Category: Year 4 Blog

We would like to wish Warwick a Happy Birthday for this week. Also, a huge happy birthday to Scarlett, Lyra and Ryan who will be celebrating their birthday’s next week. Have a wonderful day!

Have you been reading any interesting books on Fiction Express? Have you taken a quiz, voted or commented on the book forum?

Remember, Fiction Express has some great books that cover a range of themes from adventure, to humour and fairy tale to mystery. If you haven’t already logged on, have a go and you never know what you will discover!!

A huge well done to the following children that have all read a book or several books on Fiction Express.

Your teacher’s would also like to recommend some books…

You can find all the book by selecting the ‘books’ tab on the side of the screen, clicking ‘authors’ and scrolling down to the relevant author where you will find a collection of their stories.

Miss Perrett recommends The Last Days of Pompeii by David Macphail …

An exciting and thrilling read with Mount Vesuvius at the heart of the action. It’s a race against time to save the city of Pompeii for Marcus and his father Felix, but will they succeed? A fantastic read which will compliment the work you have done on the Romans nicely. If volcanoes interest you, may be you could do some research and create a fact file about Mount Vesuvius or even make your own scientific erupting volcano using baking soda and vinegar! Enjoy the book!

Mr Perkins recommends Frankie Stein’s Monster by Jan Burchett and Sara Vogler

I know that we are all unable to go on holiday at the moment but in this humorous story, Frankie and her family go on holiday to somewhere very strange! Frankie Stein’s parents are scared of everything. So when the family end up going on holiday to a creepy old house, Frankie’s parents are desperate to go home. But Frankie is brave and she is determined to stay at the house, and keep the monster that lurks there a secret from her petrified parents. Give this book a go, are you as brave and confident as Frankie is? Perhaps you could design your own holiday house? What might be there? What will happen?

For something a little more different Mrs McManus recommends Drama club by Marie-Louise Jensen

This book explores friendship, teamwork and personal skills of confidence and compromise. A group of friends are involved in their local youth drama club at a small city theatre. When their leader, the charismatic Mr Beaven, announces he wants to put on a major new play at the end of the summer holidays, the cast is very excited. Amidst rivalry, hopes and disappointments, will there be more drama on or off the stage? And who will get the leading roles? Once you have read this perhaps you could create your own play or do a performance of something and email it in to us.

Mrs Walton would like to recommend the live book The Last Guardian by Damian Harvey. The first chapter will be released on the 24th April and then a new chapter each week.

I will be honest, I don’t normally like fantasy stories however, I read the first book in the series Stormwolf (also available on Fiction Express) and I was hooked. This time we return to the world of Winter Lockwood and the Realms of Mortals and Magic. Winter has woken from a long and healing magical sleep to find that her parents have been taken prisoner and the safety of the Realm of Mortals is in danger. With her parents gone, Winter is the last Stormwolf – Guardian of the Gateway between the two realms. She must rescue her parents and stop the evil Dark Horde from destroying everything she holds dear. But is Winter ready for such a fight? Will you join me in reading this amazing adventure? I’ll be reading each week and voting about what happens next. Enjoy!

Mrs Walton and Mrs McManus

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We would like to wish you all a Happy Easter!  We hope you have had a wonderful weekend and that you have eaten lots of chocolate.  We also hope that you are well and staying safe. We have missed you all.  We have missed teaching you, talking to you, laughing with you and seeing all your wonderful smiles!

We understand that these are very strange times but we would like you to try and still see the next two weeks as the Easter holidays.  Therefore, we have suggested some activities that you might want to do to keep yourselves busy and also a creative curriculum theme project.

Take care, stay safe and keep smiling!

From

The Year 4 team

Maths

Each day White Rose Maths are producing some creative Easter maths.  Have a go…

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/easter-fun/

English

Try to keep up to date with what is happening in the world around us…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

Newsround, games, quizzes and puzzles.

Creative Curriculum

Have you ever wondered how the Romans built their roads or transported the water using aqueducts?    We would like you to learn about them and then have a go at making one of them.

First, carry out some research about Roman roads and aqueducts.

Here you will find information telling you all about roads and aqueducts.

Next, these two worksheets also tell you about them.  Answer the questions in your book.

Finally, choose either Roman roads or aqueducts and have a go at creating a model at home using the things you can find around the house.

Here are some photos…

Creative fun

Have a look at the grid attached.  On it there are lots of creative and fun things to do or make.  How creative can be? 

Time capsule

The document below is away of recording different things as a ‘time capsule, which have happened during these strange times.  

We wanted to say a well done to you all for working so hard with your work.?

A special well done to the following children who have improved their rock status on TTRockstars over the past two weeks;

4MW – Tayla D, Sarah and Tayla R

4KP – Lyra, Regan, Laura, Adam and Summer

4PP – Aaliyah-May, India and Leah-Marie

Winnie and Mrs Cheshire have set up a blog to show you what they have been getting up to whilst at home. There are lots of helpful tips to keep you ‘pawsitive’ during these difficult times. Check it out!

https://pawsforpositivity.wordpress.com/

We hope that you and your family are safe and well.  Please continue with the packs that we sent home and explore some of the weblinks we posted. If you have been a busy bee and are looking for more work, have a look below.

Checkout the below weblinks and documents (some of the documents also have answers)
You don’t have to print the documents – but can complete these in your exercise book. 

Don’t forget to keep practicing on TT Rockstars  – Have you improved your rock status?  Which times tables do you need to work on?

Also keep reading on Fiction Express.  Which book are you going to read next?  Have you completed any of the quizzes?  Voted?  Or emailed the author? 

Have you been starting your day with The Body Coach Jo Wicks exercises? We have, it’s great fun! https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Science – A free website to sign up to with lots of photos and videos to talk about.  https://explorify.wellcome.ac.uk/

Computing – Coding is one aspect of computing. All children in year 4 have used Scratch to create games.  Log on to the website go to create and click on tutorials.  Here it will show you how to do different things.  Why don’t you make a catch game? Or create animations that talk?   https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/?tutorial=getStarted

PE – There are are wide range of activities out there to keep the children active. The following website has even more ideas! https://www.aspire-sports.co.uk/aspire-active-hub

English Mystery Game

Maths Mystery Game

Daily News Story Comprehension