Class 4

Welcome to Class 4!

Bristol Residential 2023

 Hi everyone. Mr L here.

We've had a great first day so far. We arrived safely at Wookey Hole at around 11am and did our guided tour of the caves which was excellent. After that, we did the 4D cinema experience - thoroughly enjoyed by all. We then did the paper making workshop and finished our visit with a play in the play-zone and a trip to the gift shop. 

As I write this, the children are having a great time in air hop. Check out the pictures below. 

Bristol - Day 2 (23/03/2023)

Good morning. 

Sorry we didn't post an update last night - there is no signal or WiFi in the hostel unfortunately. 

After our trip to air extreme yesterday evening, the class enjoyed a McDonalds tea. We then headed over to the hostel, arriving just after 9pm. The children did an excellent job of finding their rooms and sorting themselves for bedtime and pretty much all the children were fast asleep within an hour. 

The children all slept well and have had a good breakfast at the hostel including cereal, toast and a full English so they are well charged and fuelled for their busy day ahead today. 

They are currently busy exploring the SS Great Britain. 

Evening

We've had another great day on residential here. 

All the children enjoyed both the SS Great Britain and the Roman Baths although I think the ride on the double decker from the park and ride would be right up there on the children's best bits of the day. 

We are currently at Hollywood Bowl enjoying an hour of bowling before we have tea here and then head back over to the hostel for the night. 

I'll update again tomorrow morning. 

Mr L

Bristol Residential - Day 3 

Good morning. 

We have arrived at Paultons Park and have just done our 'Feed the meerkats' activity and the 'Meet the exotics' exhibition.

We will shortly be going on the tractor ride before we have dinner and spend some time in the play areas. 

The children all slept well last night and enjoyed another good breakfast this morning at the Hostel. 

Note 

We are expecting to be back at 5:15pm later on today. 

Mr L 

Orienteering:

Over a few weeks the class were split into three groups, the groups travelled on Thursday mornings to Castle Drogo. 

Each student had a map in hand and were taught how to identify what they were seeing on the map using a range of skills. The route we walked is just over a mile and a half with a few challenging hills, so the test is also a physical one.

We also wanted the activity to work on team cooperation so we added a competitive element, we told each group they were being timed to see how fast they could reach the finish, each member of the team had to find 13 markers along the route which had 4 letters on to write down.  

Mr Lapham and Elliot have been doing this for a number of years and were really impressed with how well the groups took to understanding the maps and finding the markers, all three groups we are pleased to say completed the course in under an hour. Well done team! 

Group 1: 58:31

Group 2: 48:30

Group 3: 43:13

Morning 

Everyone slept well. 

We had a good breakfast at the hostel and have arrived at Legoland excited for our day here. 

Just a late night update to say that all the children are currently fast asleep and recharging for their day at Legoland tomorrow. 

Mr L

Harry Potter World Trip 2022

Hi everyone. 

We had a good trip up this morning and arrived safely at Harry Potter Studio Tours just after 11am. 

We did a 1 hour workshop before our tour started which the children enjoyed. As I write this, the children are currently finishing their studio tour in the gift shop. They have had a great time and the studio tour was amazing. 

I'll add more pictures later tonight and update you again after tea. 

Mr L

Year 4 Marathon

Today the children have completed the 14th mile of their marathon run. 

They were all pleased to reach the half way mark yesterday and enjoyed their celebratory lollies after their run. 

We have started collecting sponsorship money back and so far the class have raised £178.50 towards Mr Lapham's charity (Asthma UK). 

Well done everyone. 

Homework - 12/03/2021 

This week we would like you to complete the piece of art work that we set for home learning a few weeks ago. This was to draw and colour/paint/collage a rainforest animal to put on the display in class. Some of you have already done this and brought them into school with you - they are looking great on the display! so you guys can do another one if you would like to or you can have a week off of homework this week. 

Home Learning Week 7

Hello Class Four

Please find the links below to this week's home learning tasks. 

We are so looking forward to seeing you all back in school next week. 

Enjoy your last week of home learning. 

As usual I will be available via email if you need any help with anything. 

Please remember to keep in touch. 

Mr L

Sunday 21st February 2021 

Hello Class Four. 

I hope you have all had an amazing and restful half term. Fingers crossed we will only have a couple more weeks of home learning and then we will be back in school together for the rest of the term. 

Here is your home learning for this week. 

Your packs are ready to collect from the play shed on the top playground. 

I have received a few of your stories from the last weeks home learning but not many so please can I remind you to send those through to me via the class email address. 

Please remember to keep in touch via email or the class blog. 

Have a good week and let me know if you need any help with anything. 

Mr L

Tuesday 9th February 2021

Morning Year Four

Please head over to the blog to have a look at the Art Project I have set for you this week. 

I'm hoping you will enjoy it. 

Mr L

Home Learning - Week 5 - WB 08/02/2021

Hello Year Four. 

Please your home learning documents for this week below. 

