Ferndale Primary School and Nursery

Madagascar and Kalahari Class Home Learning

Home Learning

Hi year 4, so it's the last week of term and if you were in class you would be up to lots of fun activities. Now, you're at home, so things are a little different, but we're going to make sure your home learning matches the fun you would be having at school.

Remember to log in to Zoom with the code that has been emailed to your parents at 9a.m. and then again at 1p.m. At 9a.m. we will explain the tasks and at 1p.m. we will check how you're going. Don't worry if you don't like being on Zoom, you don't have to have your camera on.

OK, in no particular order here are your tasks:

Tuesday

Design your ultimate 3-course meal! If you could have absolutely anything to eat what would you have for your starter, main course and finally your pudding? What drinks would you have to go along with your meals? And... you can eat this meal anywhere in the world so, where would you put your table and chair to be able to sit down and enjoy your choices?

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In your home and if you have one, a garden, find an object for each letter of the alphabet. For example, you could have a 'cup' for 'c'. Can anyone find an object for 'z'? Bring your object alphabet to the afternoon's Zoom, so we can compare what everyone finds for the different letters.

Alphabet Colors Song - YouTube

Following on from yesterday's dance click here for a Zumba two minute dance you can all have a go at, see if you can do it with that funky attitude again! If you want to carry on dancing here's another dance you can join in with and sing along with too — if you want!

Dancing cartoon children Royalty Free Vector Image

Yesterday you wrote some things down you would like your new teacher/s and teaching assistants to know about you. Today have a go at writing down what you hope to achieve by the end of Year 5. What are you going to aim towards? You could then put it somewhere safe so that at the end of Year 5 you could get it out and see if you have achieved your aim/s!

Okay, yesterday you made a paper helicopter (there was a sneaky aeroplane), today you can officially make a paper aeroplane. Click here to watch a YouTube clip on how to make one. How far will yours fly? Will it fly in a straight line? Don't forget to use any pens of pencils you might have to draw a design onto your plane.

Make your own word search. Pick a letter of the alphabet, think of ten words beginning with that letter and then create a word search with those ten words hidden in it. Don't forget to check you have spelt the words correctly each time.

Here is a sneaky peak at the words you have to work towards being able to spell in Year 5 and 6, to help give you a head start pick 3 of the words on the sheet and see if you can learn how to spell them by the end of the day! You can pick more than 3 if you want. Click here for the list (you could print this list off and put it in your bedroom to help your through year 5). You could practise them by writing the words your learning in lots of funky ways. Why not write your word big enough so that you can cut each letter out, muddle your letters up and then try and put your word back together again. Watch this short video clip for more ideas to help you learn the spellings.

Monday

With somebody in your family being the hippo you need to complete the dog's dance moves — watch the video clip here. Can you persuade your family member to do the dog moves whilst you're the hippo? Hope it creates lots of laughs! If the adult you are with is busy doing their work can you do both parts?

Just incase it rains in the summer holidays (fingers crossed it doesn't) design a board game that you can play with your family. Can you make any pieces you need for your game out of paper? Don't forget to write up the rules and 'How to Play' instructions.

Exercise is good for all of us, for lots and lots of reasons, so this task is to design an exercise routine that uses lots of funky and funny moves — exercise that makes you laugh as well! Think about when you did circuits with Mr Little and use that to help you. For example, you could create 10 different moves, each move has to be done for 30 seconds with 30 seconds recovery before moving onto the next move. The funkier your moves the better! Once you've finished designing your routine why not see if you can complete it — make sure you drink plenty of water whilst you're doing so.

Have a look through your recycling are there any boxes and/or cardboard in there that you can use to create your own junk model? The Olympics are just about to start and are being held in Japan. How about creating, with your junk, a mascot for the Olympics? If you have access to the Internet you could look up previous mascots to help give you some ideas.

Using this clip to help you, make a paper helicopter. If you don't have a paperclip at home, be inventive and see what else you can use instead. Make your helicopter as decorative as you can. Once it's ready to fly see how high you can throw it and then time how long before it lands. Can your helicopter fly longer than 10 seconds? Remember you don't need a timer you can count yourself: 1 elephant, 2 elephants, 3 elephants, 4 elephants... Do you need to make any adjustments, so it flies for longer?

