Welcome to Year  4

Detailed information about expectations in Literacy and Maths for all year groups - including Year Four can also be viewed and downloaded below. 
If you have any questions about the curriculum or end of year expectations or would like more information about how you can help please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Gilbert.

Homework for Year 4 

Thursday 11th March 2021

MyMaths - doubling and halving numbers.

Reading - try to read and discuss your book with an adult at least 4 times a week.

TT Rockstars - Try to practise on Garage at least 4 times a week and have a go on Studio at least once a week.

Spellings - these will be quizzed on Thursday 18th March.

Happy Friday Year 4!

You have all been so amazing and it's our last day of remote learning.  Let's make it a really good one!

Today we will be doing:

Maths: Arithmetic Test 3  - Have a go at all the questions for up to 30 minutes.  As always, let me know how you got on and which ones you were stuck on in a private message.  I will give some hints in the morning meeting for a couple of questions.  ALSO, message me if you would like help with any questions.

English: Elicitation Task.  We will explain everything you need to know at the English meeting at 10:50.

Reading Comprehension: Alan Turing

Afternoon check in at 1:30 to set up for PE and wish you a last online farewell

PE of your choice

KS2 Praise Assembly 2pm

GOLDEN TIME.

Have a fabulous and restful weekend and we are really looking forward to seeing you on Monday. Can't wait!

Thursday 4th March 2021

Happy World Book Day Everyone!

I'm so excited to be with you all day today and even more excited that it's WBD.  I just can't wait. 

Here is the plan for the day:

Maths - Revision of finding factors, times table fact families and how we can use our times tables facts to find fractions of amounts.

English - World Book Day Activities

Free Reading Session - Spend 20-30 minutes this morning reading a book of your choice! Let me know what you have been reading.

Afternoon - More World Book Day Activities and more Free Reading Time

Story Time

Remember, there is no need to dress up for World Book Day this year, but if you would like to wear a costume to our Teams Meetings, feel free. I hope you have an excellent day today and I will see you on Teams at 9:30 am for our final Wednesday of Remote Learning.

Miss Mount

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Wow Year 4 - I was so impressed with your kennings! I think you could all be poets .

We will be having another go at finding fractions of amounts today. I hope you can see how it relates to our times tables knowledge - you can keep practising this on TT Rockstars.

Happy Wednesday Afternoon Year 4!

This afternoon we will be doing session 5 of our PSHE unit - 'Images in the Media' and then finishing off with some PE.  The PE can be your new exercise routine (and you can wear PE kit and be a PE teacher for the afternoon if you want to) or we will put up the (2nd to last) Joe Wicks video or you can do your own choice of Cosmic Yoga or exercise with your family!  Have a great afternoon!

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Hello Year 4! I am looking forward to creating some kennings with you today. 

Well done to everyone who has been practising on TT Rockstars. It is very important that we have learnt all the multiplication tables by the summer - so keep up the good work!

Tuesday 2nd March Afternoon

Happy Tuesday Afternoon Y4!  We will be doing lesson 3&4 of the PSHE unit: Live Well, Eat Well.  You will be asked to create an exercise timetable and an exercise routine.  It might be best if you do them both after watching both videos.  

After that we will do our last French lesson for a few weeks.  It is a recap of all our French so far.  Please make sure you have finished the Rainforest scene with the lift up flaps and that you have played the games on the video 3.  Then you can rewatch the 2nd video and see if you can sing a long to the Rainforest Quest song.  Lastly, please write 3 (silly) sentences (at least) using the Power-point grid.  E.g. Je cherche un petit perroquet violet.  Have a lovely afternoon. MM

Monday 1st March 2021

Welcome back to learning after a gorgeous sunny weekend! I hope you all had a fun time and got outside to enjoy the lovely weather with your families. Just one more week of remote learning until we will all be together in the class room again - I am really looking forward to that! Keep going with the great effort that you have been putting in. Well done Year 4 .

Monday 1st March Afternoon.

Happy Monday Afternoon Year 4!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend.  This afternoon we will be starting a new PSHE unit: Live Well, Eat Well.  We are going to do 2 lessons today as they are quite short and they have a PE warm up in them as well.  After that, please do your choice of PE - we will upload the Joe Wicks once it has aired. Or you can do your choice of Cosmic Yoga or some exercise with your family.  Have a good afternoon. MM

Friday 26th February

Happy Fridaaaaaayyyyyy Year 4  :) 

I'm looking forward to seeing you all day.  Today will look like this:

9:30 Check-in and setting up for maths (arithmetic).

It's test 2 today.  Please have a go at all questions but you can leave 18 and 21.  I will be on chat - so PLEASE ask if you want me to talk you through any questions at all.  Send me a direct message!  When you have finished, please mark it and send me: Your score, the numbers of any that you didn't get (don't worry about this) and let me know if you DON'T know why you got those ones wrong.