Your work packs have been printed and are ready to collect from the shed on the top playground. Please let me know if you need yours posting this week. 

Please remember to keep in touch via email or blog. 

Last week before half term. Have a good one!

Mr L

Week 4 Home Learning - Monday 1st February 2021

Hello Year Four

Here is your home learning tasks for this week. 

Your packs are available for you to collect in school as usual. 

Have a good week and please remember to keep in touch, 

I will be updating this page early in the week with the pictures that you sent me last week.

Mr L

Home Learning - Monday 25th January 2021

Hello Class Four

Please find attached your home learning for the coming week. The work packs are ready for you to collect in school - please let me know if you need yours posting. 

I have included a purple exercise book in your packs for you to record all of your work in. 

You also have new EdShed assignments to complete. 

Let me know via email if you need any new reading books. Sarah and I are both in school tomorrow so we could sort some for you to collect during the week. 

Please remember to keep in touch via the blog or email. 

Mr L

Sunday 17th January 2021 

Hello again Class Four

I hope you all had a good week with your home learning last week. Thank you for all your pictures. I will be updating the class page tonight so that you can see what you have all been up to. 

Please see the document below for this week's home learning. There are also extra documents and pictures with the resources you will need for each lesson.

I was in school this morning preparing your work packs for the week and they are in a yellow container inside the play shed on the top playground for you to collect if you are able to. Please let me know if you would like yours posted home as I am in school tomorrow so I can sort this for you. There is also a bunch of rulers in the container for you to help yourself to if you don't have on at home for this week's measurement lessons. I would recommend collecting the work pack if you are able to instead of printing from here as the measurement stuff has been printed to scale which won't be possible from the pictures. 

Please keep in touch this week and don't forget to check the blog every day. 

Have a good week everyone!

Mr L

Sunday 10th January 2021

Hello Class Four. 

I hope you have all had a great Christmas break and have spent some lovely time with your families at home. 

I must say I am really upset not to be coming back into class with you all tomorrow. I was so proud of all the hard work you did last term and how much you were all coming on with your learning. However, it looks like we are going to be at home for at least this half term so it will be back to the home learning again for a bit I'm afraid.

I have put all of your work into the following word document and included pictures of the worksheets for you to complete if you are able to print them at home. It is quite a long document which works through the subjects day by day so please make sure you scroll down through the whole thing so that you know what to do for each subject every day. 

Further to this I am in the process of putting all of this work into a pack that will be available for you to collect from the play house on the top playground at school from about 11am tomorrow (Monday 11th January). If you are unable to come and collect your pack, please let me know and I can arrange for it to be posted to you. 

Alongside the work in the following word document, I have also set you some Ed Shed assignments for maths and spellings and I would like you to make a real effort to do some PE at home with things like Joe Wicks or a daily run or walk. 

Don't forget that you are also able to access code from home so you can continue working through Course 1 or Course 2. 

I would like to hear from all of you at least once a week please either via the blog on the website or the class four email address. class4@bradworthy.devon.sch.uk

I will be working in school with the key worker children on Monday this week so I will do my best to get back to you tomorrow but I will be available every other day of the week to respond to your messages.

Any children that work in Sarah's maths group please expect a phone call from me at some point either tomorrow or Tuesday so that I can explain what you need to do with your maths.  

Have a good week everyone and please make sure that you stay in touch. 

Mr L

Friday 4th December 2020

We've had a very busy end to our week with a Christmas party and Christmas Dinner so homework will be set on Monday. 

Times Tables and Spellings 26/11/2020

Group 1 Spellings 

• his 
• some
• looked
• people
• make
• but 
• your
• on
• so
• very

Group 2 Spellings 

• musician
• politician
• electrician
• magician
• mathematician
• dietician
• statistician
• technician
• clinician
• beautician

Group 3 Spellings 

• isn't 
• doesn't
• won't
• I'd
• I'll
• I'm
• she's
• it's
• there's
• let's 

Group 1 Times Tables 

• 7 x 7 = 49
• 8 x 7 = 56
• 9 x 7 = 63 
• 10 x 7 = 70
• 11 x 7 = 77
• 12 x 7 = 84
• 49 ÷ 7 = 7 
• 56 ÷ 7 = 8 
• 63 ÷ 7 = 9 
• 70 ÷ = 10
• 77 ÷ 7 = 11
• 84 ÷ 7 = 12 

Group 2 Times Tables

• 10 x 1 = 10
• 10 x 2 = 20
• 10 x 3 = 30
• 10 x 4 = 40
• 10 x 5 = 50
• 10 x 6 = 60
• 10 ÷ 10 = 1 
• 20 ÷ 10 = 2 
• 30 ÷ 10 = 3
• 40 ÷ 10 = 4
• 50 ÷ 10 = 5
• 60 ÷ 10 = 6 

Spellings and Times Tables 19/11/2020

Group 1

• for
• be
• it's
• got
• asked
• at
• like
• see
• their
• saw

Group 2

• invention
• injection
• action
• question
• mention
• attraction
• translation
• devotion
• position

