Year 4 News

From Georgie, Year 4 teacher

Olympic Fever Hits

Olympics fever has well and truly hit this week. We have been busy reading lots of interesting articles about different Olympic athletes. In Writing we wrote our own newspaper articles about an interesting Olympic event; the results were worthy of a gold medal! In Math we have used a range of strategies to explore Olympic results, we needed to be very accurate, or it could cost an athlete their dream!

Sizzling Starters

We have been working on starting our writing pieces with a bang to really engage the reader into wanting more. Here are some of our results:

Water swirls around the multi-medaled 'Thorpedo' in the 2003 Swimming World Championships .Way back in 1982, a major athlete named Ian Thorpe was born. He was born on Oct 13 at 9:34pm but they didn't have any idea about the amazing achievements he would pull off in his life.

"Splash" the water splashed as brave Yusra Mardini dived in to save the boat full of people. She pushed with all her might, she had pushed the boat across the Aegan Sea.

Olympic Reading

We have been learning all about the different features of newspaper articles about the Olympics. We looked at the following features:

Headline
By line
Introduction
Quotes

We read a range of different articles about Ariana Titmus, the Matilda's, Goalball and other interesting sports men & women. We used this knowledge to write our own article- we did such a great job, maybe there could be some budding journalists in Year 4.

Math Worthy of a gold medal

We have been learning how to round numbers up and down, this has helped us when solving addition and subtraction problems using a range of strategies.

Some of the things we have been working on are:

Using our knowledge of decimals to explore how they score the equestrian events at the Olympics.
Finding the difference between the times in an Olympic sprinting race- sometimes there is only a few hundredths of a second between a gold medal and 4th place!
Exploring the difference between the numbers of medals countries have won in various Olympics using subtraction strategies.