Category: Year 4 Blog

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Sarah has worked hard learning about the continents and wrote a wonderful story at the start of lock down.

Welcome to another week of home learning.  We hope you are safe and well. We are really missing you and can’t believe it has been so long since we have seen all of your wonderful, smiling faces.  Hopefully, we will be seeing you all again soon.

There are times that you may be feeling fed up, anxious or even bored.  But please try to stay positive and remember that we are doing this to keep ourselves safe and healthy.  We know that you are working hard but remember to enjoy time with your family, make memories and have fun! Grownups, we know that home schooling can be difficult but you are doing a fab job!

Remember, from next week you can ask any questions on Microsoft Teams and you can continue to email us.

The Year 4 Team x

Below you will find everything for this week’s learning. There is an English, Maths and Guided Reading activity to be completed each day.  There is also work for the afternoons, including Creative Curriculum, PSHE, Music and Art.nIn addition, you will find some guidance to help practise your spellings and ideas for PE.

Please continue to read at home, it is a really important skill, which supports all areas of your learning. Remember to login to Fiction Express and take a look at the exciting books available.  In addition, please practise your times tables on Times Tables Rockstars and take part in the boys versus girls battle.

If you need a new exercise book, please collect  one from the school office.

Maths Home Learning  11.5.20

This week you will be continuing to learn about decimals.  You don’t need to print any of the resources but please record your learning in your book.  For some of the lessons, there are video tutorials to help develop your understanding of the skill.  If you have any questions, please email your teacher.  Below also find a copy of the PowerPoint containing the answers in red, please mark your work once you have completed it.

English Home Learning 11.5.20

Please find below the PowerPoint for English and another for Guided Reading.  This week you are continuing your work on the Butterfly Lion by Michael Morpurgo.  Again, you don’t need to print any resources but please record your learning in your book.

Spellings 11.5.20

Please find below your spellings to learn this week and an activity to support your practising of them. If you are in Miss Perrett’s or Mr Perkins Spelling group please practise Spellings 1 and if you are in Mrs Walton’s and Mrs McManus’s group please practise Spellings 2. If you are in Miss Ferris’s, Mrs Walker’s or Mrs Ward’s group then please practise Spelling 3. Please ask someone to test you on your spellings on Friday.

Spellings 1

Spellings 2

Spelling 3

Afternoon Home Learning 11.5.20

Please find below the PowerPoint and resources for Creative Curriculum, RE and  PSHE.  This week you will be starting our new topic ‘World’s Kitchen’, where you will be learning about food all around the world.

PE

Have a go at some of the activities listed below, all related to athletic jumping.

Next week, we are launching Microsoft Teams as away of keep in touching with each other. You will receive a phone call from you class teacher to explain how to access this and to be given your school email address and password. The aim of this is to allow the children to ask any questions regarding the work set on the blog. We will let you know when it is up and running.

Important Information

To access Microsoft Teams you will need to login to  https://www.office.com/  using your child’s school email address.

–Type in the password (this will be a generic one but you will be able to change it when they first login. Please record the new password in case your child forgets it.)

– Please explain to your child that they will only be able to send emails to the class email address and not to each other.

– Your child will be able to communicate with each other through the Year 4 team using messages. This may be with their class teacher or another teacher  from their year group. 

-A teacher from their year group will be available from Monday to Friday between 10-12pm only. After 12pm the chat function will be closed but they still can still email class teacher if needed.

-Please note that once your child is in the chat room, pupil’s name and the messages that they send will be visible to all the members of the group that they are in. 

-When using the chat feature, there is an expectation that they follow the safety online rules and behave appropriately and will not be able to create their own groups. Inappropriate use/language/behaviour means that they can be banned form using chat for a week.  Also not a place for parents to discuss issues, etc – child use only.

General information

1. One of the Year 4 teachers will be available on Microsoft Teams everyday from 10am until 12pm.
2. Where possible, please post questions in line with the following time slots:                Maths – 10.00-10.45     English – 10.45-11.30       All other subjects –  11.30-12.00
3. Post questions in the correct channel. These can be seen on the left hand side (e.g if you have a Maths question, post in the maths channel…)
4. We will try our best to support any queries raised. If possible, please try to reply to any teacher responses (the reply button can be found below the posted comments). This will make it easier for staff to track any comments.

User guidelines

1. This platform is designed for users to raise questions to the Year 4 teachers regarding any of the home learning powerpoints.
2. It is not a place for you to chat and reply to other users (although we would like you to say hello!)
3. Please remember to be sensible at all times.
4. All comments posted are monitored and logged.  
5. Please remember that any comments or questions you raise can be viewed by anyone else in the year group. Therefore, please do not request usernames and passwords on here. Instead, email your class teacher directly.

Posting questions

1. Select the subject from the channels shown on the left side of the page.
2. Type in the box at the bottom of the page to add comments (highlighted yellow in the image).
3. Click the icon on the right (shown in blue) to post a comment. 
4. You can edit any comments afterwards by moving the cursor over your comment. Then, click on the   …    icon, followed by the “edit” button.    

The boys versus girls battle results are in…

The girls!

A huge well done to the following children who all contributed to the battle…

Boys – Riley, Malachy, George, Adam, Max, JT, Morgan, Archie, Harry and Logan.

Girls – Sarah, Tayla D, Lola, Ruby, Ava, Rachel, Beatrise, Erin, Aaliyah-May, Meera, Tayla R, Keira F, Scarlett, Daisy, Arissa, Emily and Lisa-Marie.

A massive well done to the Sarah, Tayla D and Max who have all improved their rock status in the past 7 days. Congrats!

Once again, we have been thrilled to see all of your wonderful work. Here are just a few more examples of what everyone has been up too…

Here are some more ‘eggscellent’ science results from Larna.

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