Group 3

• sinkable
• readable
• drinkable
• enjoyable
• reader
• banker
• teacher
• driver
• farmer
• food

Times Tables

• 1 x 7 = 7
• 2 x 7 = 14
• 3 x 7 = 21
• 4 x 7 = 28
• 5 x 7 = 35
• 6 x 7 = 42
• 7 ÷ 7 = 1
• 14 ÷ 7 = 2 
• 21 ÷ 7 = 3
• 28 ÷ 7 = 4
• 35 ÷ 7 = 5
• 42 ÷ 7 = 6
•  

Spellings and Times Tables - 12/11/2020

Group 1 -

• she
• have
• big
• oh
• here
• is
• went
• when
• about
• off

Group 2:

• expression
• discussion
• confession
• permission
• admission
• transmission
• possession
• profession
• depression
• impression

Group 3

• kindly
• weekly
• likely
• wishful
• hopeful
• careful
• careless
• jobless
• endless
• chew

Times Tables 

7 x 6 = 42

8 x 6 = 48 

9 x 6 = 54 

10 x 6 = 60

11 x 6 = 66

12 x 7 = 72 

42 ÷ 6 = 7

48 ÷ 6 = 8

54 ÷ 6 = 9

60 ÷ 6 = 10

66 ÷ 6 = 11

72 ÷ 6 = 12 

Spellings and Times Tables 4/11/2020

Group 1 Spellings

• they
• out
• down
• now
• Mrs
• on
• this
• dad
• came
• called

Group 2 Spellings

• expansion
• extension
• comprehension
• tension
• corrosion
• supervision
• fusion
• conclusion
• persuasion
• suspension

Group 3 Spellings

• nobody
• nowhere
• anybody
• anything
• football
• weekend
• dustbin
• bonfire
• windmill
• June

Times Tables 

1x6=6

2x6=12

3x6=18

4x6=24

5x6=30

6x6=36

36÷6=6

30÷6=5

24÷6=4

18÷6=3

12÷6=2

6÷6=1

Weekly Spellings and Times Tables - 22/10/2020

Group 1 Spellings

• was
• what
• do
• get
• if
• you
• there
• me
• just
• help

Group 2 Spellings

• division
• invasion
• confusion
• decision
• collision
• television
• revision
• erosion
• inclusion
• explosion

Group 3 Spellings

• when
• whale
• wheat
• thumb
• lamb
• comb
• calm
• calf
• yolk
• crew

Times Tables - Whole Class

• 7x5=35
• 8x5=40
• 9x5=45
• 10x5=50
• 11x5=55
• 12x5=60
• 35÷5=7
• 40÷5=8
• 45÷5=9
• 50÷5=10
• 55÷5=11
• 60÷5=12

Weekly Spellings and Times Tables 15/10/2020

Spellings Group 1

of

my

one

him

time

it

her

them

Mr

I’m

Spellings Group 2 

medal

meddle

mist

missed

scene

seen

board

bored

which

witch

Spellings Group 3

knee

knit

knife

gnat

gnome

gnash

write

wreck

wrist

wrong

Times Tables 

0x5=0

1x5=5

2x5=10

3x5=15

4x5=20

5x5=25

6x5=30

30÷5=5

25÷5=5

20÷5=4

15÷5=3

10÷5=2

5÷5=1

Weekly Spellings and Times Tables 8/10/2020

Times Tables

7x4=28

8x4=32

9x4=36

10x4=40

11x4=44

12x4=48

28÷4=7

32÷4=8

36÷4=9

40÷4=10

44÷4=11

48÷4=12

Spellings Group 1

• he
• up
• no
• from
• day
• I
• had
• mum
• children
• made

Spellings Group 2 

• illegal
• illegible
• illogical
• illiterate
• illicit
• irregular
• irrelevant
• irresponsible
• irrational
• irresistible

Spellings and Times Tables 1/10/2020

Group 1 Spellings:

• said
• can
• little
• into
• too
• in
• are
• as
• back
• by

Spellings Group 2:

• immature
• immeasurable
• impossible
• immortal
• imperfect
• impatient
• immovable
• impolite
• important
• improper 

Times Tables 

• 1 x 4 = 4
• 2 x 4 = 8
• 3 x 4 = 12 
• 4 x 4 = 16 
• 5 x 4 = 20 
• 6 x 4 = 24
• 24 ÷ 4 = 6
• 20 ÷ 4 = 5
• 16 ÷ 4 = 4
• 12 ÷ 4 = 3 
• 8 ÷ 4 = 2 
• 4 ÷ 4 = 1

Times Tables 24/09/2020

This weeks times tables for the whole class to learn are:

• 7 x 3 = 21
• 8 x 3 = 24
• 9 x 3 = 27
• 10 x 3 = 30 
• 11 x 3 = 33
• 12 x 3 = 36
• 36 ÷ 3 = 12
• 33 ÷ 3 = 11
• 30 ÷ 3 = 10
• 27 ÷ 3 = 9
• 24 ÷ 3 = 8
• 21 ÷ 3 = 7

