Year 4 - A Super Start and Home Learning - 7th September 2018

We have a great first 3 days in year 4 and everyone is really rising to the challenges of new responsibilities and routines.  Many marvelous me points have been earned already, so if you haven't already signed up please do so as you will be able to view all of your child's achievements.  Also today I have given the children their first piece of year 4 home learning.  There is a choice of activities to have a go at:

Home learning - Year 4 - Week 1

Well, it already seems like we’ve been back forever!  Each week, on a Friday, I will be sending home a home learning activity to be completed by the following Friday.  As we have launched into our Shakespeare topic already, this piece of home learning has a Shakespeare theme.

Please complete one of the following activities:

Make a mask of William Shakespeare and recite famous quotes.  “To be or not to be…” is a good place to start!

Find out more about Tudor times and what it was like to live at the same time as Shakespeare.

Continue with spell writing for Prospero (The main character in the play we are studying).

Find out how many plays and poems William Shakespeare wrote.

Make your own magic potion from things in your garden (ask an adult first).  Label it to tell us what it does.

Draw your own picture of Prospero, Miranda, Ariel or Caliban and label it, telling us a little about their characters.

Design your own magic staff to be used by Prospero to create magic and mayhem!  (You could use an old stick).

Draw a picture of William Shakespeare and add some interesting facts about him.

You may do more than one if you wish, but only if you have time!

Also remember that you may have some spellings in your log books if you work with me for Read Write Inc Spelling (these will be written in the children’s Spelling Log books).  Please don’t worry if your child doesn’t have these as some groups are done within the lesson.

And lastly; read, read, read!  Children who read succeed. We will shortly be launching our accelerated reader scheme in school, in the meantime please read books, magazines, subtitles, websites, instructions, recipes, signs… the list is endless.