Year 4
Update 06/05/2020
Hi Year 4! **Very exciting news**
There are new audios of the Harry Potter books being released online for free! There are chapters of the Harry Potter books being read by lots of different famous people including Daniel Radcliffe (the actor who played Harry Potter) and even David Beckham - who is a big Harry Potter fan!
If you want to check it out, there is a link below which will take you to the webpage, you can then read about it and follow the link. I think I also spotted that they are available on spotify yesterday too.
https://www.wizardingworld.com/news/introducing-harry-potter-at-home-readings
Have fun!
Afternoon Subjects wk beginning 27.04.20
Tales from the Treehouse
This link will take you to a new resource with lots of interesting stories being read. There are two sections: traditional tales and myths & legends for you to enjoy!
You could listen to them during the day or even before bed!
Enjoy!
Week Beginning 20th April
Hi Year 4 and welcome back to 'school'!
Each day we will post work onto our new Google Classroom. It is all new and exciting but a great, safe way for us to be able to interact too. When you do a piece of work, on Google Classroom you will often be able to edit the tasks online, type into them and submit work on there for us to see.
We will also post the tasks here on the website too though. So for this week:
1. Reading - please continue to access Reading Eggs / Bug Club (we are launching something new tomorrow on Google Classroom which is very exciting!)
2. Maths: On Mathletics, we have set you some topics to have a look at this week. There are also a variety of Roman Numeral Tasks below for you to do across the week.
3. Spellings: This week there is a Boggle style spelling game for you to try using the year 3/4 spellings
4. Finally, for the afternoon subjects, there is a document with 5 activities for you to try throughout this week!
We hope you have lots of fun and we look forward to seeing the work you send back to us on Google Classroom. Remember we are just the other side of this computer and we are still here for you!
Miss Coupe, Miss Chisnall, Mrs Smith, Mrs Oswald
Afternoon Subjects
Google Classroom
We have now setup our Google Classroom where you will be able to access the latest learning and interact with your teachers. To use Google Classroom you will need your google login and password which has been posted to you/your parents.
Our Google Classroom is a secure learning platform which can only be accessed with each individual child login which is unique to each pupil. Once in to our classroom you will be able to access learning resources and send work back to the teachers. You will also be able to communicate directly with the teachers to receive feedback on what you have done as well as ask for help if you get stuck.
To access the classroom type classroom.google.com into the address bar of your web browser.
School Closure Home Learning
Music
Everyday essentials for your child:
Please try and give your child time each day to use these websites to support their education. The weblinks are in the weblink document above and the relevant log in details have been sent home.
- TT Rockstars and Numberbots
- Bug Club
- Reading Eggs https://readingeggs.co.uk/
- Mathletics https://login.mathletics.com/
On top of these daily activities, please could your child complete some work towards a topic project (please see the School Closure Project link above) and/or additional learning of their choice (e.g. art projects, additional languages, including other wider curriculum subjects weblinks above etc.)
Update 31/03/20
We were so sorry to hear that our trip to Winchester was not going to be able to go ahead - the current situation is not ideal but our safety and staying healthy is the most important thing.
However - when life throws you a rainy day, you have to dance in the rain! Here are some opportunities for a few virtual school trips... these links will take you to webcams at different zoos around the UK and world (we are even taking you global!)
Take a little break, watch the animals and have a bit of fun!
Creative Writing Challenge!
You might have seen the parentmail or email telling you about the creative writing challenge that our English Leader has set up for the whole school. Please find the challenge below, we look forward to receiving your entries!
As well as the daily essentials we will be posting additional learning activities and challenges to do over the course of next week. So watch this space.
Science
Task 1 – Food Chain
Log onto bbc bitesize website, see the link below. Complete the food chain challenges for each of the habitats: woodland, savannah, tundra.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q
Challenge
- Create your own food chain for one of the habitats. Remember to use the following key words to help label your food chain.
- Don’t forget to draw the arrows to show the flow of energy.
Task 2 – What is dissolving?
- Log onto bbc bitesize website, see the link below.
- Watch the video and complete the on line questions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcvv4wx/articles/zpbdpbk
Challenge
- Ask your parents/carers if you could find different ingredients to test if they are soluble or insoluble. Make a table to show your results. Why not take some photos of yourself doing it?
Update 27th March
Wow! We have nearly got to the end of our first week. We hope you are enjoying your time at home with your families and keeping up to date with all our tasks. Remember to try and complete as many of the daily essential tasks.
Your new challenge for next week is a Time related challenge. Each day we will ask you a different question linked to time. Your first challenge is to think about one of your days in the week. Try to remember some of the key events from the day. For example, What time did you get up? What time did you eat your breakfast, What time did you get dressed? What time did you have your tea? What time did you go to bed. If you can print the sheet at home we would like you to record your events on the analogue clocks. If you can not print the sheet at home can you record your events as digital time (24 Hours).