Spellings 24/09/2020

Group 1

• a
• all
• were
• come
• house
• to
• we
• go
• will
• old

Group 2 

• inactive 
• incorrect
• inaccurate 
• insecure
• indefinite 
• incomplete
• infinite
• inedible
• inability
• indecisive

Times Tables 17/09/2020

1x3=3

2x3=6

3x3=9

4x3=12

5x3=15

6x3=18

18÷3=6

15÷3=5

12÷3=4

9÷3=3

6÷3=2

3÷3=1

Spellings Group 1 17/09/2020

the 

that

not

look

and 

with

then 

don't

could 

put

Spellings Group 2 17/09/2020

caught

naughty

taught

daughter

autumn

clause

astronaut

applaud

author

autograph

Welcome back Class Four 

It's been great getting to know the children in Class Four a little better over the last few days. We have got straight back to work and the children have been making some Who Am I? portraits. They are looking fantastic in the outdoor area of Class Four. 

Monday 20th July 2020

Good morning guys. It's your last week as Year Fours and I'm sad that we aren't going to be in school to spend it together but I'm sure you will all have a nice week at home with the weather that we have forecast.

There will not be any new online learning tasks for you to complete this week.

I would like you to use this week as a 'finishing off' week where you have a chance to finish off any work from the previous weeks that you either didn't finish or didn't start.

I will set you an Ed Shed assignment with this weeks spelling list which will finish off the Year Four spelling list.

Over the holidays I would like you to continue working on Ed Shed please. Especially on spelling and times tables.

I would also like you to continue reading at home as much as possible.

You are still able to use code.org over the holidays as well if you would like to.

I will also attach a copy of the Year Five/Six spelling list as well if you would like to practise some of these over the holidays to get ahead of the game for Mrs Turner.

Have a good week everyone. I will be available via email again this week and I am in school on Wednesday with the key worker guys so I'll be sorting reading certificates for the people who need them. I know that I took a list last week of the people who were in school and were due reading certificates but I forgot to take your addresses to post them to you so if you need a certificate please could you email me with the certificate you need and your address. 

Mr L

Sunday 12th July 2020

Hello Year Four. 

It was fantastic to see all of you who were in group one last week in school for a couple of days. I hope you enjoyed coming in and seeing everyone. Sarah and I definitely enjoyed seeing you. 

I am going to post some more work for you guys to get on with. Obviously, if you are in school on Monday and Tuesday then you can start this on Wednesday and if you were in school last week, I would like you to complete the work that I set last week for the other group before you move onto this weeks tasks to make sure that you have not missed anything out. 

If you are coming into school this week please be aware that Year Fours' start at 9:10am and finish at 3:20pm to avoid cross overs with other classes. Unfortunately, parents are not allowed into school at the moment so you will need to be dropped off and collected at the front door. 

Literacy.

This weeks spellings are:

• particular
• peculiar
• perhaps
• popular
• position
• possess
• possession
• possible
• potatoes
• pressure
• probably
• promise
• purpose
• quarter
• question
• recent
• regular
• reign

They are in an EdShed assignment for you as well. 

Writing 

Please can you follow this link to Espresso. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/e2_life_stories/index.html?source=subject-English-Lower%20KS2-English-Resource%20types

There are 5 famous people that you can choose from (one of them is Anne Frank) 

I would like you to watch the videos about the person that you have chosen and write some notes down as you watch the video (you might need to watch it a few times to make sure you have enough notes). 

I would then like you to use your notes to write a mini biography about the person you have written about. Your mini biography is basically a formal (non fiction) report. Please follow this link if you have forgotten how to write a formal report. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrb48xs

I would also like you to complete the lesson on adverbs and fronted adverbials. 

Please follow this link to start the lesson. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvrbp4j

The links for the worksheets in the lesson are below:

Reading

Please continue with your 15 minutes of reading every day and remember to record your signatures and let me know if you are due a certificate. 

This week I would like you to follow this link to an extract from 'Ivan the Terrible' by Anne Fine

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/e2_comprehension_lks2/books/book_ivan_terrible.html

Can you read the text and answer the questions in the activities please. 

Maths 

This week we are having a recap on Negative Numbers. This is something that we did right back at October half term so it is definitely something that is worth recapping before Year Five. 

Please follow this link to complete the bitesize lesson for negative numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkmv382

There is a video to watch, a help sheet and 3 activities to complete. 

I will attach a link to the help sheet and the printable activity below.

There is also lots of really good videos, activities and printable resources on Espresso about Negative Numbers. 

Please follow these links to watch the videos and complete the online and printable activities. 

Videos 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/video_index/item316055/grade2/index.html

Online activities:

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/activity_index/item316055/grade2/index.html

Printable activities:

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/printable_resources/item316055/grade2/index.html

Topic

For your topic work this week I would like you to do 2 things: Number 1 is for everyone and number 2 is for the people who came into school. 

