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Maths Challenge - Friday 17th July

Hi year 4,


We are going to finish our maths learning before the summer holidays with a mastery challenge in the area of symmetry. Here is the challenge. Try to draw accurately with a ruler.

English Challenge - Friday 17th July

Hi everyone,

This will be a final writing session before the summer holidays. You will be using your own ideas to write some Haiku Poems.

Here is the video lesson:

Haiku Poetry

Here is your writing task today:

Here are some things to remember when writing a haiku:

The next slides give you plenty of ideas for what you can write your haiku about:

Maths Challenge - Thursday 16th July

Hi year 4,

I hope you are all well. Today in maths we will be learning about drawing on a grid accurately. If you don't have a printer you could take a screenshot of the worksheet and use a drawing program like Paint, to draw over the worksheet.
Here is the video:

Year 4 - Week 12 - Lesson 3 - Describe position from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

Here are the worksheets:

English Challenge - Thursday 16th July (SPAG)

Hi everyone,

Today's SPAG lesson focuses on a mixture of things we have covered over the last few weeks.

Here is your video lesson:

Final SPAG


Here are the SPAG questions for today's lesson:

Music and dance festival reminder!

Hi year 4,

We've only had a few entries for the dance and music festival and most have been from Mr Deakin's class. You have a couple more day to get your entries in. It would be great to see some videos from guitar club!

Here's my submission:

Mr Hissey

Science Challenge - Wednesday 15th July

Hi year 4, Welcome to your final science challenge before the Summer holidays. I thought we'd finish with a fun one. As it has been music and dance festival week, I thought we could have a go at making a musical instrument using our knowledge of sound. Here's an example:

This website gives you more information (experiment number 41 on the list):

>>>>Rubber Band Guitar<<<<

Can you think about these questions:

1. Why do the different bands make different sounds?
2. What is different about the sounds?
3. How does using a container like the one in the picture help to make the sound louder?

Good luck and if you take any photos of your guitar send them to:

year4@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Maths Challenge - Wednesday 15th July

Hi year 4,

In today's maths lesson we will be looking at describing the position of shapes. Here is the video:

Year 4 - Week 12 - Lesson 3 - Describe position from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.


And here are the worksheets for the position lesson.

English Challenge - Wednesday 15th July

Hi everyone,

Our lesson today is a features lesson about the features of a haiku poetry. Here is the video lesson:

Haiku Features

Here is a reminder of the key features of a Haiku poem.

 Count the syllables in these haiku poems.

And here are your questions about the features of a haiku:

Maths Challenge - Tuesday 14th July

Good morning year 4,

Following on from yesterday's lesson on symmetry, today we will be looking at completing symmetrical shapes. If you don't have a printer you could always try drawing the shape yourself with a ruler or a straight edge. Here is your video lesson:


Year 4 - Week 12 - Lesson 2 - Complete a symmetric figure from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

And here are the worksheets for today's lesson:

English Challenge - Tuesday 14th July

Good morning year 4,

We will be reading some more haiku poetry this morning and answering further comprehension questions. Here is the video lesson:

Haiku - Lesson 2

Today's lesson will focus on how language is used in the poetry. Here are some tips for answering language questions:

Here are the Haiku poems to read for today's questions:

And here are the comprehension questions for today's lesson:

Art Challenge - Pop Art

Hi year 4,

For our final our challenge before the Summer holidays we are going to look at pop art. Pop art is an artistic style from the 1950s which combined images from (pop)ular culture with bright colours. Here are some examples of pop art:

Your challenge is to create either:
1. A picture of an internet meme or acronym like this:

Examples include LOL, OMG, BRB, CU L8R, ROFL (No rude ones though!)

2. Draw a pop art product. Like:

Good luck and remember to send your artwork to year4@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Maths Challenge - Monday 13th July

Good morning year 4 welcome to our final week of maths before the summer holidays. This week we will be continuing to look at shape starting with lines of symmetry. Here is your video lesson:

Year 4 - Week 12 - Lesson 1 - Lines of symmetry from White Rose Maths on Vimeo.

And here are your worksheets for today's lesson:

Spellings - Monday 13th July

Hi all,

Here are your spellings for this week. They focus on different prefixes - ill, im and irr.

Your task today will be to look up the definitions of each of these words in order to find out what they mean. I have done one for you:

illegal - something that is illegal is against the law.

English Challenge - Monday 13th July

Hi year 4,

For our final week of English before the summer holidays we are going to look at a type of poetry called Haiku.

Here is your video lesson:

Haiku Comprehension Session

Today's reading skill will be word meaning, so here is a reminder of how to answer word meaning questions.

Here are your Haiku poems. The teacher on the video explains, but a haiku is a short 3 line descriptive poem. The lines should follow a 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern.

Here are your questions for the today's lesson: