Dear Children, Parent/Carers,
We hope you enjoyed the activities from last week. It has been great to hear from so many of you. Once we have caught up with ourselves a little we will post pictures of you and your work on the website. We know it’s difficult to work at home but you’ll find it easier if you have a regular place and routine to your work. Make sure you have everything you need before you begin. At school, we follow the webpage just like you at home. We know the Teams assignments have had a rocky start – well done to so many of you for persevering with the Art activity last week. Hopefully they’ll work better this week.
Parents, thank you for all your kind words and support. As always we welcome all your feedback and suggestions.
Twice a week, we will ask the children to submit (Turn in) work via a Teams assignment for feedback. These are not optional. If your child attends school on the days when assignments have been set, they will complete those assignments at school. We know the system can be tricky and that it hasn’t been perfect so far but it is really important that we all persevere with it. If you have trouble using Teams please let us know, but these tasks must be completed. There will always be a deadline on the Teams assignments but work can still be submitted (Turned in) after the deadline and we will still give feedback. So if you still haven’t completed or forgot to to press the submit (Turn in) button on last week’s assignment – it’s never too late. We will be following up on these on Monday. In addition, we would be delighted to see photos, examples of work or completed challenges on any subject so please feel free to email these to year4@abbeyroadprimary.co.uk.
This week the Teams assignments are planned for Tuesday (RE – currently being edited – available Monday) and Friday (Science – available Thursday).
We suggest the following times for lessons/activities:
Spelling, times-tables, personal reading: 30 – 40 mins daily (or as long as your child wants if happily reading a good book!)
Guided Reading: 20 – 25 mins
Literacy, Maths, Science, History or Geography: 40 – 50 mins
Other subjects such as ART, DT, ICT, PHSE and RE: 30 – 40 mins
Daily physical activity: 60 mins
These are suggested times and you may find that your child works quickly and completes the task well before the minimum time – we’d suggest they look back and check their work – Is it presented well? Have they joined their writing? What about capital letters and full-stops? Is their writing exciting? Does it make sense? Have they explained things fully in Maths using the correct vocabulary? Have they given reasons for their choices or opinions? Have they done their best? Would they be happy to show it to Mrs Avery or Mrs Marshall?
On the other hand, your child may find some of these tasks quite a challenge. We would spend no more than the suggested time and let us know so what we can provide some additional material or suggestions to help support them.
The work in this post explains what you should be doing whether you are at home or at school on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th January 2021.
Monday 11th
Today’s activities include Guided Reading, Literacy, Maths and Science.
Today’s Top Tip for Activity:
We believe Jo Wicks is starting his “PE” lessons today. If you didn’t try them out last time, they can be entertaining – they certainly get your heart pumping and ready for the day. As always there are plenty of Just Dance, and Cosmic Yoga videos or perhaps you have a routine of your own that you would like to share with us.
Spelling
Use your Edshed login (back of your reading diary) or the game in your spelling booklet to practice this week’s rule: Adding the prefixes ‘super’, ‘anti’ and ‘auto’.
Guided Reading
Today, we’re going to continue with our work on Ice Palace. We’ll start with a quick recap of the story so you might want to get your summary out from last week. In today’s session, you will be using your vocabulary and inference skills. Follow the instructions on the following PDF.
Guided Reading Monday
English
Today we’re going to take a break from Ice Palace and do some SPAG work. Follow the directions in the PDF to explore root words and word families.
Monday English Root words
Maths
Start your session with some times-tables practice on TTR.
This half term we are looking at multiplication and division. Today, we’re looking at multiplying any number by 1 and 0.
Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/475452114
Complete the sheet: Day 1 Multiply by 1 and 0
Check your answers: Day 1 Multiply by 1 and 0 answers
Science: States of Matter: Is water always wet?
This afternoon we will recap our work in Science so far and then explore the properties of gases a little further. Parents – some equipment maybe required for the exploration. Please see the details on the PDF – it is not necessary to go out and buy objects if they’re not available at home – the children should be able to complete the investigation with household objects.
Science 2 All about gas
Tuesday 12th
Today’s activities include Guided Reading, Literacy, Maths, ICT and RE
Today’s Top Tip for Activity:
How was your day with Jo? Maybe it’s time for some Yoga today. Try Cosmic Kids Pokemon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTCnbf_rds
Spelling
Use your Edshed login (back of your reading diary) or the game in your spelling booklet to practice this week’s rule: Adding the prefixes ‘super’, ‘anti’ and ‘auto’.
Guided Reading
Today, we’re going to continue with our work on Ice Palace. We’ll start with a quick recap of the story so you might want to get your summary out from last week. In today’s session, you will be using your vocabulary and retrieval skills. Follow the instructions on the following PDF.
Guided Reading Tuesday
English
Today we’re going continue Ice Palace and do some work on verbs and tenses. Follow the directions in the PDF.
English Day 2 Tuesday
Maths
Start your session with some times-tables practice on TTR.
This half term we are looking at multiplication and division. Today, we’re looking at dividing numbers by 1 and the number itself.
Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/478511830
Complete the sheet: Day 2 Divide by 1 and itself
Check your answers: Day 2 Divide by 1 and itself answers
ICT
Follow this link: https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/what-we-offer/discovery-education-coding
Click Login in the top right hand corner and select Espresso.
Use Student25350 and the password: ARpass to login and click on coding. The children are all very familiar with this process.
Click “Block coding” on the menu bar at the top and select level 4 from the dropdown menu.
From here the children can access refresher lessons on Levels 1- 3 or move straight on to Level 4: An introduction to variables.
For today we would like them to look at Tablet till and Pirate gold within Level 4.
This is an activity that most children will be able to complete independently.
RE: Jewish Families and Celebrations
You’ll find the information needed to complete today’s assignment in Teams. Login in to Microsoft Teams using the login and password in the back of your Reading Diary. Make sure that once you have closed your assignment – changes are automatically saved- that you “Turn in” the assignment – otherwise we see it as have been viewed but not turned in. Please let us know if you encounter any problems – we are always here to help and support in any way we can.
Just in case you experience difficulties with Teams here are the PDF and the activity – you can always email us a photo or a copy of your work at: year4@abbeyroadprimary.co.uk
