Year 4 Virtual School
18 May 2020
Maths
Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 6: Converting Units of Volume.
Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.
Click here for today’s lesson video.
English
For Guided Reading today we are looking at an Interview with an Evacuee. A little slice of history we can learn something about.
Follow the lesson video here.
Year 4 Virtual School
19 May 2020
Maths
Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 7: Measuring Height.
Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.
Click here for today’s lesson video.
For tomorrow’s lesson, you will need a ruler so try and find one before then if you can!
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
We will be looking at noun plurals in spelling today and using those key words to practice our handwriting. Be careful with the ‘ff’ join – it’s tricky!
The spelling lesson video is here
Click here for the spelling worksheet if you don’t have yours.
The handwriting video is here
Click here for the handwriting worksheet.
Year 4 Virtual School
20 May 2020
Maths
Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 8: Measuring Length. Grab a ruler if you haven’t already!
Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.
Click here for today’s lesson video.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
The time has come to give Grandma her medicine. What will happen to her? How will she react?
You are going to write a comic telling us what happens to Grandma. You can draw pictures, add speech and write captions.
Follow the lesson video here.
Year 4 Virtual School
21 May 2020
Maths
Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 9: Converting Units of Length.
Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.
Click here for today’s lesson video.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
Your comic strips were fantastic! Do you want to see if you had the same ideas as Roald Dahl? Watch the lesson video to hear the next chapter. You will also be writing a superb description of what happens to George’s horse when he give it a spoonful of his Marvellous Medicine.
Click here to watch the video.
Year 4 Virtual School
22 May 2020
Maths
Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 10: Converting Units of Length.
Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.
Click here for today’s lesson video.
So you don’t have to wait a week for them, here are the answers to today’s lesson.
We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.
English
We have almost reached the end of George’s Marvellous Medicine. After you’ve listened to the final chapters, you are going to design your own marvellous medicine, using only the things you have in your house. Have fun!
Contact
Please send any work to celebrate to year4.charlesdickens@gmail.com
Humanities
History
You will be learning about the Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the afterlife and how to mummify a body. Click here to watch the video.
Virtual Tour of a mummification temple here.
Click here for the booklet pages if you don’t have yours.
Time Capsule
This week, you’ll be creating an Activity Wheel for your time capsule. We are spending a lot of time at home but that doesn’t mean that we can’t keep active and creative! Find out about your Activity Wheel task here
You can find a copy of the template here.
Art & Music
Art
Using Water Colour Paints from our art packs we’ll be recreating René Magritte’s Cat in a Hat. Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!
Music
In this lesson, you have a new set of challenges with three tasks. Listening and analysing a piece of Music, singing a song by a gorilla and a composition task tying in improvisation & music technology.
Click here to watch the video.
Science
How can we change the pitch of a sound? Click here for the lesson video:
And click here for the lesson booklet.
Well done to everyone who has sent in their fantastic work. Emma has gone the extra mile and made three great videos of her Science experiments. Video 1 is here, Video 2 is here and video 3 is here
Active
Click here for your yoga video this week with Ms. Fraser.
Click here for this week’s Dance lesson.
French
Bonjour Year four!
First, please click here to watch my French super stars video. I share the beautiful work that children have sent me, it’s very exciting!
This week’s activity is learning how to give our opinions about food, using opinions verbs and interesting adjectives. We will also learn about some new authentic French food we haven’t talked about yet. Click here for the video class.
When you have finished our lesson, click here to play a fun online game of matching up teachers with their order. Click here to watch the video.
And click here to listen to this song which contains some of our adjectives, can you listen out and tell me which ones you can hear?
Au revoir!
Wellbeing
This week, you will be learning about what to do when you’re feeling worried. You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion.
Click here to watch the video.