If your child is required to isolate or is unable to attend school for an extended period of time, please call the office on 0121 675 3573 and arrange a telephone meeting with Miss Furlong or Miss Aluriya to discuss your child’s learning.
Hello and welcome to the Year 4 Virtual Classroom! This page will be used to provide learning resources to those who are unable to attend school as a result of illness, isolation or any other reason. Furthermore, the materials found on this page may be used by any child who is keen to extend their learning at home.
Maths
This week we will following the area and perimeter lessons from Oak National Academy.
Lesson 1-Calculate the perimeter of composite shapes
Lesson 2-Understand that area is a measure of surface measured in squared units (part 1)
Lesson 3-Understand that area is a measure of surface measured in squared units (part 2)
Lesson 4-Calculate and compare the area of rectangles using square centimetres
Lesson 5-Calculate and compare the area of rectangles using square metres
Reading
Lesson
1
Read our story for this week ‘The Runaway Iceberg’
Lesson
2
Click here to explore the features of descriptive writing.
List all of the small details that built a picture of the setting in The Runaway Iceberg. Use these details and adjectives to draw your own picture of the setting.
Writing
Listen to our story for the week: Zoo by Anthony Browne
Lesson
1
Do you think zoos should be kept open or closed?
Look very carefully at how the people and animals feel and behave in the story.
Make a list of reasons for and against keeping them or closing them.
Lesson
2
Click here to learn about writing to persuade.
Write a persuasive letter to keep or close zoos using the reasons you came up with in Lesson 1.
Lesson
3
Research information about wild tigers. Create a table with information about their habitat, diet and any interesting facts.
Lesson
4
Today you are going to write your own diary entry from a wild tigers’ perspective.
Watch the video to follow the lesson on writing a diary entry before you have a go.
Lesson
5
For today’s lesson you need to have completed the ‘Classifying Animals’ lesson on our topic page.
Watch the video below before completing today’s activity.
Write a non-chronological report on classifying animals. Think about the different animals you could include. You could use the research you collected in Lesson 3 to help you.
And finally, keep up with your spellings using https://spellingframe.co.uk/
In the table below, you will see all our key word spellings and the lists for them. To access one of these lists, you just need to click on ‘ Enter Word List Code’ and enter the code.
It’s Red Nose Day today! Why do we raise money for Red Nose Day? Click on the video below to find out.
Fancy a quiz? Click on the logo below and give the Red Nose Day quiz a go. The answers are also linked below – no cheating!
Click here for the answers.
Hi
Hi Daniel! Well done for getting on here. Make sure you’ve checked out the page for today here.
Here
Good morning Keanu
What do you have to
The page will be ready for tomorrow Saskai. For now, you can read your AR book and practice your timetables on Rockstars
Hi miss
Good afternoon Lubaha
Good morning 😀
Good afternoon Ben
Hi year 4, it’s so great to see some of you on here already working hard. Unfortunately, the year 4 bubble has now had to close so we are back learning on here for now. Me and Miss Aluriya will be working on getting virtual school up and running for tomorrow morning. Stay safe!
Hi
Good afternoon Sagal, well done for signing in
How do I send in my work? Should I just bring my book in next week?
Yes please, Riley! Your teachers would love to see all of your hard work 🙂
Hi
Good morning, Riley!
Miss I have finished maths, ttrs, reading and writing
Well done, Lola! What a great morning. You can have a look now at one of the topic lessons at the bottom of the page if you like. Great work today!
Miss you have not been on for 2 hours I have
There are lots of other things to be done too unfortunately Lola! Your main focus is your learning on the virtual school, try to work your way through independently as best you can 🙂
Miss what do we have to do for all of the videos
Where there are videos, Lola just follow the Lesson 1. Don’t worry about the others until tomorrow.
Miss I have done my spellings year 3 spellings because I am on year 3 spellings 😃
Super work, Lola. It’s great to keep up with those spellings!
Ok
Miss what do we have to do for Goldilocks
You don’t need to do anything for Goldilocks. The video is only to help you to talk you through our learning. The activity is about our text for the week, The Runaway Iceberg 🙂
So what do I have to do after maths
Follow the day as the page goes on, Lola. So it will be reading next, then writing.
Hi
Miss and Lola I haven’t been on here for a while.
Good morning, Riley! Lovely to have you with us. Let us know if you need anything 🙂
Who else is on virtual school Riley Evans should be?
Some children check in when they’re ready, Lola or may forget to comment. How are you getting on with your maths?
Good I got the questions right for maths and I got 100% on the maths questions 4/4
Well done, Lola!
I am
Hello
Good morning, Logan. Lovely to have you with us.
OK thanks for answering me I have been waiting for a long time I am happy miss young
😁😁😁
Well done for being up and ready to learn, Lola. A great attitude to start the day with 👍🏻
am I the only one on here
You are for now, Lola. Keep going with your lessons for today and again let us know if you need anything 🙂
Who is teaching me today I am isolating because somebody had civic in after school club on Thursday 11th of march
Good morning, Lola! I’ll be here to help you with anything that you need whilst you’re isolating and using the virtual school 🙂
OK miss thanks