Year 4 w/b Monday Feb 1 2021

 

Hello everyone. We hope you are all safe and well. Welcome to week 5. We have really enjoyed seeing lots of you this week on Google Classroom in our Meet sessions. Each week we will let you know when we are having our Meet sessions and you are free to join us at any time. 

Monday 1st	Welcome to the week. Share the week's learning	8.40,  9.20,  10.00
Tuesday 2nd	Drop-in session. You're welcome to join us online.	11.00
Wednesday 3rd	Drop-in sessions. You're welcome to join us online.	11.00, 2.30
Thursday 4th	Drop-in sessions. You're welcome to join us online.	11.00
Friday 5th	Celebrate success and the launch of the Whole school writing challenge	8.40, 9.20, 10.00

 

We love to see the work you have been producing at home. If possible, please ask your parents if they could send copies of some of your best work to us either by e-mail or by Twitter. Thank you to all of the children who have sent in work to us so far.  Here are some of the pointers and highlights from 'The Dragon' whole school write.

Year 4 writing feedback

  

  

English 

Spelling Frame - Complete a quiz on your new spellings this week and play the games for between 10 to 30 minutes. Take a break if you need to. Focus on the new rule. What do all the words have in common?

We would like you to write a paragraph which includes 4 of the spellings you have today - musician, magician, mathematician and invention. Aim for a minimum of 100 words. It can be a little bit crazy but it has to make sense and all of your spellings have to be correctly spelt. You will need to think about it carefully before you start. How could you add a question mark or inverted commas to make it more interesting?

 

Maths

 11 and 12 times table

Worksheet

Answers

TTRockstars - complete at least one soundcheck and one studio game and then spend another 10-15 minutes improving your times tables. Revise your times table of the week. It's the 7s this week.

 

Science 

We'll continue with our range of videos from Oak Academy. This week we'll look at 'What happens in a circuit when we change the components.' 

Here's the link.

Read your school reading book or a book of your choice from home. Quiz on it once finished.

Lexia - 15 minutes.

Bonus activity for this week 

Here's a nice little task for you on a Monday. Why not make your own bird feeder? It's a lovely idea from our range of Forest school activities.

Making a bird feeder

 

 Assembly

Watch the assembly from Place2Be, BAFTA Kids and Oak National Academy for  Children's Mental Health Week 2021, celebrating this year's theme of “Express Yourself”.  Join Blue Peter’s Lindsey Russell and CBBC presenter Rhys Stephenson alongside other well-known faces for an assembly that brings together the nation's children together with a positive message about the power of creative self-expression.

 

English

Today we will be looking at improving our sentences. Again this is a skill that you could use in your writing to help keep the interest of the reader. Try saying each sentence aloud. (The answers are on the second page, but don't look until you've finished!).

A fronted adverbial is a phrase that can be used at the start of a sentence to help describe what follows. The sentence could be like this at the start.

The lion fell asleep later that day.

This needs to be changed. Using a fronted adverbial it would now look like this. Can you see how we have used the same words, but changed the order and added a comma so the sentence sounds natural?

Later that day, the lion fell asleep.

Here is the sheet for your to work on today.

 

Maths

Multiply 3 numbers 

Worksheet

Answers

TTRockstars - complete at least one soundcheck and one studio game and then spend another 10-15 minutes improving your times tables. Revise your times table of the week.

Topic

 

The Egyptian Cinderella.

This is a short unit of work based on a story set in Ancient Egypt.

Read your school reading book or a book of your choice from home. Quiz on it once finished.

Lexia - 15 minutes.

 

English

 Your whole school write from last Friday needed lots of description in order to really paint pictures in the mind of the reader. This video from Oak Academy focuses on the use of words and how you can use vocabulary to make your writing come alive. The video is from part of a poetry unit, although you can also use these skills across all of your writing.

Focus particularly on the video from minute 7 which will give you lots of ideas which could help with descriptive words and phrases.

Generating and developing vocabulary video

 

Maths 

Factor Pairs

Worksheet

Answers

TTRockstars - complete at least one soundcheck and one studio game and then spend another 10-15 minutes improving your times tables. Revise your times table of the week.

Read your school reading book or a book of your choice from home. Quiz on it once finished.

Lexia - 15 minutes.

Watch this week's Assembly message from Mr Cates by clicking here 

 

English

 After our lesson yesterday which looked at the vocabulary we can use, today's lesson looks at putting these words together to create an expanded noun phrase. This video will really help you describe in detail and think about how vivid pictures can be created using linked combination of words.

Here's your learning for today.

 

Maths

Efficient multiplication 

Worksheet

Answers

TTRockstars - complete at least one soundcheck and one studio game and then spend another 10-15 minutes improving your times tables. Revise your times table of the week.

Topic

 

The Egyptian Cinderella. Lesson 2

Read your school reading book or a book of your choice from home. Quiz on it once finished.

 

Lexia - 15 minutes.

 

English

It's been lovely to read your stories and to see how hard you are working on improving your writing.  

Find your new writing challenge below.  

Whole School writing challenge - The Young Detective

 

 

Maths

Pre- assessment - Multiplication and division (Spring term)

This is the start of the unit so don't worry if you find this tough. It gives you an idea of where you are and will allow you the opportunity to show how much progress you have made after learning the unit.TTRockstars - complete at least one soundcheck and one studio game and then spend another 10-15 minutes improving your times tables. Revise your times table of the week.

 

RE

 

Life is like a journey

Lesson 5 - Jesus' Baptism 

Worksheet

 

Art

 

Colour

Lesson 4 - River Scene

Watch the video here

 

It's the Friday 5
Question 1 - Monday	Tell me about one pattern in the 11 times table
Question 2 - Tuesday	3 x 4 x 5 = 5 x 3 x4    True or false? How do you know?
Question 3 - Wednesday	How many arrays can you make for the number 12?
Question 4 - Thursday	What are the factors of 12?
Question 5 - Friday	What is a quick way to answer 62 x 5?

Anyone fancy a visit to Chester Zoo?

We might not be able to visit for real but we can go on a Virtual Tour.

Click on the picture below to go straight to their website for more information.

 

Read your school reading book or a book of your choice from home. Quiz on it once finished.

Lexia - 15 minutes.

We really hope you have enjoyed your learning this week. Safe safe. Take care.

Have a nice weekend. The year 4 team.