Class 4
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:
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.
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!)
Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team
xxx
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.
History:
The Roman army was the largest and meanest fighting force in the ancient world.
Follow the link below to find out more:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8/articles/zqbnfg8
If you are feeling creative today, you could have a go at building a Roman catapult. Here are the instructions:
If you want to go even bigger...
Just for fun:
Using the letters in the word HOLIDAY make as many four-letter words as you can without repeating any letters within each word.
There are 11 words to find – I wonder if you’ll get them all!
Have a wonderful day!
Love from Mrs Kendal and the year 4 team xx
A Royal Update
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Hi! Mr. K here again with a very special ROYAL update.
Orla has sent a birthday card to the Queen, and she has had this response from the Queen's lady-in-waiting.
Amazing, Orla! Thank you for sharing!
Tuesday Updates from Mr. K
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Hi Class 4. Some amazing stuff from you today. I will share what I have so far, and then share some more later in the week. A big thank you to all your hard work.
Here is Joshua's water cycle. He actually made it on 2Animate on PurpleMash. He has shared it so you can all see it. It is very good! I have uploaded a screenshot of it.
Brooke has sent in her information about her favourite artist as well as a digital picture of her. Amazing!
Charlie S has made me chuckle today! Here is his awesome water cycle diagram made out of objects in his house. But... on the second picture, his cat made an appearance and it looks like it is floating in the clouds! Hilarious!
Charlie S has also sent in his information about his favourite music and a picture of him doing his maths.
Eva has sent in a great piece about the sort of music she likes and a very colourful water cycle diagram.
Frazer has sent in his information about Ed Sheeran and some of his favourite songs. Excellent taste in music!
James has sent in information about his favourite band, Queen, and his water cycle poster. Well done!
Orla has sent in some information on Elvis. A great musician!
Here is Poppy S and her favourite musicians.
Sarah has done an amazing water cycle video. I loved watching it. Here are some screenshots for you!
Euan also sent me in some work from the previous blogs. Here they are! Well done!
Tuesday 30th June with Mr. K
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Good morning, Class 4, Mr. K here! I hope you had a good weekend? The weather meant I couldn't do as much as I wanted to, but I was glad that it had cooled down a little! Here is some work for you to try out today.
Grammar
On PurpleMash, I have put 3 games on your 2do list.
1.) Campsite Jim - This is testing your knowledge of commas and fronted adverbials.
2.) Jane's Monster - This is testing your knowledge of apostrophes.
3.) Frank's Clever Window Again - This is testing your knowledge of punctuating direct speech. This one is tricky!
English/Music
I would love to get to know you all a little bit better. One way of doing this is to find out about your favourite musicians. I love music, and I listen to lots of different kinds. Because I listen to all sorts, it means I am open to new suggestions! In fact, in Class 5, I often create playlists on my Spotify for the class based on your suggestions, which I play during afternoon lessons when we are working. I have played everything from Oasis to Ariana Grande in class!
So, you have two tasks today.
1.) Write a small piece of writing about one of your favourite musicians. Tell me all about them and explain why you like them. Have you ever seen them live? Print or draw a picture of them as well!
2.) Come up with 5 songs that you really love (they can be any genre or from any time) and I will create a playlist for us to listen to in September. I probably don't need to say this, but please make sure they are appropriate for school!
Although I have many musicians that I love, Taylor Swift is one of my favourites! One of my favourite songs by her is 'You Need To Calm Down'. I like it for lots of reasons, but one is the lyrics, "You need to calm down, you're being too loud." I like it because it I can use it to tell my class to quieten down! It's like she wrote it for teachers!
Anyway, have fun with this and I look forward to hearing about your favourite musicians.
Maths
This task was set for my class yesterday, but I think it is a good skill to practise, and it can be difficult at times. In the Year 4 maths curriculum, it says that you should be able to round any number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.
Here is a game for you to try:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding
Try at least two of the first 5 game modes that you see on the opening menu. If you want to extend your knowledge of rounding, you can try the 6th game mode, which is rounding decimals to the nearest whole number. This is a skill you will learn about in Year 5.
Geography
I have been speaking to Mrs Kendal and she told me that before we went into lockdown, you learnt about the water cycle. This is an important part of Year 4 science and geography, and it is something I will be referring to a lot next year.
As a bit of revision, and a chance for you to get creative, I would like you to recreate the water cycle. You can do this in a number of ways:
- You could draw it out and colour it in.
- You could make a 3D version of it.
- You could create a huge one in some way, it is up to you!
- You could use the PurpleMash animation programme to animate a version of it.
- Any other way you can think of to illustrate the water cycle.
You will need to include the following technical words:
Precipitation
Evaporation
Condensation
Surface run-off
Infiltration
Transpiration
Here are some websites to help you:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z3wpp39
https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/water-and-the-water-cycle
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/science/nature/water-cycle/
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weather-works/water-cycle
Please note: Different websites may use different words, so make sure you know what the 6 words mean above.
Have a great day, Class 4. I am looking forward to seeing all your work!