St Bartholomew's CE Primary

Considerate, Co-operative, Confident

Year 4 work at home - SPRING TERM

Week beginning 30th March 2020

Maths activities: Please complete the maths challenges below and send your answers to our class email.
8 x table song and challenge on Education city, TT rockstars practice, Daily ten multiplication and division with a focus on the 8 x table and complete the addition and subtraction city on Education city.

 

English activities: The new spelling list is now live on spelling shed, please complete one comprehension from your pack and one writing activity on Education city.

Please complete a Spag quiz of your choosing on the site. https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/ 

Don’t forget to keep up with practicing your cursive handwriting! 
 

PE activities: 'PE with Joe' on youtube is live every morning from 9 - 10 and is a great way to keep your children active. Go noodle is also a fun way to get those 60 active minutes into your child's day!

 

 

Maths

Alongside the maths in the children's home packs, there are a number of online activities that have been set for the children.

These include:

Education city https://www.educationcity.com/

Purple mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stbarts-ol12

Times table rockstars https://ttrockstars.com/

Maths shed https://www.mathshed.com/en-gb

Daily 10 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

 

All of the children's log ins for these resources are in their home packs.

Music

The children can access online music lessons using charanga https://charanga.com/site/log-in/ 

 

All of the children's log ins for these resources are in their home packs.

 

Geography

Key questions

  • What is a river?
  • How is a river different from other bodies of water? e.g. streams, canals, reservoirs, lakes etc.
  • Where does the water come from? Where does it go? (water cycle).
  • Where are the key rivers in the world, in the UK, and locally?
  • What are they like? How long? How wide? How much water?
  • How did that river get like that? Why and how is it changing? Is the river still changing?
  • How do rivers affect people’s lives and influence human activity?
  • How do people affect rivers?

Use the following resources and your own research to find out the answers and send them to our class email! year4@st-bartholomews.lancs.sch.uk 

 

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/how-weather-works/water-cycle

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/z7w8pg8

If you have access to a printer, you can use the following games and worksheets:

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/dropofwater.pdf

http://www.collaborativelearning.org/dropofwater.pdf

English

Alongside the English in the children's home packs, there are a number of online activities that have been set for the children.

These include:

Education city https://www.educationcity.com/

Purple mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/stbarts-ol12

Spelling shed https://www.spellingshed.com/en-gb

 

All of the children's log ins for these resources are in their home packs.

 

Science

Our topic for next half term was going to be 'Water water', focusing on states of matter and how materials change.

These are good online resources, vidoes and activities for the children to access to still learn about this. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h

https://www.abpischools.org.uk/topic/solids-liquids-gases/

 

Activities to complete at home:

Can you create a solid, liquid and a gas yourself? Send your pictures to our class email!  year4@st-bartholomews.lancs.sch.uk 

 

This activity will allow the children to apply their learning of evaporation and allow for further discussion of this abstract concept.

  • Ask your child to wet one of their hands in a bowl of water, remove and then gently shake. They should then place their wet hand on a paper towel, drawing around the hand print every minute. Ask them to watch what happens and discuss where all the water has gone. To add to the challenge, you could do this once using warm water and once using cold water. What differences do they notice about how quickly the water ‘evaporates’?

 

  • Provide 20ml of water. Challenge them to design a way to make the water evaporate quickly. Who can make their water evaporate the quickest? What do they think will make it evaporate quicker? Questions can be used to get your child thinking e.g. what would be the best container to put the water in? What would be the best place to put the water? What else might help? Have some suggestions ready on a card, to support, such as:

Would the better container be a small container or a large, shallow container?

Would it be better to put it inside or outside?

Would it better to be in a cooler or a warmer place?

Think about washing drying on a line – what makes a good drying day? How can you create your own wind? Where would washing dry the quickest in the school/school grounds? Children could go on to test small pieces of material hung on a makeshift washing line – how long do they take to dry?

 

Send your pictures or what you found out to our class email!  year4@st-bartholomews.lancs.sch.uk