This is the last home learning blog! You only have 3 days to fill so have fun with it. I hope you have a wonderful summer holiday and we look forward to seeing you back in September. 

Mrs Farmer 

N.B Some of this home learning will be needed for Thursday's zoom meeting with your new teacher. 

This week our learning is based on Sports. I hope you enjoy it. Please find the attached blog. 

Have fun and keep safe, 

Mrs Farmer 

This weeks home learning is based on Clean Water and Sanitation. Please find the blog attached, please note some videos are in two parts. 

Have a great week, 

Mrs Farmer

Hope you are all well. 

This week's home learning is based on Sustainable Cities. Please find the attached work (please note, some of the video lessons are in 2 parts). 

Mrs Farmer

Hope you're all well. This weeks home learning is based on Responsible Consumption and Production. Please find the attached work. 

Mrs Farmer

Happy Easter!! Here a few fun activities that you might like to do with your family. Please remember this is a school holiday and it is important to have time to rest.

Make a map of your house and write co-ordinates for someone to find your hidden eggs.

Make and decorate an Easter twig tree, you could make some salt dough decorations to decorate.

Have a look at how France celebrate Easter and challenge your family to learn some French Easter words.

Have an egg and spoon race.

Make the tallest egg stack using the plastic egg halves.

Design an Easter egg on the computer. 

Do some egg-periments;

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/kasiagalazka/things-you-can-do-with-eggs-besides-coloring-them

Write and make Easter cards and poems and send them to your family.

Design and make an Easter board game.

Write some Easter jokes and stick them around your house to entertain your family.

Have a bunny hop sack race (reuse a bag for life).

Use an egg box to create your own marble maze.

Make a bowling alley using bottles from around you house (you could decorate them as rabbits or chicks).

Make your own Easter word search.

Make an Easter table centre piece.

https://stories.audible.com/discovery 

I hope you have had a happy and enjoyable week at home, well done in having a go at the activities. I can see your progress on Rodocodo, Nessy and Times Table Rock Star, keep it up and well done!

Mathematics

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

Make an obstacle course indoors or outdoors and write some Mathematics problems (multiplication and division). At each obstacle solve the Mathematical problem.

Times Table Rock Star

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/76329

Mind Up

https://mindup.org.uk/families/ 

English

Stay in touch with other family members and friends through email or via letter.

Have fun with riddles – make them up and enjoy discovering different meanings for the same word.

Play the ‘Headline Game’ – use stories to make up headlines and then vote for the best. For example, ‘Girl dressed in Red stalked by Wolf’.

Reading

Keep reading!

Read a magazine/newspaper article and discuss if it is fact or opinion, is it biased?

Nessy

https://www.nessy.com/uk/

Global learning

Research and write a fact file on one of the suffragettes.

Make something for the wildlife; bird feeder, butterfly house or a bug hotel.

Do some gardening/make a window box and plant some flowers for the bees to enjoy. 

Science experiment website 

https://education.theiet.org/key-stage-1-2-3-and-4-free-stem-resources/home-learning-resources-key-stage-1-and-2/

DT

Become and engineer and construct bridges out of cups and lollypop sticks or items from around the house. You can then test them to see if they are weight bearing.

Art

Do a still life drawing of a flower or someone in your home.

Spread some kindness, make a rainbow with a range of mediums. Then, display it in your window. Don’t forget to see if you can spy any rainbows on your daily walk about. Remember to keep a safe distance away from others however, you can definitely wave and say hello, passing a smile. 

Extras:

Mrs Bliss has also set you an additional Buckden Bingo Challenge which is attached below.

Buckden Bingo

If you are worried about why we are all having to stay at home at the moment, Mrs Bliss has also attached a story that you could read with your parents or carers.

https://nursedottybooks.com/dave-the-dog-is-worried-about-coronavirus-2/

Stay safe everyone!

Here are a few activities you can complete at home during the school closure.

Year 4 home activities

Maths

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Practise telling the time and converting time between analogue and digital 12- and 24- hour clocks.

Money – any practise with money using pounds and pence, talk about giving change.

Daily reading

http://www.renlearn.co.uk/renaissance-at-home/ 

Writing

Write a book review for a friend about your reading book. Include; the name of the illustrator and author, explain the plot and the setting, would you recommend it? Who’s your favourite character?

Write a story about you/favourite characters/animals.

Write a letter and draw a picture for someone in a care home.

Spellings

Any spellings using the prefixes; in-, im-, il-, i-r-, sub-, inter-, super-, anti-, auto-.

Any spellings using the suffixes; –ation and -ous

Nessy

https://www.nessy.com/uk/

Computing

Rodocodo - https://www.rodocodo.com/

Touchtyping - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf2f9j6/articles/z3c6tfr

Coding - https://scratch.mit.edu/

Skill builder

Design a new book corner to encourage everyone to become a confident reader.

French

https://www.linguascope.com/

Play

Learn your lines and the songs.

Global learning

Research migration, British migration, Aboriginal artists.

Science

Recap what you know about sound and vibrations. Plan a soundproof room, think about the materials you would use to absorb the sound.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgffr82

PE

https://www.jumpstartjonny.co.uk/home

Mind UP!

https://mindup.org.uk/mindup-activities/

Stay safe everyone : )

We have enjoyed the project where we designed a boat for refugees and wrote a letter to the engineers about it for a competition. 

We have enjoyed using rodocodo for our programming. 

We have also enjoyed planning our newspaper report. 

We enjoyed doing aboriginal art because we got make paintings using dots. 

We have really enjoyed practising for our play! 

We've enjoyed going to Hardwick Dene this week and learning facts about WWII. Watching the Le Velo de l'elephant in Dialls. 

We have also been playing football in PE which we've enjoyed. 

This afternoon we also got to watch a football match between the our girls football team and another schools. 

We've been learning about perimeters in maths which was fun when we used cubes to help work them out.