If you finish early for any session, today is a bit of a finishing off day so please make sure you have finished the photography (and if you can send any of it to me, even better).  If you can't make a gallery yourself and can send me the photos, then I will try and help.  If you have finished that, please finish your Rainforest Quest lift up flap and send me a photo of that as well (if you can please).  Then you can TT or read (and do AR quizzes).  If you have anything left to do for Mrs Gilbert then do that as well.  If you have done all of this and want something else to do, just let me know!

10:50 Check-in and SPAG.  I made the quiz today based on things we have covered.  Again, if you are stuck, send me a message so that I can help.  Please mark it and let me know your score and anything you were stuck on.

Reading Comprehension

1:30 Check-in to set up for PE and say 'cheerio' for the weekend.

PE

2pm Praise Assembly - a chance to see your friends in Y4 and other classes - it would be lovely to see as many of you as possible!

GOLDEN TIME

Well done for all of your hard work this week.  See you next week for our (hopefully) last week of remote learning.  HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

Thursday 25th February 2021

Well done for the excellent poetry writing yesterday Year 4! I will publish our poem on this website when I have received lines from everyone who would like theirs to be included.

Today we will be looking at a different kind of list poem and using the structure to write our own. In Maths, we will continue with our fractions unit by looking at subtracting 2 fractions. 

Thursday 25th Afternoon:

Happy Thursday Afternoon everyone!  We will be doing:

Art – Photography 5

Today we are going to try and create a gallery of the pictures you have taken.  Ideally, you will use a laptop or tablet and present them digitally but if you can't do this, you could send the pictures you want to present to us (WITH the titles and comments that Miss B talks about) and we can try for you.  Let us know if you need help.

French - Finish jungle flip picture and play the games from the end of Mrs. Wilson's last video (Rainforest Quest 3). You might want to watch the video again.  If you finish early, you can run through the Power-point and remind yourselves of what you've learnt so far.

Wednesday 24th February 2021

Hello Year 4! Thank you to everyone who sent me in a copy of their Alien planet adverts. Today, we are starting a new unit about poetry which I am really looking forward to. Remember that you can collect packs of work from school to save you printing everything out at home. 

See you all on TEAMS at 9.30am 

Wednesday 24th Afternoon

Hello lovely Year 4! Happy afternoon!  Today we will be continuing with Art and today's photography lesson is all about using photography with other media.  Again there are lots of resources that could be used for this lesson (if you have them) but don't worry if you don't have them.

After that, we can carry on with the PE challenge, Joe Wicks, Cosmic Yoga or your choice of exercise with your families.  We will upload the Joe Wicks video once it has aired.

Have a wonderful afternoon! MM

Tuesday 24th February 2021

Hello Year 4! Below are the documents that you will need for our remote learning today. I hope you enjoyed the art yesterday and managed to get outside for your PE and enjoy some time in the sunshine.

I am looking forward to seeing your persuasive adverts for the planets that you created.

Tuesday Afternoon

Good Afternoon Year 4!  Get ready for a fabulous afternoon!  Today we will be doing our next French lesson (We will do the Power-point in a later session and it says you need a template - we will do that in the later session as well so don't worry about these.)

then...

Art: Photography session 3.  There are lots of resources that you will be asked to get for this (see below). If you can't get all of them, don't worry at all.  Try and get something similar, but even then if you can't, don't worry.

If you can draw your own sloth, frog, butterfly and monkey, it will look much better!

Monday 22nd February 2021

Good Morning Year 4! We hope you have all had a relaxing, fun and safe half term break.

I am looking forward to seeing all your lovely faces on TEAMs this morning and I amhoping that you are ready to get stuck into some more remote learning. We will begin with fractions in Maths and complete one more task from our Amazing Aliens unit before moving on to something new in English.

See you all at 9.30am 

Monday Afternoon 22nd February

Welcome Back Year 4!!!!! We've missed you.  We hope you had a really restful half term and we are looking forward to seeing you this afternoon.  Miss Mount will be in Y3 this afternoon but will hopefully be back on for story time.

This afternoon we will be doing:

Photography lesson 2 - investigating light

then

PE - you can continue with the PE challenge sheet, do a Cosmic Yoga of your choice, some exercise with your families or the Joe Wicks video, which we will upload after it has aired.  Happy afternoon :) 

Happy Half Term Year 4!

We are so proud of all of your hard work and perseverance with the remote learning. It is not always easy but you have worked hard and together we have made progress in lots of areas. I hope you are all proud of yourselves too!

See you online after half term. Be safe and have fun 

Mrs Gilbert

A half term challenge from Mrs Roser!!

Playground designs!

Help! We need your brilliant ideas and creative thoughts to redesign our school playground!

