Recounts are a way of retelling an important event or describing an experience that you have had to others, such as a school trip or a funny story. Year 4 have been looking at the features of a recount and they have started to plan their recount of the residential trip to St.Briavels. The children have collected powerful adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Listen carefully to their collection of words for each part of trip.
From Tuesday 8th- Thursday 10th May Year 4 went on their annual trip to St.Briavel's Castle in Gloucestershire. On day two the children recorded an interview live in the castle with Mrs Patmore. They discussed the trip so far and what they have enjoyed.
Year 4 were asked to write a story of their own choice over the Easter holiday. Here is a selection of the wonderful stories. Enjoy tales such as: 'The last day of school', 'Hop the bunny' and 'Tea with Mrs Patmore.'
'Guess the sound' is our monthly listening game. Listen carefully; I will play the clip three times. It is a familiar sound from around school. When you have decided send your answer into the Guestbook. All the correct answers will be put into a hat, a winner will be chosen at random and they will receive a prize at the end of the month. Good luck!!
The story read to the children this week focuses on the identification of cognates (words that are identical or very similar in English and in the target language).
Zebra and zèbre are cognates. In the text the word “zèbre” is associated with the adjective “rayé” giving us strong clues that the likely meaning of ‘rayé’ is stripy.
Year 4 have been studying newspapers; looking closely at the features and layout of a newspaper article. They thoroughly enjoyed the Year 3 assembly and have written an article all about it!
This term year 4 have been studying newspapers, looking closely at the features of a newspaper or magazine article. They read an article on cyberbullying and have used this to write their own. All the stories are fictional.
Sounds containing the letter ‘r’ are notoriously difficult to pronounce. This poem gives you the opportunity, first to identify them (a good listening exercise) then to pronounce them. There is also the possibility to differentiate between the two main ‘r’ sounds in French which are ‘ar’ and ‘èr’.
How many in total can you hear in the poem? Can you try to write them?
Two main phonemes are the focus of today’s reading: the sound ‘or’ and then ‘ui’. Both are difficult to pronounce as they have no equivalent in the English language. The letter (grapheme) ‘r’ is very guttural and needs to gently come from the back of your throat. The phoneme ‘ui’ is to be pronounced with what I call a pinched mouth.
Have a go and hear how it compares to the recording.
The snail is a very strong symbol of the French culture. In this poem, the vocabulary focuses on two main sounds ‘o’ and ‘y’ which are written ‘o as in escargot’ and ‘ill as in coquille’. Try to identify them in the reading.
'Guess the sound' is our monthly listening game. Listen carefully; I will play the clip three times. It is a familiar sound from around school. When you have decided send your answer into the Guestbook. All the correct answers will be put into a hat, a winner will be chosen at random and they will receive a prize at the end of the month. Good luck!!
