Year 4 - Class 10 - Northcote Primary School

Pupils

Year 4 home learning during school closures

Welcome back to the summer term everyone!

Hi everyone! I trust you are all well and keeping safe at home. I have missed teaching you all and I am really looking forward to the day we can all get back together as a class. In the meantime, it is really important we keep learning and completing tasks at home because our brains need to keep on growing and developing just like our bodies.

Make sure you log in every week, to see what tasks you should be completing from home.

Don’t forget to send us pictures either via our school Twitter @Northcotesch or directly to my school email address: a.norman@northcote.liverpool.sch.uk.

I can’t even begin to explain how much I have missed your fantastic work so would love to see as many examples as possible!

We will be displaying the best examples of your work with next week’s learning, so remember to still use your nice neat writing and think about creative ways of showing your work! We are excited to see what you produce!

Home learning:

Year 4 – Summer term 1 Week 1

Year 4 – Summer term 1 Week 2

Year 4 – Summer term 1 Week 3

Year 4 – Summer term 1 Week 4

Year 4 – Summer term 1 Week 5

Year 4 – Summer term 2, Week 1

Year 4 – Summer Term 2, Week 2

Year 4 – Summer Term 2, Week 3

Year 4 – Summer Term 2, Week 4

Summer term 2 Week 5:

Week commencing 29th June 2020

DT: Northcote Cooks

As a whole school, we are going to be looking at healthy eating this week! As we are focusing on getting fit and healthy, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share some healthy recipes with everyone! We will be posting some ideas for healthy snacks which you could make after your daily workouts!

Check our twitter page everyday to see what tasty dishes the teachers have been cooking! Everyday we will be posting recipe ideas that you can try with your family.

You can join in by creating one of the recipes we post, or sending your own ideas in! Whatever your family makes this week, send your teacher some photographs or tweet them with the hashtag #northcotecooks

PE: Northcote ‘Sports Month’ Fitness Challenge

During this time of the year, we should have been competing in our ‘Sports Day’. Rather than cancelling, we have decided to change our plans this year. Instead of a ‘Sports Day’ we are organising a ‘Sports Month’.

For the next 4 weeks, we will be setting daily fitness challenges for you and your family to complete – this will help us achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise each day!

Each day you need to check the school’s Twitter account to see what the daily fitness challenge is.

https://twitter.com/northcotesch?lang=en

We want to see as many photos of you and your family completing all the fitness challenges as well as images of fitness record cards. (Remember when posting a photo on Twitter do not include your name).

If you are able to complete all of the week’s challenges you will receive a certificate.

To be able to receive the certificate, you need to email an image of the fitness record card completed weekly to your class teacher.

Good luck and let’s get fit!

Sports Month Fitness Challenge Record Chart

Examples of Class 10’s PE work:

Reading:

Task 1: Reading speed and questioning

Please make sure you continue to read on Reading Plus. It is very useful and fun website that will help you make progress with your reading!

Everyone in the juniors should now have a login for Reading Plus.

Please see the guide some of our Year 6 children made on our Reading Curriculum page if you are struggling to log on.

Reading-Plus-Guide-for-Northcote-Parents

Task 2: Reading (P4C focus)

Reading is a great way to help us explore our feelings and the bigger picture. This week, our focus is worry.

Watch/ listen to the story of Silly Billy By Anthony Browne with someone at home using the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiW5ndFNQQ

Now discuss the following questions with somebody at home linked to the main theme in the book:

What did Silly Billy worry about?
How does he make himself feel better?
What kind of things do you worry about?How does it make you feel?
How can you make yourself feel better when you are worrying?

Activity: Make your own worry doll/monster

In the story, Billy’s grandma gives him a worry doll to help him release his worries. Now it’s your turn to make your own worry doll/monster using the instructions below!

You will need:

a recycled container with a lid
one A4 sheet of paper
coloured sticky dots,
2 small circles of white card,
googly eyes
Pens/coloured pencils

Step 1: Take a small container with a whole in the top ( e.g. a small box, a Pringles tube, etc)

Step 2:Cut a length of paper to cover the sides of the container, making sure you add a 5cm boarder to the top so that you can cut a zig-zag pattern into it to give your monster some spiky hair.

