Hedgehogs (Years 3 and 4)

Miss Kelson - Class Teacher	Mrs Stenton - Class Teaching Assistant	Mrs Day -  Class Teaching Assistant	Mrs Lux - Class Teaching Assistant

 Our learning in Hedgehogs

We have started to plan our non-chronological reports about the new habitat ‘The Mushroom World’ we have created. We have been deciding on the climate, where it’s located and what lives there. 

We have been working on our handwriting and have been practicing writing the seasons. 

We learnt how to ask for a kilo or half a kilo of different vegetables in Spanish. We completed a shopping list to match the pictures. 

We have been learning about how to classify living things in Science. We worked in groups to sort our animals into 2 groups based on their characteristics. 

We have been enjoying our gymnastics in PE. We have been practising different shapes and rolls and using our teamwork to put these into sequences.

We have been exploring South America in Geography. We have used atlases and maps to find out which countries are in the continent, where it is in the world and some of the features, like mountains.

In Writing, we have been learning the story Flooded. We have started to innovate the story by changing the ending. We came up with ideas about a ship that could be built for the animals to escape on. We took part in some roleplay to help them with this, where we took on the roles of animals building the ship by working together. 

In DT, we have been learning about textile products and disassembled some teddy bears to look at how they were made and how the pieces were joined together. 

We have been busy writing diary entries to show what we have learnt about the Romans in History. We remembered to include our fantastic facts and we are shared so much new knowledge! 

We are loving our ukelele lessons in Music. We have been learning how to hold it accurately and how to  make our instrument make different sounds. We look forward to playing some Christmas music later in the term! 

We have been practising our new spelling words with the rule 'words with /g+z/ spelled ' 

We have been continuing to learn about the Romans in History. We have been looking at how the new ideas around building towns were brought to Roman Britain. We looked at different Roman architecture in Britain, sharing what we noticed and asking questions. 

We have been exploring what electricity is and generating our own questions that we would like to find the answers to. 

We have been using all of the skills we have learnt this term to play a game of rounders in PE.

We have been writing our stories based on The Dragon Machine. We have brought together all of the learning we have already done this term to write from George's perspective and add lots of description. 

We are continuing to use the boomwhackers in Music to keep in time and develop our rhythm. We are enjoying playing along to different songs. 

In Science, we are learning about solids, liquids and gases. We have looked at how the particles are arranged in each of these. 

We are learning to use Scratch to do some coding in Computing. We have been experimenting with motion blocks and creating movements for more than one sprite. 

We have started our Geography learning about mountains. We have found out how they are formed and where they can be found both in the UK and around the world.