Year 4 Home Learning!Join us on a new adventure – learning at home!

Wednesday

What are we doing today?Every day you will have lessons, just like you did in school!

Handwriting

Times Tables Activity

Reading

Writing Task

Grammar activity

Maths

Inquiry

• Please complete your work into an exercise book, if you have one. There is no need to print lots of sheets out, just copy questions onto paper if needed.

Parents/carers:• If you have any questions about the work

I have set, please contact our schools email address: airballoonhillp@bristol-schools.uk and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

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Handwriting• In class, we have been working super hard on our

relative size (tall and small letters) and making sure that our letters are joined in a clear way.

• Please copy out these Year 4 spelling bee words to help our spelling and our handwriting at the same time!

• Challenge – you could then use a spelling pyramid to practise the spelling of the word you find the trickiest.

TIMES TABLES

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Please spend at least 15 minutes a day on Times Tables Rock Stars. This could be games, Garage or Studio – whatever helps you learn!

The Arena is open from 10.00am until 2.30pm every day. You can play for 15 minutes whenever you like in that time frame.

Every time you play and earn coins, you enter a daily leader board. Well done to these children who played on Monday:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

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Please make sure you are reading a book of your choice for 30 minutes every day.

Today’s activity is similar to yesterday’s but with a new exciting text. Please write out the questions and answers in your book or a piece of paper.

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Here are the answers, how did you do? Have a go at the Chilli Challenge question today!

Write a ‘Rex the Retriever’ question by starting it with who/ what/ when/ where /why.For example:What was the bow and arrow made from?

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Writing ActivityRead ‘The Tree Giant’ again.Activity 1:Create some actions for the first paragraph to help you remember it just like we do in class.

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Activity 2:We have used formal language lots in year 4.Here are some examples:

Write a list in your books of all the examples of formal language you can see in the text (they are usually sentence starters!).For example: In fact, for this reason, typically

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Activity 3:Have a look at my plan. We are going to plan our own version of The Tree Giant with your very own creature.Decide your own opening, first explanation, further explanation, final explanation and conclusion.Remember, you can 'magpie' as many ideas from the text or my example as you like. It's only a plan at this stage!

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This week, we would like you to take a few minutes a day to give your brain a break away from your computer screen or tablet:

Meditation time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBnPlqQFPKs&safe=active

Follow this guided meditation to have 6 minutes of calm ☺

Time to boogie!Exercise is very important to help us to stay healthy

On YouTube, search Go Noodle.There are loads of fun videos to get you moving!

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SPAG (Spelling and Grammar)Over the past two days, we have been reminding ourselves of the different types of conjunctions that we can use in our writing. We know that we can use coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions.

Activity:Pick 2 FANBOYS conjunctions and finish these sentences.Example: The man picked up the bag of rubbish and put it in the bin.Ronnie the cat purred loudly...Betty peered out of the window...

Pick 3 ISAWAWABUB conjunctions to finish these sentences.This time add these conjunction to the start of the sentence.Example: As Miss Turner sipped her morning coffee, she spilt it down her shirt._________ Chewie was hungry,..._________ the girl was young,..._________ school had started,...

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Maths activityRainbow Factor Pairs: Using your times table knowledge, please

draw and complete the rainbows in your books.

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Maths Activity

Maths Art Challenge: Create your own Factor Pair Rainbows!

Don't forget to take a photo of yours and send it into the school office... we'd love to see them :)

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To join in with this session you will need access to a program called 'PIXILART'.Pixilart is free and can be accessed in a number of ways...

Through a web-browser!On a PC, Mac and some tablets, the easiest way to access PIXILART is through your web browser. Simply visit www.pixilart.com/draw to get started.

On an Ipad/Ipod/Iphone – PIXILART is available for download on the app store. It is free, but there is also a paid version; no need to get that! Just click on the free version, allow it to download and away you go!

On an android tablet – PIXILART is available for download on the app store. It is free, but there is also a paid version; no need to get that! Just click on the free version, allow it to download and away you go!

Or if you don't want to rely on technology – You could complete these activities on squared, gridded paper. Either tear some out of a book or make some yourself with a pencil and a ruler.

Inquiry – Wider Curriculum

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Yesterday, you designed a new character for your very own video game. This should have been a pencil and paper design.Today, you are going to create a rough draft of your sprite on PIXILART . How you create your pixel design is up to you, but it may help to follow the steps that I went through to create my design below.

Grumpy Steven

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First, I selected the circle from my toolbox. Then, I held the left clicker on my mouse and dragged the curser outwards to create a circle. I then made another circle this same way. These circles became the eyes of Grumpy Steven.

Next, I selected the pencil tool to draw the outline of Grumpy Steven. I also used two more circles to create the eyes. As pixel-art is two-dimensional, I made his tail smaller at the bottom to make it seem further away. This is called forced perspective. Give it a try!If you make a mistake, select the eraser and rub out what you don't need.

After I felt happy with the outline, I decided to add some colour. You can choose default colours on the right of the screen, but you can also mix your own on the left if you wish. To fill in large spaces of colour, choose the icon that looks like a tin of paint from your toolbox. Then, select your colour and click on the area you wish to fill. Be aware; if there is a gap in your picture, the colour will spill out!

Voila! One rough draft. He's not perfect, but I am happy with him for a first attempt.