Year 4 Blog

 Year 4 revised everything they’ve learnt so far including singing their song and a new song all about stationery. They learnt a sentence structure: pour ……. Il me faut. Using verbs and stationery  which translates, for example, for writing, one will need a pen  The children practiced saying this, changing the verbs and nouns. They then chose appropriate words to fill in. 

 This term, the children are learning all about deserts.  The children were introduced to the journey of knowledge for this unit.   Then , they were given 4 photos to discuss which one they thought was a desert and which weren’t. Some very interesting comments and ideas. Which ones do you think are deserts? All of these pictures show a type of desert.  Deserts receive less than 25cm or 250mm of precipitation a year. Using a ruler the class looked at how little that was. One child commented that we definitely don’t live in a desert as we have had more rain than that this year!he was correct as on average England has 1200mm of precipitation a year. A big difference. I