Class 4
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
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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
Artistic Photography
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Here are a few of your wonderful photographs! Very clever shots.
Amazing photographs Year 4
Well done.
Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team
xxx
Gallery 19.6.2020
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You have all been really busy this week. Mr Kershaw was really impressed with you all last week! Well done.
Here are a few photos of things you have been up to, unfortunately I cannot blog your videos. I will try to think of a way to let you see some of them. I will post your artistic photos separately.
Just to remind you about the TT Rockstars tournament and our Padlet page.
James got 3.09 on his speed tables today and Orla got 2.56! Well done.
Have a super weekend one and all.
Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team
xxx
Friday 19th June 2020
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Hi everyone. Friday is here again. It does creep around quickly! I hope that you have had a good week. Let's hope that the rain goes away and lets us have a little sunshine over the weekend. I wonder what types of things you get up to in the rain? I always love a jigsaw or a board game. Racing raindrops down the window is always rather silly too!
English:
Today's job with your poetry is to perform the poem you wrote on Thursday. Remember how the poets performed their poems with lots of expression and even some movement, which you could do if you feel like it. It might be fun if you dressed up or had a few props too. Then get the video camera running and record your performance for us. Unfortunately, we cannot post videos onto the blog, but we might hopefully be able to get some on the website in the future.
Maths:
Today we are going to have a times tables session. Have a go at speed tables and then get on TT Rockstars. I have set a battle for you. Boys versus girls again, sorry it is the only way that I can split you up fairly!
Here are the answers for yesterdays puzzles:
Art:
Has anyone heard of Nicéphore Niépce or Ibn al-Havtham? These people are some of the amazing inventors who helped to invent very early versions of cameras, including the Camera Obscura. If you fancy a little research project you could have a little look at the history of cameras and who has been involved in developing them into the amazing cameras we have today. Here are a few examples of photography over the years, sometimes it tells a story and sometimes is is wonderfully artistic.
I would like you to turn into a photographer today. You can decide what topic you want to photograph. It could be a photograph of something from nature or it could be a still life of a group of objects that you have gathered together. You could have people in it or even animals. I will look forwards to seeing your photographs. I wonder who will be the next Dorothea Lange, David Bailey or Peter Essick?
Well done again and I am really looking forward to hearing from you.
Love Miss Watkins and the Year 4 Team
xxx