Class 4 Class Blog

Amelia
20 March 2020

I am missing you guys all ready

Miss Johnston
22 March 2020

Hi Amelia-all of the St John’s staff feel the same!Message on here anytime you want to and we will reply...

Mrs Firminger
22 March 2020

Hi Amelia, missing all year 4 too. I hope you and your brother enjoy using your new classroom. Just ask if you need help with anything.

Mrs Firminger
22 March 2020

Hi Class 4, hope you’ve all had a great weekend ????

Lacey
23 March 2020

I miss you all ready

Mrs Firminger
23 March 2020

Hi Lacey, hope you’ve had a good weekend and are enjoying the sunshine!

Joshua Nistor
23 March 2020

I have been doing some maths today.
I did page 6 and 7 from Key Stage two maths.
Also my mum made me read :)
I cant wait to go to school tomorrow.

Mrs Firminger
23 March 2020

That’s good to hear Joshua, I’m glad you’re keeping busy.

Tobias robinson
24 March 2020

Hi guys i am missing school. Mum is making me do loads of school work im not aloud on my xbox till after 3pm. Cant wait till tomorrow mum is at work so i can do less work.

Tobias
25 March 2020

has anyone done page 9 that can help whith Question 3?

Mrs Firminger
25 March 2020

I’m glad you’re working hard Tobias, tell your Mum well done from me ????. I haven’t got a maths book here but if you tell me the question I can help or maybe Aaliyah could help.

Joshua Nistor
26 March 2020

Tobias, I have done page 9 question 3 just ask me what you need help with

Josh
27 March 2020

Hi, I am at school and there is only me and Maizie from Class 4, I'm missing you all.

Mrs Firminger
27 March 2020

Hi Joshua and Tobias, hope Joshua managed to help you out with maths Tobias. Will see you both soon.

Mrs Firminger
30 March 2020

Good morning Year 4, I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.
I have signed you all up for classroom secrets kids https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/
There are lots of maths and English activities you can do online.
I have your usernames and passwords so let me know if you want it.
Have a great day and see you all soon hopefully.

Tobias
31 March 2020

Can i please have my log in

Annabel egan
31 March 2020

Hi I miss everyone hope school re opens

Annabel egan
31 March 2020

Hi class 4
I miss everyone hope school re opens soon.
Me and Daniel made cards for the residents at my mums work, to make them smile.
Stay safe everyone

Mrs Firminger
31 March 2020

Tobias - can you email me, then I can email your log in details securely? If not I'm in school next Wednesday and Thursday, if you are too I could give you it then.

Annabel, that was so kind of Daniel and you to make cards, I bet the residents will love them.

Let me know what you've all been up to.

Stay safe x

Mrs Firminger
1 April 2020

Hello year 4, I hope you are all well.

Our last 2 science lessons this half term were about food chains. Have a look at the links below, watch the videos and have a go at some of the activities.
You could create a food chain mobile or food chain puppets. Why not draw a food chain in your exercise book or challenge yourself and draw a food web!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q

https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/food-chains

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=food+chain

Annabel Egan
2 April 2020

I miss u so much everyone. Hoped everyone clapped for the carers

Miss Johnston
3 April 2020

Hi Class 4- I hope you are all okay and enjoying your time with your families at home. All of the staff at St John’s are missing you and we would like to know what you have been doing at home! We would like you to email us some photographs for us to share on the school website, please email to: info@st-John.blackpool.sch.uk
Stay safe
Miss Johnston x

Mrs Tiribocchi
3 April 2020

Hello Class 4,
Hope you are all keeping well. I was so glad to find out that we can keep in touch through class blogs, it's really important that in these strange times we keep communicating with each other. Isn't it exciting to know that we are making history? We should ask Mrs Galloway if we can add this to the history timeline on the stairs. ????.
What have you all been up to? I have been helping my children with their school work and taking our dog, Luna, to the beach every afternoon for an hour. She has never had so much exercise (neither have I ????).
Hey Dennis that book you helped me choose from the library about food for birds has been really useful, I've made some fat balls out of lard and sunflower seeds.
Keep safe guys, really miss you I can't wait to hear what you've all been up to ????

Mrs Tiribocchi
5 April 2020

Good Morning everyone,
Well it's Palm Sunday today, as you know, this is the day that Jesus went to Jerusalem on a donkey and people were so happy to see him they lay long leaves in his path and realised that he was King of the Lord.
Usually I would be at church, walking around the streets with all the congregation, being led by a donkey to symbolise Jesus's procession.
Did you know that every donkey has a cross on their back? Many people believe this is a sign from God.
Anyway today I can't go to church, instead I have hung some green leaves on my front door to remind people what a special day it is today.

