Year 4 Children’s Mental Health Week 5.2.21
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we have been taking part in Mindfulness activities such as creating mandalas. We have also been listening to Mindfulness music and taking part in yoga sessions in order to learn the skills of how to be calm and relaxed in order to help with mental wellbeing.
This week the children have been learning about teeth as part of our work on Bile, Bottoms and Burps.
They have been looking at the structure of a tooth as well as learning about the different types and their functions.
They made collages, posters and fact files of their new learning. Now they are ready to carry out scientific investigations about the teeth relating to PSHE- learning how to keep teeth healthy.
Watch this space for the science investigations carried out next week!
For the Hook day, we had an exciting time learning about the digestive system- including the names of each part such as the oesophagus, stomach, small and large intestines as well as the rectum and anus. We learnt how the food enters and moves through our body.
We carried out an investigation to show the journey and we made “poo” !!!
We also made models of the digestive system and posters to reinforce our new learning.
Then we used our IT skills to explore Curioscope – an app which maps 3D views of the internal organs of the body.
By the end of the week, we journaled the Hook and wrote reflections on our new learning including the Learning Values that supported us to achieve!
Please note: This home learning is due in on Monday 14th December
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 28thFebruary
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25th March) |
Any work that is on a computer, please email (admin@hazeldown.devon.sch.uk) the office and they will pass on the work to your teacher.
| Reading |
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
| Spelling |
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
| Home Learning Menu |
Over the next 4 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 Points
TV advert
Create your own TV advert that promotes healthy eating?
Things to include:
· Props
· Slogan
· Facts and statistics
This advert needs to be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. We will share any examples in class.
Digestive System
Build you own version of a labelled digestive system.
This could be a 3D model or drawn on plain white T-shirt that you could wear to explain what each part does.
This could be a 3D model or drawn on plain white T-shirt that you could wear to explain what each part does.
10 Points
The journey of food
Write a story about the journey of a piece of food as it makes it way through the digestive system.
Humans Vs Cows
Explain the difference in digestive systems between humans and cows.
Think about how you might want to present your findings. You could draw and label diagrams, create a powerpoint presentation or write a few paragraphs about what you found.
Healthy Diet
Create a day’s worth of meals and snacks to help promote a healthy diet. (You just have to think about what you would have, not actually make it)
Under each meal or snack explain why you have chosen it and how it will help the body in everyday life.
5 Points
TT Rockstars or Numbots
1 hour (Split into at least three chunks) of TT or Numbots
Spellings
Choose 5 words from the 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings.
Brushing your teeth
Create a poster about brushing your teeth effectively. Make sure it is informative and colourful.
Book Review
As we are in World Book Day Month at school, write a review about your favourite book.
You may present this is in written form or perform it in front of a camera to share with your class.
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 31st January |
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 12thFebruary)
| Reading |
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
| Spelling |
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
| Home Learning Menu |
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 Points
| Letter Writing |
Write a letter to your parents as if you were a Roman Soldier away with the Army. What were you doing at that time? What were you eating? Where were you?
| Roman Towns |
Using Google Earth, find as many Roman towns as you can in Britain. Can you then find the distances between them?
Write a reflection about what you found, as the Romans would have had to walk in between each town around the country.
10 Points
| Gladiator School |
Design a timetable for a gladiator school. What activities would you get the gladiators to do? How would they train?
| Roman Numerals |
Create an exciting poster about Roman Numerals and how different numbers are made. Make sure you include the numbers 1 -10, 50, 100, 500, 1000.
| Battle Formations |
Look at the battle formations the Roman Army used. Draw and label them with how well they worked and when they were used.
The formations we want you to investigate are a line, a phalanx, a tortoise and a wedge.
5 Points
| TT Rockstars or Numbots |
1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars or Numbots.
| Spellings |
Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).
| Brave or Foolish |
Write a paragraph on whether you think the gladiators in Roman times were brave or foolish.
| Multiplication
Have a go at answer the following questions: 13 x 4 = 74 x 4 = 16 x 5 = 62 x 8 = 43 x 6 = 42 x 8 = |
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 10thJanuary |
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 29thJanuary)
Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
Spelling
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 Points (Approx 3hr per activity)
| Armour |
Milites, ut parati! Roman soldiers wore a uniform and armour to protect them in battle. Make a ‘cassis’ or ‘galea’ to protect you from deadly blows to the head! Draw out your design, making sure it’s in keeping with the traditional designs!
