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Hello Class 4,  Here are your activities for the day: English - If you have finished writing your story, you can edit it. Try to think about all of these things as you read back through: Grammar - Tense, paragraphs, sentence structure Spelling - spelling of key words Punctuation - apostrophes, speech, capital letters, full stops, commas, exclamation marks, question marks Then maybe have a go at adding some more or rewriting part of your story to improve it.  Maths - Have a go at these arithmetic questions . We are on Day 5. Today we are learning about roman numerals. Watch this video . Have a look at these slides if you need to. Then answer these questions . Here are the answers to mark your work.  Guided Reading - Try a reading or vocabulary activity on Reading Plus.  PE - We are going to be continuing to have a go at the floor routine we've been practising. Remember it is Step 2 - Floor Exercise (Years 3 and 4). Have a look at it and, if you have a safe space, s...

Hello Class 4,  Here are your activities for the day: English - Write the end of your Horrid Henry story. This is the resolution and the ending. How does your character think they have succeeded with their plan? Have they succeeded or not?  Maths - Start with these arithmetic questions . Look at Day 4. In today's lesson we are looking at negative numbers. Watch this video . Have a look through these slides if you would like to. Then have a go at answering these questions . Here are the answers to mark your work.  Guided Reading - Log into Reading Plus and do a reading or vocabulary activity.  RE - We are thinking about '18 things that people believe God does'. Have a look at these  kennings and decide whether they link to God the Father, God the Son or God the Holy Spirit. What title would you give the poem? Can you symbolise one or two of God's action in art?  Art - Design your Egyptian Cartouche. Last week, we had a go at doing an initial design for an...

Hello Class 4,  I hope you're all feeling okay? Here are your activities for the day: English - Write the middle of your Horrid Henry story. Remember this should be the build up and the climax. What is your character's idea or plan? How has your character implemented their plan? What do they do? What happens?  Maths - First have a go at the arithmetic questions . You need to look at Day 3. Today we are learning to count in 25s. Watch this video and have a look through these slides if you need to. Then have a go at answering these questions . Here are the answers to mark your work.  Guided Reading - Log into Reading Plus and complete a reading or vocabulary activity.  CPSHE - Different feelings. Make a list of feelings. Think about these questions -  How would you know if someone else was feeling like that?   How could you tell?   How might they show that feeling on their bodies and faces Then have a go at completing this worksheet , annotating or la...

 Good morning Class 4 Today in maths we are learning about 'rounding to the nearest 1000', watch the video and then complete the worksheet. Aut4.3.5 - Round to the nearest 1000 on Vimeo https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pGhsRrz96nOtet8J1te6-4iE66fxLMd6/view?usp=sharing Yesterday in English in school we started planning our own short story based on Horrid Henry, we thought about the setting we had planned and our new character. This was then used to help us complete the planning grid (see powerpoint). https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dBeTekoS3noo-zWmiSjDCIGXo9kJg9Uc/edit#slide=id.p1 Today we are moving on to the next step which is to write the introduction to our story. Music today is working on our body percussion, remember the fantastic storm we heard last week? Can you use some of the body percussion elements they used any any new ones you come up with to create a short piece of music. Science is looking at classification keys in our 'living things and their habitat...

Hello Class 4, Here are some home learning activities for those of you who are self-isolating: English Read through the following  PowerPoint  about famous British children's authors. We have read the first couple of slides before at school, but today I would like you to read them all.  Once you have finished, I would like you to complete this  Fact File  about one the authors. You might like to start by using the information on the slide and then carry out your own research to complete the other sections - please check with an adult first. Maths Begin by spending 10 minutes practising your times tables. You could do this on  TT Rockstars  or  Hit the Button . Now watch this  video  about 2D shapes and complete this  worksheet . Here are the  answers . Reading Spend around 15 minutes reading a book. Spelling We are not setting any new spellings this week, but if you have time you could play some games on Spelling Shed using the...

Hello to those of you who are at home isolating! Here are a few activities for you to do: - Have a look at the Claude Monet painting series 'Water Lillies' and have a go at recreating one of them using water colours (if you have them at home). - Paint a pebble/rock - Do an Artist Study of a painting by Berther Morisot - Do an Artist Study of a painting by Edgar Degas  - Create a scene with people and photograph it. Create your own impressionist response using paint of your choice.  Enjoy! Please send photographs of any work that you have completed.   

Hello Class 4, Here are some activities for those of you who are self-isolating.  This week is Arts Week in school, so a lot of these activities are art focused. Please don't worry if you are unable to complete them all or need to adapt them, just do the best you can with the materials you have available.  Art - Activity 1 .  For this session we are going to focus on colour, which was very important to impressionist artists.  Begin by looking at this  PowerPoint presentation   about colour theory.  For your task, I would like you to try to  create your own version of a colour wheel. You could use the  ideas below or this  template . If you don't have any paints available, you could try using colouring pens/pencils or crayons.   Monet believed that colours were only powerful if they were contrasted with their complimentary colour. This means that one colour would be placed next to its opposite colour on the colour wheel.  E...