1. Please follow this link to Primary Homework Help - Egyptian Timeline 

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/timeline.html

Please use the information here to create your own Egyptian timeline at home on plain A4 paper. You could stick a few pieces of paper together if you would like to make a longer timeline and give yourself a bit more space. 

2. Please finish your Stig of the Dump housing brochures that we were doing together in class. 

Sunday 5th July 2020

Good morning Year Four. 

I am posting this a day early because I am in school tomorrow with the first group of you who are coming in - I'm really looking forward to seeing so many of you for a couple of days before the summer holidays.  

Unfortunately, as I am in school on Monday and Tuesday with group 1 and then I am also in school on Wednesday with the Key Worker group, the online learning is going to be scaled back somewhat this week. 

I will still be available for help via the class email and I will reply as soon as possible. 

Spellings

This weeks spellings are:

• interest

• island

• knowledge

• learn

• length

• library

• material

• medicine

• mention

• minute

• natural

• naughty

• notice

• occasion

• occasionally

• often

• opposite

• ordinary

I have set these spellings in an Ed Shed assignment for you as well. 

Literacy

This week I would like you to complete the BBB bitesize lesson on fiction and non fiction. 

The lesson has 4 activities that I would like you complete please. They shouldn't take you too long! Activities 3 and 4 involve writing a non fiction paragraph and then a fiction paragraph so make sure that you watch the videos carefully to make sure that you understand how to do this properly. Click on the link below to have a go. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7n4ydm

When you have completed the BBC bitesize lesson, please head over to Espresso. There is a link to fiction and non fiction writing on Espresso and I would like you to watch the videos and complete the activites on both links please. 

Fiction - 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/resource_box/writing/page_1.html?referrer=../../e2_index.html&navtext=English%202&pagetitle=Espresso%20Primary%20-%20English%202%20-%20Resource%20box%20-%20Writing&source=subject-English-Lower%20KS2-English-Resource%20types

Non-Fiction - 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/resource_box/writing/page_2.html?referrer=../../e2_index.html&navtext=English%202&pagetitle=Espresso%20Primary%20-%20English%202%20-%20Resource%20box%20-%20Writing&source=subject-English-Lower%20KS2-English-Resource%20types

If you complete all of this, you could also complete the BBC lesson on Revising Conjunctions. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrn796f

There are a couple of videos to watch and 4 activities to complete. 

Here is the link to the worksheets for activities 1 and 2. 

Reading

Please follow this link to Espresso to a comprehension text (The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog by Jeremy Strong)

that I would like you to read and then answer the questions AND further questions.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/e2_comprehension_lks2/books/book_hundred_mile.html

Maths 

We are continuing with Handling Data this week. 

There are 3 bitesize lessons that I would like you to complete. 

Lesson 1 - Comparing Data 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrdm8hv

Lesson 2 - Introducing Line Graphs 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqv8bqt

Lesson 3 - Interpreting Line Graphs 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z9prsk7

Topic 

This week we are looking at Egyptian mummies!

Please follow this link to the Primary Homework Help site to learn about Egyptian Mummies. 

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/mummies.htm

Can you answer these questions?

Why did the Egyptians make mummies?

What are the 7 steps of making a mummy?

Why did they leave the heart in the body?

What are Canopic Jars used for?

Follow this link to an online activity to prepare a mummy online. 

http://oi-archive.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

If you have the materials at home, you could also have a go at making your own mummy at home. Follow this link for the step by step guide. 

https://www.rom.on.ca/en/learn/activities/classroom/make-a-mummy-case

Science/Coding/Re/Charanga

Please look out for Mrs Davies Science this week on the blog. 

Please continue with the code unit that you are working on. 

Please go to the Buddhism page on Espresso to read another one of the Buddhist stories from last week.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/book_index/item649020/grade2/index.html

Please continue with the assignment you are working through on Charanga. 

Have a good week everyone. 

Looking forward to seeing most of you in school in the next couple of weeks. 

If you are coming in this week or next, please could you bring your Stig of the Dump drawings with you that I set a couple of weeks ago. We are going to use them for a project that I have planned for you. Do not panic if you haven't done it yet - we can sort something out in class. 

Mr L

Monday 29th June 2020

Good morning Year Four, I hope you all had a good weekend. We are getting closer to the end of the school year now and it's such a shame that we are unable to all be together at this time when we should be doing so many fun things in class. 

Here is this weeks work for you to start. At the moment I am still waiting for several of you to send me your assessment piece of writing from 2 weeks ago so if you have not done that, it must take priority please. 

I have set you 2 new assignments on EdShed.  

Here are this weeks spellings:

• experiment
• extreme
• famous
• favourite
• February
• forward(s)
• fruit
• grammar
• group
• guard
• guide
• heard
• heart
• height
• history
• imagine
• increase
• important

Literacy

This week's plan was to use the pictures that you drew of the Stig's house for a fun writing project that we usually do at the end of Year Four. However, we are going to hold fire on that for a week as I have only received a few of your art pieces for Stig's house so I think you might all benefit from another week to get those finished before we start the writing. 

