Grade 4 Term 2 Week 1

Inquiry

We have started the unit of our second term back – it is all about how we express ourselves. We are looking at how our own beliefs and values influence our personal expression. This week we have been looking at different styles of art from around the world. We have looked particularly at pop art.  Our class tried to recreate some Andy Warhol inspired pictures. First we took a picture of our faces and then traced them. Then we painted them in different bold and bright colors. After that we copied a series of our portraits and designed them in different bright colors.

We had lots of fun.

Language

This week we have been expanding our language and vocabulary by exploring how we can write about art. We have developed our language and learnt about the different ways we can talk about a piece of artwork.  We wrote about what people used to create art like lines, form, texture and shape. We used this language in order to explain and give our opinions on famous paintings. We had to choose from 7 choices. We wrote what we saw, how we felt, and who was the artist.

PSPE

We practiced how to play soccer. We learned how to kick a ball up. Then we played the game.  We had lots of fun and learned a lot about soccer.

 Math

This week we are starting to look at patterns in mathematics, in particular those linked to our times tables. We played a game to help us revise our number facts. We had a dice and rolled it 2 times and multiplied them, marking off a number on a bingo board. The person who had 4 numbers in a row won. Everyone enjoyed it. We then looked at patterns using shapes and made our own. After that we began to look at patterns using numbers and a hundred square.