By the way, I didn't realise that emojis turned into question marks on these blogs, I'm even beginning to miss emojis (I'd have put a laughing one here if I could !) xx

Mrs Firminger
5 April 2020

Hello Class 4

I hope you have all had a lovely Sunday. If you are missing church check out their Facebook page. Reverend Steve is recording services and there are videos of Lauren doing story and singing sessions.

I have been out in the garden reading my book and watching the hundreds of tadpoles that have hatched in my pond! I’ll ask Miss Johnston if she can put a photo on here for you to see.

I would love to hear what you have all been getting up to, let me know. How is home learning going?

Well, next week we would have been performing our Passion Play in church. I know how much you were enjoying the songs so I’ve put links to 2 of them below so you can have a sing a long at home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvnik63yr9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHq2iKhRto

Take care xx

Mrs Firminger
7 April 2020

Hello everyone

I hope you’ve all been enjoying the sunshine.

I hope you are all enjoying finding out about the Pendle Witches. Let me know what you have done so far. Have you found out any interesting or puzzling facts?

I’m looking forward to being in school on Wednesday and Thursday, maybe I’ll see some of you there.

Mrs Firminger
8 April 2020

Hello!
I’ve had a lovely day today in school with Maisie, Dalton, Bella and Teia. It was so sunny we spent most of the day outside.
Mrs Stanton and Mrs Stephenson say hello and that they are missing you.
Take care x

Maizie
12 April 2020

Soon I’m getting an inflatable pool to play in with my sisters and brother

Mrs Firminger
13 April 2020

Hello everyone
I hope you’ve all had a lovely Easter and eaten lots of Easter eggs!
Are you having fun learning at home with your families?
Don’t forget to email some photos of the things you’ve been doing so they can goon the website.
Take care xx

Miss Johnston
16 April 2020

Hi everyone-I hope everyone is okay and enjoying the sunshine!
I have set up a new Sumdog account for everyone in KS2.
If you would like your username and password please e-mail (or ask your parent to e-mail):
info@st-john.blackpool.sch.uk
Thank you.

Annabel
16 April 2020

Clap for the carers
Can anyone give me a Question about the pendle witches so i can search it up

Mrs Firminger
17 April 2020

Hello year 4

Hope you are all doing well.

In science we would have been learning about states of matter and doing lots of exciting investigations.
If you have a look on the websites there are some investigations you can do at home.
https://momforallseasons.com/states-of-matter-science-experiments-for-kids/
https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/crafts/science-projects/science-projects-for-kids-states-of-matter.htm
Take some photos of your experiments and email them to go on the website - it would be great to see how you get on.

I've found a quiz about the Pendle Witches, why not give it a go - you might have to research some of the answers. Maybe you could have a go at writing your own quiz and posting it on here for others to have a go at answering.

Annabel - thank you so much for the letter, it really brightened my day :)

Take care everyone and see you all soon I hope x

Mrs Firminger
17 April 2020

Here's the link to the Pendle Witches quiz.

https://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz2642331e40840.html

Annabel
23 April 2020

Mrs Firminger welcome for letter can't wait to see you on Wednesday

Miss everyone
Anyone need help with key stage two maths I will help because I have finshed

Miss Johnston
24 April 2020

**Blackpool Sumdog Maths Competition**
Hi everyone, I hope you are all okay and staying safe.
I have entered all of the KS2 classes in the Blackpool Sumdog Maths Competition-it started this morning at 8am and runs until next Thursday.
Please log on to Sumdog and answer as many questions as you can-it would be great to win the competition and practise your maths skills at the same time!

Miss Johnston
27 April 2020

Hi Class 4-we need more players from Class 4 to play in the Blackpool Sumdog competition so you can appear on the leaderboard. Class 6 are currently 1st on the leaderboard!Please can you encourage children in Class 4 to join the competition and play. Remember-the competition is until Thursday night so lots of time to answer as many questions as you can...

Alfie
27 April 2020

Hi Mrs Firminger on page 11 on the ks2 English punctuation o question number 5 is it to do with question number 4

Mrs Firminger
28 April 2020

Hello everyone

I hope you are all OK.

Our art work this half term is all about digital media. There are 3 websites we can use to manipulate images and photographs. Why not explore them and have a go. You can use images from Google or photographs of your own.

It would be great to see some of your results so email them to school then we can all have a look.

https://pixlr.com/editor/

https://www.pixilart.com/ (this one is for drawing - why not draw a witch and email it to me!)

https://sumopaint.com/flash/

Have fun creating!