This week I have found a really good news reporting tool on Espresso. The idea of the News reporting tool is to use to write a match report for a football match but I think we could use it to write a report for anything. The website is really good because it sets the report out for you. All you have to do is fill in the boxes. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/m2_premiership/match_reporter/index.html

Please can you have a go at creating your own news report. We have done these in class so you should be familiar with how to write a news report but I will attach some links for help on how to create a news report if you feel that you need it. Don't forget you need an introduction which briefly says Who, What, When, Where. 

You then need more paragraphs about what happened and how/why it happened with some quotes from people involved. 

A few ideas of things that you could write about are:

• Liverpool winning the premier league - I'm sure a few of the boys would enjoy writing a report about that! 
• Tutankhamuns Tomb being found. You could use the Primary Homework Help site to gather information about Tutankhamuns Tomb being found. 
• Coronavirus - There are lots of things you could write a report about regarding Coronavirus. Maybe closing schools might be an idea. 

Please print off your reports when you have finished and email me a picture of them. 

Help links. 

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2yycdm/articles/z2gk9qt
• https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/resource_box/news/page_1.html?referrer=../../e2_index.html&navtext=English%202&pagetitle=Espresso%20Primary%20-%20English%202%20-%20Resource%20box%20-%20News&source=subject--KS2--Resource%20types
• http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Egypt.html

Reading 

Please continue with your 15 minutes of reading a day. Don't forget to keep recording your signatures and let me know if you are due a certificate. 

I would also like you to complete this lesson on Bitesize this week. 

It is about the book 'Slime' by David Walliams. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zqpx8hv

Maths 

This week I would like us to start looking at handling data. 

I would like you to start the week by completing this lesson. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zsrgp4j

There is a video to watch first where Rachel Riley introduces the concept of handling data in football.

Then, activity one is a fun quiz to test your ability to read and interpret data from bar charts.

Following that you need to complete activities two and three. The link for those activities is here.

I would recommend doing activity 2 on Monday and Activity 3 on Tuesday. 

Activity 2 has 3 levels of difficulty so I would like you to choose which level to do. Don't take the easy option and do level one if you know your capable of doing the harder ones though!!!

Activity 3 will require your family to get involved as well! 

For the rest of the week I would like you to complete this challenge on Espresso. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/m2_premiership/analysis/factfile_1.html

You might find the videos on White Rose Maths helpful if you are struggling. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Some of you might have already done the handling data lesson on the BBC lessons as the link that I put up on Monday 15th June takes you to the same lesson. The link on the 15th of June should have taken you to a different lesson about fractions so I am not sure what has happened there. I must have copied the wrong link . 

If you have completed that lesson already, please do this lesson on interpreting charts before you start the work on Espresso. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/ztfrsk7

The link for the worksheet for this lesson is below. 

Topic

This week we are going to look at Egyptian pyramids. 

I would like you to use the Primary Homework Help site to do some research into the Egyptian Pyramids. 

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/pyramids.htm

Can you answer these questions?

1. Why did the Ancient Egyptians build pyramids?
2. Where were they built?
3. How does the dry desert help?
4. Why did they build pyramids next to the Nile?
5. What was is the name of the most famous pyramid?
6. What guards the pyramids?
7. How do pyramids help us know so much about life in Ancient Egypt?

Follow this link to have a look inside of a Pyramid!!!
http://www.panoramas.dk/2008/flash/valley-of-the-kings.html

I would also like you to have a go at the BBC pyramid builder challenge. Click on the link below to start. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/launch_gms_pyramid_builder.shtml

You might also want to explore Khufu's Pyramid. Click on the link below to explore it. 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/khufuenter.html

Art

As I said above, I am going to give you some more time to complete last week's art challenge. I will be adding a new project for those of you who have finished yours already on Wednesday. 

Science

Please keep your eyes on the blog for the science that Mrs Davies sets you this week. 

RE

We are nearly at the end of our unit on Buddhism. This week I would like you to read the 3 short books on Espresso which are Buddhist stories. 

• The story of the blind men

• The story of the talkative tortoise

• The story of the Buddha

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/book_index/item649020/grade2/index.html

Coding / Charanga

Please continue with your courses on Code.org and Charanga, 

Monday 22nd June 2020

Good morning Year Four. 

I hope you all had a good weekend.

Here is the work I would like you to do this week:

I have set you new spelling and maths shed assignments and you need to complete 15 games for each one please. 

