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Year 4 Tuesday 21st April
Good Morning Year 4!
We hope you are all well. It was lovely to hear comments about so many of you enjoying creating your new invention yesterday. Your creativity has blown us away! We are looking forward to reading some manuals to find out how your inventions work.
Today we are having our class Zoom chats and we have our fingers crossed that there are no technical issues! Your teachers will be hosting the chat and will have control over when you are allowed to enter the chat and also whether you are muted so you will need to listen carefully to any instructions given by your teacher. As suggested in the email, you may want to practice using Zoom to make sure it is working. Please be ready to start at the time given in the email as Zoom usually limits chats to 40 minutes and we want to see your smiling faces for as long as possible!
Miss Goddard, Miss Hardy and Mrs Happy
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Helpful Reminders
Don’t forget you can email us on year4@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Ongoing Daily Activities
- TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games
- Numbots – Play for 15 mins
- Spelling Shed – Play 3 rounds of this week’s spellings
- Reading – Read for at least 20 mins
Maths – Hundredths
In Maths today we are introducing an even smaller decimal fraction – the hundredth. Before you have a look at the video, see if you can work out what it might be and where you will find it on a place value grid. You can watch the White Rose video here (Week 2 – Lesson 2 – Hundredths).
For children who are completing their Maths with ease, and who would like further challenge, Miss Goddard is started a ‘Daily Maths Challenge’ page on the school website where she will upload a new set of challenges everyday. If you complete today’s work and would like to access it, please click here.
English – Writing an instruction manual for your invention
Following on from yesterday’s English lesson, we would like you to create a manual which goes alongside your invention to explain its features and also how it works. Miss Goddard will explain the task in the Youtube video below as well as reading you her manual for the ‘Doggy Walker 3000’ which she invented yesterday. It may be an idea to split your manual into three sections:
- Introduction – a couple of sentences introducing your invention
- Features – explain each feature of your design in full sentences and how each feature is useful to the user
- Instructions – instruct the user on how to use the invention such as how to turn it on and anything else that they need to do to get it working
Please have a read of Miss Goddard’s example as well as using the useful word bank below before having a go at writing your own.
Topic – Inventions and Inventors Crossword
Today we have a crossword for you to complete.
All the answers in the crossword are important inventions. For some, you need their full name. You might need Google to help with one or two of the answers!
Video Resources
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