Year 4 News
Mrs Whiting
Hi, I am Mrs Whiting and I am the Year 4 teacher at Keyingham Primary School. I joined the Keyingham family in September 2021. I have 2 children who keep me very busy and if I find the time I enjoy running, music concerts and going to the theatre (which doesn’t happen a great deal now!). I don’t get the opportunity to read as much as I would like at the moment, other than with your amazing children in class, but a few years ago I came across the book ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse’ by Charlie Mackesy – a truly worthwhile read!
- 15/12/23
15/12/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘How does light impact the size of a shadow?’ We learned that the closer the light source is the smaller the shadow will be. We watched a video that showed the sun moving across the sky the shadow got bigger. We also learned that wherever the sun i...Read Full Story - 08/12/23
08/12/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘How can we code directions and timers into our game?’. We learned how to make our turtle character on 2code chimp turn in a 90 degree direction and how to add timers so the magician could pull a rabbit out of his hat and make it disappear and reap...Read Full Story - 01/12/23
01/12/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘What is the Pentecost?’ We learned that it was the day the Holy Spirit came to visit Jesus’ disciples. They described the wind coming down and giving them the power to speak lots of different languages so they could travel around the world t...Read Full Story - 23/11/23
24/11/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘What is transparent, translucent and opaque?’ We learned that transparent is when you can see really well through it, such as a window, translucent is when you can see a little through, like a water bottle and opaque is when you can’t see an...Read Full Story - 17/11/23
17/11/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘How to solve conflict?’ We learned that is important to know when to walk away from a problem and let the situation calm down and then come back and apologise or ‘fix it’ later. In RE, we asked ‘How does the Trinity effects Chris...Read Full Story - 10/11/23
10/11/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘When did the stone age take place?’ We learned that the world is around 5 billion years old and we learned the names of the three eras within the stone age: palaeolithic, Mesolithic, neolithic, which meant old, middle and new stone. We also learne...Read Full Story - 26/10/23
26/10/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘How can we fold corners on a box without cutting it?’ We finished our box project this week, using PVA glue to strengthen the fabric. We also asked, ‘What is soil?’ We learned that soil is made out of fragments of rock, dead leaves and...Read Full Story - 20/10/23
20/10/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘How can we make our boxes in DT more appealing to our target audience?’ We added patterned fabric to the inside of our boxes. We also asked ‘How can we make a Bible Blurb?’ We included the things we have learned about the Old and New T...Read Full Story - 13/10/23
13/10/2023
This week in class we have been asking, ‘What is a megafauna?’ We learned that ‘mega’ means big and ‘fauna’ means animal, so a megafauna is a big animal. We also asked, ‘How can we make a box out of fabric?’ We found out, that if we put card firs...Read Full Story - 06/10/23
06/10/2023
This week in class we have been asking: ‘How can we stiffen cloth with different solutions?’ One solution we used was hairspray, we also used liquid starch, cornflour solution, gelatine, flour and water and PVA glue. We also asked: ‘How are fossils made...Read Full Story - 29/09/23
29/09/2023
This week in class we have been asking ‘What would a Theologist think when looking at the Bible?’ We learned that the writing in the Bible is called scripture and that sometimes they stories might not be reliable because they happened a long time before they were written. We also asked...Read Full Story - 22/09/23
22/09/2023
This week in class we have been asking ‘What is county, region and country?’ We learned that our country is England, which is part of the British Isles. Whereas a county is much smaller. Our county is East Riding of Yorkshire. We also asked, ‘What are the 3 types of rocks?’ W...Read Full Story