What would YOU like to see in our school playground?

Can you design playground markings that we can all play on and use to keep active?

Is there more equipment that you would like to see?

Draw, paint or write your ideas and then send them into school or keep them safe and bring them back when we are all back together. I can’t wait to see your ideas!

HAPPY FRIDAY YEAR 4!!!

Well done for all your hard work this half of term.  You are super-troupers.  Today will look like this:

9.30 Check in and live session - Arithmetic paper (Only do the first test!). Mark it and let me know (via a direct chat) how you got on please and which questions you didn't get.  You may need help with Q9 and 17 (please see the Power-point) and you may leave Q23 if you want to.  Remember to check which operation and to line up the digits!

10:50 Check in and live session - Finishing off your English work

then

Reading comprehension.

1.30 Afternoon session - PE: You can either start the House challenge from Ms Mason or do Joe Wicks, a Cosmic Yoga of your choice or some exercise with your family.

2pm - KEY STAGE 2 PRAISE ASSEMBLY - a fabulous chance to see children in your class and children in Key Stage 2 and learn about all the wonderful things everyone has been doing, before half term.

GOLDEN TIME

HALF TERM

Mrs Gilbert, Miss Mount, Miss P and Mrs Elms hope that you all have a restful, enjoyable, fabulous and wonderful half term!  See you on the 22nd for the 2nd half of Spring Term :) 

Happy Thursday Year 4!

I will see you on TEAMs this morning to introduce our new fraction learning and to talk about finishing our Explorer's logs. Well done to everyone who has been sending their work in for feedback. It has been great to see how you are doing - we are very proud of your hard work.

 Thursday Afternoon: 

Hello Year 4! Happy Thursday afternoon! We are going to be continuing with our Rainforest French lesson (Which is your favourite animal so far?).  Watch the video and use the Power-point to see what you have understood.  

After that, we are going to start a new ART unit about photography.  For this you will need: a sketch book or some paper to draw on, some pencils and if you can, a camera.  This can be a camera on a device like a phone or tablet.  Make sure you have permission to use it.  Enjoy.  We are really excited about the French and Photography!  Scroll down for links to the French and Art.

Happy Wednesday Year 4 

Today, is the day we will be starting to write our Explorer's Logs in English and I am really looking forward to seeing them! I have been very impressed with the standard of the sentences that you have been sending in for me to see.

I would like to say well done to everyone who has been using the chat to ask questions about things you are not sure about. Miss Mount and I are here to help you as much as we can. 

We can't wait to have you all back in the class room but while we are waiting for that it is great to see you all on TEAMs.

Wednesday Afternoon:

Happy Wednesday afternoon Year 4! Bonne Mercredi après-midi! On va faire up peu plus de Francais, cet après-midi! (We are going to do some more French this afternoon!)  We will start a new topic (which links to the South America topic we were doing in Geography) all about Rainforests!  Watch the video and you will need the Power-point to go with it.

After that, we will be introducing our PE challenge from Ms Mason at South Dartmoor Academy.  You will need to download the PE documents.  Let us know if you need a paper copy for your packs!

Hello Year 4!

Today, we will be doing more preparation work for our explorer's log in English and we will be digging deeper into our learning about equivalent fractions in Maths. 

See you at 9:30 on TEAMs!

Tuesday Afternoon 9th February

Bonne après-midi!! This afternoon, we will finish off our PSHE safety posters and move on to our next French Lesson. 

You will need to look at the Power-point to help with today's French lesson.

Enjoy!

Monday 8th February 2021

Happy Monday Year 4!

Welcome to our last week before half term. I hope you are ready for more creative work  in our Amazing Alien unit and some more fantastic fraction learning. We are looking forward to seeing you all online!

Monday Afternoon:

Hello Year 4!  This afternoon, we will be creating the PSHE safety posters that we started planning on Friday.  You will have one more session to finish this after today.

After that, it's time for some PE - you can do Joe Wicks, your own choice of Cosmic Yoga or some exercise with your families. Have a great afternoon!

FRIDAY 5th February

Hi Year 4! Happy Friday!

It's inside (edisni) out day today and bright and colourful day so you can wear something inside out and bright and colourful, if you would like to (to celebrate Mental Health Week)

Well done to all of you and to all of your parents and carers for everything that you managed to do.  It's one more week until a very well-deserved half term.

Here is how Friday will look:

9:30 Live TEAMs session to introduce the maths arithmetic paper.

(make sure you have a break before the next session, but you can read and TT if you have some spare time) 

10:50 Live TEAMs session to introduce the English session: Awesome Aliens - this is where you will get to be an expert about YOUR alien and introduce them to the people of Planet Earth. (I'm very excited about this).