This could be worn to the celebration event on 13thFebruary
| Poor or Rich? |
Follow a recipe for the staple food of a poor Roman family. Make simple porridge or bread, following original recipes. Compare this fare with the foods of the rich – who would they rather be?
Take photos and write up how you felt after each meal.
10 Points (Approx 2 hrs per activity)
| Gladiator Diary Entry |
Write a diary entry of a full day of a Roman gladiator. Can you find out what that ate? What training they did? And understand how they might have felt going into battle?
| Draw a Gladiator |
Can you draw a Roman Gladiator and label the clothing and weapons they would carry as they went into the Colosseum?
Famous Gladiators
Find out about famous gladiators including Spartacus, Commodus, Crixus, Carpophorus, Marcus Attilius, Priscus and Flamma, Spiculus, Verus and Tetraites. Create a poster about their chosen character, advertising their powerful qualities to other gladiators.
5 points (Approx 1 hr per activity)
| TT Rockstars or Numbots |
1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars or Numbots.
| Spellings |
Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).
| Roman Emperors
Create a time line of 10 Roman Emperors (there were roughly 70 in total).
Write a description about Boudicca. Who was she and why was she so important? |
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 22ndNovember |
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11thDecember)
| Reading |
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
| Spelling |
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
| Home Learning Menu |
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 Points
| Solid, Liquids and Gases
Make a presentation about solids, liquids and gases. Can you include answers to the following questions? · Where can you find them at home? · What do they look like? What are they made from? |
| Quiz Making
Make a 10 question quiz with multiple choice answers all about Solids, liquids and gases. This quiz could be produced on a computer or hand written. |
10 Points
| Christmas Songs |
To be ready for the fantastic Carol Concert, practice the songs that can be found on the school website. In the music section on Help your children learn.
| Potion Christmas Shopping
At Christmas, the wizards and witches need to look in the Spellgos Catalogue to buy their friends some presents. Can you create a page from this catalogue? Think about what wizards and witches might buy …… it could be a broomstick 9000, or a complete set of potion bottles. |
| Labels |
Collect 5 labels from empty bottles around your house. Can you write down the imperative verbs, powerful words and draw the symbols that can be found on them.
5 Points
| TT Rockstars |
1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars.
| Spellings |
Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).
| Potion Bottle
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Design and draw your own potion bottle. Think about what makes your bottle so brilliant and what your potion is called.
| Numbots
As part if TT Rockstars, Numbots brings in all other areas of maths. The children have experienced it for the first time this week and have seen how it works. Starting at the bottom, the children have to work through challenges to earn coins. |
Please note the levels get harder the more they complete. Every child starts at level 1.
Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 1st November
All to be handed in on Wednesday 20th November
Reading – Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
Spelling – Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
Home Learning Menu – Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 points –
- Make your own lava lamp – http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/easylavalamp.html
Write a short paragraph about how you made it and what you saw. - Write a story that includes a potion. This story can be about anything you want, but it must be at least 1 side of A4.
You could make your story into a book with pictures!
10 Points
- Solids, Liquids and Gases – Can you find three examples of each around your house? Present as a poster ready for your SOLE book.
- Make an advert – Create an advert to sell George’s Marvellous Medicine. This could be an advert for the newspaper, TV or radio. Remember to include some of the ingredients and what it does. Any radio or TV adverts can be forwarded to the office, so we can share in class.
- Design your own potion – Write a blurb to describe your potion and what it is for, list the ingredients and produce a method on how to make it. Remember to come up with an exciting name for your creation.
5 Points
- 1 hour TT Rockstars (split into at least three chunks)
- Spellings – Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice them
- Spell Writing – Create a spell of your choice, why not make it rhyme!
- Multiplication grid – https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/arithmetic/latest/arithmetic_en.html
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 4thOctober
(10 and 5 point home learning to be handed in Wednesday 16thOctober) |
Food for the party to be brought in on Friday 18thOctober
| Reading |
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
| Spelling |
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
| Home Learning Menu |
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
15 points
| For Friday 18th October
The children have been learning about the USA, from iconic people to the different states. On Friday 18th the children will be bringing the topic to a close with an American Party. For the party, we would like the children to produce a dish they can bring to share with their class. They will need to:
*Research an American dish *Create a shopping list (they could practice their adding skills) *Get the ingredients from the shop *Prepare and make the food
For their SOLE books, we ask the children to create a collage of the different stages – they could draw the stages or take photos.
