Hi everyone,

I hope you are all enjoying a bit of normality, it has been brilliant to have almost all children back in class, myself and Mrs Neesham have missed so many of their wonderful personalities.

Tomorrow, every child should come home with the following homework sheets:

1. Maths arithmetic
2. Subtracting Fractions Match-Up x2 (Ch must show workings out; this may be with a number line or converting a mixed number to an improper fraction)
3. Reading comprehension

Request:

Please could you send in recycled objects/rubbish from home that would normally be recycled. On Thursday, the children will make a craft out of recycled objects. Due to Covid regulations, these items must be bought into school by Tuesday at the latest so that they can used in class.

Many thanks,

Mr Weaver

Hi everyone,

We have all made it to the end of home learning and succeeded. I am so excited to be writing this final home learning post, I can not wait for so many of you to return to Class 4 on Monday! Well done to you all, so many of you (parents and children) have done a truly fantastic job, thank you!

Non-negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Today, I would like you to focus on the non-negotiable tasks throughout the day. Can you do each task twice, perhaps three times? Maybe even FOUR times. 

Maths:

It’s time to show off, you know what to do! 🙂  But first check last weeks test and address any errors Answers 1

Arithmetic Spring 2 Answers 2

Back to School:

Myself and Mrs Neesham can’t wait for you all to return. Here’s a few important reminders:

• Class 4’s school day begins at 8:50 and finishes at 15:10 – You must strictly keep to these timings. These staggered start times are in place to promote and ensure social distance to keep you all safe
• Lunch will be eaten in the classroom.
• PE is on a Wednesday afternoon. You must come to school dressed in your PE kit, please ensure suitable clothing is worn for the varying weather conditions.
• Your child must keep one reading book at home and one in school, please email me if you have any issues regrading reading materials
• Reading books that are returned on a Friday (once completed) must be placed/kept in an isolation box for 72 hours
• Reading diaries will be checked on a Wednesday so they must be in school.
• Continue to learn weekly spellings at home – you already have this terms spellings, please email me if you do not.
• Please do not bring bags or pencil cases into school
• Every Friday, your child will be sent home with their arithmetic sheet and a reading comprehension. The reading comprehension must be returned the following Wednesday (with the reading diaries).
• At home your child is expected to continue the non-negotiable tasks daily. These can be achieved before or after school.

See you all on Monday!!!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mr Weaver

Hi everyone,

Please find below tomorrow’s World Book Day activities.

First start with quiz; Find your perfect costume for World Book Day. Also attached you have will find a wordsearch and a bookmark activity to do for the afternoon. You may want to colour in Matilda’s Brilliant Bookmarks so you can have your very own new bookmark.

World Book Day Costume Quiz-Wordsearch-Bookmark

Main activity:

Watch the video scene of Violet Beauregarde’s inflation from the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcqZynKuqhI

Imagine you are Willy Wonka – create your own invention. You may like to draw what the chocolate bar looks like then draw a wrapper. Think carefully about the ingredients that may have an effect on the person who eats your new invention.

Chocolate Bar Design

Now write a paragraph explaining what happens to whoever eats the chocolate bar that you have designed. However, there is something wrong with your new invention, it is not yet ready and someone who lives with you has eaten it! Think about what happened to Violet Beauregarde when she ate the gum and the impact of the ingredients.

• Can you include adjectives, an expanded noun phrase and a simile?
• What may the person taste, feel, smell, hear or see when they eat the chocolate bar you have designed?

Book Review

Write a comprehensive book review using this template as a guide to help organise their ideas. Choose a book you have read recently or your favourite ever book.

The template enables them to reflect on the book in a number of ways, prompting them to:

• Illustrate their favourite scene.
• Write a synopsis.
• Write about who they would recommend the book to and why

Book Review

Zoom Call: World Book day

Join us at 13:30 for a quiz to celebrate World Book Day, I hope to see many of you dressed up!

Superfan Quiz

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I hope you have a brilliant day,

Mr Weaver

Hi all,

Please find tomorrow’s home learning activities.

Non-negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Maths:

Y4 Spring Block 3 WO4 Fractions greater than 1 2019

Literacy:

Now that you have edited your work, re-draft your work, copying it up in your neatest handwriting. Ensure you include all your edits.

