Year 4 Wk13
Friday 10th July
English – Writing Project
Today is the final day. If you have not written the final section yet, get that written. After that you can have some time to change the fonts of the writing (choose fonts that can be read), you can change the layout of the text.
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You can even add back ground images:
This will let you move the image around without it changing the position of the writing or getting in the way. |
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You might now have a problem where the writing boxes are white so you can’t see the picture. If this is the case, do this:
- Right click the text box,
- Click fill,
- Click no fill.
Once your writing is finished, send it into the office to share with the rest of year 4.
Reading activity
Read the text and answer the questions about Perseus.
Maths – Line graphs
We are going to continue with revising important topics that we have covered this year. Today we will look at Line graphs. First, watch this video. Follow the instructions on the video. It will ask you to stop at different points in time to complete tasks. Make sure you pause the video so that you have time to complete the activities.
Now that you have watched the video, give this work sheet a go. If you have a printer, you can print work off. If you do not have a printer, you can try your best at completing the answers in your workbook.
Once you have finished, you can check you have the correct answer with this answer sheet here.
Today you can have a look at this game, Guardians of Mathematica. Choose a hero and battle the monsters using your maths skills to help you. The games saves your progress so you can come back to it.
Topic – News
With new restrictions being lifted tomorrow, it is important to keep up to date with the news. Watch newsround and make a list of each of the topics they talk about. Some episodes they talk about a few things. Others they talk about just one or two things. What do you think they’ll talk about today?
After you have watched the main part of newsround, you can have a look for yourself at the different stories and features below. There is often a news quiz and many other news videos.
I would then like you to draw a picture of the most interesting news story you have come across and to write a few sentences as to why you have chosen it. Maybe it made you sad, maybe it made you look forward to something or maybe it taught you something new. It doesn’t matter why you chose it.
You can complete this in your work book or you can use a purple mash tool.
Thursday 9th July
English activity
Just two more days to go with this text type.
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If you are having trouble moving the images you have added to word, you might need to play with the layout options:
If you still can’t move it around, you have probably put it into a text box. You will have to cut it and paste it onto the page (not the text box). The cut button is next to the copy button, it is the same but cut gets rid of the original picture whereas copy, copies it. |
You can move the pictures and text boxes around in a word document to get the shape and style you want.
Keep going with the writing – I look forward to seeing the completed thing.
Reading activity
Read this text and answer the questions.
Maths – Introducing line graphs
We are going to continue with revising important topics that we have covered this year. Today we will look at Introducing line graphs. First, watch this video. Follow the instructions on the video. It will ask you to stop at different points in time to complete tasks. Make sure you pause the video so that you have time to complete the activities.
Now that you have watched the video, give this work sheet a go. If you have a printer, you can print work off. If you do not have a printer, you can try your best at completing the answers in your workbook.
Once you have finished, you can check you have the correct answer with this answer sheet here.
If you would like more practice, there is a task set for you on Mymaths. You have three days to complete work set on Mymaths before it is needed to be handed in.
Topic - History
Go to this BBC site. You are going to look at the Mayans again. As you are watching the clips and doing the activities. I want you to take note of what different buildings and areas you might find in a Mayan town.
Once you have a list of the different things you might find in a Mayan town, I would like you to create a map of what a Mayan village might look like.
How much space might be given to farming?
How much for sports?
Wednesday 8th July
Art activity
Taking last week's Stik people, this week’s learning is going to make your people move, using stop frame animation.
You can explore this in two ways; either using this website
https://www.culturestreet.org.uk/activities/stopframeanimator/index.php?id=1
or using the 2Animate Programme on Purple Mash. Find it in Tools > Art & Design section.
There is a really helpful video to show you the basic tools on the top right hand corner of the screen.
Choose a background or make your own from this icon
And a really good way to make your animation run smoothly is to use the ‘onion skin’ tool which lets you see where the previous frames drawing is and copy over that and make small changes to your figures movement.
I have saved a rainbow background if any of you want to use that.
It would be great to see your figures dance, run, jump for joy or if any of you want a challenge, can you add sound to make them speak?
Don’t forget to save your work…. Enjoy!
Music activity
I have been loving your work on busy beats, you have produced some great compositions and I have been setting you some tricky tasks.
This week is a little freer, rather than following instructions, this week you are going to compose a piece of music that sounds like summer.
Can you get Ice Cream van chimes in, sounds that sound like waves or seagulls?
What do you hear?
How does the sunshine make you feel?
Think of all the skills we have learnt, recording melodies, creating interesting rhythms with doors, altering the volumes of samples.
Have fun! Mr Hornby.
Special Challenge:
Can you use the microphone? It is hidden in the My Sounds section, and you record the same way as we did in 2Sequence...but getting it to play in Busy Beats is trickier....you may need to hide it behind a door!
Tuesday 7th July
English - Writing Project
You will be continuing the writing project today. Look at yesterday’s writing if you missed it. You can continue onto your second sub heading.
It would be fantastic to add images if you are working on the computer.
If you are not sure how to add pictures, follow this link which should help you.
Go to this web page and watch the first 2 videos. You can do the activities after if you’d like.
You learn about conjunctions here. In your next section of writing I would like you to make sure that you include some conjunctions (at least 3 or 4). Follow this link to get a list of subordinating conjunctions.
