Year 4 Archive

Making friends. Look at the PowerPoint and ask yourself who are friends to you and what qualities are needed for friendships.

makingfriends

This week children will continue to learn about Hinduism. They will specifically look at the story of Rama and Sita. Information about the story is included as well as a play and face masks. This will enable the children to act out the story. The plays are differentiated between 1 and 3 stars, with one being the most basic etc.

 

 

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.