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Parent's Workshop - Reading

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Times Table and Division game

BBC Bitesize

Mathletics

A non chronological report on Sea Turtles by Danny

Emma has been drawing different trees

Emma- working hard this week with her leaf rubbings

Emma has been taking note of the trees all around her

Eydee showing off her new sewing skills!

A message from Hollie

A fantasy land from Hollie showing her grammatical learning

Message from Joe 4AW

Mia and her sister have made leaf people

Hello from Reuban!

The finished product

Dissecting a tulip

Good morning!

Welcome back to term 6 and we hope that you have had a relaxing and restful week. We have been working hard to chose the activities for you to complete over the next term.

One of the activities that we would like you to try is to listen to the book 'Charlotte's Web' by E B White which would have been our class reader for the term. In the links below you can find the first two chapters and if you have your own copy of the book at home then you could always read along.

Both Mrs Whittaker and I will be setting up Teams calls over the next week or two so look out for our invites to the chat.

Stay safe and remember that we always love to hear from you and see the work you have been doing so please email us using the addresses below.

Mrs Dark x

4AW@st-john.lincs.sch.uk

4CD@st-john.lincs.sch.uk

Our Year 4 play was going really well - with some fantastic singing. We will get it done once we are back at school.... but for now here is a taster of what we will have in store.....

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Week commencing 1st June

Week beginning 1^st June 2020

Daily extras:

Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White. If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts): https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Day

Maths

Literacy

Spellings

Monday 1.6.20

Summer Term – Week 6

Lesson 3 – Fractions of quantities

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

Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

Today’s activity is a comprehension all about the famous Wimbledon Tennis Championship. Remember to read the text carefully and refer back to the text when answering the questions.

Comprehension and Answers

This week’s spelling pattern is ch (sh sound), ch (k sound) and homophones.

Use the LCWCh sheet to practice your words for this week.

Tuesday 2.6.20

Fractions of quantities

If you did not get to do yesterday’s worksheet then watch the video link from Monday to help with today’s work.

Choose a worksheet to complete.

Level 1 or Level 2

Why not try the challenge

Answers

Keeping with the theme of tennis and famous people it is tennis star Rafael Nadal’s birthday tomorrow.

Read the information sheet about him and then we are going to have a go at some possessive apostrophe work.

What other words follow this weeks spelling pattern?

Use Sheet 2 to help you recognise and sort the words.

Wednesday 3.6.20

Summer Term – Week 6

Lesson 4 – Calculate Quantities

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

Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

Try this wordsearch to help you to spot the correct spelling of each word.

Each word is only there once. How quickly can you spot them all?

Thursday 4.6.20

Calculate Quantities

If you did not get to do yesterday's worksheet then watch the video link from Wednesday to help with today's work.

Choose a worksheet to complete.

* or **

Why not try the challenge

Answers

Put the correct homophone into the sentence. Remember that homophones sound the same but are spelt differently so it is important to know which one to use.

Sheet 3

Friday

5.6.20

Lesson 5 –Arithmetic Test

You have 30 minutes to try this arithmetic test. The answers are at the end of the test.

Spelling Test

Ask your parents or an older sibling to test you on this weeks spellings.

This week’s school topic: Famous People

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities *** More complex challenges

Nature Bioblitz

This weekend the WWF are doing a Garden Bioblitz. It involves people going out into their gardens to see what plants and creatures they can find. It also introduces a great app called seek by iNaturalist which helps children identify plants and creatures. Follow the link for more information

French Work - 19th May

Madame Roche has set up this weeks work all about transport. Find the link here.

vegetable patch

Vegetable patch

Week 4 Spellings

This week we are continuing with the same patterns from week 3.