Examples of the foods the children could create are: *Chicken Pot Pie *Minnesota hot dish *Nebraska handheld meat pies *Natchitoches meat pie from Louisiana *Hot dogs *Key lime Pie
There are more ideas at: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/american
REMEMBER – We are a nut free school, so please check the ingredients before making |
10 Points
1.Write a short biography about 1 of the Presidents of the United States.
2.Write a speech for a tribal chief to say to his tribe. It could be about a fight against another tribe or an event within their own tribe.
3.We have now been around the United States, can you plan a trip visiting 5 countries in South America?
5 points
1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars.
Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble writing.)
Make a playlist of different American songs from a range of genres such as blues, jazz, country, rock, hip hop and rock and roll. These may be played at the American party!
| Produce a flag, hat or place mat with an American theme for the party on Friday 18thOctober. |
| Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 13thSeptember |
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2ndOctober)
| Reading |
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.
| Spelling |
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!
| Home Learning Menu |
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
| 15 points | |
| Design and make a Totem Pole that is associated with a Native American Tribe (Maximum height 30cm) | |
| Produce a holiday brochure on why you should visit the USA. Can you include:
*Top 5 attractions *Some facts relating to the history of America |
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| 10 points | |
| Create a fact file about one of the following cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami. | |
| Design your own ‘Road Trip USA’ titles for your SOLE book and icons to use in your book. | |
| Draw the journey of Christopher Columbus to America. |
| 5 points |
| 1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars. |
| Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write). |
| Write 5 facts about the Iroquois Tribe that could be found in the State of New York. |
| Have a go at the Basketball Place Value game.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball |
| Year 3 and 4 Home Learning – Friday 17th May (All learning to be handed in Wednesday 21st May.) |
| Reading Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
| Spelling Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. |
| Maths and Literacy In maths we have been learning how to measure a range of things – time, length, capacity and mass (weight).This week can you apply this new learning by following a recipe which involves measuring something. If you can, take a picture of what you have made (you can email it to us if you wish, admin@hazeldown.devon.sch.uk and mark for the attention of the class teacher) and write a reflection explaining what you needed to measure, how you did it and any problems you encountered. |
Year 4 spellings
W/b: 4.02.2019
Tested: 11.02.2019
Focus: Word ending -ly
- happily
- sadly
- beautifully
- hopefully
- angrily
- slowly
- calmly
- women
- increase
- naughty
Year 4 spellings
W/b: 21.01.2019
Tested: 28.01.2019
Focus: -ous endings
- enormous
- obvious
- dangerous
- ferocious
- various
- disastrous
- ridiculous
- breath
- ordinary
popular
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you!
Please click on the following link to view: Home learning 11.1.19
Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise to those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Monday 14thJanuary. Please concentrate mainly on the year 3/4 words.
| Group Specific Words
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Year 3/4 Words | ||
| value | scissors | paw | busy |
| queue | loose | water | serious |
| statue | universe | board | whether |
| usual | heard | explore | remember |
| future | great | weight | regular |
| cube | meal | wait | disappear |
| nephew | steal | not | difficult |
| often | learn | knot | possible |
| watch | steak | meat | heard |
| wallet | break | meet | describe |
| squad | played | you’re | often |
| squash | disappointed | permission | therefore |
| swap | limited | mission | country |
| wasp | preferred | confession | usually |
| treasure | pretended | concussion | disagree |
| measure | undecided | solution | breath |
| vision | detailed | conclusion | breathe |
| decision | famous | discussion | submarine |
| confusion | courageous | suddenly | imagine |
| discussion | vicious | happily | curious |
| television | anonymous | usually | peculiar |
| central | dangerous | occasionally | weight |
| spice | hazardous | memory | actually |
| lesson | bought | angry | history |
| whistle | author | picture | |
| science | important | ordinary | |
| perhaps | |||
| actually | |||
| Year 3 and 4 Home Learning- Friday 21st December 2018 |
| Reading and Spelling
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes over the holidays as reading is a key priority this year. Remember, you can practise spellings using Spellodrome and times tables by using TTRockstars and/or Hit The Button on line. |
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Please note, there will be no homework set during the Christmas holidays, as outlined in the school’s Home Learning Policy. The only expectation is to revise the spellings covered during the Autumn term, ready to be tested on the second Monday of the new term. See attached review list. We thought you would like to know that next term, we will be starting an exciting new learning journey called “Exploring China.” Have a happy, healthy and safe Christmas from all the staff in Team 2 |
| Year 3 and 4 Home Learning- Friday 21st December 2018 |
| Reading and Spelling
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes over the holidays as reading is a key priority this year. Remember, you can practise spellings using Spellodrome and times tables by using TTRockstars and/or Hit The Button on line. |
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Please note, there will be no homework set during the Christmas holidays, as outlined in the school’s Home Learning Policy. The only expectation is to revise the spellings covered during the Autumn term, ready to be tested on the second Monday of the new term. See attached review list. We thought you would like to know that next term, we will be starting an exciting new learning journey called “Exploring China.” Have a happy, healthy and safe Christmas from all the staff in Team 2 |
w/b 10/12/2018
Tested: 17/12/2018
Focus: -ee endings
- suddenly
- happily
- usually
- suddenly
- occasionally
- memory
- angry
- imagine
- finally
- peculiar
“It happened one night.”
