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Remote Learning - Year 4-
19-20 Archive
Home Learning 2019-2020
You should have received a text message with login details for Class Dojo.
Thank you for those of you who have already shared your work.
Transition
Here is a video from your new teachers.
| If you are currently in Cedar Class you will be in Sycamore Class and your teacher will be Miss Thompson. | If you are currently in Larch Class you will be in Elm Class and your teacher will be Miss Berry. |
Photos from Home
Here are some photos that your Year 4 friends would like to share with you.
If you have a photo to share, please ask your parents/ carers to email us or send a message on Class Dojo.
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Enjoying a family walk |
Enjoying time to be creative |
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Cooking World Cuisine |
Superhero Week
Rainbow Girl |
Catman
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Dark Leaf
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Message Board for Children
Message Board for Parents and Carers
We would like to share with you a short video, sent to us by Dave Huxtable, The Pinkery Centre Manager. Following the disappointment of having to temporarily close The Pinkery Centre, Dave has created this video to show some of the ways that 'The Pinkery Experience' could be re-created a little closer to home. Enjoy!
Dear Parents and Carers,
One-to-one learning is very different to whole class teaching and group work. It is a lot more intense so you will not have to spend as much of your day completing focused learning tasks.
Have Fun, talk, play games, help your children understand a little of what is going on. Be practical, make things, bake things, tell them about when you were younger. A happy child will learn.
- Also, being in the garden and growing plants or looking for wildlife...it is science!
- Baking in the kitchen....it is maths!
- Learning about different countries, our local environment...it is geography!
- Using technology...it is computing!
- Building something with boxes...it is DT!
- Writing instructions for designs...it is English!
You don't have to be sitting at the kitchen table every day. Do what makes you and your child happy throughout this very strange time.
In the meantime, if you can stay at home please do, stay safe, keep smiling and we will look forward to when we can be back at school together again.
The Year 4 team.
Nelson Mandela Day 18.7.20
Click on the link to have a look at the Powerpoint presentation to find out about Nelson Mandela and everything he stood for.
Plastic-Free July!
Click on the image to open the links in a PDF.
/docs/_Home_Learning/Plastic_free_July.pdf
World Chocolate Day 07.07.20
Click on the image below to open the links in a PDF.
Alice's Day 04.07.2020
National Make Music Day!
On 21st June - it is National make Music day. We thought we could celebrate it on Friday 19th June instead. Here are some of the ways you could explore it at home! We would like to put a video together to celebrate the day so send us short videos or photos of you performing something at home - we need parental consent to do this so get your parents/carers to send them to Year6cohort@westovergreenschool.org.uk . I look forward to seeing all the music you make!
Mrs Barnes
Here is the link to the national website - it has ideas of how to perform, create and watch!
Make your own kind of music: Have a go at learning the song! Make it your own - you could add some of the instruments you've made!
Here is Paloma Faith's version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV8OfUyEBh8
Create homemade percussion instruments with household items: Try creating shakers by using pasta and rice in empty bottles.You could also try using bottles either with filled with varying degrees of water or empty and scraping them with spoons or twigs to make sounds, or just upturned pans and colanders.
Make your own simple guitar: Using tissue boxes, shoe boxes without the lids or fruit punnets you can create a string-type instrument. Use the box for the base of the instrument and take four to six rubber bands. Wrap the rubber bands around the base, the long way, and make sure there is space between the rubber bands. Experiment with ways of making sounds with the bands. Also try using small pieces of sandpaper wound round a finger of each hand to rub.
Cup Song Challenge:
See if you can master it - maybe you get get a group of your family doing it! This is my attempt (it took a lot of practising)! - the tutorial and music are below.
Tutorial : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5kYLOb6i5I
Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmSbXsFE3l8
Think about and use the sounds of daily life:
For example:
- What does the journey to the park sound like – what may we hear on the way?
- A journey around a supermarket will involve a range of different sounds.
- A journey to school, whether by foot, by bus or in a car will also involve a range of sounds
You could make a piece of music together that represents different types of journeys that you make using body percussion and your voice.
Use drawing to think about music: Drawing to sounds and music can be a lovely listening activity, You can draw what you hear using crayons, pencils, felt tips, paint brushes, to listen to the music and draw to the rhythm and patterns in it. You can explore this with different types of music.
Music Lessons:
There are some great lessons on BBC Teach - pick one you like the look of and have a go!
Pinkery Residential Trip
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* Letter regarding the March 2020 cancelled residential trip.