Look, Cover, Write, Check Sheet

Activity - Sheet 1

Activity - Sheet 2

Week commencing 18th May

WC: 18.05.20	Maths	Literacy
Monday	Week 4 (w.c 11^th May) Lesson 1 – Multiplication and division problems https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Worksheet Answers Challenge	Following the theme of lights camera action, today you will be director. Direct your actor as to how they would play your lead character Follow the link here
Tuesday	Lesson 2 – Perimeter https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Worksheet Answers Challenge	Time to promote the movie of the year! Imagine turning your favourite book into a film and plan how you would promote it.
Wednesday	Lesson 3 – Perimeter of rectilinear shapes https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Worksheet Answers Challenge	Every author, be it for a fiction book or a play script, needs to edit their work. Follow these activities on BBC bitesize to help you edit writing more effectively.
Thursday	Lesson 4 – Area https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Worksheet Answers Challenge	Today you are going to write speech for characters in a short film. Watch the clip ‘The Cloud Maker’ and follow the guide of how to write speech in a play script.
Thursday
Friday	Lesson 5 – Challenge https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ The most suitable questions for Year 4 are 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. But why don’t you work with your family on the rest of the problems. Do as many as you can! Help each other out	Today you will be writing a review on a short film - will you recommend it and it become a box office success? Watch the clip here
Topic	This week’s school topic is: Lights camera action! From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic: * Simpler activities *** More complex challenges.

W.C 11th May - Spellings

Here are this weeks spellings - ei(gh), ey, -que, -gue and sc (s sound). Apologies for them being put on to the page late this week so there is only one sheet to complete.

French Work - 13th May

Here is this week's work from Madame Roche

Week commencing 11th May

WC: 11.05.20	Maths	Literacy
Monday	Week 3 – w.c 4^th May Lesson 1 – multiplying 2 digit number by 1 digit https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	This week we will be using Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree as our inspiration. Today complete the grammar activities from these extracts.
Tuesday	Lesson 2 – multiplying 3-digit number by 1 digit. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	Today we are looking at expanded noun phrases and how you can use them to help describe a setting
Wednesday	Lesson 3 – Dividing 2 digit number by 1 digit https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	Reading today – read the first chapter from The Faraway Tree and answer the questions.
Thursday	Lesson 4 – Dividing 3 digit number by 1 digit https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	For the next 2 days you are going to write your own description of a land at the top of the tree. Listen to some extracts from The Faraway Tree for inspiration first. There is also a link on the topic page to hear more of the story. You may also draw an illustration of your land.
Friday	Lesson 5 – Challenge This week is a recipe challenge https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ or you can try the Mathletics that has been set up for you today.
Topic	This week’s school topic is: Trees and Plants From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic: * Simpler activities *** More complex challenges.

Spelling week 2

Here is the look, cover, write, check and activity sheet 1 and 2 for this week spellings.

French

Please find this weeks French here from Madam Roche

Week commencing 4th May

WC: 04.05.20	Maths	Literacy
Monday	This week we will continuing to focus on decimals and putting them into the context of money. Week 2 (commencing 27^th April) – Rounding decimals https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	This week we are linking to our theme ‘under the sea’ and writing a non- chronological report about a sea creature of your choice. Click here for today’s link.
Tuesday	Week 2 – Halves and Quarters https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	Today we are going to look at how to write an introduction. Don’t worry if you missed yesterday’s work – you can use my facts on my favourite sea creature – turtles.
Wednesday	Week 2 – Pounds and Pence https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	Today you are going to plan your paragraphs and write subheadings. Use the guide to help you organise your (or my) information.
Thursday	Week 2 – Ordering Money https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge and answers	Today we will write our main paragraphs – use your work from earlier in the week or the information on sea turtles.
Friday	Week 2 – BBC Bitesize Challenge https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/	Finishing your report – Add appropriate pictures and captions
Topic	This week’s school topic is: Under the sea From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic: * Simpler activities *** More complex challenges.

Week commencing the 27th April

WC: 27.4.20	Maths	Literacy
Monday	Summer Term 1 – Week 1 Lesson 1 – Making a Whole https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge Answers	Today we are going to look at how authors describe different settings in their books, particularly shops. Follow the link for today work
Tuesday	Summer Term 1 – Week 1 Lesson 2 – Write Decimals https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge Answers	Shopping involves talking to people. Today we look at how to include speech to further describe a setting or character or to move the story along.
Wednesday	Summer Term 1 – Week 1 Lesson 3 – Compare Decimals https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge Answers	Today’s work is a comprehension about one our authors this week – David Walliams. If you would like to push yourself, there is a more challenging version here.
Thursday	Summer Term 1 – Week 1 Lesson 4 – Ordering Decimals https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Challenge Answers	Today and tomorrow we are going to be looking at writing our own shop scene for a story. Today we will be planning using this guide.
Friday	Summer Term 1 – Week 1 Lesson 5 - Challenges. The most suitable questions for Year 4 are questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 but you might want to work on the rest with your family. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/	Now we will write our scene – You will be looking to write 3 or 4 paragraphs using your plan. Use the following guides to remind you of some of the features you could try to include: Pronouns https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z64q7nb Speech https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zvftsbk
Topic	This week’s school topic is: Shops and Shopping From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic: * Simpler activities *** More complex challenges.