Reading activity
Read the text and answer the questions about "Gladiators"
Maths – Comparison sum and difference
We are going to continue with revising important topics that we have covered this year. Today we will look at Comparison sum and difference. First, watch this video. Follow the instructions on the video. It will ask you to stop at different points in time to complete tasks. Make sure you pause the video so that you have time to complete the activities.
Now that you have watched the video, give this work sheet a go. If you have a printer, you can print work off. If you do not have a printer, you can try your best at completing the answers in your workbook.
Once you have finished, you can check you have the correct answer with this answer sheet here.
There are no tasks on Mymaths that match today’s work. Instead I have found an interactive bar chart maker.
Try making a bar chart to represent something in your house. For example, it could be the items of fruit that you have (2 apples, 3 bananas, 4 pears etc.) or maybe the colouring pencils you have.
Topic - Science
We will continue today with floating and sinking. Some things float and some things sink.
On a piece of paper draw a table like this.
Try putting an egg into a glass of water. Does it float or sink? Make a note of whether it sinks or floats with no salt in the water.
Now take the egg out.
Then put a tea spoon of salt into the water and stir it until it dissolves.
Put the egg in. Does it float?
Fill out the chart.
Repeat the above steps until it does float.
Why do you think the egg does eventually float?
What change have you been making to the water? Think back to the science from yesterday.
I would like you to find out why this is the case.
Try searching in google ‘why do eggs float in salt water’ or ‘do eggs float in salt water’ or if you are being efficient on google you can take out some of the small words and search just ‘egg salt water’ (you get very similar results).
There are some youtube videos there and different web pages that might be able to help you get an answer.
Monday 6th July
English – Writing Project
We are going to do another 4-day writing project. This writing topic is going to be a non-fiction piece. I would like you to imagine that a non–fiction book has a double-page spread with the heading Year 4 at Coldean Primary School.
First of all, remind yourself of what non-fiction is with this website.
The main point here is that it is factual, things can’t be made up.
You can include opinion in a non-fiction however you need to make it clear that it is an opinion.
E.g. Brighton and Hove Albion are the best football team. (This is an opinion and may not be true, you couldn’t really write this in a non-fiction).
Many people believe that Brighton and Hove Albion are the best football team. (This sentence is ok because it is a fact that many people believe this, whether or not it is true is another question).
Your writing has the heading Year 4 at Coldean Primary School. I would like you to choose 4 sub headings to write about.
Each sub heading will become a section of writing in your non-fiction text.
These sub headings could be: Trips in Year 4, Anglo Saxons, Wild and Wondrous, Fantastic Pharoahs, Home learning, Christmas Play, After School Clubs, Sports matches or anything else you could explain from this year at school.
I would like you to write one section each day this week. You can add photos or pictures to your writing so that at the end you will have a full non-fiction text about school.
Once you choose a sub heading, you need to write some information about it.
Here is an example of a section about school trips:
Year 4 School Trips
In year 4, we had the opportunity to go on a few school trips. We went to the seven sisters, Lewes castle and Brighton University for world book day. Each of these trips were interesting in their own way. I particularly enjoyed the trip to Lewes castle. I enjoyed this trip because…
Did you notice my opinion in there?
You can choose where you write your non-fiction text – you could write it in word (you can download this template if you have Word if you want, I will also be giving tips on how to use word throughout the week), your jotter, another piece of paper or on Purple Mash.
Reading activity
We have finished Malamander. Instead of Malamander this week I have some reading comprehensions for you. Each day there is a different text and a set of questions to go with it. You can print them off or you can read them on the screen and just write your answers down. Read the text and answer the questions.
Click here for the reading text and questions about "Enormous Eruptions".
Maths – Interpreting charts
We are going to continue with revising important topics that we have covered this year. Today we will look at Interpreting charts. First, watch this video. Follow the instructions on the video. It will ask you to stop at different points in time to complete tasks. Make sure you pause the video so that you have time to complete the activities.
Now that you have watched the video, give this work sheet a go. If you have a printer, you can print work off. If you do not have a printer, you can try your best at completing the answers in your workbook.
Once you have finished, you can check you have the correct answer with this answer sheet here.
If you would like more practice, there is a task set for you on Mymaths. You have three days to complete work set on Mymaths before it is needed to be handed in.
Topic – Science
Today I would like you to do a little experiment. All you need is:
- a bucket/ tub/sink,
- water
- an assortment of items (it doesn’t matter what so long as they can get wet).
You will be investigating which items float and which sink.
Take a piece of paper and write down all the items you have down one side. Next to that write if you think it will float or not.
Then test the objects. Do they float or do they sink? Are you surprised by the results?
People often say that heavy items sink while light items float. Is this true or false? Do your results support this idea or do they not?
It is true for things like a rock and a cork (a rock is heavy and it sinks, cork is light and it floats).
What about a boat made of metal? That is definitely heavy but it still floats.
Have a chat with the people at home to see if you can find any other objects that are heavy but float. Why do they do that?
Try a cereal bowl can you make that float? What about a glass bottle (try sealing the lid with Blu Tack).
This is because these items take up a lot of space (the proper word for this is volume) some of the object is heavy but the rest of it is air. When the air and the heavy parts are combined and averaged out, they weigh less than water would if it took up the same amount of space.
This is a hard idea to get your head around.
Click here to watch this person explain the same idea.
Mass = how much stuff there is inside an object (the weight of it)
Volume = the amount of space an object takes up