Year 4

Daily Challenges

We will be giving you challenges to try each day.

Please join in and email me your pictures, photos and thoughts.

Your first challenge!

Friday 27th March.

This is to join in with the academy trust's '#we appreciate you' challenge.

To do this, you will need to make a poster / picture of a 'key worker' who is helping us and write the job that your key worker does. You may want to dress up as your key worker too.

Add a rainbow to your picture.

At 12 o'clock join in with our minute applause for all of the key workers. Either video yourself doing the applause or take a photograph of you and your picture. At the end of the minute shout out, "We appreciate you."

Send us your photos and videos for the website or ask an adult to upload them to their social media accounts. Adults can find out more information about this on the Extend Learning Academies Network facebook page.

Let's do this to thank those people who are doing so much for us at this time.

 Class Email Address

We now have an email address for Year 4. This is brilliant as you can use it to send in messages and photographs. I am really looking forward to hearing about and seeing what you have been doing and learning.

I will assume that any photographs you send in have permission to be put onto the website to share with others.

The email address is                      year4@oldmixonschool.com 

Making History

We enjoy learning about things that have happened in the past and about how people lived their lives. 

Today, we are living through an important event that children in the future will be learning about in their history lessons. Wouldn't it be great for them to learn about what happened from the children of today? From you? I thought that we could make a book about what we did in the Coronavirus outbreak of 2020. Perhaps you would like to do a piece of writing for our book or perhaps you would rather do some illustrations, or both. It is up to you what you would like to contribute. I am very much looking forward to seeing your ideas.

Times Table Rock Stars

I have seen that many of you are using the website to practise your times tables. Well done!

We even have some Rock Stars in our class now. Keep practising everyone and don't forget to use BBC Super Movers to practise too.    https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

Please find below useful links which may help you with your learning at home.

Twinkl - https://www.twinkl.com/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=corona

Penpals Schools- https://www.penpalschools.com/index.html

Class Dojo – https://www.classdojo.com/

2Simple - https://2simple.com/blog/using-purple-mash-when-school-closed/

Classroom Secrets - https://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk

Year 4

Welcome to Year 4, our adults in our classroom are,Mrs Leggett, Mrs Whybrow and Mr Thomas. Here you will see all our fun learning for this year! This term our topic is all about What would it be like to live in Germany?

Our homework and reading homework is given out on a Friday, to be returned on the following Thursday. We will need our P.E. kits on a Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. 

We will be continuing Times Tables Rockstars this term, which is a program to help your children practise their times tables.

                           READING in YEAR 4                          

Reading at Home

Every child chooses* a book to bring home each week from the classroom book bank.

This book is changed on a weekly basis. To qualify for Friday Banquet children have to read at home three times a week and get an adult to write this in their reading record.

*Chosen according to the "I PICK" rules so that it is a "good fit" for them.

Individual reading in school

All children keep a book in school to read that is appropriate for them.

Reading Rainbow

Children participate in several Reading Rainbow sessions each week. During these sessions books are shared with classmates and children are given questions designed to further their wider reading skills.

Comprehension 

As part of their English lessons all children have English comprehension work to complete both independently and in smaller groups led by a teacher.

What lives in the school grounds?

This week our mission was to investigate and look for living things around school. We discovered a variety of insects, fungi, humans, grass, woodlice and plenty more. This inspired us to start designing bug hotels to accommdate them. 

Term 3 

  Exciting Environments or Perilous Places?  

To start our new enquiry topic we used sand to replicate the action of tectonic plates when they form mountains. This activity got us to visualise the process which helped us to understand how mountains and mountain ranges are formed. We found that using paper and foil was a good way of representing what actually happens.

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