12:00 Reading Comprehension

1:30 - Live TEAMs session PSHE - planning our PSHE Poster

2pm Live TEAMs session KS2 PRAISE ASSEMBLY with Miss Docking

PE - Joe Wicks or your own exercise

GOLDEN TIME!

There will be no end of day meeting as the Praise Assembly will replace that today.

See you there and then! MM

RESOURCES FOR FRIDAY:

English:

You have created some amazing aliens and now it’s time for us to find out a bit more about them.  Imagine that you are Sir David Attenborough and you are introducing this species of alien to the world, for the first time. You might want to watch this David Attenborough clip to inspire you:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNHx5GI1KQE

Now read the task sheet and look at the 'Professor Know It All' phrases to help you sound like Sir David!

FRIDAY AFTERNOON!

This afternoon, we would like you to plan a safety poster that covers as many of the areas we saw in the PSHE videos (road safety, hazards in the home, fire safety and rules/laws to keep us safe). You could use divide your poster into four areas if that helps.  TODAY WE WILL PLAN IT and then you will have TWO MORE sessions next week to finish it.

It's the KS2 Teams Praise Assembly at 2pm

Have a go at some PE after that and then it's Golden Time.  Happy Friday and have a lovely weekend!

MM

Thursday 4th February 2021

Good morning Year 4!

I am very excited for us to start planning our explorer's logs and see all your wonderful maps. See you at 9.30 on TEAMs. 

Thursday Afternoon: 

Hello Year 4!  First, we will watch the next PSHE video - Rules, Rule.  Then...

Bonne après midi! This afternoon we are going back to our Fantastique French lessons with Mrs Wilson.  We are soooooooooo excited about this, we can't wait.  Watch the video. This one will remind you of the Pirates video and what we were doing before Christmas.  See how much you can remember! Don't worry about the writing for today (where it says got to the IWB) we will do some on the next session. Have fun!  :)

Don't forget to scroll down to see the fabulous alien pictures and maps of Chile that you have been doing!  Thank you for sending them to us.  It's not too late - if you have a Map that you would like to send - please do!

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Welcome to week 5 of our remote learning. This week we will be starting a unit on fractions in Maths and continuing with our English unit Amazing Aliens. It has been great to see how you have enjoyed being creative with your writing about aliens - we look forward to seeing what you produce this week!

Wednesday Afternoon:

PSHE: We will be looking at how to reduce the risk of fires at homes by identifying hazards and rectifying them. We will also find out about the importance of smoke detectors and listen to a firefighter's safety advice.

After PSHE, we will be doing PE - you can either have a go at the Joe Wicks video which we will upload after it has aired or you can choose a Cosmic Yoga or do some exercise with your families.  Have a great afternoon! :) 

Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Good Morning Year 4! I hope you enjoyed drawing and describing your aliens yesterday. Thank you to those children who sent in your creations for us to see. 

We want to say a big well done to everyone who is joining in with our remote learning. We know it isn't easy and that you miss your friends and the fun we have together at school. It is important that we keep doing as much as we can and trying as hard as we normally do at school. You are all superstars!

Hi Year 4! Happy Tuesday afternoon!

This afternoon we will be aiming to finish our Chile maps and then it will be time for some PSHE.  We have seen lots of fabulous starts to the maps.  Remember to check the Power-point for the things to include and it should end up looking a little like the map of Brazil below. 

Monday 1st February 2021

Hello Year 4! Hopefully, you have all had fantastic weekends and didn't get too drenched if you went outside on Sunday!

Today, we will be carrying on with our division leaning and our Amazing Aliens English unit. We will see you on TEAMs 

Mrs Gilbert and Miss Mount

Monday afternoon:

Hello Year 4! This afternoon we will be continuing with our Chile maps and then it will be time for some PE with Joe Wicks or with your families.

See you at 1:30 to see how we are getting on with the maps and to share a few ideas. See you later! MM

FRIDAY 29TH JANUARY!

Happy Friday everyone!  

Mrs Gilbert and I continue to be very impressed  by yet another excellent week of remote learning. We are so pleased that you have continued to send in your work for us to see and to ask for help when you need it. Please keep going everyone!

9.30 - Morning check in and setting up the maths.  It will be a reasoning test today.  There will be a quick power-point, to go over a couple of reminders. Please try and do the following questions: 1, 3 & 4 (see Power-point for help) 5, 10, 11, .  Then you can try 6, 8, 12, 13, 15 & 16 but don't worry if those are hard. You can leave 2, 9 and 14 (you can do these if you really want to, of course!).  You can look at last week's power-point for addition and subtraction.  Do try and show your workings and remember to line up your digits.  Message me directly (not on the group chat) to say how you got on when you've marked it - please tell me your score and the questions you found difficult/got wrong so I can see if I can help.  Don't spend more than 35 minutes on it and if you are stuck on a question leave it and go back to it if you have time.  As always, I'll be available on the chat if you want to ask questions or you can ask questions directly if you don't want everyone to see what you are asking.  MM

10:50 Live Session with Miss Mount, introducing the SPAG (spelling/punctuation and grammar) lesson.

