Why not try one of the Fluent in 5 maths challenges each and every day to kickstart your day! Good luck!
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Hello All, I hope you are well. Attached are English resources designed to offer you additional home learning should you need it on a day by day basis. In addition, please make use of the following link, where you can access White Rose Hubs Year 4 Maths learning (Week 1) along with video support and daily activities. I hope you find them useful! https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Miss Baxter
In order to support your learning from home, attached are a list of useful websites which support key areas of the curriculum. Why not check them out?
General: https://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/ - interactive activities covering a whole range of subjects and year groups https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - huge treasure trove of activities that cover a whole range of subjects. Also holds links to games etc that are hosted by other sites. http://www.pobble365.com/ - a new picture is shared each day to provoke discussion, debate or writing ideas. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ - a huge range of different subjects and focuses, arguably the best host of any resource you could need. Have offered a free account in the result of school closures. https://www.weareteachers.com/free-online-learning-resources/ - lots of specific links to different sites that offer free resources or learning platforms. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize - huge range of different resources and information broken down into Key Stages and year groups. https://tpet.co.uk/ - free online resource packs. https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html – free online home workbooks https://www.learningladders.info – online resources https://2simple.com/ - EYFS/KS1 range of resources Maths: https://parallel.org.uk/ - free online maths problems, more focussed at older children. https://mathsticks.com/my/ - online resources and print offs with specifically broken down key stage focuses. https://masterthecurriculum.co.uk/ - free online range of activities broken down into year groups and levels including Greater Depth https://www.mathshed.com – useful rang of maths resources for KS1 & 2 https://www.numbots.com – addition and subtraction activities https://whiterosemaths.com/ - very useful suite of arithmetic and problem solving resources http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/ - information, resources and links for daily home maths lessons hosted by Gareth Metcalfe. Reading: https://subscribe.firstnews.co.uk/free-downloadable-issue/ free online digital download of a specialist children’s newspaper. https://lindsaylittleson.co.uk/home/resources/ - free resources linked to the books of Lindsay Littleson including The Titanic Detective Agency and Guardians of the Wild Unicorns. http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/ - vast online store of animated comic strips tracking legends and myths from across the world. https://thereadingrealm.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/The-Nature-and-Animal-Realm-1.pdf - downloadable reading activity pack. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ - free online books – brilliant if you can’t get to the library https://www.getepic.com – digital library for children up to 12 https://www.oliverjeffers.com/ - author will be reading a book every weekday at 6pm https://www.picture-news.co.uk – newspacks for children https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/reading/reading-schemes-oxford-levels/read-write-inc-phonics-guide/ - RWI phonics ebooks and practice sheets. Writing: https://spellingframe.co.uk/ -spelling activities with specialist resources for each year group. https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html - excellent resource for a range of writing stimulus. http://www.funenglishgames.com/writinggames.html - writing for different purpose. A series of online tasks and games to better understand genre. https://www.literacywagoll.com/ - range of different text examples to model to students effective layout and devices https://pobble.com – writing resources https://www.nessy.com – structured literacy resources Science: https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/science/ - lots of science subject areas covered with resources specifically designed for primary age children. (Other subjects are also available on this site). · https://groweatgift.com/2017/06/14/30-ways-to-go-wild-with-science/ - lots of different and fun science activities you can do in the house or garden Foundation Subjects. · https://www.gonoodle.com/ - lots of online videos that help keep children active inside and also teach mindfulness and medidation · https://www.typingclub.com/ - online programme for teaching and developing touch typing · https://groweatgift.com/2017/06/12/30-ways-to-get-creative-for-30-days-wild/ - different activity ideas that involve creating or engaging with different things in your house or garden. · https://www.youtube.com/thebodycoachtv - Monday - Friday 9am - a 30 minute P.E. lesson with Joe Wicks In preparation for the school closure, please find below information relating to home learning programmes. You will find some details regarding the core subjects (Reading, Writing, Maths) and how these can be accessed each day. In addition to this, you will find some information regarding other curriculum areas as well as a suggested timetable to structure your child's daily learning. These activities have been carefully resourced to ensure that learning can continue as much as possible whilst the school remains closed. Please note that these materials are exactly the same materials as those that will be sent home with the children tomorrow. Should your child require a different year group's learning pack, please see respective blog pages: Year 1 - Team AF Year 2 - Team CT Year 3 - Team GG General Information:
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This week has been yet another busy one! Starting with Maths, our class worked hard to consolidate their knowledge of angles up to and including a straight line angle. From this, we began exploring how to estimate angles using our knowledge of the right angle. We concluded the week by looking specifically at 2d shapes, their names, properties and how to classify them, before looking more closely at the angles they possess.