Spellings

This weeks spellings focus on ei, ey, gue, que, sc

To find the look cover write check click here

For activites to practice the spellings click here

Week commencing 20th April

Welcome back. Below you will find the literacy and Maths for this week. You will also find the link to the topic based activites for this week. We will be adding some spellings to each week - look out for these soon!

WC: 20.4.20	Maths	Literacy
Monday	Today we are looking at dividing a 2 digitnumber by 10. Remember to think about your place value and how the numbers move to the right. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Click on Week 2 Lesson 1	This week we are going to link with our topic and look at explanation texts. Look at the text and see if you can find the features.
Tuesday	Today's lesson is a recap over hundredths. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Click on Week 2 Lesson 2 Why not try these challenges Challenge answers	Wallace and Gromit have a fantastic series called cracking contraptions. Today you are going to watch one of these and write an explanation as to how the ‘Soccomatic’ works
Wednesday	Moving on to writing hundredths as decimals https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Click on Week 2 Lesson 3	A bit of comprehension today and back to Dudley and his explanations.
Thursday	This session will help you to recognise how to write decimals when they are represented on a place value chart. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Click on Week 2 Lesson 4 Try today's challenge Challlenge answers	A fantastic invention to read about today – The Teacher Pleaser! Read the example and have a go at designing your very own invention to make your life easier
Friday	Today we are looking a dviding 1 and 2 digit numbers by 100. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ Click on Week 2 Lesson 5 Challenge Time Challenge answers	Today you will be writing about your design. Remember to include an introduction explaining what your machine does as well as step by step explanation. To add detail to your explanation, you may include adverbs to say how various things are done, for example the wheel turns slowly. Use this bitesize guide to recap adverbs More specifically, you may choose to add fronted adverbials to add more detail For a reminder of the features of an explanation text, look back at Tuesdays link.
Topic	This week’s school topic is: Inventors and Inventions From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic: * Simpler activities *** More complex challenges.

2nd April - French Work

Here are the activities and sheets for you to look at with French work this week.

Lumen's French Award

Word Rainbows

Competition Letter

Beautiful butterflies

As promised, instructions by Lena to make the origami butterflies Well done Lena. there is also a you tube video to help you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZdO2e8K29o

Enjoy!

List of activities 'What shall I do?'

Here is the list of activities as compiled by Year 4 last week. Hopefully you will find some of these useful in the days ahead.

Week commencing 30th March

Welcome to Week 2! We hope you have enjoyed the tasks last week. In Maths we are now moving onto decimals in particular looking at tenths and hundredths. We will also be revisiting how to find a fraction of a quantity. In Literacy we are continuing with the book ‘The Journey’ and you will be writing your own version of the story. In Geography, we will be locating continents, oceans and important locations on the world map.
Task 1	Task 2	Task 3
Fractions of amounts – practice your skills at finding a fraction of an amount.	Today we are looking at describing a setting, in particular by using prepositions.	Geography On the world map, locate each of the continents and the oceans. Answers
Today we will be looking at recognising tenths and hundreths. Please go to the white rose website and look at week 1 lesson 1. Watch the video and complete the worksheet. Answers are also available https://whiterosemaths.com/ homelearning/year-4/	Determiners help use to give extra information about a noun. Learn about the different types today and use them when writing a paragraph about a page from ‘The Journey. ‘	Geography Name the countries in the British Isles and their capital cities. Colour the sea in blue.
Again on White rose, we will be loking at tenths as decimals. Watch the vieo and answer the questions on the worksheet. https://whiterosemaths.com/ homelearning/year-4/	What will happen next? Use your prior knowledge to predict what may happen next in our story.	Geography Locate the main countries in Europe, including Russia. Label their capital cities
Today we are looking at tenths on a place value grid. Watch the video and complete the worksheet https://whiterosemaths.com/ homelearning/year-4/	Now it’s your turn. Over the next 2 days write your own next part of the story ‘The Journey’. Where will the magic crayon take the girl next? Draw pictures and write paragraphs alongside to show what happens on her next adventure. In your writing try to include speech, expanded noun phrases and as an extra bonus - possessive spostrophes! Use the links to help remind you: Speech Possessive apostrophes expanded noun phrases	History - Tody we will be looking at Roman roads. We will dicover how and why they were built and then you can present what you know in the form of an inormation poster
Lastly for this week, we are looking at tenths on a number line https://whiterosemaths.com/ homelearning/year-4/

