Year 4 - Home-Learning Page
Please find the home learning activities for year 4 below. Lessons will be held via TEAMS, recorded videos with a teacher explanation and independent tasks.
Please contact us on - year4@gwps.org.uk
Thank you and take care,
Mr Knight, Mr Robb and Miss Garthwaite.
Achievers of the Week - Friday 12th Feb
4RK - Nathan Crake 4GR - Alex Thowburn
Friday 5th March 2021
Maths
Use these activities, and any others on the free website to improve your addition, subtraction, multiplication and division work. Use mental strategies and pencil and paper methods.
Multiplication: you know how to use this APP.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check
All 4 operations (+, -, x and ÷):
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/587/Balancing-Calculations
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/563/Snowball-Smash
Subtraction:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/555/Subtraction-Mini-Maths-Golf
Mathsframe website:
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/22/most-popular
History
Join us at 11am, on Teams, for today's live lesson.
Watch these two videos prior to this.
A map of Roman roads in Britain
The Roman roads
Reading
Green
Yellow
Pink
Reading Answers
Green
Yellow
Pink
Friday Social
Join us at 2:30pm, on Teams, for the last Friday Social of the remote learning period.
Bring a pen and paper along as we will be having a Friday Quiz!
How well you do you know your number facts, spellings and Roman Emperors?
Thursday 4th March 2021
Maths
Little Red Riding Hood
English
**Live Lesson**
Today's English lesson will be live, on Teams, at 11am.
PE
Reading
'The Masked Reader'
World Book Day is on Thursday. To help celebrate, we will have short stories read by school staff each day.
Go to the WBD section of the Home Learning Page and find the stories for today.
Who is reading each story?
The mystery will be revealed at the end of the day.
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
English
Maths
**Live Lesson**
Today's lesson will live, on Teams, at 11am.
Complete the work below afterwards.
RE
Easter - What is Lent?
Watch the video and read the information on the BBC Bitesize website before completing the 'Turning Over a New Leaf' activity.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztkxpv4/articles/z77jf4j
Reading
'The Masked Reader'
World Book Day is on Thursday. To help celebrate, we will have short stories read by school staff each day.
Go to the WBD section of the Home Learning Page and find the stories for today.
Who is reading each story?
The mystery will be revealed at the end of the day.
Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Maths
Maths answers
English
**Live Lesson**
Join the lesson, on Teams, at 11am.
Complete the work below afterwards.
History
Green
Yellow
Pink
Reading
'The Masked Reader'
World Book Day is on Thursday. To help celebrate, we will have short stories read by school staff each day.
Go to the WBD section of the Home Learning Page and find the stories for today.
Who is reading each story?
The mystery will be revealed at the end of the day.
Monday 1st March 2021
English
Maths
**Live Lesson**
Join the lesson, on Teams, at 11am.
Complete the work below afterwards.
Spellings
Reading
'The Masked Reader'
World Book Day is on Thursday. To help celebrate, we will have short stories read by school staff each day.
Go to the WBD section of the Home Learning Page and find three stories for today.
Who is reading each story?
The mystery will be revealed at the end of the day.
Friday 26th February 2021
English - Diary
Watch the video and read the document. It has all the information you need.
Maths - Live Lesson
Statistics - Interpreting Graphs and Charts
Join Mr Robb at 11am on Teams for today's lesson.
Success Criteria:
Green/Yellow/ Pink
Use the scale to interpret the information.
Use columns and carrying for addition.
Use columns and exchanging (borrowing) for subtraction.
Pink
Use a hundred square.
Multiplication Tables Check
Keep practising your times-tables.
Challenge: Can you complete 15 questions for your target table with only 5 seconds per question?
Mental Wellbeing - Yoga
Relax and unwind. You've done a lot of writing this week.
Click on the image below before choosing your own yoga session to follow.
Story-time
Join Mr Robb and Miss Carpenter at 2pm for a story. We will post the ZOOM details on here, and on Teams, once the session is arranged.
Meeting ID: 997 8705 4718
Passcode: 567719
Friday Social
Join Mr Robb and Mr Knight at 3pm to share some riddles.
Previous Learning
Thursday 25th February 2021
Today's assessed work will be the The Kahoot quiz. You are not required to email in today's work.
Maths - recorded lesson
Statistics - Interpreting graphs/charts
Tasks:
Watch the video.
Complete the reasoning task.
Complete a Kahoot quiz.