We will be doing a quick SPAG assessment to see what you can remember.  Don't worry, there is a Power-point to remind you.  Look at the PP first then try and have a go at all of the questions. Message me directly (not on the group chat) to say how you got on when you've marked it - please tell me your score and the questions you found difficult/got wrong so I can see if I can help.  MM

Reading Comprehension

When you've finished your SPAG, and let me know how you got on, have a go at the reading comprehension and again, let me know how you got on. :) 

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSIONS:

This afternoon, I will be showing you how to get started on your CHILE Map.

• Download the outline of Chile and the photos of the maps of the other South American countries.  Look for the sort of things that you can put on to the Chile map.
• Remember to look at the power-point to help you think about what information you need to put on it.
• Use notes from your sessions about Chile to help you.  (You can re-watch the videos if you want to.) and you can look at the following websites for more information: 
  https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Chile/345665
  https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/chile/
  https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-the-geography-of-chile-6rwp4d
  https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-are-chile-and-the-uk-similar-and-different-cnj36r
• If you spend about 45-50 minutes on jotting down what you want to put on your map and see how far you get.
• REMEMBER, you will have two more sessions to finish this!
• You'll need a break after this, so go and do some exercise or try the Joe Wicks video, which I'll upload once it has aired this morning.  Then you deserve some Golden Time until our meeting at 3:15!

Have a wonderful weekend and see you on Monday.

Thursday 28th January 2021

Year 4 - your stories are spectacular! It has been so good to see the great effort you have spent creating such exciting and well-written stories. Keep up the excellent work! 

Thursday Afternoon:

Hi Year 4!  This afternoon, we will be looking at our second lesson about Chile.  Remember to try and take some notes so that this will help you, when you come to do your map of Chile. 

We are also starting PSHE after Geography, all about staying safe.  Have a lovely afternoon and as always, let us know if we can help in any way.  MM.

Wednesday 27th January 2021

Thank you to everyone who has sent in their wonderful stories. I have been so impressed by every one that I have read!

I am looking forward to seeing the rest as they come in.

Today, we are starting a new English unit called Amazing Aliens and I think it will be a lot of fun. 

Wednesday Afternoon Sessions:

Good Afternoon Year 4!  We are really looking forward to the next couple of sessions of Geography, about Chile in South America.  Miss P will be introducing the activity that we are going to do for Chile so please look at the Power-point before you look at today's Chile video.  After the second session on Chile, we will then give you some sessions to complete the task, so no need to start until you have seen both videos.  You won't need any resources for today's session but you might want to take notes, to help you with the task at the end. 

After Geography, it will be time for some PE.  You can do the  Joe Wicks' video below or your choice of Cosmic Yoga or your choice of exercise (ideally at least 20 mins) with your families.  Have a great afternoon!  MM & Miss P

Tuesday 26th January 2021

We have had an excellent start to the week in Year 4. Today is the last day we will spend writing our stories. Please make sure that you read them through carefully, checking that you have the correct puctuation and making some last minute improvements!

I cannot wait to see them and will be sticking a copy in your English books here at school.

In Maths, we will be practising more division with remainder calculations. 

See you at 9.30am!

Mrs Gilbert

Afternoon Everyone!! Today is a bit of a finishing off day. 

FIRST do the South American Geography lesson.  Then finish off the following things (in order of priority):

Your stories for Mrs Gilbert

Your RE Posters for me

Your spelling (plural possessives) from this morning and let us know how you get on

Anything else you need to finish!

IF you have finished all of these things then please do some PE to wake up on this dank day and then you could use the South America videos to complete a list of similarities and differences between the UK and South America.

See you very soon. MM

Monday 25th January 2021

Good Morning Year 4!

Hopefully, you have all had a great weekend with your families. I have been busy baking and going for lots of dog walks in the fresh air.

Today, we will be writing the fifth section of our stories and thinking about how we can present them when they are finished. In Maths, we will be developing our knowledge of division to include calculations that involve remainders. 

I'm looking forward to seeing you online at 9.30am!

Mrs Gilbert

Monday 25th, Afternoon

This afternoon, you should be finishing your ISLAM leaflet/poster/presentations.  Remember, you can look at the power-point and notes (crib sheet) from last week to help you.  If you spend about 45-50 minutes on this and please send it in to me - either via the direct chat or email will probably be easiest.  If you have completed a paper version, you could ask your parent/carer to take a photo on a phone and send it via the phone.  If you have any problems with this, please don't hesitate to let me know.  We have had some absolutely AMAZING completed work already and I hope to be showing this tomorrow when we start the afternoon session at 1:30. I'll be covering Year 3 but we will work something out.  After this, you will definitely need some oxygen to your brains so either have a go at the Joe Wicks video (we will upload this after it's aired), some cosmic yoga or some exercise of your choice (and approved of by parents/carers)!  Have a fabulous afternoon! Don't forget to check in at 3.15 if you can and hopefully we can share even more work! MM

Friday 22nd January 2021

Good Morning Year 4!

