Class 4
Thursday 25th June 2020
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Happy Thursday everyone! As always, you amaze me! Such fantastic bread and those aqueducts would impress even the Romans!
Wow, it was hot yesterday and today is looking to be another hot day! In light of that, I don't want to closet you up indoors, unless you are avoiding the sunshine! I found that I tried to hide a little yesterday and even Teddy and Florence were too hot for the waterside!
Anyway on to today, and please remember these are always only suggestions of ideas for you. Please feel free to tweak them and use them as you wish!
English
Bake off, or should I say bread off has been fantastic this week. We made some flat bread for lunch and then filled it with brie, rocket and cranberry for me, chicken rocket and sweet chilli sauce for Ted and Florence went for a simple ham and cucumber. Yummy all around. Today I would like you to have a think about what you would have as a filling if you made a sandwich with your bread. Imagine you own a sandwich shop, what would you have on the menu? Think about the types of bread and the types of fillings that you include. Can you write a menu for your shop? You could give your sandwiches fun names and you could add descriptions of the sandwiches for us to read too. These descriptions will help us to decide which sandwich to order from you! I look forward to see what you come up with!
Maths
Can I start by reminding you about TT Rockstars?
It is close! Come on guys, one last push!
I would like you to add prices to your sandwich menu. Then can you use these prices to create some worded problems of your own, based on your menu. They can be as tricky as you like. You could ask how much the bill would be if I bought 2 chicken sandwiches and 1 ham and lettuce sandwich. Or it could be that a bus load of tourists have come to eat your sandwiches and to make things simple they have ordered 32 ham sandwiches costing £2.50 each. How much would they spend? See how many different types of problems you can come up with.
PE
We should all be enjoying cricket both in school and out of school at the moment and the weather is perfect for it! I know a few local clubs have started a few nets. The last time we had some cricket coaching in school, you amazed me with your skills. Today, see if you can remember some of those skills. Can you remember the "windmill" arm action? Have a go at bowling a ball across your garden/drive or wherever else is safe. If you have someone to help you, you could try some bowling and batting skills. If you fancy a challenge (and you could get someone to video you), try the wheelie bin challenge. See if you can bowl a ball into a marked place (possibly a wheelie bin, but could be a bucket!) or you could try hitting a ball to a target. We would love to see your attempts. Andy Murray had a go with a tennis racket and tennis ball last week! He was not very good and did not get one in. I wonder if Joe Root, Heather Knight or Ben Stokes would manage it?
Well done again, and don't forget to enjoy the hot weather, but as the song goes "Wear sunscreen"!
Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team
xxx
Wednesday 24th June 2020
admin on: Class 4
Good morning!
I am so very pleased that the sun is back - I hope you all manage to spend some time outside today doing some fun activities. If the weather gets a little too much, you can always head back inside and have a go at some of these tasks (I have also added an outside engineering task).
Back to our Great British Bread Bake Off!
Hopefully, you have now chosen the type of bread that you would like to have a go at baking and found a suitable recipe. Your next job is to adapt that recipe to make it more you!
You could add extra ingredients into your bread (raisins, dried fruit, nuts, seeds) or you could change the shape of the dough before putting it in the oven.
When you have decided what you are going to make, write out your new set of ingredients and instructions. Notice that each instruction starts with a bossy verb (put, knead, mix,), these are called imperative verbs and they are used to get straight to the point! Give your new bread a name and make a big, bold title. Remember to use sub-headings and step by step diagrams. Bullet points and numbered steps are also a good way of organising your writing.
Maths:
Have a look at the picture below:
On one side of the scales, there are two IDENTICAL apples. On the other side, there are three IDENTICAL oranges.
1) Write a fact about the weight of the apples.
2) Write a fact about the weight of the oranges.
3) If the total weight of the apples was 350g, how much would each apple weigh?
4) If the total weight of the oranges was 186g, how much would each orange weigh?
5) If each apple weighs 75g, What is the smallest amount (to the nearest whole gram) each of the oranges could weigh?
History/ DT:
If you could take a trip to ancient Rome you may be surprised to find that they had lots of fresh water, a bit like we do in our pipes at home!
The Romans came up with an idea to bring fresh water into their cities - they built aqueducts.
Aqueducts were long, elaborate, stone waterways. The water would flow on top of the aqueduct and when it arrived at the city it would flow into a castellum (a holding tank).
When the Romans built cities, they would look for nearby sources of clean water and build aqueducts to follow the slope of the land, this meant that the water did not run too quickly over the aqueduct and spill out. They learned to build their aqueducts tall and strong and this kept the water higher up with less chance of becoming dirty.
Now, as the weather is going to be nice today, you could construct your very own version of an aqueduct in the garden and then use water to see if it works. Your aqueduct may even transport water into your paddling pool!
Have a look at the following link to give you an idea of how to do this but also use your own imagination and the things that you have already in the house/ garage (with permission of course!)
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/how-to-make-a-roman-aqueduct-diy-engineering-video
Enjoy your day and have fun!
Love from Mrs Kendal and the year 4 team xx
Tuesday Updates from Mr. K
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Hello, Class 4. I know some of you like to send me your work later in the day, so if that is you, I will do a separate blog post for those that send work in afterwards.
I have some work to show you from Brooke,Eva and James. A big thank you to you three for this!
Brooke has made some amazing grammar posters! She has also done her map of South America.
James has completed his map of South America. Looks great!