Literacy

I set you quite a hard task last week with that assessed piece of diary writing and I am still waiting for several of you to send me yours. With that in mind, I am going to extend that task into this week to give you all a chance to complete it and send them through to me, If you have finished your diary and sent it to me, you can have a little rest from writing this week . I would like you to complete some word tasks on Espresso please. Here is the link. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/frontscreen/item305320/grade2/index.html

On that link please watch the videos and complete the activities for:

• Using a or an

• Word families

• The difference between plural & possessive 's'

• Using Standard English verb forms

There is also a good live lesson about verbs which you can have a go at:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh4thbk

Please watch the videos to learn about past tense verbs and verb families and then complete the 3 activities:

• Activity 1 is an online quiz.
• Activity 2  and  are these worksheets which you need to print off and complete please. 

This weeks spellings for you to learn are:

• century
• certain
• circle
• complete
• consider
• continue
• decide
• describe
• different
• difficult
• disappear
• early
• earth
• eight
• eighth
• enough
• exercise
• experience

Reading

Please continue with your 15 minutes of reading everyday and make sure you are recording your signatures in your reading records. 

This week I would like you to complete 3 activities from the front of your reading record for the book that you are reading at the moment.

Here is a copy of the activities in case you have lost yours at home:

1. Write a paragraph that explains what has happened in the bit that you have read.

2. Write your favourite bit of the book and why.

3. Draw and write about one of the settings in the book.

4. Draw and write about a character from the book.

5. Write a list of creative vocabulary from the book you are reading.

6. Make a list of words you found difficult to read and see if you can find what they mean in a dictionary.

7. Write about your least favourite character and why you don’t like them.

8. Write down what you think is going to happen next and why.

9. Write down how you think a character is feeling and why.

10. Write your own version of the blurb at the back of the book.

As our topic focus for the week is Tutankhamun, I would also like you to read this piece about Tutankhamun and then answer the questions in the second document. 

Maths 

This week we are focusing on decimals again. We had been doing a bit of work on these in class just before lockdown but I have seen on bitesize that they have some really good lessons on decimals so I think its worth us revisiting them at home. I would recommend doing 1 lesson a day!

I am going to attach 2 worksheet to go with each lesson. You can choose 1 of the worksheets to complete or both if you want to .

Lesson 1 - Writing decimals 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3d83j6

Please follow the link to learn about writing decimals and then complete either of these 2 worksheets:

Lesson 2 - Comparing 2 decimals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z86x8hv

Please follow the link and learn about comparing decimals to complete either of these 2 worksheets:

Lesson 3 - Ordering decimals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdt6dp3

Please follow the link to learn about ordering decimals. You can then complete either of these 2 worksheets. 

Lesson 4 - Rounding Decimals 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zwhtwnb

Please follow the link above to learn about rounding decimals.  

The first activity for this lesson involves using 2 dice. Please have a look at the activity on the link to have a go at home. The second activity is this worksheet:

Topic 

This week we are looking at Tutankhamun. He was probably the most famous Egyptian Pharoah. 

There are 2 very short videos on Espresso for you to watch about Tutankhamun. 

Please follow these links. 

Part 1 - https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/t2_egyptians/people/video_people1.html

Part 2 - https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/t2_egyptians/people/video_people2.html

Using this website - https://www.ks2history.com/tutankhamun-guide

Can you tell me:

Why is Tutankhamun so famous?

Why was his tomb was only recently discovered in 1922? 

Why didn't the Egyptians like Tutankhamun?

Your Task 

Your task for this week is to use these the internet to research Tutankhamun

Here are a couple good websites 

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/tut.html

 https://www.ks2history.com/tutankhamun-guide

I would then like you to make a short information page about him which must include:

• A title 
• An introduction 
• Sub headings (2 or 3 will be fine) with short paragraphs with information about the sub heading
• Pictures (can be printed or hand drawn)

Art 

This weeks art project is a competition and it's going back to look at last weeks work on Stig of the Dump. We are going to select the top 3 boys and girls pieces from the class. 

We would like you to draw a picture of Stig's house in the dump. A4 will be fine. 

You will need this drawing for next weeks literacy task. I'm in school with Sarah on Wednesday and Thursday so if you need any help with this, drop me an email on either of those days. 

RE

We are continuing with Buddhism this week. 

We have completed the videos and factfiles on Espresso now so please head over to Espresso and have a go at these Buddhism activities:

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/activity_index/item649020/grade2/index.html

Please then complete this worksheet:

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/servlet/file/store66/item686544/doc.pdf

Coding/Charanga

Please continue with our units on Code.org and Charanga, Let me know when you have completed your units and I will tell you what you need to do next!

Art Project

Hello everyone

Sarah and I have been having a chat about your art project for this week.

We have decided that with the current weather, it would be good timing to do a picture of a lightening storm. You could have a look on google at some other examples of lightening artwork and try to have a go at copying one you like the look of. Sarah says to remember that you need to think about the mood of the picture making sure that it feels dark and stormy. 

Please send me a picture of your finished pieces or upload them to the blog for everyone to see. 

Mr L

Monday 15th June 2020

Good morning everyone. I hope you have all had a good weekend.

I will be in school on Tuesday this week and live for a couple hours on Wednesday and Friday if you need me for any help with your work or you want to let me know what you have been up to.

