15th June

Hi Year 4, we hope you had a lovely week and a fun weekend. Here's your work for this week: 😄

English

We've loved the Beowulf work you have emailed to us so far.😄
Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhnp3NM5cfQ
Tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y23uZcHpqP4&t=54s
Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1e923Z1Ls8
Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8mTOcSWxM4&t=16s
On Friday, please could you revise the words on the list here. These words are some of the National Curriculum words for year 4. You can learn the words in the same way that you learn your weekly spellings, or use the sheet as a handwriting lesson every Friday. If you are finding them rather tricky, you could try to learn half of them please, that would be great.

Maths

Here is the Year 4 maths for this week and here are the answers. Here are the videos.
Here is Year 5, if you want to challenge yourself and here are the videos.
Here are some challenges for Friday or as extensions to use during the week and here are the answers.

Topic
This week you will be historians looking at artefacts. Please read through this power point first and then have a go at the activities below.
Use the links: here and here.

Science

LO: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. 

Go on a nature walk where you will find lots of trees. Take some photos or sketch some of the leaves. Be sure to look carefully at the shape and size of each different leaf and the arrangement of the leaves on the twig. When you get home, you could download and use the app on this website to help you identify different leaves and trees and take the quiz too: 

https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2018/07/summer-tree-identification-quiz/ 

If you prefer, you can use these ‘Leaf ID’ and ‘Twig ID’ sheets to help you. 

Virtual Big Sing

The Virtual Big Sing 2020 - Sing along with the stars including Jessie J and Nicola Roberts from 'Girls Aloud'. With your parent's permission, register for the Virtual Big Sing using their email address at: https://www.norfolkmusichub.org.uk/site/the-virtual-big-sing-registration-form/

You will receive a welcome letter with the log in details for Charanga YUMU - an online music website. Follow steps 1-4 at the top of the welcome letter and once logged in, select 'Assignments' to launch the 'Virtual Big Sing 2020' resources. You can learn some or all of the songs as you wish. The Virtual Big Sing will take place on YouTube on Friday 19th June at 2pm (if you miss it you can join in with the re-play on Sunday 21st June).

Performance day Friday 19th June 2pm

• You will be sent a code on the morning of the Virtual Big Sing and instructions on how to tune in to the stream
• Tune in at 2pm and join Mark De-Lisser and friends who will be joining you from around the world in with your performance
• Don’t forget to dress up in your best party clothes and party with us!

Happy singing everyone and remember to send us your photos and videos of you singing like a superstar!

Below, you will also find some information and activities about refugee week. Hope you have a great week year 4. Take care and best wishes from us all. 😄

Humanitarianism and the Red Cross Conflict and its Consequences Disasters and Emergencies First Aid Refugees and Migration

Refugee Week 2020

Download our new Refugee Week resource to help 7-11 year-olds develop empathy and understanding. Inspiring activities can be used for home-schooling, online lessons or independent learning during Refugee Week (15-21 June) and beyond. Through powerful stories, role play activities, films, creative writing and more, learners will explore the theme ‘Imagine’. Imagination and real-life stories help build our understanding. Can learners imagine a kinder world which is full of empathy, understanding and mutual respect? Stories of young refugees arriving in the UK will spark imagination and help develop empathy. Explore the word empathy – what does it really mean? How do we feel in different scenarios? Creative activities include building an empathy tree, writing letters to refugees and exploring ways we could welcome refugees to the community. Key facts and background information for educators and parents help support the learning of this topic. These are just a taster of what to expect from our new resource Refugee Week 2020: imagine a kinder world.