Success Criteria:
Green/Yellow/Pink
Use the key to interpret the information.
Read the scales carefully.
Use columns and carrying for addition and multiplication.
Use columns and exchanging (borrowing) for subtraction.
Pink
Use a hundred square or number line for adding and subtracting.
There was an error in the green quiz - I've amended it. I changed the questions last night but forgot to change the answers.
English - live lesson
Join Mr Robb at 11am for today's live lesson.
Use the information in the document to complete today's task.
PE - Balance and Agility
Spelling and Handwriting
Use a range of strategies to practise your spellings from Monday.
You could play the spelling games modelled in the video.
You could use colour writing, pyramids, crosswords...
Wednesday 24th February 2021
English - Recorded Lesson
Embarked
Watch the video then read the document. It has all of the information you need for today's lesson.
Email this work to year4@gwps.org.uk
Maths - Live Lesson
Statistics - Line Graphs
Join Mr Robb at 11am on Teams for today's lesson.
Success Criteria:
Green/Yellow/ Pink
Use the scale to interpret the information.
Use columns and carrying for addition.
Use columns and exchanging (borrowing) for subtraction.
Pink
Use a hundred square.
Reading Comprehension
* Infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence
* Identifying main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and summarising these.
* Identifying how language, structure, and presentation contribute to meaning
* Retrieve and record information from non-fiction
Task: Read a text and answer relevant questions
SC:
Green/Yellow/ Pink
- 1. Read the text fully first
- 2. Read the questions and look for any hints
- 3. Re-read the sentence /paragraph etc and answer appropriately.
Green
Yellow
Pink
Computing
Coding - Creating Algorithms.
Use the online Technobabble activity to create their own game using coding sequence.
Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Maths - Recorded Lesson
Statistics - Bar Charts
To interpret bar charts.
Tasks:
1 - Watch the video.
2- Complete the worksheet.
Success Criteria:
Green/Yellow/ Pink
Read the the scales carefully.
Use columns and carrying for addition.
Use columns and exchanging (borrowing) for subtraction.
Pink
Use a 100 square or a number line (ruler) to help.
English - Live lesson
Narrative - Embarked
Join Mr Robb at 11am on Teams for today's live lesson.
All of the information you need is in the document.
Music
Composing
Watch the video before clicking on the link to compose your own music.
Following on from Holst's music about Mars, you are going to compose your own piece of music about your Roman god (the one you created before the half-term).
You are going to use Google Chrome Music labs.
Click on the link below.
You will need to use Song Maker - the Smiling Rainbow.
Do what I showed you in the video.
You can also experiment with the different activities.
You might want to wear headphones if you are in a room with somebody who is working.
Religious Education
What is Lent?
Use this link to learn more about lent on BBC Bitesize
1. Watch the video and complete the online activity.
2. Complete the independent activity.
Success criteria;
You will know what Lent is and why Christians celebrate it.
Monday 22nd February 2021
English - Narrative
Embarked
Watch the story in this video first.
Teaching video
Complete the activities in this video linked to the tasks for today.
Success Criteria is included in the document.
Email your work to Mr Robb
Maths - Statistics - live lesson
Join Mr Robb on Teams at 11am for today's live lesson.
SC:
Green/Yellow/ Pink
Use the key to interpret the information.
Use columns and carrying for addition and multiplication.
Use columns and exchanging (borrowing) for subtraction.
Pink
Use a 100 square.
Use a multiplication grid.
Spelling and Handwriting
Copy the green and yellow or pink spellings.
Write them two or three more times.
Ask somebody at home to play 'spelling noughts and crosses' or '1 forward and 2 backward'.
Music - Listening to Music
Gustav Holst was inspired by the Roman Gods. He composed many pieces of music to represent the main gods of Roman culture.
Tasks
1:
Listen to his music called 'Mars'. He was the god of war.
How does the pace and pitch change?
What instruments can you hear?
2:
Write down how the music makes you feel (emotions - happy, angry, sad...these are called abstract nouns) as you listen to the music.
3:
Green/Yellow: write a description of how you felt.
Use abstract nouns (emotions).
Use time connectives and causal conjunctions.
Pink: you can copy and complete these sentences or write your own:
At the start I felt______________.
In the middle of the music I felt___________.
By the end I was_________ because__________.
Use abstract nouns (emotions).
Previous Remote Learning
Times-tables practice.
Keep using this activity to improve your recall.