Please keep up your 15 minutes of reading everyday and make sure you are signing your reading records. Don't forget to let me know if you need a certificate as well .

I have set you new assignments on Ed Shed for maths and spelling. We were second in the spelling league last week and third in the maths league. Well done everyone that worked hard on Ed Shed last week. 

I will also be setting some words from the year 3/4 word list for you to learn over the next few weeks to make sure that we have completed them before the summer holidays. This weeks spelling list is.

• accident
• accidentally
• actual
• actually
• address
• answer
• appear
• arrive
• believe
• bicycle
• breath
• breathe
• build
• busy
• business
• calendar
• caught
• centre

Literacy/Reading

As we are getting towards the end of the year, I need to start thinking about getting some writing back from you which I can mark and then use to update your assessment folders. This weeks main piece of work is an assessment piece which I would like you to take your time on and then send to me when you have completed and edited it. As this is an assessment piece, it needs to be your own work please (no help from anyone at home) and it needs to be hand written and sent to me as a photograph.

If you need help with planning what you are going to write, you can have some help with that if you want but I would prefer you to do it all on your own.

Your Task

Please can you follow this link to an Ebook for Chapter One of Stig Of the Dump. (We always do Stig of the Dump in Year Four at this time of year and I was really looking forward to doing it with you guys as well).

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-reading-extracts/Stig-of-the-Dump-Extract-Chapter-1.pdf

I would like you to read the whole chapter please playing close attention to what Barney does.

As we have been doing a lot of work on diary writing recently, I thought you would all be quite confident with doing one of these for an assessment piece so your task is to write a diary as if you are Barney writing about his day. Remember to think about:

• Planning your writing before you start.
• The style of writing.
• Writing in the past tense.
• Writing in the first person.
• Using paragraphs.
• Using appropriate punctuation.
• Editing your work when you have finished to make it better (spellings, punctuation, does it make sense?)

I am not going to give you a maximum or minimum amount of writing for this piece but I would say that a couple of pages would be about right.

Please email me a photograph/s of your finished pieces (class4@bradworthy.devon.sch.uk).

I'll look forward to reading them so please take your time and do them properly.

Maths

Last week I said that we were going to be looking at word problems for a couple of weeks and we are going to be doing another week on word problems this week focussing on problems involving fractions.

There is a good live lesson with to go with this which I would like you to complete.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zsrgp4j

Unfortunately there is no videos to help with this on the live lesson but there are some helpful pictures and tips.

Please complete these 2 worksheets.

• https://bam.files.bbci.co.uk/bam/live/content/zrvd7sg/pdf#sa-link_location=blocks&intlink_from_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fz7pckmn&intlink_ts=1592162401814-sa
• https://bam.files.bbci.co.uk/bam/live/content/z6jqmfr/pdf#sa-link_location=blocks&intlink_from_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fz7pckmn&intlink_ts=1592162432989-sa

You can also have a play on: Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb)

Espresso has some online activities that I would like you to complete as well please. You need to watch the videos and then do both activities that go with each video. There are 2 videos to watch for each section. 

The first one involves problems/challenges involving money.

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/frontscreen/item660064/grade2/index.html

And the second one has some problems involving length. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/frontscreen/item660065/grade2/index.html

Topic

This week we are going to be looking at Egyptian Pharaohs and Dynasties.

Mrs Runeckles sent me a really good link this week to a website that has a lot of books that are available until the end of this month. I've had a look and there are some excellent books which we can use to help us with our topic. This book (https://readon.myon.co.uk/reader/index.html?a=aec_pdyae_s12) is an excellent one for Pharaohs and Dynasties. Please have a read and take some notes and then tell me 6 facts in our class blog that you have found from the book please.

There is also some good information here;

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/egypt/pharaoh.htm

But don't read too much into Tutankhamun as we are going to be learning about him next week.

From your research you might read that Egyptian Pharoas had there own death masks. This week I would like you to design your own Egyptian death mask. Here is a picture of one of the most famous Egyptian death masks belonging to Tutankhamun. 

There is some more helpful information about death masks on this website (http://www.historyembalmed.org/egyptian-mummies/egyptian-masks.htm)

Please open this link to start creating your own Egyptian death mask in the template. Make sure it is nice and colourful please with no white paper showing in the mask.

RE

We are continuing with Buddhism this week. Please watch this video about Worship in a Buddhist temple. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/video/item339397/grade2/module649020/index.html

You also need to read this fact file about Buddhist symbols and teaching. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/factfile/item649322/grade2/module649020/index.html

And finally I would like you to complete this worksheet please. 

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/servlet/file/store66/item686532/doc.pdf

ART

Sarah and I will be in school tomorrow so we will be setting you a new art challenge then. Please keep your eyes on the class page for that.

Science 

Mrs Davies will be posting some science work for you on the blog so please head over to her area of the blog to find that. 

Coding/Charanga

Please continue with your courses on Coding and Charanga. Let me know when you finish them and I will tell you what to do next.