8th June

Hi Year 4, we hope you had a lovely week. Here's your work for the week. 😄

English

For our next instalment of Beowulf...
We hope you enjoy them:😄
Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZOeGBdxwg4&t=568s
Tuesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeBtIZ-mV7s&t=453s
Wednesday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYlNQa-C-Fw
Thursday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0vMtpQqK98

On Friday, please could you revise the words on the list here. These words are some of the National Curriculum words for year 4. (Every Friday, we will give you some more words from the list, so that by the end of term you will have revised the whole year 4 list.) You can learn the words in the same way that you learn your weekly spellings, or use the sheet as a handwriting lesson every Friday. If you are finding them rather tricky, you could try to learn half of them please, that would be great.

Maths
Here is the Year 4 maths for this week.
Here is Year 5, if you want to challenge yourself.
Here are some challenges for Friday or as extensions to use during the week.

Topic
This week you will be finding out about Anglo Saxon village life. Please read through this power point first and then have a go at the fun activities below.
Use the links: here, here and here .

Here is some information on The Black Lives Matters movement from Picture News if you wish to read or do some extra work on this week. 

Science

LO: Identify and name a variety of living things in the local and wider environment. 

Go on a bug hunt - use the Minibeast Hunt checklist and see how many different minibeasts you can find. Be sure to handle them very gently and always put them back where you found them. Happy hunting! 

Read the ‘Observing & Collecting Guidelines’ resource for safety information. 

Read the tips about bug hunting on this website: https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2019/04/minibeast-hunt/ 

Hope you have a great week year 4. Take care and best wishes from us all. 😄

1st June

Hi Year 4, we hope you had a wonderful half term.

This week is the start of our new topic which is called 'Traders and Raiders'. It is all about the Anglo Saxons and the Vikings coming to live here.
Usually we would visit a reconstructed Anglo Saxon village called West Stow, at the start of our topic. It is about 20 miles from Mulbarton. So this week, for your first topic lesson, you will be watching a couple of short videos about West Stow and the Anglo Saxons settling here.

English
The English lessons this week (Monday-Thursday) will be more like the ones we have in class, where we read to you from a book and then you have a task to complete afterwards. 
You will need to copy and paste the links.
(Mondays lesson is longer than the others and I'm afraid I repeated myself a little, as it is the first time I've done this. Bear with me though please, they improve as the week goes on and the rest are only 8 minutes long!) I hope you enjoy them:
Monday: https://youtu.be/-GPc4QQ-w8c
Tuesday: https://youtu.be/c3FD6f8Z_9Q
Wednesday: https://youtu.be/UqRpCpm1fgM
On Wednesday, you may want to use this outline of Beowulf.
Thursday: https://youtu.be/vBq8jKszy34



On Friday, please could you revise the words on the list here. These words are some of the National Curriculum words for year 4. (Every Friday, we will give you some more words from the list, so that by the end of term you will have revised the whole year 4 list.) You can learn the words in the same way that you learn your weekly spellings, or use the sheet as a handwriting lesson every Friday. If you are finding them rather tricky, you could try to learn half of them please, that would be great.
Maths

Here is the Year 4 maths for this week.
Here is Year 5, if you want to challenge yourself.
Here are some challenges for Friday or as extensions to use during the week.

Topic
Lesson 1: Please could you watch these two short videos on you tube about West Stow and the Anglo Saxons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czj54OYl2Ow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoHhDXomCQ0

Lesson 2: Please read through this power point and complete the activity on it. You will need to use this sheet.

Science
Our new science topic for this half term is called 'Living Things in their Habitats'.
This week could you read through this power point please.

Week 1 

LO: Understand the characteristics of living things and recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. 

Work through the Life Processes PowerPoint. Afterwards, explain the acronym MRS NERG to someone else. What are the 7 life processes of a living thing? 

(An acronym is a word whose letters are the first letters of other words.) 

Hope you have a great week year 4. Take care and best wishes from us all.

Week Beginning 18th May 2020

Hello everybody and welcome to Week 5 - our last week before the half term break. This is the last week on our USA topic too, so we've only suggested two days of English; the last three days is for a mini project all about your road trip.