Week Beginning 23rd March in Year 4

Dear parents/carers and children

Below are the tasks for your child this coming week.

There will be 3 tasks per day, typically, a literacy based activity, maths activity and a topic activity.

Below is the timetable to make things clearer for you. In conjunction to this, there are lots of things you can be doing daily with your child to aid their development which are detailed in the box below.

Extra Daily activities:

Mental arithmetics – using the times table generator to work on the tables practise that has been allocated to you.
Handwriting- using your cursive joins to copy up a favourite poem.
Reading- independent learning
Reading – Oxford Owl are offering a free membership which gives you access to online e books - these books mirror lots of the book we would be using with your children.

	Maths – Activity 1	Literacy – Activity 2	Topic - Activity 3
Monday 23^rd March	Times tables
Tuesday 24th March	Negative numbers - use the worksheets to help you practice working with negative numbers.	The Journey day 1 - Use inference to think about what could be happening in this picture book.	Food chains Using the BBC's live lesson 'The Blue Planet' begin to explore what a food chain is and complete the activities
Wednesday25^th March	Roman numerals. Practice converting to and from Roman numerals using the sheets. Answers	The Journey day 2 Continue to use inference skills to decide where the book is set, and practice your Direct speech writing to write your own conversations between characters.	Food chains. Continue to build on your knowledge of food chains.
Thursday 26^h March	Rounding - recap and activities to help practice skills of rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000	Today we will be using our inference skills again to find out more about the girl by looking at her room. What does it say about her? What clues are there? What would your ideal room look like and how would it show your personality and interests? Find details here	Classification - find out how we can group creatures according to different characteristics and learn the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate
Friday 27^th March	Perimeter	Look at the story so far to plan a diary entry for out main character. Recap the story here . Find out what happens next in the story and make your predictions for next week!	Classification - use branching data bases to help sort animals

If you wanted to, you could;

Look in your garden at what creatures you can see. Where in the food chain do they fit? Can you draw your own food chain to show this?

17th January - Trip to Peterborough Museum

We all enjoyed our visit to Peterborough museum to emerse ourselves into the life of a Roman citizen in Britain. During the visit, we made clay faces in the style of Roman wine vessels, visited a Roman market, became archaeologists ane met a real life Roman legionary.

3rd April - Rocking Romans!

The children today completed their two performances to parents of the production 'Rocking Romans'. All of the cast were fantastic with superb singing and awesome acting. A big well done to everyone.

Hanging Softies

We have been busy designing and making our hanging softies ready for Christmas to decorate your tree! A sneak preview can be seen of some of the finished items in the gallery.

Marvellous Moussaka

This week children have been cooking and sampling moussaka. They learnt about the key ingredients, and following and writing instructions. Many children developed a new liking for aubergine!

Poppies

We have been making paper poppies to mark the 100 year anniversary and have used them alongside our homework to create a new display in our classrooms. We also thought in collective worship about saying thank you to those who served and continue to serve.

Wow, how shocking! - 2.11.18

Today, we all began our electricity topic with a real wow moment. We created circuits using batteries, wires and bulbs and then we all become a human circuit. This demonstarted to us that electricity is dangerous as we can conduct electricity which is why we must take care when using it.

Greek Pottery

Finished pots We have been creating coil clay pots as part of our Grrek topic. Although they took all day to make, we are all very proud of how determined all of the children were to complete this tricky task!

