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Hello Class 4, Mr. K here. To end the week, I have some more photos from your work for me on Tuesday. A big thank you to all the effort you are putting in!

Charlie M has sent me a piece of writing all about his favourite music. Lots of great bands on here!

Ella has been doing exercise (it taught her about the water cycle!) and her water cycle work. Well done!

Jake wrote out his music for me. Lots of great information here, Jake.

Libby has included an amazing drawing with her music work.

Lila has sent me in an amazing diorama of a water cycle and her music writing. Excellent, Lila!

Poppy H has sent me her music work. Well done!

Have a lovely weekend, Class 4!

Mr. K

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Friday here in Netherthong Primary School! I hope that you are all well. There has been quite a lot of rain this week, which is good for the plants and grass in my garden, but not so good for getting outside. Hopefully next week it will be a little drier! For those of you that spotted my little tease - Teddy and Florence did not build that house of cards! Theirs was, disappointingly, much smaller and kept getting knocked down by the dogs!! There was a lot of giggling though, which as you know is one of my favourite sounds!

English:

Yesterday I set you the challenge of creating a wonderful double page spread all about Year 4. Please be finishing those off if you haven't already. I cannot wait to find out what you remember from Year 4.

If you would like another activity here we go:

Can you make a list of words that are amazing, to use in your writing. Use these headings and see how many words you can add into your list. You might find a dictionary or thesaurus might help you. I have given you a few examples too:

Sad

sorrow

serious

Happy

merry

delighted

Silly

foolish

crazy

Scary

frightening

eerie

Surprise

amaze

shock

If you like, you can add your own headings too. You can then use this list of words to help with your writing.

Maths:

I wonder if someone can help you with this maths game? If not you can play by yourself. It is called First to 100.

You will need a pack of playing cards and some paper. Here are your instructions:

Have a bit of fun with this and see who wins! If you are playing be yourself, play it a couple of times and see if you have less goes to get to 100 each time.

History:

We should have been learning all about Pompeii in school this week. So here are lots of facts about the events of 79 AD:

Eruption - MOUNT VESUVIUS

Have a read through the facts and then if you could make a fact file about Pompeii that would be great. You can write it on a sheet of paper or you could put it into your books. Or, as some of you are so good in front of the camera, you could record yourself explaining some facts about Pompeii.

Here is a great little website which you can explore that will tell you more. Ask a grown up to help you.

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ancient-rome/pompeii/

Again, what a great week. We are looking forward to seeing as many as possible in school on the last week. Don't forget to book a slot.

I will post your photos onto the blog before Monday.

Keep safe and keep smiling

Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team

xxx

Here is our Padlet link again for you

Padlet

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Thursday 2nd July 2020

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Good morning. July is here:

Hot July brings cooling showers

Apricots and gillyflowers

Another of my favourite poems. Happy memories of sitting on my Daddy's knee and reading it together.

On to today:

English:

Today and tomorrow I would love you to work on a double page spread. You all will remember doing these fun pages. Your topic is "Year 4!". I would like you to think all the way back to the beginning of the year. Can you remember some of the work that we completed, maybe the books we read and the topics that we covered? Think about the Christmas play, any art work or Science that we have done! Also think about the strange end to the year that we have had. Think about all of these things and create a double page spread all about our time in year 4. Remember that you can use photos, sketches, bubble writing and use pop outs of labels. You can turn your page around and write in different directions, your choice. Make it fun and colourful, and I cannot wait to read them. Take your time and making as amazing as always.

Maths:

Here is a Countdown Number challenge. This is a link to an education web page with a game. You will have to select 6 numbers and a total. Then can you create the total using only the numbers you have selected? It might not always be possible. You could write down how you worked it out, and don't be frightened to ask a grown up to help (or even have a go)! You must get the nearest number that you can.

Here is the link:

Countdown Numbers

Art:

I would love you to have a go at a still life drawing. This can be lots of fun. First of all you will need to gather a few objects. These could be themed eg piece of fruit, shoes, cups or they can be random. You might also consider the size of the objects, including height. Collect maybe 3 or 4 things and try to position them together. Then off you go. You could use just a pencil or pen, and you can make it colourful or tonal. You can also chose what you draw on - plain paper, coloured paper or you could be more inventive if you like.

Learn About Still Life Drawing and Why to Try the Time-Honored Subject How to draw a still life in mixed media - How To - Artists ... Observational Drawing 2: Composition: Still Life Drawing Still life drawings at age 13 by Priyanka Godbole at Coroflot.com

Have some fun with your sketches and don't forget to send them in.

Finally:

A little bit of fun. I set Teddy and Florence a challenge to see who could build the tallest house of cards! They had lots of failed attempts and lots of fun giggling and trying different ways. I wonder who could build the tallest one in Year 4? Please send photos of your house of cards!

Here is Teddy and Florence's joint effort. (Honestly!)

Playing Card Castle by cal3star | Playing card crafts, Diy playing ...

Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team

xxx

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Wednesday 1st July 2020

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Good morning Class 4!

How did we end up in July already? What a strange year we are having.

Brooke has had some very special visitors this week – six, yes six stray cats have arrived in her garden (a mum with five kittens), looking for a place to stay. Keep us updated Brooke!

We are very proud of Jessica this week. She has earned herself a Blue Peter badge by sending in her VE day poem. Well done Jessica, what a great achievement.

Lots of you have been busy in the kitchen, baking some delicious bread. Well done to all of you.

Here are today’s suggested activities:

English:

Can you make a silly speech?

Below is a list of topics that I am sure you don’t agree with. Pretend that you do and give lots of reasons why you agree with them. Try and speak for at least one minute on each topic.

When you have delivered your speeches, you can pick two or three topics to write down all of the reasons you gave (or film one if you prefer). Don’t forget, be persuasive! Try and make people really believe what you are saying.

Reasons why I love homework.
Reasons why I love having holes in my socks.
Reasons why I love smelly feet.
Reasons why I love my mobile phone/tablet running out of battery.
Reasons why I love raw onions.
Reasons why I love rainy days.
Reasons why I love everyone forgetting my birthday.
Reasons why I love people with loud voices.
Reasons why I love getting the same present twice on my birthday.
Reasons why I love sitting in front of people who talk and kick my seat in the cinema.

Maths:

You could pick actual ties out of a bag (if there are enough in your house that you are allowed to use) or you could cut up the tie pictures and pull them out of a bag without looking. It's your investigation, so you decide.