English
On Monday and Tuesday, please have a go at the reading and spelling that you will find links to here.
Reading: The Grand Canyon Tour Company
Reading: Note from the Road

Topic
On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, please have a go at this mini project to finish off out topic for this half term. You can find the links to help you below.
City Information cards
Landmark photos 1

Landmark photos 2
Passport cover
Inside passport pages

If you are finding this mini project too difficult and you just want to have a go at something smaller, you could design a totem pole instead.  

Maths

This week's Year 4
Or, if you prefer a challenge: Year 5
And lots of extra challenges here.


Don't forget the daily live science broadcasts with Maddie and Greg to be found here. 

And here is the Norfolk school virtual games challenge for this week.

Have a lovely half term everyone.

If you want to get in touch with us to share some work or ask a question, you can use the e-mail address for your class:

Giraffes@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

or

Lions@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

Take care everyone

- The Year 4 team.

Week Beginning 11th May 2020

Hello everybody and welcome to Week 4 - it surely can't be too long now before we go back! In the meantime, you can keep yourself busy with all of this -   your learning for the next few days. Don't forget that you can access activities and resources on Bug Club and Education City.

Maths

Just like last week, you can have a go at the Year 4 or the year 5 learning. The Year 4 work is mostly revision and practice of learning that we have done this year. The year 5 is not completely new, but moves things forward a little.

Of course, we know that you would like some extra challenges. Have a go at a couple of these. My advice to help you solve many of these problems is to draw a picture. 

Science

This week, we are thinking about conductors and insulators. There are lots of activities to undertake here. If you can, take the time to watch the whole video, and then think about which activities you would like to have a go at - don't feel that you have to do them all!

Don't forget the daily live science broadcasts with Maddie and Greg to be found here. 

English

This weeks English activities can be found here.

Correct the sentence punctuation

Prefix, suffix, root word

Handwriting
If you would like a little extra practice with your handwriting, we now subscribe to letterjoin. Log on and have a go. 

Topic

Indigenous Peoples' Day Presentation
Activities to go with the presentation
Lined Pages

Buffalo and Eagle Wing Reading

Mondrian - Art Activity

PE
Have a look at the Norfolk Virtual School Games

Parents - if you would like a little extra support to help with teaching English, you could try looking here

If you want to get in touch with us to share some work or ask a question, you can use the e-mail address for your class:

Giraffes@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

or

Lions@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

Take care everyone

- The Year 4 team.

Week Beginning 4th MAy 2020

Greetings to all you caged Lions and Giraffes, and welcome to week 3. You have all had another brilliantly productive week. Here is your learning for the next few days. Don't forget that you can access activities and resources on Bug Club and Education City.

Maths

This week, we are revising  multiplication. Click  Week 3
Week 3 activities
Week 3 answers
(Note to parents - if your child finds this a bit too easy, I am perfectly happy for them to do the year 5 learning. Could you let me know if you do this, so that I can track what is happening - Mr Clarke)

Fancy a multiplication Challenge? Try this
Or spend some time on this

Science

Click here to start finding out about electrical circuits. Have a go at this activity. It would be great if you could make your own circuits at home using wires, batteries and bulbs. If you do not have the equipment  to do this, have a go at this simulator instead - it's quite addictive.

If the simulator doesn't work on your ipad, try using this site. There is plenty here to explore.

Don't forget the daily live science broadcasts with Maddie and Greg to be found here. 

English

Click here to find some activities for this week.

Correct The Spellings

Handwriting
If you would like a little extra practice with your handwriting, we now subscribe to letterjoin. Log on and have a go. 

Topic

Physical and Human Features of the USA

Questions to answer

Sitting Bull Reading

Sitting Bull Questions

Map of North America

Pop Art

Parents - if you would like a little extra support to help with teaching English, you could try looking here

If you want to get in touch with us to share some work or ask a question, you can use the e-mail address for your class:

Giraffes@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

or

Lions@mulbartonprimary.norfolk.sch.uk

Take care everyone
The Year 4 team.