- Fir Tree Junior School
'Learning and Growing Together'
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- Fir Tree Junior School, Radnor Road,
- Wallingford, England, OX10 0NY
- Email: office.2578@fir-tree.oxon.sch.uk
- Tel: (01491) 836341
- Headteacher: Mr M Knight
Ash Year 4
Welcome to Ash Class Year 4 2024/25
The class teacher is Miss Hutchings and our teaching assistants are Miss Walton and Mrs Joy. This page will be updated regularly to update you on what Ash class having been doing at school.
Homework will be set on a Friday and due in the following Thursday. Paper copies are available in the classroom which children are encouraged to collect themselves if needed.
Project homework (Rivers) is due on Thursday 17th October.
PE days for term 1 will be on Tuesday (football) and Friday (netball).
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Term 2 - Our Projects for this term are Wallingford Castle and Disgusting Digestion
Term 1 - Our projects for this term are Top One Picture and Rivers
PE - Netball matches
Poetry - The River
Here is the poem which inspired our performance poetry below
The River
The River's a wanderer,
A nomad, a tramp.
He doesn't choose any one place,
To set up his camp.
The river's a winder,
Through valley and hill,
He twists and he turns,
He just cannot be still.
The river's a hoarder,
And he buries down deep,
Those little treasures
That he wants to keep.
The river's a baby,
He gurgles and hums,
And sounds like he's happily
Sucking his thumbs.
The river's a singer,
As he dances along,
The countryside echoes,
The notes of his song.
The river's a monster,
Hungry and vexed,
He's gobbled up trees
And he'll swallow you next.
Performance poetry - stanza six
Performance poetry - stanza five
Performance poetry - stanza four
Performance poetry - stanza three
Performance poetry - stanza two
Performance poetry - stanza one
Creating water cycle songs
The Water Cycle song
Creating Water Cycle songs
The Water Cycle
Non-chronological reports about river animals
Pointillism River Scene
Learning about Pointillism with trees
Science - States of Matter
To help learn about a solid turning into a liquid, we used ice and chocolate milk to try and make "ice cream." First, we warmed our hands by rubbing them together to raise the temperature. Then, we held the ice in our hands to start the melting process. We added ice to help too. After that, we added chocolate milk to try and make an "ice cream" consistency. It was lots of fun and we all tried some chocolate milk at the end of the lesson.
"When the ice melts it turns from a solid to a liquid."
"The salt makes the ice melt fast, like when we put salt on the roads when it's icy."
Art inspired by Claude Monet
Personification Freezeframes - we wrote sentences in our books to describe our freezeframe.
Expanded Noun Phrases to describe our TOP
Take One Picture - Writing
We learnt about personification and wrote paragraphs describing the different objects in the painting.
Take One Picture - Art
As part of our Take One Picture project, we first identified the colours used in the painting, then practised using oil pastels and finally, re-created our TOP in our sketch pads.