Step 3: With the remaining paper, cut out some monster arms and attach to the container using sellotape or glue.

Step 4: Create your monster using the circles of white card, googly eyes and felt tips/coloured pencils.

Step 5: When you feel worried, write your worry down on a slip of paper and then feed your worry to your monster by posting it through the slot in the container. Watching your worry disappear should help you to feel a bit better! Don’t forget to share your worries with a trusted adult too!

Task 3: Reading for pleasure

Click on the link below to find out more information about texts that you can access for free!

https://www.booksfortopics.com/storytime-online-7-9

Take a look at The Book of Hopes (edited by Katherine Rundell) a fantastic collection of short stories, poems and pictures, written by a range of authors especially for families during lockdown. Click on the link below to start reading the book straight away for free:

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/

Alternatively, you might want to read some of the 500 word short stories that have been submitted by children all over the UK:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/KNWsKPrg7stQ54tTbcf6P7/500-words-the-stories

Take a look at https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk to join and take part in the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge:

Examples of Class 10’s reading tasks:

Writing

Task: Past Tense

This week we are focusing on writing in the past tense.

Task: Creative writing

Pobble 365 upload a new picture every day. Go on the link for one day this week and write a story about the image you can see. Make sure you tweet or email it to us so we can see what you’ve been doing – it also gives me a chance to enjoy some exciting new stories!

https://www.pobble365.com/

*Don’t forget all of the sentence types we have learnt, to help engage your reader:

Fronted Adverbials, 2A, Double ly, the more, the more, ad same ad, similes, personification etc.

If you have forgotten these, click on this school’s link, which has posters for each sentence type:

http://www.kelsall.cheshire.sch.uk/serve_file/94451

Examples of Class 10’s English work:

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Maths: Finding Fractions of Amounts

Task: Finding Fractions of Amounts

Examples of Class 10’s Maths work:

Science: States of Matter

This week’s focus: identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and
associate the rate of evaporation with temperature

This term, our new unit is ‘States of Matter’. We will be understanding what solids, liquids and gases are and how they change when temperature is changed.

KS2 Science Year 4 - 3 States of Matter - Solids Liquids and Gases ...

Read the information and watch the video from the website link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z3wpp39

Science Task 1, 2 and 3

Science Task 2 Information-Please read this before completing Task 2

Examples of class 10’s Science work:

Humanities – Geography: Mapping Skills

Last week, you looked at what maps are, how to use them and how to read them!

I now want you to research more about your local area – Walton, Liverpool.

Task 1: Key geographical questions I want you to consider:

Where is Walton and which other places are near it?
Is Walton a village, town, suburb or part of a city?
What types of buildings can we find and what are they used for?
What different types of land-use can we find?
Are there any green spaces and what are they used for?
Who lives here and what do they do?
How do people use this landscape in different ways?
Are there any local ‘landmarks’?
What types of transport links can we find?
What evidence is there of connections to other places?
What was Walton like in the past?
How and why is it changing?

Task 2: Now, I want you to go onto Google Earth and zoom all the way out! Then, I want you to follow the steps below and screenshot/print screen when you have found them!

Find the United Kingdom on the map.
Find England on the map.
Find Liverpool on the map.
Find Walton on the map.
Find Northcote Primary School on the map.

CHALLENGE… Can you?

Find your house.
Find your favourite shop/park/place to visit.
Find a country you have been on holiday to!

Examples of Class 10’s Humanities work:

Art: Famous Artist Study

This week’s focus: Famous Artist Study

This year we have been working on our ability to sketch and have practised and developed different shading techniques. The famous artist we are going to study was famous for keeping many sketches of his thoughts and inventions. He used his ability of shading to show his detailed ideas.

The artist we are going to study is: Leonardo da Vinci

11 predictions from Leonardo da Vinci that actually came true ...