed learning about Claude Monet today, tomorrow we are looking at Vincent Van Gogh and Berthe Morisot. Here are the tasks for Friday:  Friday 12th June Our friends from Open the Book have shared another story  'Jesus and the Tax Man'  for us to listen to! I hope you have a fantastic weekend. Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you all enjoyed looking at Surrealism today! We are going back to impressionism for the rest of the week. I have seen a few fantastic impressionist paintings from you and it is so great to see you are enjoying this topic as much as I am. I will share the excellent work with you by the end of the week! If you would like to send in any more excellent work I would love to see it! For Thursday's task we are finding more out about the founder of impressionist art, Claude Monet. Here are your tasks:  Thursday 11th June Note to parents: this task involves some research on the internet. I have provided links to child-friendly websites but if they search for more facts on different website, I recommend adults should supervise.  Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you've had  a lovely day, I have been having a go at some impressionist painting today at school! Tomorrow, we are looking at surrealism just for the day as we found some nice activities for you to have a look at. We will carry on with impressionism on Thursday. Here are Wednesday's activities:  Wednesday 10th June Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you have all enjoyed your first day of Arts Week, I have been with Class 5 today and we have had fun creating expressionist paintings. Tomorrow, we are going to be looking at the key features of impressionism in closer detail and experimenting with brushstrokes and colours. Here are your activities: Tuesday 9th June I just thought i'd share a copy of an impressionist painting of Venice I did a few years ago.  As you know,  I am a huge fan of impressionism and pointillism! Have a  look at the colours used as reflections in the water along with the brush strokes. I'd love to see what impressionist paintings you come up with throughout the week! Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you have all had a fantastic weekend! This week is a very exciting week for me, it's Arts week! 🎨 A few weeks ago we looked at the style of art called Pointillism, this is one of my favourite styles. This week we are going to look at a very similar style called Impressionism. We are starting off the week finding out what impressionism is.  I would love to see lots of your amazing art work throughout the week and may even have a go at some impressionist art myself! Here are your tasks for Monday 8th June I have found another PowerPoint with some ideas for how you could present your research on impressionism:  impressionism Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I have read two more chapters of Gangsta Granny for you. I apologise for the delay, I was having technical issues on Friday.  We find out more about Ben's enthusiasm for plumbing and he spends another boring night with Granny! Gangsta Granny Chapter 3 and 4 I hope you enjoy! Miss Dimond

Hello Class 4, I hope you've had a good first week back of Home Learning! Here is your task for Friday: Friday 5th June Our friends from Open the Book have kindly shared another story for us:  Jesus and the Children I have also recorded two more chapters of Gangsta Granny that I will upload today or tomorrow!  There is also a message from Mrs Mason: Dear Parents, this week we would have been having Science week at Holy Apostles and we would have been attending the Cheltenham Science Festival and taking part in lots of Science activities in school. We will be having a Science focus in a couple of weeks but you may be aware the Cheltenham Science Festival has gone live online this week, so we thought you may want to take a look at what’s on offer. Here is the link. https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/science-home/ In addition to this there is a link for free resources  https://fun-science.org.uk/cheltenham We will include links to Cheltenham Science Festiva

Hello Class 4, I hope you've had a good week so far and have been enjoying the CPSHE activities. Thursday's task is a creative one with the opportunity for you to design your own theme-park. Here are the tasks:  Thursday 4th June . Have a great day! Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you're all making the most of the lovely sunshine before the weather changes. Here are your activities for tomorrow:  Wednesday 3rd June I hope you have a lovely day, Miss Dimond

Good afternoon Class 4, I hope you had a great first day back to learning at home! I hope you enjoyed the PSHE and PE activities. We enjoyed them at school. Here are your tasks for Tuesday:  Tuesday 2nd June Have a good day! Miss Dimond