Browndog - Paper Helicopter | Paper helicopter, Craft activities for kids, Paper helicopter template

Build a den somewhere in your house or garden. Once you've built it, get yourself a nice cold drink and spend at least 20 minutes in it, hidden away reading.

Write down (in your neatest handwriting of course) five things you would like your new teacher to know about you. You can write more than 5 if you want! Bring it back to school with you, with your name on, so we can give it to your new teacher.

Previous Home Learning

Click here for an example timetable of a day learning at home.

Click here for an example timetable for a day of learning, without any timing. Please note this is purely a suggestion for the day and does not have to be followed.

To start each day there will be a video loaded onto YouTube at 9a.m., click here for this link, this will give your child a brief explanation of the day and then either their literacy or numeracy lesson. This will be taught by a teacher in your child's year group.

There will also be another video for your child to listen to a year group story at the end of each day. Click here for this link.

It would be lovely to see any work your child completes. This can be emailed in to the following email address: year4@ferndale.swindon.sch.uk. Where a teacher from your child's class will send your child a comment back to encourage and compliment them and help with any errors.

Please note most of these sheets do not need to be printed off. If your child was in school they would be expected to copy the answers / sentences etc into their books.

Term 4 - Week 1

Spelling click here

Foundations subject:

Science click here

PSHE click here, mindful colouring here, mindful dot-to-dot click here, positivity during lock down, click here

Art click here

PE click here

Monday 22nd February

Maths click here, extra factor pairs click here

English click here

Guided Reading instructions click here, activity click here

Tuesday23rd February

Maths click here

Guided Reading click here

Maths click here

Guided Reading questions click here, and click here

Day 5- Friday 22nd January

Maths click here

Guided Reading click here

Week Four

Spelling click here

Foundation subjects:

History click here and here, Geography click here and here, PE click here, Science click here

Day 1 - 25th January

Maths Multiplication square click here, extra click here

Guided Reading click here

Day 2 - 26th January

Maths click here

Guided Reading click here

Day 3 - 27th January

Maths click here

Guided Reading click here

Day 4 28th January

Maths click here

English click here

Guided Reading click here

Day 5 29th January

Maths multiplication wheels 7 x click here, 7 times tables activity sheet here, 7 times table fortune teller here, and 7 times and division sheet here

Guided Reading click here

Week Five

Spelling click here

Foundation subjects:

Spelling click here

Foundation subjects:

History click here, Science sound powerpoint click here, PE click here, China and Mandarin Chinese click here, make a paper lantern click here, Chinese number tracing click here

Day 1 - Monday 8th February

Maths click here

Guided Reading instructions click h ere

Guided reading workbook click here

Day 2 - Tuesday 9th

Today is Safer Internet Day and here is a short video about this year's theme 'An Internet we trust - exploring reliability'. For information about the video including notes for discussion and activities (should you wish to do them) - click here.

Maths click here

Guided Reading workbook click here

Day 3 - Wednesday 10th

Maths click here

Guided Reading click h ere

Day 4 Thursday 11th

Maths click here

Guided Reading click here

Day 5 - Friday 12th

Maths 6 x tables activity book click here, 6 x tables space race click here, 6 x tables search click here, 7 x tables sheets click here, 7 x tables space race activity click here, 7 x tables search click here, all tables colouring emoji sheet click here

Guided Reading click here

You've made it to half-term! Congratulations, you should be super proud of how hard you have worked over this half term.

Support for Learning in Year 4

BBC Education have produced a whole host of materials for KS2. Follow the KS2 link and then select either Maths or English. Each area usually has an information section for reading, plus an activity and then quiz which is marked online. Some aspects require a subscription. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education

Fun and interactive practice for 200+ Year 4 skills. These skills are organised into categories and you can move your mouse over any skill name to preview the skill. To start practising, just click on any link. IXL will track your score, and the questions will automatically increse in difficuly as you improve! Click here to access this website.