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National School Sport Week 20th-26th June
The annual National School Sport Week campaign starts on Saturday 20th June. The campaign takes place every year to celebrate the important role of Physical Education and school sport in enhancing young people's wellbeing.
The UK-wide campaign challenges you to take on your families, friends and neighbours in virtual sporting challenges – helping you to connect in this unprecedented period of school closures and social distancing.
Click on the pictures to find out more!
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Year 4 Home Learning Curriculum Map
Please use your Home Learning packs to support your learning at home. We will also update this page, and our Class Dojo page, with lessons, learning and activities that can be completed at home.
Click on the images below to open the Home Learning overview as a PDF.
Half Term 6
Daily 3
These activities can be found on Unique Classrooms Daily 3. The 3 daily activities consist of an English, Maths and Creative task (see below for examples). Have fun!
Punctuation and Grammar
Here are the Punctuation and Grammar Activities for this half term.
Click on the links below to work through each session.
| Prounouns 1 | Conjunctions 2 | Apostrophes for Showing Possession 1 |
| Using Pronouns To Avoid Repetition 2 | Using Inverted Commas For Direct Speech 1 |
English
David Attenborough Biographies
Click on the links below to find the planning and resources for our 'David Attenborough Biographies' unit.
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Significant Authors: Roald Dahl
In Half-term 6, we will be learning about the author Roald Dahl and some of his stories. Click on the links to read, download or print the lessons and resources.
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In these lessons, we will be focusing on Roald Dahl whilst continuing to learn how to write a biography. We will also explore his book, Boy.
Next, we will be exploring Roald Dahl's book, George's Marvellous Medicine, and writing instructions for creating our own 'Marvellous Medicine'.
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George's Marvellous Medicine Audio Book
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George's Marvellous Medicine PDF
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| Lesson 13 Retrieving Information | Lesson 14 Imagery |
| Lesson 16 Imperative Verbs | |
| Lesson 17 Ingredients and Equipment | |
| Lessons 19 and 20 Writing Instructions |
Additional Roald Dahl Lessons and Activities:
| The Twits Lesson and Activities | The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me Lesson and Activities | Matilda Lesson and Activities |
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Here are links to some more Roald Dahl Audio Books available on Youtube: (Click on the image) |
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In Half-term 5, we read a story set in an imaginary world (The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis) and you will learned how to write your own story featuring an imaginary setting.
Here is the PDF of the book, in case you would like to continue reading it.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Additional English Activities
Click on the link below and complete the daily workout for each picture - Remember your basic punctuation, spelling and sentence structure but allow your imagination to run wild!
Spellings
Here is a list of the spellings for you to learn over the next half-term.
To learn your spellings you can use the look, cover, say, write method; you can find the definition of the words and you can write them in sentences. However, there are fun ways to learn spellings too!
| Spellings Word Search Template | Fortune Teller Template |
Here is a list of the statutory Year 3 and Year 4 spellings for you to learn. It's a big list. Please don't be overwhelmed by it. Just focus on a few at a time. You probably know many of them already!
Maths
If you need help then some of the links on the Home Learning Front Page might be useful.
These lessons are uploaded from the White Rose Maths Year 4 Home Learning page. If you visit this page, you will also find a video tutorial for each lesson.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/
These lessons follow a 12 week plan created in partnership with the BBC to help ensure pupils are ready to return to school in September.
As a result of the partnership for Home Learning between White Rose Maths and BBC Bitesize, there will be some repetition of recent learning objectives during weeks 7, 8 and 9. This should then resolve in week 10.
During weeks 7, 8 and 9, you can follow the lessons above for consolidation, or have a go at the lessons and the 'Fluency, Reasoning and Problem Solving' activities below, if you do not need consolidation of fractions and decimals.
MyMaths will be updated with daily lessons to support this learning. Follow the link and use your password to login.
Also, keep working on your times-table fluency. Look out from Battle of the Bands - there is currently teachers Vs Students.
Science
During half term 6 we are learning about Living Things and are looking specifically at the digestive system and teeth. Take a look below at the overview to find out a little of what we will focusing on. Click on the image to open as a PDF.
Read through the learning slides for each lesson and complete the corresponding activity.
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Lesson 6 Learning Presentation |
Additional Activity - Tooth Decay Experiment |
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All Around the World
Click on the links below to find the planning and resources for our All Around the World topic.
To accompany this unit, there is also a World Cuisine unit for Design Technology.