In our Literacy, this week we put pen to paper as we drew upon all the skills and knowledge we had developed over the last few weeks to help begin writing our myths. The class' contribution was fantastic with so many high quality ideas and a range of different suggestions and for how our myth could unfold. Over the course of the week we wrote the entire piece which is ready to be edited, upleveled and then published, before our battle with Year 5. In our afternoons, we have been working hard on our Science, as part of Science week. We were lucky enough as a school to have a Science show on Wednesday, which the children absolutely loved and learned many new things from. In our own learning, we had been classifying plants as well as animals using our knowledge of classification keys. I would like to take this opportunity to say what a fantastic attitude towards learning the children have had! I am so very proud of each and every one of them!!! This week has been absolutely jam-packed of exciting opportunities for our learners in Team CB. This week in Maths the class have been busy working on their understanding of angles. The week began with an angle hunt where children needed to deduce the type of angle shown; be than an acute, obtuse or right angle. The class were fantastic at this and quickly demonstrated a fantastic knowledge of how many degrees represented each type of angle. From this, the class moved to more problem solving tasks, involving finding missing angles from a straight line and comparing and classifying angles appropriately. They will further develop their understanding next week, before beginning to look at angles within shapes. Elsewhere, in Literacy, the class have been working hard to develop their knowledge of grammar concepts to support their writing. They have focussed on the use of direct speech, fronted adverbials and the possessive apostrophe to name just a few. Once they had learnt and applied new skills, the class spent the final session of the week working to construct a class of a new Viking Myth. The children were incredibly eager to include Thor and Heimdall in the battle against the mighty giants. I can't wait to see these stories come to life over the coming week. In addition to this, this week has been a highly important week for Year 4 as a whole. On Tuesday. the whole year group came together to participate in a Titanic themed history day. The purpose of this was to contrast modern history with ancient history, and develop a better understanding of events at the time. I could not have been more proud of the fantastic attitude towards learning that the year displayed. They were engaged throughout and especially loved the Science based investigation into making a more resilient boat which would not sink, They ended the day with a fountain of new knowledge, inspired by their interview with Milvina Dean (the last survivor of the Titanic). Why not take a look at the photos below to see how the day unfolded? During this week, the class have been busy working hard to develop their understanding of statistics. They have been looking at different ways of recording information for example, pictograms, bar charts, line graphs and then interpreting information from these. The class have shown excellent commitment and worked really hard to develop their understanding of how to construct these.
In Literacy, this week we have started our new focus of Norse Myths. The week began with the children discovering a poster declaring that Thor's hammer had been stolen. The children looked throughout the classroom in search of it but it could not be found. Eventually. Loki arrived to class carrying the hammer but would not explain how he had come to acquire it. We then read the Norse myth, Thor and the Stolen hammer which had revealed that Thrym the ice giant had stolen it. The class spent the week exploring different characters, setting and plot features which are typical of Norse myths to inform their writing in the coming weeks. They have also shared different Viking sagas to help develop their understanding. Meanwhile, this week in topic the class completed a scavengar hunt where parts of a longship had been discovered. The class used their inferencing skills to decide why the elements were important and what they could relate to. This was then reconstructed, before the class modelled what it would be like to be in a longship. They used oars to work in time with one another and sail in time with one another. The class used their knowledge to record the boats features and their importance. We have also been busy in our ICT this week, the class have began to devise their own algorithms to create a Viking Raid using the computing software Scratch. This will be a project which runs over the course of a few weeks and will greatly support the class in learning how to code, debug and problem solve. We will keep you regularly updated with our progress. Finally, this week was Week 2 of swimming and what a strong start the class have had. They have shown excellent commitment to learning this new skill, and have followed instructions with confidence and the determination to succeed. I am so proud of them all as learners! Keep up your fantastic work ethic Year 4! |
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