Eva completed her map of South America as well. Well done!
I wonder if any of you three have memorised some of the countries of South America? It's harder than you think!
Tuesday 23rd June with Mr. K
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Good morning Class 4, Mr. K here again. I hope you've had a great weekend. I went on a long walk on Saturday and did over 20,000 steps! I ached all of Sunday!
Here is your work for today...
Grammar
For grammar, I would like you to show me what you know about word types. By Year 4, you should be familiar with these 8 word types:
- Noun
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Verb
- Preposition
- Pronoun
- Conjunction
- Determiner
For each of these word types, I would like you to do a little mini poster (around a postcard size) with the name of the word type, a definition of what it is, an example of 3 words that can be that word type and finally a sentence with that word type underlined in it.
For example:
Noun: You would write what a noun is here.
Examples: dog, cat, Jeff.
Sentence: I saw a dog following my cat.
Make these posters as colourful as you like - you can use these as little reminders for each word type. You can of course do some research on them if you are not sure.
https://www.theschoolrun.com/english/grammar
This is a great website, with all the word type definitions on it. You can use the search bar at the top to look up the word types.
Maths
I would love to see how you are at the written method for division. Division is the written method that is often the hardest to master. Two things will help you master division - practice and knowing your times tables. If you know your times tables, you know how many of a number is in another number.
Try these using the bus stop method (hint: the first 5 questions don't have a remainder at the end):
1.) 520 divided by 8
2.) 534 divided by 6
3.) 390 divided by 5
4.) 165 divided by 3
5.) 603 divided by 9
These may have a remainder:
6.) 945 divided by 7
7.) 1034 divided by 4
8.) 9021 divided by 5
9.) 3956 divided by 3
10.) 773 divided by 6
Extension: Because you know your 11 and 12 times table as well, you can still use short division to find the answers to these. Give it a go!
11.) 6943 divided by 11
12.) 9473 divided by 12
13.) 8594 divided by 11
14.) 6245 divided by 12
Geography
Next year, one of our topics will look at South America. Here is a blank map of South America. Can you find out the names of each country and put them on the map? Then, colour each country a different colour so that no country that shares a border with another country has the same colour.
Also, try and memorise the countries of South America if you can!
PE
I have been inspired by my walk this weekend. Can you try and beat my 20,000 steps? If you don't get chance today, you can email me at any point over the next week with a photo of your fitbit, or a step counting app to show me you have done over 20,000 steps.
If you don't have a step counting device, you can use maths to help you. Count how many steps it is around your garden. Then you just count how many times you walk around your garden and multiply it by the number of steps.
So if it is 125 steps around your garden and you do it 100 times, then that is 125 times by 100 which is 12,500 steps!
Thank you for being great with sending work in, Class 4. I look forward to hearing from you!
Mr. K
Monday 22nd June 2020
admin on: Class 4
Good morning!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. We have planted lots of new flowers in our garden, been bug hunting and built some dens in the woods.
Orla sent me the instructions to make bird cakes. I've bought my ingredients and we are going to have a go this week.
Here's Orla's, I hope mine turns out as well!
Onto this week...
As Miss Watkins and myself love a theme, we have decided to have a Great British Bread-Bake Off this week!
We will be trying to link all of our activities to this but, as always, be creative and do what works for you.
English:
There are many different types of bread. What can you find out about them (names, countries, how bread has changed through the years)?
Research different bread recipes - use the internet or cookery books. Think about the type of bread that you would like to bake (look at the ingredients and ask an adult if they will be able to get hold of the things needed).
Later in the week you will be adapting and designing your own bread recipe.
Maths:
This week we will be doing some work on weight as it fits nicely with our baking theme.
Can you dig out the weighing scales and find objects in your house that weigh the same as each other (this will build on the estimation activity we did at the start of lockdown).
Read the scale and write down the weight of the objects.
If you need an extension task, you could write down the weight in both grams and kilograms.
Science:
We are all washing our hands much more regularly in order to stop the spread of germs and bacteria and keep ourselves safe. Today we are going to find out just how clean our hands are!
I would like you to set up your own little investigation using bread and your own hands!
You will need:
5 slices of bread (untouched).
5 zip-seal transparent bags.
hand sanitizer
soap
tweezers or gloves
In each of the zip-seal bags, you are going to place a slice of bread. Each slice of bread will be exposed to different conditions.
The first bag should contain a slice of bread untouched by bare skin (use tweezers or glove covered hands). Seal the bag and label it as 'untouched'.
Next, run your hands through your hair and press one hand down on the next slice of bread (flat hand, palm down). Place this piece of bread in a bag, seal and label 'hair'.
Now wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds before repeating the process with the third slice of bread. Seal this bag and label 'soap and water'.
Wait before continuing the investigation until your hands are no longer clean (you may have opened doors, read a book, played in the garden). Then rub your hands with hand sanitizer before repeating the process on the fourth piece of bread. Label the bag 'sanitizer'.
For the final piece of bread, cough into your hand and repeat the process. Label the bag 'cough'.
Make sure you wash your hands after the final piece of bread.
Now leave your 5 bags in a cool, dry place. The bags MUST stay sealed!
Write down a prediction of what you expect to see happen to the pieces of bread over the next week.
Reading:
The next chapter of our guided reading book is ready and waiting on Purple Mash!
Have a lovely day. I miss you all.
Love from Mrs Kendal and the year 4 team xx