Birch Class - Year 4
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Mrs J Shields
Class Teacher
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Miss Kerry Parker
Class teacher
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Mrs A Willetts
Teaching & Learning Assistant
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Mrs Julie Chiswell
Teaching assistant
The Lost Words highlights the disappearance of wild childhood. It is a celebration - in art and word - of nature and its wonders. With acrostic spell-poems, this book evokes the magic of language and nature.
'When Elliot wishes upon a star, he doesn't expect a constellation to crash into a dungheap on his family farm.
The star is Virgo. She thinks she's perfect. Elliot doesn't. And together they release Thanatos, evil Daemon of Death ... epic fail.
They need the King of the Gods and his noble steed. Instead, they get Zeus and his high horse Pegasus.
Are the Gods really ready to save the world? And is the world really ready for the Gods?'
Term 5 we are focussing on Geography; our local area and caring for our environment. We are using two text to enhance our learning. These are Window and Greta and the Giants.
Window is looks at our changing environment. A mother and baby look through a window at a view of wilderness and sky as far as the eye can see. With each page, the boy grows and the scene changes. At first, in a clear patch of forest, a single house appears. A few years pass and there is a village in the distance… When the boy is twenty, will he recognize the view from his window?
Greta and The Giants ... Greta is a little girl who lives in a beautiful forest threatened by Giants. When the Giants first came to the forest, they chopped down trees to make houses. Then they chopped down more trees and made even bigger homes. The houses grew into towns and the towns grew into cities, until now there is hardly any forest left. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? Luckily, Greta has an idea…
As part of our topic work this term, we wrote our own biographies all about Alexander Graham Bell. Using different media types we firstly researched many interesting facts about his early life, ambitions and successes. After that, we practised organising other biographies so that we were able to spot the different features as well as understand how the information is organised. Please look at part of this journey below.