Year 4 Virtual School

1 June 2020

Daily Message

Welcome back everyone! We have missed you all over half term. We’d love to hear what you and your family got up to. We have an exciting week ahead with brand new History and Geography topics and a new class book! Enjoy.


This week’s suggested timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 11: Measuring Perimeter in Different Units. You will need a ruler, so grab one now!

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

English

It’s guided reading today, so you will need your booklets and a pen and you are ready to go.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for the text if you don’t have yours.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.

Year 4 Virtual School

2 June 2020

Daily Message

Another great day of learning! As well as your usual daily English and Maths, you can look forward to the fabulous first lesson of a brand new topic in History, and a magnificent Music lesson too! Happy learning!


This week’s suggested Year 4 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 12: Solving Problems Involving Scale Reading.

Click here for the answers to the previous lesson.

Then 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

English

We are looking at homophones in Spelling today. Complete the activities in your English book. For handwriting, you will be writing sentences using these homophones. Copy the example sentences if you are a little stuck.

Click here to watch the video.

After you’ve finished your work, have a listen to the first chapter of our new book: My Friend Walter

Chapter one is here.

Year 4 Virtual School

3 June 2020

Daily Message

Good morning everyone. You have a lovely day of learning ahead. As well as English and Maths, you have art and SRE lessons to get involved in. As always, send us photos of what you are up to. Perhaps today you could send a photo of yourself reading your book. I like to read on my balcony, where do you like to read?

As mentioned in the daily message, here is the link to Lana’s video.


This week’s suggested Year 4 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Something a bit different for you today! We have finished our chapter on Mass, Volume and Length, and it’s time to do the review. But, just like last time… I would like you to do it online!

Click here for a video to remind you how to find, complete and send in your online worksheet – it’s really easy!

Click here for the online worksheet.

Click here for yesterday’s answers.

We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.

English

English

If you didn’t get the chance yesterday, have a listen to Chapter 1 of our new book My Friend Walter here

Then, watch the lesson video for today’s activity. You will be writing a postcard to Bess’s dog Humph. Click here to watch the video.

When you’ve finished your postcard, have a listen to chapter 2 of the story here

Year 4 Virtual School

4 June 2020

Daily Message

It’s Thursday already! So much great learning for you today – your second lesson on a brand new writing topic in English. As if that wasn’t enough, the start of a brand new chapter in Maths too! Plus some fantastic French and relaxing Yoga! Have fun!


This week’s suggested Year 4 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 1: Measuring the Surface an Object Covers.

Click here for today’s lesson video.

No answer sheet today as you did an online worksheet yesterday.

We use Maths No Problem textbooks and workbooks, if you aren’t a Charles Dickens pupil you can get them here.

English

English

Want to know a little more about Bess’s new friend Sir Walter Raleigh? He had a very busy life and today’s video will tell you a little more about him. You are going to record as much information about him as possible and make a poster or leaflet all about his life. Here is the lesson video.

Here are some more websites for some extra research:
1. BBC
2. Kids Kiddle
3. Project Brain

Here are some extra videos about him:
1. Video 1
2. Video 2
3. Video 3

Year 4 Virtual School

5 June 2020

Daily Message

What a brilliant week we’ve had. Well done for your hard work and continued enthusiasm. After English and Maths today, you have some fantastic RE and Wellbeing. Have a lovely weekend – let’s hope the sun shines.


This week’s suggested Year 4 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Today’s Maths lesson is Lesson 2: Measuring Area.

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

English

Ravens, camera, ACTION! Today you will be recording a video of a tour of the Bloody Tower. You are a Beefeater and you need to tell the tourists all about Sir Walter Raleigh. I will share some of your videos next week. Have fun!

Here is today’s lesson video.

And here are some other websites you might enjoy for some extra reading/watching:

Newsround
YouTube
BBC Travel

Contact

Contact

Please send any work to celebrate to year4.charlesdickens@gmail.com

Today's English

English

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Today's Maths

Maths

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Humanities

Humanities

This week we are starting out new History topic: the Tudors! Who were they? What can we learn about them from their paintings? And just who had the power in Tudor England? Click here for the lesson video.

The Wars of the Roses video is here.

For the lesson booklet click here.

Time Capsule Project!

This week, you will be using your mapping skills to draw or build your new classrooms. During this unique time in our history, most of us have have been working from the safety of our own homes. Find out more about your mapping activity in this week’s video here

Art & Music

Creative

Art

Using the Oil Pastels from our art packs we’ll be creating a Henri Rousseau inspired lioness mask.

Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!

Music

In this lesson you’ll be analysing a piece of machine made music, sight reading with a twist and singing. Enjoy!

Click here to watch the video.

Science

Science

Welcome to the first lesson of a brand new topic! This half-term, we will be learning about biodiversity. We have a huge variety of life on our planet, and it is all connected. This week, you will learn about where local wildlife lives and how it is connected. Click here for the lesson video.

Click here for the booklet.

Active

Active

Click here for this week’s Dance lesson with Delene

Click here for this week’s Yoga lesson with Ms. Fraser.

Animal yoga pose ideas here.

Click here for the worksheet.

French

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 we are working on our listening skills! We are going to watch a video of friends who go to the shop together to buy the ingredients for pizza! We will be working on listening carefully and showing we understand more complex familiar sentences. Click here for this week’s lesson.

When you have finished our lesson, click here to do this fun listening challenge online!

Au revoir!

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

This week, you will be learning about what to do when you’re feeling stressed. You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion.

Click here to watch the video.

SRE

SRE

In today’s SRE lesson you will learn about puberty and how it links to reproduction.

In this video pupils will learning how the reproductive parts of the body develop.

Click here to watch the video.

RE

RE

This week in RE it’s our last lesson looking at the Muslim community in the UK.

It has been a strange time for all of us and we are going to write a letter to a Muslim friend talking about Eid this year and what they can look forward to next year.

Click here to watch the video.

There’s no booklet page today but you will need some lined paper.

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