6 years ago
Posted on 30th Mar 2020 by admin

ACTIVITIES – Year 4

CURIOUS MOMENT – What can you create? – Use your imagination this week to create and build! Look around your home to find materials to build with: Legos, Duplos, Play-Doh, blocks, boxes, wood, paper, blankets, sticks, string, sand, mud etc. 1) Design and build with your materials. It can be anything! 2) Talk to your family about what you made. 3) Draw a picture in a journal or on a piece of paper and write a sentence or two about what you built and why you like it.

COOKING – Make a tasty dish at home. Write a list of instructions on how you made your tasty treat. Draw a picture of your delicious dish. Use your maths knowledge to write a recipe for the same dish but for half the amount.

Keep a diary of your daily activities, record what you have been doing and how you have been feeling.

Storytelling – share a favourite family memory – Talk to an adult about their childhood memories. Ask them to tell you the story and to share lots of details. 2) Draw a picture of the story. 3) Retell the story aloud to your family member. 4) Write down the story or your favorite part of the story.

Times table rock stars – 10 minutes (recommended 2 games on studio, 2 games on soundcheck and then children’s own choice.) Please keep challenging teachers and your classmates.

Create a times table game using scratch. Test it out on your family. https://scratch.mit.edu/

Daily spelling and handwriting daily practise.

Physical exercise is so important. Why not try Jo Wicks PE challenge. https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/video

Reading has so many benefits so it is important to encourage your child to read throughout the day. Other activities this may then lead to include writing a character description, drawing a scene from the book, predicting what might happen next or making their own alternative ending to the story.

6 years ago
Posted on 30th Mar 2020 by admin

YEAR 4 SPELLINGS

A Parent’s Guide to Practising Spellings at Home

Why spelling practice matters…

In Key Stage 2, the focus is on developing accuracy as well as a range of strategies for spelling.

Although teachers will highlight spelling errors to children, it is important children recognise for themselves when they have made an error and know a range of strategies for correcting inaccuracies. By this stage, children will have a range of spelling strategies that they will have been taught to draw on. Children will use the strategy which best suits their learning style and works best for them.

Helping at Home

Parents can support children by practising any spelling patterns or spelling investigations which are sent home as part of home learning and also by helping children to read and spell the Y3/4 word lists (included in this document).

Children will practise these spellings throughout the week in spelling lessons and will be tested on a Friday using some of the words from each week or others with similar spelling patterns.

We will track your child’s progress in spelling through the statutory word lists and half-termly reviews.

Remember to make practising the words enjoyable and not a chore.

Click on the link below for your year group!

https://siralexanderflemingprimaryschool.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/A-parent-guide-and-home-spellings-for-Year-4-1.pdf

6 years ago
Posted on 29th Mar 2020 by admin

Monday’s Challenges

PHONICS –

Write about the signs of spring you have spotted.(Just like in our Forest School Diaries!) Remember to write sentences with capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. Can you make your writing really interesting by describing the things you have seen using adjectives? Use your phonic knowledge to sound-talk the words. If it is a long word, clap the syllables in it so that you don’t miss any sounds out.

For example – I saw beautiful, pink blossom, like candy floss, growing on a tree.

If you couldn’t get outside maybe watch Sci Show for kids on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaZ2CICGuL8&t=634s

PROJECT –

Wrap up and go in your garden – if you can! Go on a Bug Safari – don’t forget to look under rocks and stones. Stamp on the floor with your whole family and see how many worms come up to see you – this is sometimes called ‘worm charming’. Please don’t forget to return all living things back to where you found them –just as we would in Forest School.

Spring is well and truly kicking in now, and the warmer weather will bring lots of creepy crawlies out. You’ll soon notice your garden teeming with wildlife! Can you find…

a worm after a spring shower

a bumblebee looking for nectar

a spotty ladybird exploring the grass

a slimy snail in a dark damp spot

a butterfly basking in the sunshine?

Draw/paint pictures of what you find.

MATHS –

Listen to The 7 Days of The Week Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tx0rvuXIRg

Ask children –

What day is it today?

What day was it yesterday?

What day will it be tomorrow?

If today is Monday, the tomorrow will be . . .

Can you make a weekly diary so that children are using the days of the week? e.g. On Monday we had soup for lunch.

6 years ago
Posted on 29th Mar 2020 by admin

Hello from Miss Reese and Miss Hullin

A big HELLO from Miss Reese and Miss Hullin – we are missing you all!!

Hope some of you have been enjoying the lovely sunny spring weather in your gardens!

Here’s a reminder of some of the activities we suggested in your resource pack.

