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Mrs Cuthbert - Curiosity Class 10

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Mrs Morris - Opportunity Class 9:

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Year 4's Home Learning Hub

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

Welcome to the Year 4's Learning Page. You will find snippets from the learning that is taking place this week incase you would like to show your adults what you have been learning or perhaps you are unable to come into school. If that is the case, we do hope to see you back soon!

Your weekly homework will also be described here, so even if we are in class it is important to check here to make sure you are completing the homework tasks.

oHomework for Week Beginning 30th December 2020

Subject	Activity	Notes
Maths	We would like you to log into TT rockstars for homework this week. Remember to keep practicing your tables, they are so useful.
Spellings	Your spellings this week come from the Year 3 and 4 list: early earth eighth enough exercise experiment extreme experience Your teacher might tell you to concentrate on the BOLD words .	There have been Edshed games set for you. If you are unable to access them, please ask your teacher.
Reading	Read your reading book or '50 book' at least 3 times	Please fill in your Reading Record. The full list of our 50 book can be found HERE If you are a member of a Wiltshire library it is really simple for your grown up to access audio books of some of them. using RBdigital app. You will find: Alex Sparrow and the Really Big Stink The Train to Impossible Places Butterfly Lion

Monday 30.11.20

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics	We continue looking at how regrouping works in addition calculations. Lesson and task	You can draw circles to represent counters in a grid or print out these counters to use.
English	We are going to be exploring job adverts (we are building up to writing a job advert for an Egyptian Pharaoh). Using the advert examples in the notes section, can you highlight/write down any words that are used in all of the examples. These will be useful when we write our own.	Job Adverts
Reading	This week we move onto the next chapter of The Butterfly Lion 'Miracle, Miracle' Listen to it here. Tasks are here The text for the chapter is here	Have you got a 50 book to read?
Keeping Active	It is PE today - we will continuing our dancing skills. You can keep working on this at home with a JustDance clip or a Cosmic Yoga session
Other Learning	PSHE: today we are still 'celebrating difference'. We will thinking about all the ways we are special or unique. Can you complete a self portrait. When you have finished can you write all the ways you are special around your picture. Remember to keep these so we can display them in school.

Tuesday 01.12.20

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics	Find the next lesson, refining our mental addition methods here.	Game here
English	Using the job adverts from yesterday, we are going to focusing on the grammar used in the adverts. Can you highlight or write down any conjunctions, pronouns, nouns and pronouns that you see.
Reading	Use the link on Monday to follow the chapter and find the tasks here. Text attached on Monday
Keeping Active	Jo Wicks still has lots of videos available to follow.	PE with Jo Link
Other Learning	Science. We are going to be dental scientists today. You will need some egg shells for this and a range of liquids (e.g. water, coke, juice, milk). Can you add a portion of egg shell to each of your chosen liquids (enough so the shell is covered). Can you predict what will happen to each shell and why?	You will need to leave your shells for one week. Remember no peeking!

Wednesday 2.12.20

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics	Mental Maths addition focus lesson is here.
English	We are looking at subordinate clauses today and making sentences. Can you create sentences starting with a subordinate clause and finishing with a main clause.	Use this link to remind you what a subordinate clause is. You can use these sentence starters to help you
Reading	The next activity for the Butterfly Lion is explained here. Text attached on Monday
Keeping Active	Relax with a Cosmic Yoga session	HERE
Other Learning	Handwriting: Can you spend some time this afternoon practicing your handwriting like we would on Wednesdays. You might also like to have a go practicing your spellings ready for Friday.

Thursday 3.12.20

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics	Here we look at another mental addition method.
English	We are exploring suffixes and prefixes today. Can you have a go at the activity in the notes section, there is quite a lot here so work through what you can.	Section 12 in the English task book given to you contains 3 sections on prefixes. Try P 68, 69, 70 and 71 to revisit the prefixes we have looked at in Read, Write inc session this year. activity
Reading	We will be continuing to explore the chapter of the Butterfly lion here. Text is attached on Monday
Keeping Active	You can choose to complete a cosmic yoga, Joe Wicks or dance session today.
Other Learning	History: Can you write an argument for respecting the ancient Egyptians. Remember the resources for last week and try and explain 4 ways the Egyptians have earnt respect.

Friday 4.12.20

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics	A game to consolidate our addition unit of work,
English	We are going to have a free write Friday today. You can write a story, poem or report of your choice. Remember to use all the punctuation rules we have been working on.
Reading	Our final task linked to Chapter 11 of The Butterfly Lion. Text is attached on Monday
Keeping Active	Create an circuit of exercises around your garden or house. You can create areas for: starjumps burpees step ups running on the spot Can you get your whole family involved?! Remember: there are keeping active resources in the newsletter sent to parents last Friday.
Other Learning	Art: We have been working hard making our Canopic jars. Can you research what the 'body of your jar' might look like. You could draw your final ideas.

GoNoodle

www.gonoodle.com/goodenergy

Get moving and keep fit with these great videos and activities for children of all ages.

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org

Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn

https://www.futurelearn.com

Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca

https://www.senecalearning.com

For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly

https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed

https://ed.ted.com

All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.