Hello and happy Friday :  ) We hope you are all ok. Look forward to you being able to join us for our whole-school assembly and class Google Meet. Today, we are going to develop our understanding of reasoning questions in Maths, applying different strategies. Which ones help you calculate efficiently?

In English, we'll continue to choose and use appropriate vocabulary to describe characters. Which ambitious new words could you try in your writing? Don't forget to log into Mr Byers Music lesson and practise your singing skills.

Our new Art topic for this term is all about how to draw people. Today we're learning how to see what we draw as lots of simple shapes that we then add detail too. Don't stop striving to do your best! Have a great day and a restful weekend.

MATHS Consolidating division strategies

In today's lesson, we will be consolidating division strategies by solving a variety of division reasoning questions.

CLICK HERE to begin the lesson.

ENGLISH - Borrowers Lesson 5

To develop a rich understanding of words associated with large objects

In this lesson, we will introduce new vocabulary, identify word pairs and synonyms and apply the vocabulary in sentences.

CLICK HERE to begin the lesson

MUSIC with Mr Byers

We have emailed the username and password to your parents, you can email year4@stmartinscofe.com to ask your teachers for it too.

CLICK HERE to login to the website

ART

Today we begin a new Art unit that looks at how we can learn to draw the human body. In this lesson we will find out how looking for basic shapes such as triangles and circles can help us to simplify body shapes and make them easier to draw. You'll be introduced to the work of the artist Julian Opie who used strong colour and clear shapes in his pictures. Have a look at the pictures below. Which shapes can you see in the bodies of the people shown? Then, read through the instructions on your Art sheets. Can you create an image in the style of Julian Opie? Watch the video in the Brain Break Activities section if you want to see more about how to draw in his style.

BRAIN BREAK ACTIVITES

CLICK HERE to hear Cressida Cowell read chapter 14 of How to Train Your Dragon

CLICK HERE to watch a video on how to draw in the style of Julian Opie

PHOTOGRAPH COMPETITION

Yesterday's photo was the big fluffy bee! What's today's mystery photo?