Year Four Weekly Blog Wk beginning 16.3.2020

Welcome to our home learning blog. The Year Four teaching team will be updating this blog regularly with home learning tasks designed for your children.

 

English:

Our Spelling learning this week is words which use the prefix ex- Here are some practising activities, games and tests to help your child learn these spelling words.

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-733.htm

Our grammar focus is apostrophes. Here is a video to teach the rules and some games designed to help practise this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zx9ydxs

Reading:

We recommend a website for reading quality books online. We have set up a login for each class so you can access this resource for free.

https://www.getepic.com/students

 

 

Writing task:

We have been exploring the story The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. Use this illustration from the story to write what might happen next.

Remember to include:

Fronted adverbial phrases

Conjunctions

Expanded noun phrases

Punctuation including capital letters, full stops, commas in lists and after adverbial phrases, inverted commas for speech and apostrophes for plural possession. We recommend the follow website which explain these grammar terms

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn

Maths:

We have updated Mathletics. Our focus this week is decimals please look at free websites like Topmarks for good activities and games or the free resources on Mathsframe. BBCBitesize has good free video teaching resources for decimals

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/471/Y4-Decimals-and-Fractions

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?q=decimal

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zr6pvcw

Science:

We are learning the basic function of the digestion system in humans. Watch the following videos and explain how the digestive system works.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z27kng8

Topic/Geography:

Research the journey of chocolate from pod to product.

P.E:

We recommend Kids hiit and Cosmic Yoga workouts available on YouTube to help keep us active.

 

Hopefully this will be plenty to keep your children busy and active. Newsround has excellent resources if your child is interested in World Events and News at a child’s level.