Wednesday 13th May

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:25pm

Hello to all of my lovely Goldfinches,

I hope you all liked the Matida video that we made for you for Monday! Today I have made another little video clip for you to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48Sduc1GdrM&feature=youtu.be  (Making and uploading Youtube videos is a skill I never thought I would ever acomplish so i'm feeling a little proud of myself!)

After a couple of weeks of doing different exercise we are doing PE with Joe Wicks again. We did the Monday 11th session which was fun (but hard) because he did it with spin the wheel to decide the exercises and yesterday's roll the dice workout! - they have given us more ideas for our own garden circuit workout for the next warm, sunny day.

Yesterday my 3 used the food diary sheet from Monday's blog to record all of the things they ate. We are going to have a look at them today and see if we can make one or two healthier choices (although we will still make sure there is room for a little treat!) 

We noticed this weekend that the potatoes Toby planted about 8 weeks ago are peeping through the soil now. How are your sunflowers and beans growing? 

School Jobs:

English: Today this is a great lesson for reminding you all about Fronted adverbials from 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'  https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/story-spag-focus-fronted-adverbials-year-4-wk2-4

Mindfulness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_qU7l-fcU This is a lovely guided session. Sit comfortably, press play and just listen and relax. 

Times Tables: TTRockstars. I have updated the focus tables so you will find that in some weeks you are asked to practise tables we have already learned and in other weeks you will practice the newer times tables. I can imagine you are becoming absolutely brilliant at them. If you like the times table grids I have attached one for you.

Spellings: Keep going with your review of the 100 High Frequency Words. If you have checked these and they're all fine, just have a review of some of the words we have already covered in the first few columns of the Y3/4 Statutory words. Practise those really tricky ones!

Have a wonderful day and remember it is still really important to continue with Social Distancing. Stay Safe and be Happy, 

Mrs Evans 

Message from Mrs Powell with a link to her Youtube worship.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfvYnMRuDI

In 1984, Chris Baines actually sent out an invitation to his friends asking them to meet him at 4 am. His birthday plan was to have all his guests listen to the dawn chorus together. The dawn chorus is the singing of many birds before dawn each day.

This all happens about an hour before sunrise. At this time of day, it is too dark for the birds to search for food, but also too dark for them to be spotted by predators. There is less background noise, too, so the air is still and sound carries for a greater distance. There is a sequence to the dawn chorus. Robins, blackbirds and thrushes start first, which may be because they have biggish eyes to see in the dark and because they like to look for worms. After a while, all the other birds join in.

Have you noticed the birds singing? I think it is lovely to think that we are all listening to the birds and enjoying their bird song even though we are apart.

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