Author: year4

This week let us learn about French breakfast. Look at the labelled picture and match to the correct words to the breakfast item. Use both common sense and knowledge of English words to help. Also find attached a vocabulary list.

Bring the noise by the BBC offers the children the opportunity to sample videos and games.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise

Complete the online safety activities.

Have a go at coding with https://www.bt.com/codeacake/

Children will be given the opportunity to make their own volcanoes, complete with eruption. Though there are only details explaining how to make the eruption. A bottle layered with paper mâché can be painted once dry.

The Youth Sports Trust offers a multitude of activities for children to do. Once on the website if you scroll down to primary resources and enter you will find sections on PE Home Learning and 60 Second challenges. Both of these have lots of ideas for PE at home.

https://www.youthsporttrust.org/free-home-learning-resources-0

Learn about earthquakes:

Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zj89t39 to find out about earthquakes. In addition, there is a labelling activity for completion.

Learn about the properties of solids, liquids and gases in this colourful comic aimed at students in Key Stage Two. Written to promote enquiry skills, it contains a linked investigation which focuses on planning and evaluating evidence when investigating how to create the best geyser.

In this episode Selenia creates a wormhole by using the energy of a geyser. She wants to show her friends what a geyser looks like and needs help.

Notes provide a link from the comic to the investigation and include an explanation of geysers and how they are created. There is also extension opportunities, equipment list and a planning sheet and flash cards the properties of solids, liquids and gases.

 

This week we will be looking at poetry on Oak National Academy. Once the link is followed click on subject and then Year 4. There are 5 lessons which should be done daily Mon-Fri. These are as follows:

Each lesson comes with quizzes as well as a video and slides to show your child what should do in a step by step fashion.

https://www.thenational.academy/

• Continue to revise year 3 and 4 common exception words. Have a test on 10 words of your choice. Any which are incorrect continue to learn. You can then choose some more words. We have included a spelling practice menu; you can choose form to help learn the words.

Prefix and suffix work. Complete the worksheet by creating prefixes and suffixes using the word bank included or thinking of your own.