Congratulations to all of you on another excellent week of remote learning. We are so pleased that you have continued to send in your work for us to see and to ask for help when you need it. Please keep going everyone!

I'm really looking forward to seeing you, all day!  Happy FRIDAY everyone!

9.30 - Morning check in and setting up the maths.  It will be an arithmetic test again today (like we used to do on Wednesdays).  There is a quick power-point, to go over a couple of reminders. Please try and do the following questions: 1 to 13,  see the power-point for help with 14, 15 and 16.  Then try 17 to 20. You can leave 21 to 23 but try 24.  You can look at last week's power-point for addition and subtraction.  Do try and show your workings and remember to line up your digits.  Message me directly (not on the group chat) to say how you got on when you've marked it - please tell me your score and the questions you found difficult/got wrong so I can see if I can help.  Don't spend more than 35 minutes on it and if you are stuck on a question leave it and go back to it if you have time.  As always, I'll be available on the chat if you want to ask questions or you can ask questions directly if you don't want everyone to see what you are asking.  MM

10:50 Live Session with Miss Mount, introducing the SPAG (spelling/punctuation and grammar) lesson.

We will be looking at the different classes of words again and introducing some new ones.  Please look at the Power-point and then complete the sheets below.  Answers are on the separate documents at the end.   As always you can message me on the Y4 chat or message me directly if you don't want everyone to see your questions. MM

Friday 22nd Afternoon Session:

This afternoon, you should get started on your ISLAM leaflet/poster/presentation.  Remember, you can look at the power-point and notes (crib sheet) from yesterday to help you.  If you spend about 45-50 minutes on this and see how far you get.  You'll need a break after this, so go and do some exercise or try the Joe Wicks video, which I'll upload once it has aired this morning.

Have a wonderful weekend and see you on Monday.

MM

Thursday 21st January 2021

Good Morning Year 4!

Today we will be continuing to practise division and writing our stories. I have really enjoyed what I have been sent to read so far so please keep going!

Spelling, this week, will be revising how to use an  apostrophe for possession and moving on to show possession for plural nouns. 

See you at 9.30!

Thursday afternoon sessions:

Good afternoon Year 4! In RE today, we will be watching some of the video link below and then you will need to have a look at the Power-Point below, for information on how to start the poster/leaflet/presentation that you will be doing to finish this unit.  

ONLY WATCH THE RE VIDEO UP TO 10 MINUTES AND 25 SECONDS. Then look at the RE Power-point.  Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.  The notes you will need are under the Power-point.

After RE, we will be starting a new topic about South America.  We are incredibly excited about this new unit as it's close to what we would have been doing in normal lessons in school.  It's a fascinating continent.  You might want to download the picture from the 'Maps' book (Maps by Aleksandra Mizelinska and Daniel Mixelinska).  It's an incredible way of looking at the human, physical and natural geography in a map form.  At the end of these sessions we will give you some afternoons where you will be producing your own version of these maps for a particular South American country.  We are really looking forward to this.

Do watch the video and enjoy it.  We will talk more about producing the map over the next few geography lessons.

Wednesday 20th January 2021

Welcome to the beginning of our third week of remote learning. We have really been amazed at how you are all joining in and trying your best with your learning at home. Please remember to keep in touch as much as you can and let us know if we can help at all.

Keep smiling Year 4!

Mrs Gilbert, Miss Mount and Miss P 

Afternoon Sessions, Wednesday 20th

This afternoon we will look at another aspect of Islam in RE: How Muslims express their faith.  Note: We think this might be the missing session 2 but it says it's session 9.

After it's gone live, we will add the next Joe Wicks session so you can have a go.  If you want to, you can do any kind of exercise with your family/carers.  Let us know what you got up to and see you for the story-time meeting at 3:15pm. MM

Tuesday 19th January

Hello Year 4

I hope you are ready for another day of learning. WE are moving on to division today and carrying on with your excellent stories. 

Please remember to send me a photo or a typed version of your story sections so that I can give you feedback. I am really looking forward to reading them!

Afternoon sessions and links.

The links are below for the afternoon sessions today.  We will be looking at Festivals in Islam, during RE and the geography of the Arctic and Antarctic, in Geography.  You will only need pen/pencil, paper/homework book and maybe a ruler for these lessons.  Enjoy!

