Year 4 Archive

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.

• Reading Plus: Complete all readings allocated by Sunday. You will earn extra Dojo points.
• Read your own reading book 4 x a week. – Discuss what is has happened in the book, what do you think will happen next? Why do you think this? Find three words that you do not understand and look them up in a dictionary.
• Remember ALL reading is important! Read any books you have at home, share with your family. Perhaps you could read to brothers and sisters too.

Reading comprehension, ‘The Pack of Pompeii’. Children should answer in full sentences. There are three variations of the reading comprehension, 1 star is the more basic with 3 being the most difficult. Only one version needs to be completed.