Scene 4 YEAR 4 “Animal Farm.”
Now we’ve heard of the people who came to the town –
Of Mary and Joseph, whose details went down
On the Emperor’s list, so his tax they could pay,
And the shepherds who heard all the angels did say;
We’ve heard of those wise men who saw a bright star
And arrived there much later, they’d come from so far.
But they weren’t the only ones who knew of that night –
At least, if our carols and cards got it right.
It seems that an ox and a donkey came too,
Though the Bible quite simply doesn’t mention those two.
But I think they were there, around Jesus’s bed,
For the manger was where they would go to get fed.
So even the animals gave to the Lord
Something to honour him, what they could afford.
For while he was lying in their feeding box,
They had to go hungry, the donkey and the ox.
What will we give him, who accepted the loss
Of his life freely given when he died on the cross?
Will we let him be King of lives, every day?
‘Cause that’s why he came here to lie in the hay!
w/b 3/12/2018
Tested: 10/12/2018
Focus: -ed endings
- played
- disappointed
- limited
- preferred
- pretended
- undecided
- detailed
- breath
- breathe
- submarine
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 12thDecember.)
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spelling and Maths
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday. Continue with Timestables Rock Stars |
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| SOLE Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/activities that equate to 15 points. That might mean just completing the 15 point activity, one 10 and a 5 point activity or 3 5 point activities. It is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:
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Year 4 spellings – Miss Souter’s group
w/b 19/11/2018
Tested: 26/11/2018
Focus: -ssion endings
- permission
- mission
- confession
- concussion
- solution
- conclusion
- discussion
- ordinary
- perhaps
- actually
Handed out on Monday 19thNovember; Tested on Monday 26thNovember
- mission
- passion
- session
- admission
- obsession
- expression
- confession
- ordinary
- perhaps
- actually
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.
| Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 16thNovember |
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.
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| SOLE
This week we say ‘goodbye’ to Bears and ‘hello’ to The Vikings! This weekend we would like you to find out 3 interesting facts about these interesting invaders! You could use the internet to research (remember to use ‘facts about Vikings for kids’ in your search for the best results). Think about presentation – this could go into your SOLE book. |
| Maths
This week in maths we have been using the grid method to multiply two numbers together. Try these using the same method: 1) 73 x 6 = 2) 59 x 9 = 3) 38 x 7 = You can also continue with Times Table Rock Stars. |
| Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 16thNovember |
| Reading
Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. |
| Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.
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| SOLE
This week we say ‘goodbye’ to Bears and ‘hello’ to The Vikings! This weekend we would like you to find out 3 interesting facts about these interesting invaders! You could use the internet to research (remember to use ‘facts about Vikings for kids’ in your search for the best results). Think about presentation – this could go into your SOLE book. |
| Maths
This week in maths we have been using the grid method to multiply two numbers together. Try these using the same method: 1) 73 x 6 = 2) 59 x 9 = 3) 38 x 7 = You can also continue with Times Table Rock Stars. |
Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 7
Handed out on Monday 5thNovember 2018
- race
- face
- mice
- slice
- fancy
- city
- cell
- pencil
- because
- child
Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.