Good morning Year 4! Its Wednesday which means that we are mid way through the week. Well done for working so hard at home learning and thank you to the children that have been keeping in touch through the year 4 inbox - we love hearing from you.
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Have a good day!
Remember if you would like to keep in touch with us, you can email us on year4@bgfjs.org.
Have a good day!
PE with Joe Wicks
LIVE 9:00-9:30
Ready to get energised? Grab your water bottle and get ready to join in!
Literacy
Jasminara, Nasima and Louise's group
What to do today:
1. Make predictions
• Look at Front Cover. Write notes to say what you notice and what predictions you can make about the book. What might the title mean? What do you think the ‘Underground Railroad’ might be?
2. Listen to the story - Henry's Freedom Box
• Listen to the reading of the story on the link below.
• What did you like about the story? Was there anything that you disliked? Did it remind you of anything you have read or seen? What questions or puzzles did it leave you with?
3. Order the events of the story
• Cut out the Map of Events.
• Re-arrange them so that they are in the right order.
4. Read the Author’s Note
• Read the Author’s Note.
• Answer Author’s Note – Questions.
Try the Fun-Time Extra
- Design a back-cover for the book. Write a blurb to tell people about the book and add a design that will make them want to read it.
1. Make predictions
• Look at Front Cover. Write notes to say what you notice and what predictions you can make about the book. What might the title mean? What do you think the ‘Underground Railroad’ might be?
2. Listen to the story - Henry's Freedom Box
• Listen to the reading of the story on the link below.
• What did you like about the story? Was there anything that you disliked? Did it remind you of anything you have read or seen? What questions or puzzles did it leave you with?
3. Order the events of the story
• Cut out the Map of Events.
• Re-arrange them so that they are in the right order.
4. Read the Author’s Note
• Read the Author’s Note.
• Answer Author’s Note – Questions.
Try the Fun-Time Extra
- Design a back-cover for the book. Write a blurb to tell people about the book and add a design that will make them want to read it.
Vicky and Bonnie's group
We are going to be continuing on with the story Pets and practice using apostrophes.
- Re-read the story, Wild Pets.
- Using apostrophes to show possession.
- Find the following phrases in the story and carefully copy them down onto a piece of paper: Bella’s cat and Sunil’s dog.
- Can you name the punctuation mark used in each one?
- Can you say why it is there? Together with a grown-up, read the information on Using an apostrophe to show possession.
- Complete the exercises on Possessive Apostrophes.
Numeracy
Nasima, Louise and Jasminara's group
Today we are going to learn how to compare decimals.
Watch the video to remind yourself of how to do this using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols. You can pause the video if it asks you a question to give you some thinking time. Watch it more than once if this helps.
Then click on 'BBC Bitesize' for further explanation and activities. Answer the questions and then check by scrolling through the PDF.
Watch the video to remind yourself of how to do this using the greater than, less than and equal to symbols. You can pause the video if it asks you a question to give you some thinking time. Watch it more than once if this helps.
Then click on 'BBC Bitesize' for further explanation and activities. Answer the questions and then check by scrolling through the PDF.
Vicky and Bonnie's group
Today you are going to be looking at sharing equally.
Remember to pause the video if it asks you a question to give you some thinking time. Watch it more than once if you would like.
Complete the activities in the link below. Once you have finished, ask an adult to go through the answers with you.
Remember to pause the video if it asks you a question to give you some thinking time. Watch it more than once if you would like.
Complete the activities in the link below. Once you have finished, ask an adult to go through the answers with you.
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Art
Today we are going to explore the basics of exciting paintings. We're going to take a close look at three artists - Andy Warhol, Wassily Kandinsky and Jan van Eyck and examine how they made their artwork exciting to help us gain some inspiration.
Click onto the link below and watch the video clips for each artist. You have three activities to try at home. You can choose to do one, two or all three!
Click onto the link below and watch the video clips for each artist. You have three activities to try at home. You can choose to do one, two or all three!
Story time
Story time with Andy Stanton - find where you left off yesterday and then sit back and enjoy!