Year 4
Visiting the Agora in Athens
We were each given roles of people in the Agora and we had to ask each other what we were doing there.
Answer lies on the pot discussion
Children discussed what the answer could be and discussed in groups
Ancient Greek Pot
We discussed what artwork on an Ancient Greek pot might mean.
Y4 life in Athens
Role play to learn about who visited the Agora in Greece
Conscious alley
Safer Internet Day poem
Building circuits
Today we discussed how to build an electrical circuit and how to get a light bulb to work.
Making circuits
We used equipment to see if we could make a circuit by lighting a bulb and making a buzzer create sound, we then used switches to see if we could turn these on and off.
Circuit breaking
We learnt about how if one person is not holding hands, the circuit breaks
4HH poetry recital
How do electrical items work
We looked at a variety of electrical toys and discussed how we thought they worked. Thinking about whether they were battery or mains powered and why.
Y4 mystery artefact
The children were discussion what our mystery artefact could be
4JM poem recital
We practised our oracy skills by retiring a poem about mountains
Big question
The children discussed why do bad things happen.
Solid, liquid and gas
Sorting mountains and hills
We looked at what defines a mountain and a hill and sorted some local ones that can be found in the surrounding area.
Scientific Experiment on Gases
We tested which drink is the fizziest by weighing the drink and then shaking it until flat. After this, we weighed it again to see which one had lost the most weight and therefore had lost the most gas.
Mountain vocabulary
We looked at the features of a mountain by sorting statements to photos
Taps experiment
We looked at which biscuit was the best dunker!
Chocolate experiment
We looked at different ways of how to melt chocolate