Monday 18th January 2021

Good Morning Year 4!

We hope you have had a wonderful weekend with your families and enjoyed some time outside. 

Are you ready for another week of remote learning? 

Today, we are going start writing our own wishing stories in English and I am very excited to see what you have come up with!

Below is everything you need for our learning today.

See you online. 

Friday 15th January

Good Morning Year 4!!  Miss Mount is here, all day!

9.30 - Morning check in and setting up the maths.  It will be an arithmetic test today, like we used to do on Wednesdays.  I will do a quick power-point to go over a couple of reminders. Please try and do the following questions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 18.  If you can then try 19, 20, 21, 22 and 24 but these are optional.  If you want a challenge, you can then go back and have a go at the other questions.  Do try and show your workings and remember to line up your digits.  Message me directly (not on the group chat) to say how you got on when you've marked it.  Don't spend more than 35 minutes on it and if you are stuck on a question leave it and go back to it if you have time.  As always, I'll be available on the chat if you want to ask questions or you can ask questions directly if you don't want everyone to see what you are asking.

10:50 Live Session with Miss Mount, introducing the SPAG (spelling/punctuation and grammar) lesson.

I'll be introducing you to (and reminding you of) the different classes of words (e.g. adjectives, nouns, verbs and some new ones) and asking you to complete the sheet below.  Please do the 2 star (**) one or if you want to challenge yourself, have a go at the 3 star (***) one.  Answers are at the end.  I will go over the word classes in a power-point and then let you have a go.  As always you can message me on the Y4 chat or message me directly if you don't want everyone to see your questions.  Enjoy!  YOU WILL NEED COLOURING PENCILS OR PENS for this if you possibly can please.  See you then.

1:30 Afternoon live session on Teams, to introduce our afternoon learning: RE (Islam lesson 4) and the Joe Wicks PE session.

Lesson 2 from the RE is missing so hopefully it will be ok.  So you should have done lesson 3 yesterday (5 Pillars of Islam) and today is lesson 4: What is the Holy book of Islam?  Enjoy!  You will need: a pen/pencil and paper/homework book and maybe a ruler.

Good Morning Year 4!

I hope you enjoyed your first lesson from the RE unit yesterday and did a fun PE activity. 

Today, we will be continuing with the same Maths objective and starting to invent and plan our own stories.

Well done to everyone who has carried on with the Accelerated Reader quizzes at home - it has been great to see the results. 

Year 4 Remote Learning Wednesday 13th January 2021

Good morning Year 4!

Well done to all of you for engaging so well with school even though it is so very different. You are doing a great job of continuing with your learning but remember if there is anything you are not sure of, you can send us an individual message to ask questions at any time. 

Today, our Maths will be slightly different so that I can check that you are all understanding the column method for multiplication which is new to us this year. I have uploaded the normal White Rose link and a Powerpoint that I will be sharing in the live session. Please choose which activity you would rather do today. I will explain more in our session. 

This afternoon, we will be starting an RE unit about Islam and we will be having some time for PE.

See you all later!

Remote learning Tuesday 12th January 2021

Hello Year 4!

I hope you all got on well yesterday with the remote learning. Please remember to send us some of your work either in TEAMs or by emailing it to us and then we can check it and see how you are getting on.

Below is the learning for today. Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing what you need. We are here to answer questions!

Remote Learning Monday 11th January 2021

Hello Year 4!

We hope you have all had a nice weekend and made the most of being outside when you could. There was even some lovely sunshine to enjoy in places.

Please remember that when you finish reading any book at home you can log in to Accelerated Reader to take a quiz. It will be very good for us to be able to check in on your progress. 

I have uploaded the learning for today below. Hopefully I will see you all on TEAMs at 9.30am to start our learning for the day.

Mrs Gilbert and Miss Mount

Remote Learning - Friday 8th January 2021

Hello Year 4

It was lovely to see so many of you engaging with the learning yesterday and I enjoyed reading your responses in the chat area. I hope to see lots more tomorrow! You are able to send individual messages to myself and Miss Mount if you have questions that you do not want to share with the whole group chat. 

Thank you to those children who have sent photos and have let us know how you got on with the tasks. Please remember to download the answers for the Maths and mark your work so you can let us know how you got on. 

Mrs Gilbert and Miss Mount

RESOURCES YOU MAY NEED FOR FRIDAY'S LESSONS:

Resources for maths for Friday:  You may want to find something you can use as counters.  Up to 30 if you can.  You might be able to use pasta or rice or something similar.

Resources for science for Friday: Pen/pencil, ruler if you can, your home learning book or paper and you may need/want colouring pencils, but if you don't have this, don't worry.

Resources for music for Friday: Mr P says you may want headphones, but that is only so you can listen to him on the headphones, so you don't disturb anyone else. Please don't worry at all if you don't have them. You might want a pen/pencil and paper if you want to take notes.