If you have already done this, then perhaps you could design another art making device (or invent any machine) and write an explain how it works. Include all the key features of an explanation text.

 Science: To identify a variety of rainforest plants.

Read through the information slides asking yourself these questions for each example of plants found in the rainforest.

1. What type of plant is it? (e.g. flower, tree, bush etc.)
2. What does it look like?
3. What different parts can you identify? (e.g. flower, stem, leaves, roots, etc.)

Rainforest Science Slide2

On worksheet 2A, children to write their own riddle for each of the remaining plants on Picture Cards A and then test a friend or family member to see if they can match them up correctly. Discuss the your descriptions to see if you have given enough information.

Have a great day,

Mr Weaver

Hi everyone,

Please find Tuesday’s activities below.

Non-negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Maths:

WO3 Equivalent fractions (2)

Literacy:

Edit your explanation of an art machine; remind yourself of the grammatical features of explanations and revise Time Adverbs, Conjunctions and Pronouns to help you.

Time Adverbials-pronouns-Conjunctions

Then, write your explanation into its final form. Read it through to check it before sharing it.

PE:

Joe Wicks for some PE ideas:

https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

Cosmic Kids Yoga:

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

PSHE:

Children will learn all about reducing, reusing and recycling. They will explore how a landfill operates and create their own product from recycling household items.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reduce-reuse-recycle-crt38c?activity=video&step=1

Have fun,

Mr Weaver

Hi all,

I hope you had a great weekend, one more week to go of home learning! Please find below Monday’s activities.

Non-negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Maths:

Y4-Equivalent-fractions-1-

Literacy:

Look back through your plan/drafts from Friday. Try to identify effective features as well as areas for development or improvement – use the Prompt/planning sheet to help. Now write the rest of your explanation for your art machine.

RE: Why is Easter Important to Christians?

Why is Easter Important to Christians

Click on the link and jot down what you already know about Easter and any questions you have about Easter. Then read the information text.

Now, design a cross for the classroom or your home. Be creative and use any ‘junk’ you can find at home in the recycling box – cardboard/milk containers/lids etc. You could even use materials found outside – twigs, stones, leaves etc.

Have a great day,

Mr Weaver

Hi,

Well done everyone, we all manage to get through the first week back and what a brilliant job you have done. Only five more days of home schooling left, we can all do this!

Please find tomorrow’s home learning activities below.

Non-Negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Maths:

It’s Friday which means its showing off time. Attempt Spring Test 1 again and compare your scores. If you have any, spend some time addressing your mistakes.

Arithmetic Spring 1

Literacy:

Write an introduction for an explanation about how your art machine works (remember that these are not instructions on how to use it.

Then, using your annotated diagram from Task 1 (yesterday’s lesson), plan and draft key sections to explain how the machine works. Use the Explanation planning template to help you plan each section.

Start writing the middle section of your explanation in draft form. You can cross out and alter as you go as this is not a final copy!

Planning template – Explanation

Zoom call:

Join us at 13:30 for a catch-up. The zoom call will consist of children sharing their letters they wrote on Monday, so please ensure they have them available to read to the class if they wish to do so. Also, we will continue with the scavenger hunt which was unfortunately cut short last time.

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Passcode: pR1dgP

Have a great day,

Mr Weaver

Hi everyone,

Please find below tomorrow’s home learning activities.

Non-negotiables:

1. Read for a minimum of 20 minutes per day
2. Practise your spellings everyday
3. Practise your handwriting
4. Play Times Table Rock Stars
5. Play Hit the Button to practise number bonds to 10, 20 and 100

Maths:

-WO2-Equivalent-fractions-2

Literacy:

Today you will choose a piece of art from the project/activity ideas worksheet or you can come up with your own idea for something that your art machine will make or do.

Project – Ideas sheet

List the key processes of your machine in note form, then design, draw and annotate your art-inventing machine. Clearly label each process or operation in sequence and invent or use technical language.

Geography:

In today’s lesson you will investigate the climate of a rainforest. Read through the information slides and attempt to answer the questions. Topic Worksheets

On worksheet 3B, complete the two graphs showing temperature (line graph) and rainfall (bar graph) in the tropical rainforest. Then use the graphs to answer questions about climate in the rainforest on worksheet 3C Rainforest Geography Slide3

Have fun,

Mr Weaver