Year 4 Olympics - 24.9.18

Today, Year 4 enjoyed a morning of sport by taking part in a mini olympic event. They were welcomed by Zeus and paraded the olympic flame before comencing with 4 events - javelin, discus, long jump and sprint. After taking part in heats there was a final where an winner was declared. " I enjoyed myself, but was disappointed not to make it into any finals." said John

After the four athletic events, the children took part in the St John's marathon. Luckily for them it was not a full 26 miles but two laps of our running track. "I was absolutely exhausted" said Isobel at the finish line.

At the end of the morning the 5 winners were crowned with tradtional laural crowns.

Electricity

Our current Science topic is electricity and we have enjoyed creating circuits, making our own switches and testing materials to see if they are conductors or insulators.

Romans invade St John's!

Children in year 4 as Roman soldiers

The Romans came to Spalding on Friday and gave Year 4 a fantastic insight into life over 2000 years ago in Britain. The children were able to create moasics, oil lamps, charms to ward off evil and become Roman soldiers in the morning.

Then, after lunch, they took part in either dancing, acting or being a part of the legion before settling down for a feast of bread, cheese, fruit and 'wine'.

Term 4 - Gymnastics

This term, 4AW have benefitted from addtional coaching in gymnastics for Mr Gibson. They have been focusing on parts of the body that you can balance on - points and patches and using lots of the apparatus.

7th March Cookery

Year 4 had their first opportunity to use the cookery room today, making delicious apple galettes. See the pictures in our gallery!

20th February - Trip to Peterbourgh

Year 4 enjoyed a trip to Peterbourgh to visit two places of worship - Mosque and Kingsgate Church. A great day had by all!

6th October - Mini Olympics

Read the article below to find out about all the fun we had at our mini Olympics.

Athens vs Corinth vs Argos vs Sparta in the Ancient Greece mini Olympics.

In the morning , on Friday 6^th October 2017, Year 4 experienced what it would have been like in Ancient Greek times with a mini olympic event. It was held on the school field.

The competitors arrived in the hall to meet king of the Gods, Zeus, played by Mr McCarthy, a school volunteer.

“All of the competitors behaved perfectly,” commented Mr McCarthy.

They participated in 5 events, including the armour run and the javelin.

Klaudia exclaimed,“My favourite event was the javelin because I won!”

Connor in 4AW defeated his opponents by winning the marathon, running race and the shield race.

It was a fantastic experience for the children to learn more about Ancient Greece.

Their Headteacher, Mr Reid, said ”I am pleased that the Year 4 Olympics day went well, it is always really good when children can learn in a practical way. ”

30th September - Goldsworthy artwork

Year 4 created their own outdoor sculptures inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. They took inspiration from the nature area and created their masterpieces using all natural resources.

11th September - Greek Day for Year 4

Today, Year 4 were transported back in time to Ancient Greece as part of their topic this term. The children took part in a variety of activities that included mask making, shield creating and designing their own labyrinth out of string. As the weather was good, some groups got to use their shields in battle formation on the playground. The final activity was a challenge that looked at Greek architecture where the children had to balance on a single plastic cup without it breaking! A great day was had by all.

26th June 2017 - Roman Day

Today, Maximus and the XI legion invaded year 4 to bring news of the rebellion of Boudicca. The children were quickliy recruited to join the Roman ranks, making a variety of objects and listening for news of the impending invasion.

Luckily, Boudicca was stopped in her tracks and a celebratory feast, with drama and dancing, was enjoyed by all in the afternoon.

Take a look at some of the pictures of our day in our gallery. Year 4 in their Roman dress

5th June 2017 - Visit to Spalding Grammar and High School

Today year 4 went to Secondary school. The girls went by bus to Spalding High school to enjoy a morning of Food technology and Art and the boys walked to the Grammar to take part in Science and Computing lessons.

The girls made museli bars and then were able to participate in some free flow art to music. It was very messy, with painting on tables, chairs and some on each other but everyone enjoyed themselves.

The boys took part in a colourful chemistry lesson with a variety of chemicals and then moved on to some computing programming. They all loved dressing in scientific lab coats and goggles to become chemists for the morning.

A great morning was had by all!

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