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Research a Country |
Find World Locations with Map Co-ordinates |
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Investigate Daylight in the Polar Regions |
Create a Weather Forecast for an Area of the Tropics |
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Research a Country on the Prime Meridian |
Calculate the Time |
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List Linked Countries |
Identify the Origin of Objects and Food |
Design Technology
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Lesson 4 Presentation - Mexican Cuisine
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If you are particularly enjoying this unit or learning, here are a few extra activities and web links for you to enjoy. School Dinners Around The World Activity My World Kitchen - CBeebies IPlayer My World Kitchen - CBeebies Activities and Games
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R.E
This term we are exploring the question 'What do Christians believe about Agape?' through the parable of The Good Samaritan.
Read or watch the story of The Good Samaritan.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z4vcd2p
Click on the image below to open as a PDF.
Jigsaw/ PSHCE
Note for parents/carers:
The Jigsaw scheme is offering some resources and stories for free. To access these, parents and carers should click on the links below to find out more.
Wellbeing and Mindfulness
Each week, as part of their Home Learning with BBC Bitesize, the BBC will be adding a 'Wellbeing' lesson. The purpose of these lessons is to help you to understand your feelings and what's happening in the world around you (something that is very important at the moment). They are also designed to make you feel good; show you how amazing you are; recognise your strengths and take ownership of your areas for development.
This week, the Bitesize focus is on Teamwork (click on the image below to go this week's lesson).
In addition to these lessons, we have some other resources and activities to share with you.
Cosmic Kids Yoga (on Youtube) has many fun and colourful Yoga adventures. You can choose from themes such as Harry Potter, Trolls, Frozen, Moana, Star Wars and Minecraft! Have a go at some and use Class Dojo to tell us your favourite. Click on the image below to find the YouTube channel, but remember to always check with your parents/ carers before visiting YouTube.
As you know, we think Newsround is great for making us aware and helping us make sense of what is going on in the world.
These resources are also great to help with Wellbeing and Mindfulness:
| Joyful June | Boredom Busters | Mindfulness Colouring |
| Mindfulness and Wellbeing Pack | ||
Why not create a Quarantine 2020 Time Capsule?
my 2020 quarantine time capsule uk big life journal.pdf
French
Bonjour la classe!
As we are spending more time at home at the moment, I thought you should learn the rooms in French!
Watch this video about rooms of the house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_bjzkKlM0
Write down the words in French (the red words) then listen again and write down the English!
Then you're ready to play some games on this website:
https://www.french-games.net/frenchlessons?topic=Home%20-%20rooms%20in%20the%20house&level=primary
� la prochaine,
Madame Latham :)
Computing
Our focus is to design a game using Scratch. Go to https://scratch.mit.edu/ and click on the ‘Create’ tab (or click on the image below) to find the tutorials to ‘Make a Chase Game’.
If you would like to continue to explore Scratch, there are lots of activities to work through.
Forest School
Mr Thomas has been busy searching for Forest School related activities that you can enjoy at home.
These resources come from Wildlife Watch UK:
| Design a bird | Make your own birds nest | My A-Z of nature |
| Natural sounds map | Race for a rainbow | Study a minibeast |
30 Days of Wild!
If you want to download some of the resources for yourself you can click on the link below.
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/30DaysWild/Downloads
| 30 day Calendar Tracker | 30 Random Acts of Wildness Activity Cards | 30 Days Wild Bingo |
Just for Fun!
Check out these great things to make out of cereal packets or toilet rolls!
| Cereal Box Guitar | Toilet Roll Bunny |
| Cereal Box Maze | Toilet Roll Chick |
| Cereal Box Puppet Theatre | Toilet Roll Ladybird |
| Cereal Box Teddy Bear | Toilet Roll Octopus |
| Cereal Box Weaving | Toilet Roll Owl |
We really like these paper model templates and thought some of you might like to have a go at making them. If you get a chance to take a photo of your models, we'd love to see them on your Class Dojo portfolios!
| Colour Paper Models | Colour-your-own Paper Models |
| People Who Help Us | People Who Help Us |
| Hospital | Hospital |
| Fire Station | Fire Station |
| Police Station | Police Station |
| Lego Person | Lego Person |
If you are a football fan, The National Football Museum have some great activities- some that can be enjoyed independently and some that are good for family fun. These range from identifying historic football strips to creating a 'ball-in-a-maze' puzzle game. Click on the image below to go to the website.
Enjoy solving puzzles and problems? Then why not have a go at these? Be careful! Some of the sheets do include the answers, so you may not want to look too far ahead before solving the problems.
| Emoji Code Breaking | Problem Solving Treasure Hunt Game | How many squares on a chessboard |