Update 25/03/20
Hello to all our lovely Year 4s,
We hope you are all staying safe and adjusting well to your new classrooms and teachers! Hopefully you have already been smashing some of the work tasks we have set for you to keep your brains active!
Just a few bits of news -
1. Joe Wicks - If you haven't seen the link in our weblinks table already, many children and teachers have been participating in a morning work out session, a great way to set yourselves up for the day ahead. Check it out, it is happening every day!
2. Updated challenges - as promised, we will be keeping your work up to date and giving you extra tasks along the way. You may have been taking part in the Charman Challenge which has been lots of fun - well done on the TT Rockstars win today!
A mini writing task
Create a story box by finding 4/5 random items from around your house. You might ask a sibling or your parents to select the items for you... these are the items that you then need to include within an imaginative, creative story! You might use each one within its own sentence or perhaps just include them somewhere within the story - it's up to you! You could write a short paragraph story or maybe a longer, whole story.
Extra challenge! Why not try and write a suspense story (our last unit of writing we did) and include some of the features: short sentences, one word sentences, repetition, listing, figurative language (similes, metaphors, alliteration, onomatopoeia)
3. Twinkl - One resource to keep in mind, you may have seen this advertised around on social media:
Twinkl are offering one month ultimate membership, totally free of charge. Go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS
Most importantly: hope you are keeping safe inside, being kind to your families and keeping your brains and bodies active!
We miss you all,
Miss Chisnall, Mrs Smith, Miss Coupe, Mrs Oswald :)
Welcome to Year 4!
Class 4 are taught by Miss Jess Chisnall.
Class 5 are taught by Miss Natasha Coupe on Monday to Thursday and Mrs Laura Oswald on Friday.
Class 6 are taught by Mrs Natalie Smith
The children are supported in their learning by Miss Janie Cameron, Mrs Penny Bridgeman and Mrs Donna Muller.
We ask that the children have their PE kit in school for the whole week as PE days can change last minute.
Keep checking back to our year 4 page for regular updates about the children's learning.
Science Experiment as Waste Investigators
In science we tried to replicate the body's digestive system. We mashed up bananas and crackers and poured it into a plastic bag which represented the stomach. We then added vinegar, yellow paint and washing up liquid to act as the acids and enzymes in the stomach. After that we poured the mixture into a pair of tights which represented the intestines and squeezed out the mixture to make our own stool.
Science Experiment - Waste Investigators
Science Workshop at QMC
Year 4 were invited to go to QMC to participate in various science experiments. All the experiment linked to our current topic of Solids, Liquids and gases. We were able to test how long it took different solid items to melt, understand what a reversible change was by heating and cooling polymorph granules in order to create a plastic shape. We used microscopes to compere different solid items and to identify if an item was a solid.
Autumn Term Newsletter
Religious Education
In RE we are learning about 'temptation' linked to Christianity. We wrote our own versions of 'The Temptation of Jesus' and read them out in small groups.
English - exploring instructional texts
We are currently learning how to write instruction texts, we will be building up to write our guided ‘How to train a dragon’ in the next couple of weeks. To help us understand the features of instructions, we have unpicked the text ‘How to Care for a Bearded Dragon’. We text marked and discussed together the effect of each of the features.
British values - Democracy
We elected our class representative for our school council. The children put themselves up for election, gave a speech they had written and then the children in class gave a vote for their choice. The results are in!
Exploring properties of gases in Science
We have been looking at the properties of solids, liquids and gases. We did an experiment to research and prove that gas exists. To do this, we compared water and lemonade and put raisins in each of the liquids to observe what happens when gas is present... cue the dancing raisins!
Portals to the Past
On Tuesday 24th September Y4 took part in a Egyptian workshop run by the fantastic Doctor from Portals to the Past. The children participated in a variety of activities to enhance their learning and understanding of our topic the Ancient Egyptians.
Dragons in Year 4!
In English we are learning about Dragons! We found dragon eggs in our school grounds and have been reading 'How To Train Your Dragon' in order to learn what we must do to look after them.
Longitudinal Study
We are going to keep an eye on the outside area by the woods. Miss Charman wants us to find out what creatures use the area as a habitat throughout the year.
English
We are learning how to use adverbial phrases in our writing. Here are some examples of our work:
Maths
We have been learning how to round to the nearest 10 and 100. We used dice shakers to practice:
Accademic Year 2018-19
(In case you want to see the kind of learning we might be doing this year!)
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Mila, Hadley, Belle.MOV
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Year 4 Spring Newsletter
Autumn News Letter
Our topic homework this term has been linked to our geography learning about The UK and Europe. We had to research a European country and create a presentation of the research we did, we could do this in any format imcliding use of computer technology or other creative options!
We have been using a zone of relevance during Guided Reading lessons to identify how main characters in our book ‘Varjak Paw’ have changed during the story. We have thought about how to back this with evidence from the book from how they have behaved or felt.