Miss Johnston
30 April 2020

Hi everyone-sounds like you some of you are completing lots of work at home-keep it up!A quick reminder the Blackpool Maths Sumdog competition finishes tonight at 8pm. Please try and go on Sumdog today and answer a few more maths questions for us...
If you have any work to share with us or photographs of your homelearning please e-mail:
info@st-john.blackpool.sch.uk
I hope you are all okay and staying safe...

Annabel
30 April 2020

I answered all 1000 questions so I got £2.50 on Monday

Please let me know what you are up to i have been baking

Annabel
30 April 2020

Mrs Firminger, how do I send my witch to you?

Mes Firminger
30 April 2020

Hi Alfie
Lovely to hear from you, hope you are ok. I haven't a copy of the book at home so will have look at school tomorrow and let you know.

Mrs Firminger
1 May 2020

Hi Alfie - once you have matched the subordinate and main clauses then you write the sentence out on the lines below e.g. When you go abroad, you need to have a passport.
Remember to put the comma in between the clauses!

Mrs Firminger
7 May 2020

Hello everyone
Hope you are all well.
Tomorrow the country will be celebrating VE day, when we remember the surrender of Germany and the ending of World War 2.

Here's a short video clip explaining what its all about.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-ve-day/z7xtmfr

Why don't you base tomorrow's home learning on VE day? Here's some ideas:

- make some bunting to hang in your windows. There's some here you can print and colour. https://www.bakerross.co.uk/craft-ideas/teachers/ve-day-anniversary-colour-in-bunting/

- do some baking - Union Jack cookies or cupcakes - it would be great to see a picture of them!

- find some facts and post them on here or write a quiz on here that we can have a o at answering.

- write a newspaper report to explain what happened on VE day.

- watch the Pathe newsclip https://www.britishpathe.com/video/ve-day-celebrations Can you make your own news clip?

- Have a go at code cracking and Morse Code

Don't forget to send some photos so they can go on the school website.

Take care xx

Amelia
7 May 2020

Hope you guys are OK .We are having fun at the same time as working. Since its Ramadan I am learning about Ramadan and i have set up a little room of decorations for Ramadan. There is candles, calendars with surprises in and balloons chocolates and books to read. And colouring sheets. I am working really hard on Ramadan calendars and school work. I might send some photos, if I can find a way to put it on this blog.

Amelia
7 May 2020

I miss school.

Mrs Firminger
7 May 2020

Hi Amelia
Lovely to hear from you. If you email some photos to school then Miss Johnston will put them on the website, I don’t think you put photos on this blog. It would be great to see your decorations for Ramadan.
You did such a fab job teaching us about prayer, maybe you could do the same for Ramadan? Teaching us all about it on here would be great.
Take care

Annabel
7 May 2020

Hi amelia
I miss school so much to i hope school re opens because I am bored all ready.
I all so nearly finished my pedle witch

Stay safe, stay home, save lives

Amelia
11 May 2020

Hi Mrs Firminger and Annabel
I would love to show and tell Ramadan but I want to bring things in so I will just have to show pictures and a story of my Ramadan at the same time as lock-down we are still in Ramadan so still cant tell you of how Ramadan is anyway Eid is still coming up and my birthday so we might have family time with just me, mum, dad and my little brother and a party with just us. Annabel do you need help on your pendle witches if you do you can ask me because I finished mine. Hope your all OK.

Mrs Firminger
12 May 2020

Morning year 4

I hope you are all well.

This week in maths we would be looking at money. Adding up coins to find different amounts, writing money using decimal notation (pounds and pence e.g. 357p = £3.57) and comparing different amounts of money using < > = e.g. £4.05 < £4.50

Please practice doing this at home, if possible using real money!

There are also some activities you can use online or print off to practice.

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/pounds-and-pence-year-4-money-free-resource-pack/

https://wrm-13b48.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/homelearning/year-4/Lesson-3-Y4-Summer-Block-2-WO1-Pounds-and-pence-2020.pdf

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ (video lesson 4)

www.topmarks.co.uk/money/coins-game

https://www.math-salamanders.com/year-4-money-challenges.html

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/solving-problems-money-year-4/ (online quiz)

Have fun!

Annabel
14 May 2020

Hi Amelia

I have finshed my pendle witch home work now so I don't need your help.
Thank you for asking me

Hi Mrs Firminger
I am going to practice money today are you in next week on a wednesday

Mrs Firminger
14 May 2020

Hello Year 4
It's another lovely day again. How are you all doing?
I know you have already looked at some coding software with Mr Thorpe in computing lessons, but why not have a go at this https://lightbot.com/flash.html (you need flash player so will need to use microsoft edge not chrome).
It gets quite tricky! See how you do, what level did you get to?

