Year 4 Easter Holiday Ideas & Resources
Well done children and parents for getting yourselves organised into a new routine of learning. You’re doing BRILLIANTLY. Thank you for all the photos that you have sent in. And a BIG well done to your parents. You’re BRILLIANT too.
Below you will find some suggestions for activities / home learning that you could do over the ’Easter holidays’. There is a variety of activities and websites that you could visit. There is no expectation for you to do any / all of them. Have a look at them and see which you have time for, would like to do. If you have trouble accessing any websites, please email me and I’ll try to help.
At the bottom of this page are links from Dorset Council that you may find useful.
Well done again everybody. Keep well and look after each other.
HOT NEWS …. I have just heard from May. She has been participating in the radio programme called radioblogging.net.
Pie Corbett, Deputy Mitchell, Ian Rockey and Russell Prue are on the live show every week day from 9.30 for about an hour and children (and grownups) can submit their work to the show.
I have just listened to it and it sounds great. Try it out. It might be your ‘cup of tea’.
Thanks May
SHAKESPEARE
If you have enjoyed learning about Shakespeare then here are some ideas for you to explore his plays and the time he lived in.
1. A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream
Finish watching all the episodes of this Shakespeare play.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-a-midsummer-nights-dream-index/z6rcgwx
If you scroll down the page of each episode, there are KS2 activities. If there are any activities that grab your attention, have a go at them.
2. Explore more about Shakespeare and his plays with the two Newsround presenters at this site ..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-i-am-will-shakespeare/zh9df4j
3. Watch and take part in a recorded ‘live’ lesson about Shakespeare. The lesson focuses on aspects of Shakespeare’s language and characters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/shakespeare-unplugged-live-lesson/zrpty9q
4. Scroll down to the bottom of this link and you will find even more Shakespeare videos & animations.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ks2-english/zbrwnrd
5. Scene in a Shoebox.
Unfortunately, we never got to build our ‘scene in a shoebox’ from Macbeth. Perhaps you might want to have a go at this over the Easter holidays. If you don’t have a shoebox you could ‘magpie’ ideas from this link:
https://57d0540d-f50f-4af1-a910-99187fae90d3.filesusr.com/ugd/1b6bbb_22020028212446e583ec7c05612e4018.pdf
6. Create a Shakespeare portrait.
We did have a go at doing some portrait drawings of Shakespeare. You could try creating a new portrait using whatever materials you have at home.
Here’s a link to the CBBC’s Art Ninja that we watched in school
https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/about-us/news-media/press-releases/national-campaign-uses-shakespeare-boost-creativity-classroom/#
7. There are loads of Shakespeare ideas on this Shakespeare Week website
https://www.shakespeareweek.org.uk/
READING
Don’t forget to keep reading every day. When you have finished a book, why not try a book quiz on Accelerated Reading site:
https://ukhosted74.renlearn.co.uk/2236795/
If you don’t know your username and password, email me and I’ll send them to you.
If you use the Lexia programme …
https://www.lexiacore5.com/
… then keep going on it for 10 minutes a day. Again, if you don’t know your username and password, email me and I’ll send them to you.
WRITING
If you would like to do some writing then visit The Literacy Shed at this link:
https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html
This is a great site, full of different genres of shed eg The Adventure Shed, The Fantasy Shed. The Music Video Shed. The Film Trailer Shed. The Inventors Shed. Something for everybody. In each ‘Shed’ there are lots of short animations that are great just to watch by themself. But they also have writing and discussion ideas below each animation. Do any of the writing ideas grab you? Have a go at some of them.
OTHER IDEAS:
A. Don’t forget that you have access to TTRockstars .. follow this link
https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth
Email me if you don’t have your username or password
B. How about learning some French at this website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/primary-school-songs-mfl-primary-french/zkscbdm
C. If you like music and want to find out about the different parts of songs, look on this website
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8
… perhaps you could have a go a composing a melody or having a go at using your voices and clapping … see this video https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/music-ks3-composing-a-piece-of-music-using-unpitched-percussion/zfdmpg8
The Kindness Calendar from the British Red Cross is a free resource for 7-18 year olds, helping them with kind ideas that they can carry out and share with friends and family. Download the free activities here: https://tinyurl.com/rohl5kc
White Rose Maths – Home Learning with guides for parents if they want to keep going with maths but not follow MNP – there’s a Maths Party every day at 10
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Cornerstones Love to Read Guides
Free access to Cornerstones’ Love to Read resources for home learning
Cornerstones Home Learning Challenges
10 Big Ideas – FREE home learning challenges for children and families
Newsround
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
Joe Wicks Daily workout
https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html
Message from Jo Haine (Vicar of Emmanuel):
“I’ve been thinking about how to help families think about Easter from home. I’ve found some really good resources that I’ve turned into videos and put onto YouTube. The first video can be found on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRB2W0NXTp8&t=3s
Dorset Council resources
There’s lots of information on the Dorset Council website, this includes contact information and ideas for things to do, including for children at home. Here are some of the links:
Online resources for families https://mailchi.mp/dorsetcouncil/online-resources
Schools and families: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/emergencies-severe-weather/emergencies/coronavirus/schools-and-families.aspx
Information and landing page: https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/emergencies-severe-weather/emergencies/coronavirus/coronavirus-covid-19.aspx
Co-ordinated Community Response: Information about our co-ordinated community response is available online here.