This year, our World Book Day Theme was International Women’s Day. We dressed up, learnt about inspirational and influential women, wrote stories of their lives, and looked at the inspirational women in our own lives. Year 4s focus woman was JK Rowling which the children loved! We enjoyed learning about not only the success of her Harry Potter books but also her huge generosity and links with charities. We were even more enthusiastic because of recently studying her Harry Potter books is English and reading!
In Science, our current unit is the digestive system. We have been learning about the different food groups, what a balanced diet is and how to live a healthy lifestyle. We are also comparing how and why diets might vary for different people e.g. athletes. We have also created our own food diaries as part of our homework to look at the different food groups we are eating from.
In RE, we have been looking at the concept of myths. We have identified what a myth is and read a variety of myths from differents and beliefs. We have also identified what the myths show us about their beliefs and why they would be important to a believer.
We have been learning about fractions and their equivalent decimals. In arithmetic, we played a matching game to help us remember them!
In art, we have been learning about observational drawing. We have made figures using tin foil, we will be adding shadows from the figures and then sketching them using our observation skills to add detail, light and shade.
Happy Valentine’s Day! For our early morning task, we have reflected on what we love most about school and celebrated all of the different aspects of our school life.
In spellings, we have been looking at words ending with the ‘ture’ sound...
In Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning about pollution and the impacts of pollution on the environment. Today, we tested different types of water that had been affected by “chemicals” and “farm soil” and “washing machine waste” to find out their pH level. We used pH test strips and compared the colour changes to the number grading.
In our topic, UK and Europe, we have been beginning to locate countries and capital cities. We have used the Atlases to help locate the counties before placing them onto our maps.
In art, we have been moulding beads using clay in order to create Egyptian jewellery! We had to make a selection of beads and an amulet too. We have then painted them and joined the beads together to complete the necklaces.
Year 4 have been working hard on drawing facial features over the last few weeks and now we have completed a portrait of ourselves!
We were very luckily to have a special science event in the science dome on Friday. The children were taken on the journey through the digestive system, learning technical names and the process of food digestion. At different stages, we also took part in science experiments to show what happens and we were amazed to see how long the intestines are!
Year 4 talks Brexit!! For our guided reading, we have discussed a news article about Britain leaving the European Union. After many many questions from the children, we answered questions about the text in our books. The children showed great interest in learning about this topical subject.
For anti-bullying day, we became superheroes for the day! We did activities during the afternoon linking to what bullying looks like and how we have an impact on other in how we treat them.
In science today, we did an experiment to test if all solids melt when heated. We tested an ice cube, Haribo sweet, a Jelly Baby and a chocolate button. We found that the ice cube melted quickest followed by the chocolate button (which stayed in its shape as it melted). The jelly sweets didn’t melt in the same amount of time but we could see changes beginning to happen as they became stickier and softer.
This afternoon, Class 4 have been creating classification charts as part of our longitudinal study. We had to think carefully about closed questions and the different significant features of the creatures we have seen in the woodland area on the field.
Today (6th November) Class 4 went on their trip to the Basingstoke Discovery Centre library, to support the work we have been doing about the book ‘How To Live Forever’. The children were given a tour, shown how the library works and were set challenges to find different books in the children’s area. We also looked at some of the oldest books in the library before reading our class text. It was a lovely experience!
We have done some beautiful art work during this half term. We have been focussing on dragon eyes to link in with our English writing project about ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ We have also used water colours to look at colour mixing and how to create different tones of colour ready for our next project - Egyptian portraits.
It’s the slime olympics! We have been testing the flow of liquids (the viscosity) We made predictions about which we thought would be the quickest to flow through thei tube. In Class 4 our prediction was water, washing up liquid, custard and then ketchup as the slowest. We we almost correct... the children were definitively surprised by how long it took for the custard to flow through!!
At the start of this year, we received a letter from Miss Charman asking us to monitor the wildlife in the forested area on the field as part of our longitudinal study. We acted straight away and have already been outside twice to find out which creatures there are living outside at the moment. We will be monitoring this throughout the year to observe the changes.
We had a brilliant time when Ufton Court came to visit Year 4. This has linked into our Creative Curriculum topic of Ancient Egypt. We dressed up in costume, played Egyptian games and learnt about the process of how to mummify a body. There was plenty of audience partitcation as everyone took on a role in the procession around the hall!
In maths, we have been looking at related/associated facts for multiplication and division. We have learnt about using the skills of multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100 to help us do this...
Library Visit
Winchester Trip
To kick start our Anglo-Saxon topic Year 4 took a visit to Winchester Cathedral and City Museum. We had a guided tour of the Cathedral where we discovered the burial grounds of possible Anglo-Saxon Kings and Queens. We also learnt how to write our name in Runes and decorated our own Anglo-Saxon brooch. We enjoyed dressing up in traditional Anglo-Saxon clothes and pretended to be archaeologist. Finally we got to handle a real life Anglo-Saxon pot which is believed to be over 1000 years old.
