Welcome to Southwark Bridge Class

Hello Year Four! Welcome to your home learning for this week. Remember, do not worry if you cannot find the time to do all of the work or if you are not able to access everything on the blog. Just try to do a little a day.

English

We are looking at a series of new stories this week.

Day one-Start by looking at the front cover and first page of Night Shimmy and make your predictions before you watch the story below. Year 4 Week 13 Day 1

Day two-Today you are looking at the story Silly Billy. What did you think of it? Has it made you think of anything else? Use the worry doll instructions to help you practise your own instruction writing. Year 4 Week 13 Day 2

If you need some help with instruction writing, have a look at the video below for ideas about worry dolls

You can also use this website for pointers if you have forgotten how to write instructions

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgcwmn/articles/zfrcmfr

Day three-Today, compare the two stories you have read so far. Answer the comparison questions and then think about what you could use to help you to deal with your own worries. If you have a lot of worries, remember to speak to your grown ups about them so that they can help! Year 4 Week 13 Day 3

Day four-You have a new story to listen to today. What do you think of it? Do you have a favourite character? Why do you think the author has chosen to write it this way?

After you have spent some time thinking about the characters f the book, you will be doing some writing of your own, from the point of view of the dogs in the park! Year 4 Week 13 Day 4

Day five-You are still thinking about the story from yesterday. Today, recap the importance of paragraphing as you consider the text. Year 4 Week 13 Day 5

If you are unsure about the best way to use paragraphs, have a look at the site below. Only do the activities if you think they will be useful to you!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zv4j7nb

Guided Reading

Daily Reading Ancient Egypt Activity 3 – Print Friendly

The Story of Osiris

Book Review Activity Sheet

Maths

Day one- Following on from the work last week, we are beginning the week with subtracting two four digit numbers.

Have a go at the questions on the worksheet. (Please don’t feel that you have to print everything out, writing your work into your books is perfectly acceptable!)Lesson 1 – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – no exchange

After you have finished,  you can check your answers here Lesson 1 Answers – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – no exchange

Day two-Subtracting two four digit numbers with one exchange. Remember to start from the correct column!

Find the worksheet here Lesson 2 – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – one exchange

Check your answers here Lesson 2 Answers – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – one exchange

Day three- Subtract two four digit numbers with more than one exchange

Find the worksheet here Lesson 3 – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – more than one exchange

Check your answers here Lesson 3 Answers – Subtract two 4-digit numbers – more than one exchange

Day four- Efficient subtraction methods. (Remember that efficient means working in a well-organised way ith the minimum wasted effort)

Find the worksheet here Lesson 4 – Efficient subtraction

Check your answers here Lesson 4 Answers – Efficient subtraction

Day five-Watch for the Friday challenge

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

or for something different, have a go at the investigation here

https://nrich.maths.org/consecutivenumbers/note

If you normally work with Miss Alvarez, have a go at these lessons instead,

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

Please contact your class teacher via Dojo if you need the sheets for these activities!

Science-Let’s get back to our exciting electricity topic:

This week we will be learning about static electricity

Enjoy Miss Simkin’s lesson from Oak Academy-https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-static-electricity

In this lesson, we will be learning all about static electricity. We will learn how static charges occur and what happens when they are discharged. We will also be exploring how to create our own static charges with a balloon! If you have a balloon at home then you can use it for this lesson. If you don’t then don’t worry, you will still be able to watch the demonstrations and complete the lesson.

I.C.T-This week have a go at practising your coding skills with Disney Infinity characters.

https://studio.code.org/s/infinity/stage/1/puzzle/1

Art-Continue making mask. You could design and make a different Egyptian god or goddess.

Or make a paper version if you are feeling less ambitious

Egyptian-gods-and-goddesses-role-play masks

History

Egyptian Creation Myth- Read the story of how the Egyptians believed the world and all the people were created. How is it different from your own beliefs? Maybe you could talk about this with your grownups.T2-H-4238-Ancient-Egyptian-Creation-Story-Powerpoint_ver_1

Something easier- design a comic strip version of the story

Something harder- compare the creation myth to another that you are familiar with. What is the same? What is different?

Music

Have a go at the song of the week or some of the songs for well-being here,

https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home/

As well as our normal music opportunities from Out of the Ark, we also have access to making music from Croydon Music and Arts.

https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music

The password is

makingmusic123

Latin

This week we will be continuing to learn about the past continuous tense (I was …….ing) and learning some new verb endings to practise. We will also be thinking about some philosophy. What is reality? Latin past continuous and philosophy

If you want the worksheet for translation practice, it is here Latin past continuous verbs

Have fun with your learning this week and, as always, post your work for us to see on Class Dojo. We love to see how you are doing.

Please message us with any concerns or questions and we will do our best to answer them.

Take care of yourselves Year Four!