Dear Children, Parent/Carers,
Good morning,
Wow Year 4! We are super impressed with all of the work and photos you have been sending in. The snowy weather was very timely for our changes in state work. Your next chapters for Ice Palace have shown us how much you have learned and progressed since September and you should all be super proud of yourselves. Mums and Dads probably need a pat on the back too. There has been some amazing encouragement and support happening.
We hope that you are all safe and healthy and have enjoyed your weekend. Hopefully you all managed to get some fresh air and are ready and good to go for a full week of work.
This week there are a few things we’d like to bring to your attention.
- Science this week will be on Wednesday and Friday. Both sessions will require a small amount of preparation the day before and you will need some ice-cube trays or something similar! The trays will be fit for normal use afterwards so no need to go out and buy anything new.
- Teams’ assignments this week will be on Monday – submitting a photo of Art work and Thursday/Friday – a writing task.
- Finally, in addition to narrating the Maths lessons, either Mr Marshall or Mrs Avery will be doing a morning greeting and then narrating a guided reading session every day. Let us know what you think!
Re Feedback: We’ve been asked by several families about the Maths worksheets and specifically how much help the children might need to complete the questions – particularly those at the end of the sheet. These questions are designed to help the children to develop their reasoning and problem solving skills. We often complete these questions as a class or in groups once the children have had a look at them first. Some of the children will be able to answer these questions independently, but may find explaining their answers quite challenging. They may need some help/support in using the correct vocabulary – this is fine. Others may find these questions very challenging and would benefit from working through the questions with a grown-up. They could then try another identical problem on their own. If you are finding this or any other part of the lessons tricky or you need some clarification please do not hesitate to get in touch.
As always we thank you for your for all your warm words of support and your feedback.
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
Top tips for early finishers:
- 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?
Monday 18th
Today’s activities include Guided Reading, Literacy, Maths and Art (Teams).
Today’s Top Tip for Activity:
Tune in to Jo Wicks or if you want a gentler start to the day, try some Cosmic Yoga this is the link for a Cosmic Kids Yoga session based on Moana:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3gCrL_XIM
Mrs Avery’s Morning Greeting. To start your day off, click on the following link:
https://youtu.be/Lfg2B49IC5Q
Assembly with Mrs Toom
Inspiring People 2 – 18th January 2021
or watch it in Youtube:
https://youtu.be/tsjJ844Laz0
Guided Reading
Today, we’re going to continue with our work on Ice Palace. In today’s session, you will be broadening your vocabulary with Mrs Avery.
https://youtu.be/VplS1bLeWfY
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 suffix ‘ation’ to verbs to form nouns. Hopefully the problem with Edshed has been resolved.
English
We’re going to continue our work on Ice Palace. We’ll find out what has happened to Ivan. What did scare those wolves? What will happen next? We’ll then look more closely at nouns and pronouns. Follow the directions in the PDF.
English Monday
Maths
Start your session with some times-tables practice on TTR.
This half term we are looking at multiplication and division. Today, Mr Marshall is going to tell you all about the 9 times tables.
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/nrj5p18HSNA
Complete the sheet: 9 times-table and division facts
Check your answers: 9 times table and division facts answers
Art: Sculpture
This week we’re going to begin building our sculpture. Login to your Teams account to follow this week’s Art assignment.
If you have any difficulties the PDF is also posted below. Remember to upload a photo of your work to your Teams account or email it to us at: year4@abbeyroadprimary.co.uk
Sculpture Session 3 Home Learning
Tuesday 19th
Mr Marshall’s Morning Greeting. To start your day off, click on the following link:
https://youtu.be/Q_MPjglswEs
Today’s activities include Guided Reading, Literacy, Maths, ICT and RE
Today’s Top Tip for Activity:
Remember to keep trying to improve your pb for running/jogging and jumping. Are you improving?
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 suffix ‘ation’ to verbs to form nouns.
Guided Reading
Today, we’re going to continue with our work on Ice Palace. In today’s session with Mr Marshall, you will be using the work you did on vocabulary yesterday to answer inference and retrieval questions.
Guided Reading Tuesday
https://youtu.be/Il5wve1rcL4
English
Today we’re going continue Ice Palace and do some work on conjunctions. Follow the directions in the PDF.
English Tuesday conjunctions
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 and dividing by 7. Watch Mrs Avery’s video:
Watch the video: https://youtu.be/J45qAkVGso0
Complete the sheet: Multiply and divide by 7
Check your answers: Multiply and divide by 7 Answers
ICT
We know that lots of the children are really thrilled to be carrying on their coding work at home.
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 the last session is this unit: Debugging variables
This is an activity that most children will be able to complete independently.
RE: Jewish Families and Celebrations
Follow the PDF to find out more about special events in Jewish families. In your task you will be comparing these with special events in your own family so you may need to interview a grown up.