Mrs Firminger
17 May 2020

Hello year 4

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend in the sun. What did you get up to?

This week in maths it's statistics, looking at line graphs. Here are some links to online activities and printable sheets you can use to practice. You could have a go at drawing your own line graphs too.

https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is-a-line-graph

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WkqfJBfXic (explains how to answer questions from a line graph)

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-4/interpret-line-graphs

https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-4/create-line-graphs

https://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/line-graph.php

https://www.math-salamanders.com/line-graphs-worksheet.html

http://www.mathster.com/worksheets/KS1%20&%20KS2%20Free%20Maths%20Worksheets/Line%20graphs%20-%20reading%20and%20drawing.pdf

Any problems, just ask. Have fun!

Mrs Tiribocchi
18 May 2020

Wow, this is our 9th week of Lockdown!!! Considering we haven't been doing very much I think the time has passed quickly, do you? I am at school today, it feels really strange without you guys here, I can't wait to see you all again. Have you been on BBC bitesize? I think its awesome, my son uses it a lot and I must confess i've been polishing up on my SPAG and maths! My son has had to do World War 2 project and as part of it we had a VE Day party and made some scarecrows to sit in the garden, they made people laugh who were walking past and we got on the local News on TV too which was incredibly exciting!! We are still writing our diary and saving keepsakes of Lockdown to remember this surreal time. You are all going to receive a letter from your teachers soon , maybe you'll keep it as a momento? Well I had better get on with my work, hope you are all well and happy and I very much look forward to seeing you soon. In the meantime keep safe and carry on being kind to everyone and yourselves. xx

Mrs Firminger
20 May 2020

Morning year 4

Lets have a go at some science - states of matter - back on the 17th April I posted some links to science investigations you could have a go at at home, I hope you've had fun trying some out.

This week I'd like you to have a look at the 3 states of water, as a solid, as a liquid and as a gas. Watch this video first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuE1LePDZ4Y

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z9ck9qt

http://www.planet-science.com/categories/under-11s/chemistry-chaos/2012/10/is-water-a-liquid,-solid-gas.aspx

- you could make some ice lollies
- fill some balloons with water and put them in the freezer. When they have frozen peel off the balloon and observe the ice. How long do they take to melt back into water?
- when an adult boils a kettle observe the steam. Ask an adult (not you!) to hold a plate above the steam - what do you notice happening?

- find out about the water cycle. You could create your own mini water cycle in a jar or bowl. There are lots of instructions online. Here is one from the met office that you could do.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/met-office-for-schools/other-content/other-resources/experiments/water-cycle

It would be great to see some photographs of your water cycles - remember to email them to school for the website.

Take care x

Joshua Nistor
21 May 2020

Hello I hope you are having a wonderful day Miss Firminger,Me and my sister are doing homework together
today and it is great thank you for more home work good bye.

Tobias robinson
21 May 2020

Hi miss whats the school code for sumdog please i forgot it. Thank you

Mrs Firminger
30 May 2020

Hello Year 4

I hope you are all enjoying half term and the beautiful weather.

I've found some great activities you could try outside in the sunshine this week.

1. Make some new crayons! Cover a paper plate with tin foil. Find some old crayons and break them up into small pieces. Put cookie cutters on the plate and fill with the broken crayons. Leave out in the sun, the crayons will melt and fill the cookie cutters. Let them cool and remove from the cookie cutters and yo have new crayons! Here's a link.
https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2009/07/melting-crayons.html

2.Make sun catchers, there are some ideas on this site for different ways of doing this.
https://artfulparent.com/stained-glass-suncatcher-ideas-kids/

3.Go on a rainbow scavenger hunt, can you find natural objects for all the colours of the rainbow? You could glue them into a rainbow shape.

4. Make bird feeders, remember how we made them at forest school? Cut an orange in half and scoop out the flesh. Mix bird seed and lard together and pack the half oranges. Hang from a tree/fence.

5. Draw shadow creatures. Find or make an interesting shadow. Draw round the outside of it. Add features e.g. eyes, scales, legs to turn it into an amazing creature!

Remember to send some photos to school for the website.

Hi Joshua, lovely to hear from you. I'm glad you are enjoying doing your work at home and working hard. Remember to use full sentences when you are answering the reading questions!

Hi Tobias, I'm not sure what the sumdog code is. If you email school I'm sure Miss Johnston will let you know it.

Stay safe in the sun everyone - remember to wear sun cream and to drink lots of water!

Annabel
2 June 2020

Hi mis Firminger

Me and daniel think the ideas soud fun we might do some one day. I think the shadow creature sounds good fun for me


Stay safe everyone