English

Read lots of books with your child; talk about the plot and ask and answer questions. Support them to sound-talk and blend words.
Write a book review about a book; what did you like? What did you not like? Draw a picture.
Draw a new front cover for a book. Could you add a speech or a thought bubble?
Can you re-write the story? Could you re-write it and change where the story setting is/ or change a character.
Act out a story yourself and using toys.
Make puppets of your favourite story character using paper, card, old gloves and socks!
Watch Julia Donaldson books on BBC iplayer and turn the sub-titles on to practise reading.
Practise reading and writing tricky words. Play games with them such as snap or splat! Can you remember the letters in that tricky word? Can you write a sentence with that tricky word in?
Online phonics games; www.ictgames.com
www.lettersandsounds.com
Practise your handwriting!

Mathematics

Play a board game; snakes and ladders!
Count forwards and backwards to 100.
Make your own number line using a long roll of paper – can you jump forwards and backwards? What is one more or one less than that number?
Put number cards in order.
Count out groups of objects up to twenty! 1 car, 2 teddies, 3 sweets …
Use objects to add together or subtract two or three sets and write the equation 9+5= 23-8=
Name 3D shapes and see if you can find any objects in your house that match them? What properties does a ball/ sphere have? 1 curved face.
Online maths gameswww.topmarks.co.uk
www.bbb.co.uk/bitesize
www.ictgames.com

Cross-curricular projects

Bake something delicious; write the ingredients in a list, write the method and read the recipe. Use scales and cups to measure ingredients. Create a food menu for your tea!
Research a sea creature! Use books/ the internet with help from an adult. Write a fact-file!
Sort animals in the sea into omnivores, carnivores or herbivores! Record this by writing and drawing.
Build the titanic using blocks in you have them or junk modelling materials such as tubes, food packets etc. Think about all the different parts of the ship such as the funnels and the hull. Draw the titanic and label it.
Make a paper-mache globe using a balloon and newspaper and glue. Talk about and label the seven continents and the oceans of the world.
Use google maps to find places in the world.
Make some playdough! Add smells and colours. Create 3D sculptures; make shapes.
Design a life-jacket that would be able to float in your sink for 10 minutes. Discuss materials that float and sink.
Look after a plant; talk about leaves, buds, stems. What happens over time?
Grow anything from seeds; observe what happens. For example, cress – it even grows on cotton wool!

If some of you have been really busy and want some more ideas – we are just about to post tomorrow’s Daily Challenges!

6 years ago
Posted on 27th Mar 2020 by admin

Year 2 Extra Home Learning Tasks

Year 2, here are some extra home learning tasks you might wish to complete. Year 2 Home Learning

Complete these tasks in your red book, take a picture and upload anything on to SeeSaw. We would love to see what you’re doing.

Miss Pound and Mrs O’Reilly

6 years ago
Posted on 26th Mar 2020 by admin

Key Worker Booking Form

Please complete the Key Worker Booking Form. and return it to the office tomorrow between 8am and 12noon. Alternatively, you can e-mail the booking form to A2134@telford.gov.uk

If you need a hard copy, please collect from the office tomorrow from 8am.

This form needs to be in tomorrow (Friday March 27th) by 9am.

Many thanks

6 years ago
Posted on 25th Mar 2020 by admin

YEAR 4 – MRS LANE’S CLASS – SEESAW

It has been lovely to see so much work from children on seesaw.

If you haven’t signed up to seesaw already, then please email me and I can send you your child’s login and invite you through email. My email address is julie.lane1@taw.org.uk.

Warm wishes,

Mrs Lane

6 years ago
Posted on 25th Mar 2020 by admin

DAILY ACTIVITIES – YEAR 4

Times table rock stars – 10 minutes (recommended 2 games on studio and 2 games on soundcheck and then children’s own choice). Please keep challenging teachers and your classmates, I can see your all getting quicker – well done!

Why not watch a super movers times table video of your choice. Combining exercise and learning. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

Spelling and handwriting practice.

Physical exercise is so important. Why not try the Jo Wicks PE challenge – he is doing a live broadcast at 9am but you can take part later in the day. https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1/videos

Reading has so many benefits so it is important to encourage your child to read throughout the day. Other activities this may then lead to include writing a character description, drawing a scene from their book, making a prediction of what they think might happen next.

Why not tune in for ‘Elevenses with the World of David Walliams’. https:///www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses

6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by admin

Contacting school whilst closed

Please be advised that the office will not be open during normal school hours.

If you have any urgent queries, please email A2134@telford.gov.uk which is regularly checked by our Office Admin Team.

Many thanks

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Mar 2020 by admin

HIGH IMPORTANCE – School Closure Letter

Please read the School Closure Letter

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