Class 4D at Ashfield Park Primary

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In Literacy we have been thinking about playscripts, we decided to create our own horror stories.  We started off by using Comic Life to sequence our ideas and decide where to plan in our special effects.   Below is an example of one of our comics:
                                                         

Next we wrote out our ideas as a playscript, making sure [...]

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For the past few weeks we have been thinking about stories with dilemmas in our Literacy work.  We have created some super photostory videos to help us sequence our ideas, can you work out what dilemma the character is facing?

Today we have been thinking about how to describe our characters for our dilemma stories by [...]

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In 4D, far from trying to get the class to be quiet during numeracy, I am encouraging them to talk more! Well, as long as they are talking about numeracy. Our latest project has been to create a piece of work using ICT explaining how to do our latest method for addition, the expanded verticle [...]

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Well, it was fun in the snow at Ashfield Park today as we awoke to see a blanket of snow covering the countryside.  I’m sure all of Class 4D were as disappointed excited as me to find out that ours was the ONLY school in the area still open for business.  Nevermind, we had a great [...]

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Don’t forget to check the homework page of our blog to access your homework for this week. FUN FUN FUN!

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This week in 4D we have been learning new design and technology skills to help us create 3D houses for different faitytale characters.  Once created, we visited Mrs Robbins at Parry’s Estate Agents to help use learn all about selling houses, we really enjoyed our trip!  Finally we used the persuasive writing techniques we had [...]

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Well it’s nearly time to go back to school (hooray!), so tell me, did you have a good holiday?  What fun things did you get up to over Christmas?

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Last week in literacy we were learning about information texts.  In addition to the spiders and snakes work we wrote for the Ashfield Secret Spy on our class wiki page, we also created books full of information about our school. Click on the picture to see a slideshow of a range of pages from different [...]

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4D are going to do some work on problem solving in numeracy this week.  As part of this we are going to podcast an Agony Aunt show, where hopefully we will be able to help you by explaining how to solve your numeracy related problems.  Do you have any problems we could use for our show? Please leave [...]

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Yesterday 4D, along with the other Year 3’s and 4’s, got dressed up as Victorians and enjoyed an exciting trip out of the classroom to The Judge’s Lodging Museum in Presteigne, Mid Wales.  A fantastic time was had by all, one child even commented:
“…..and the gift shop wasn’t even the best bit!”
High praise indeed! Visit the [...]

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If you have been checking out our visitor map you will have noticed that we have been visited by teachers and students from all over the world! Very exciting!
 One class in New York USA have asked us to become their blogging buddies – we will be learning a lot more about their class and 4D [...]

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What a treat! On Friday Hannah brought in some tasty Victorian cake for us to try; thanks Hannah! Feel free to bring in any more tasty Victorian treats you want  to make at home 4D…

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4D have been learning about the Victorians as part of our topic work.  This week we thought about what the Victorians would have worn and the differences between rich and poor people.  Finally we made outfits for dress up dolls, can you spot which ones are rich Victorians and which are poor?

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4D have started up a new wiki website; each class member has their own page. Visit now by clicking on the link in our blog roll!

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Class 4D got dressed up for Children in Need today – we all wore spots!  We also got to watch the talent show produced by Year SIx, it was fabulous!  A special well done to 4D members George and Hannah for their superb performances.  If you would like to find out more about Chidlren in [...]

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That’s right! The Ashfield Park Secret Spy has sent us another email with a
 
It means that I have had to totally change my Literacy plans for the following few weeks but I’m not too worried because it is exciting stuff!
More details in the Literacy lesson on Monday!

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Can you ‘up-level’ this sentence using V.C.O.P. (Vocabulary, Connectives, Openers and Punctuation)
Mrs D went in to the classroom and she saw 4D working hard

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We have been thinking about different ways to start stories in Literacy this week – we looked at three ways to grab the reader’s attention in class:
1) Straight into the action
2) Strange or unexpected happenings
3) Asking the reader a question
Here are some of our super starter sentences – do you recognise them?
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Well, yes, it is bonfire night – but do you know why we have fireworks on November 5th?  Read all about bonfire night at this website. Leave me a comment to let me know if you are doing anything to celebrate!

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