Also on the 5/6th sessions, which will be on Tuesday next week, there is the option to make a string telephone.  If you want to do this and you're able to get the resources, you might want to hold onto some yoghurt pots and see if you can find some string. Again, don't worry if you can't.  You'll need an adult to help put a hole in the bottom of the yoghurt pots.

MM

Remote Learning - Thursday 7th January 2021

Hello Year 4

I was so happy to see that so many of you were able to log on to TEAMs and Join us for our live sessions. I hope you all got on well with the activities that we set. Remember to let us know if you have any trouble accessing the work.

Below I have uploaded links to the work for today. You will also be able to find the same links and documents on TEAMs.

If you would like to email us any of your work or just drop us a line to tell us what you have completed, we would love to hear how you are doing. 

Well done to all of you for keeping your learning going at home.

Mrs Gilbert and Miss Mount

Video Links for Thursday 7th January 2021

Wednesday 6th January 2020

Good Morning Year 4!

We are sorry that we will not be seeing you all in school today but we hope you are well and have all had a fun and safe Christmas Holiday.

Hopefully, we will be speaking to as many of you as possible on our live TEAMs sessions. Please remember that you can email us at year4class@ashburton-primary.devon.sch.uk to ask any questions about our learning or if you are having trouble downloading any of the resources you need. 

Below are the links for our lessons today.

Mrs Gilbert and Miss Mount

Our Current Learning - Autumn B

Below are the learning overviews for this half term

Thursday 3rd December 2020

Year 4 Home Learning

Spellings

Time Table Rockstars - this week we are battling the Year 3s again so let's see if we can even the score!

MyMaths - MyMaths is working again properly so please have a look at how many activities you might need to catch up on. I have also set two more revision activities to practise perimeter (this is a year 3 activity) and rounding numbers to 10 and 100.

Reading - remember to read at home with an adult at least 4 times a week.

Thursday 12th November

Home Learning

* Spellings (eigh and ey spellings)

* TT Rockstars battle with Year 3

* Reading (at least 4 times with an adult)

* My Maths (multiplying by 10 and 100)

Thursday 5th November

Year 4 Home Learning

Spelling - il, im, in prefixes

TT Rockstars

MyMaths - addition and subtraction

Reading - 4 times with an adult

Autumnal Art!

Following on from our volcanic collages, we planned an autumn collage using fallen leaves and twigs to reflect the browns, reds, oranges, yellows and greens that you see at this time of year. We used double-sided sticky tape as our fixative and created the trunk from bits of leaves and the branches from small twigs, all of which creates lots of different shades and textures.

Thursday 15th October 2020

Home Learning

* MyMaths - This week I have set you 3 different MyMaths activities that are revision of the 3, 4 and 8 times tables from your learning in Year 3. It is not necessary to complete all the activities this week but please do at least one.

* TT Rockstars - This week we were third in the race to be the class that clocked up the most minutes of practise. Let's see if we can beat the other classes this week!

*Spellings - This week you have a mixture of spellings that are revision from last year. These are words that we use quite regularly but are often spelling incorrectly in our writing. 

*Reading - Well done to everyone who has finished a book (or two!) this week and taken a quiz on Accelerated Reader. Please remember to bring your book back to school every day. 

Thursday 8th October

This week the home learning tasks for Year 4 are:

TT Rockstars - please practise on Garage for at least 10 minutes this week.

Remember, we are now competing with Year 2 - 6 to see which class can spend the most minutes practising their times tables before Christmas so every minute counts!

MyMaths - Rounding activity

Reading - Please read with an adult 4 times a week

Spelling - This week our new year 4 spellings are a mixture of previous years that need some revision.

Thursday 1st October 2020

Homework

My Maths - Roman Numerals

TT Rockstars - please practice your tables in the Garage section.

Reading - at least 4 times a week to an adult

Spelling - this week we are looking a homophones as well as having another go at the tion and sion words from last week. 

Thursday 24th September 2020

MyMaths - negative numbers

TT Rockstars - Practise the times tables sin the Garage section

Spellings - tion and sion sound

Reading - at least 4 times a week with an adult

Thursday 17th September

Home Learning

1) Spellings - these have been stuck in home work books and are also attached in a file below.

2) MyMaths - this week's activity is about place value in hundreds and thousands.

3) Reading - keep reading and quizzing on your Accelerated Reader books. Please remember to read to an adult 4 times a week.

Thursday 10th September 2020

Hello Year 4!

This week your home learning is :

*1 MyMaths Task

*1 set of spellings to learn (these are stuck in your homework book) but they have also been included in an attachment below

*Reading at least 4 times a week to an adult if possible

Please remember to ask if you are not sure about anything.

Mrs Gilbert