Welcome back Class 4 and Happy New Year to you all. We have began our new topic 'The Americas.' The children have collaged a 3D Captain America and he is now an honorary member of Class 4. 

To begin our topic, we looked at a world map and had a competition to see which group could find the places listed on the map first. This gave us an opportunity to revise our map skills and remind us of where we would find key continents, oceans, countries, cities and rivers in our world. We then narrowed down our search and focused on the Americas. During this term, we will be split into groups and each group will research a different part of the Americas and then report back to the rest of the class our findings. I look forward to seeing the presentations, 3D models and sampling some of your traditional food which you will make.

This week Class 4 have been very busy with the media. Some of us were interviewed for BBC radio Suffolk to tell them all about our 'Food for Thought' project. They did a great job, sounding very professional and making us very proud. If you haven't heard it yet, it is on Tuesday 10th January Mark Murphy's breakfast show, 55 minutes in. 

Friday, we were also being interviewed and photos of us were taken by the East Anglican Daily Times as we were part of 'Blyth Woods' project to grow a new forest. We planted many oak trees with the help of the Blyth Woods team and our families.

Home Learning

Friday 13^th January

This week for your home learning I would like you to complete a plan/design of what your America board game will look like and what you will include. Next week we will begin making our board game. Miss Dekker will provide you with an A3 piece of card to start the board off. Each week she will send home with you an instruction for the next piece of your board game. At the end of term we will bring our games into school and play them.

Maths- Can you find the time differences compared to us for the following countries/states:

·         Mexico

·         Canada

·         Alaska

·         New York

·         San Francisco

·         Washington

·         Brazil

·         Jamaica

Friday 13^th January                             

1)    Recommend

2)   Relevant

3)   Restaurant

4)   Rhyme

5)   Rhythm