As part of our History topic of the Ancient Greeks, year 4 have been looking at Greek art and their use of mosaics.

They have looked at how mosaics were made and the intricate detail that went into them.

The children then created their own mosaic designs on paper either copying an idea from the Greek mosaics we looked at or creating their own pattern or picture.

Children will build on these skills to create their own mosaics in a few weeks.

We even enjoyed listening to some traditional Greek music while working!

Click on first photograph to see a short video!

To start our new Science topic ‘States of Matter’, the children were given pictures of various items and worked in groups to ‘sort’ the pictures.

I didn’t tell the children how they needed to be sorted as it gave them the opportunity to discuss and come up with their own sorting criteria.

The children worked well in their groups and the scientific conversations that I overheard were fantastic.

Afterwards, I introduced our topic and the children then had to re-sort their pictures.

We discussed the differences between the three states of matter and discussed the properties of each.