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  • Week beginning 22/03/21

    If you are at home isolating, please complete the activities and lessons below. Choose one lesson for each subject.  All of the tasks are linked to our current learning in Maths, English and topic and will help you understand the different areas that we will be covering in class.

    Maths: tenths, hundredths and decimals.

    Watch the lessons on tenths, hundredths and decimals. Then complete the worksheets below:

    Tenths and hundredths: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3d83j6 

    What are decimals?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/zsbd7p3

    Worksheets:

    Day 1: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y4-Spring-Block-4-WO1-Recognise-tenths-and-hundredths-2019.pdf

    Day 2: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y4-Spring-Block-4-WO2-Tenths-as-decimals-2019.pdf

    Day 3: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y4-Spring-Block-4-WO3-Tenths-on-a-place-value-grid-2019.pdf

    Day 4 and 5: Complete page 1 on Thursday and page 2 on Friday: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Y4-Spring-Block-4-WO4-Tenths-on-a-number-line-2019.pdf

    Topic

    Learn all about where the water in Birmingham comes from and how it gets to us. Then have a look at how the water we use everyday is cleaned and made safe for us to drink again.

    Where it comes from: https://www.elanvalley.org.uk/discover/reservoirs-dams/birminghams-water#:~:text=Water%20is%20extracted%20from%20Caban,the%20available%20water%20for%20Birmingham.

    https://www.grapevinebirmingham.com/a-brief-story-of-clean-water-in-birmingham/

    Why: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-37472263

    How it is cleaned (treated): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW6GBciRHLg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdN3g85zfzM

    Join Molly for the journey of water. Click the link and follow the stages.

    https://www.severntrent.education/

    Spellings

    This week in spellings we are focusing on words ending with the 'shun' sound. There are many different graphemes - 'sion', 'ssion', 'tion' and 'cian' - for this sound so make sure you try and identify the correct ones for the words you want to spell. Have a go at this lesson on shun endings in Spelling frame, click on the box that says practice/test: 

    https://spellingframe.co.uk/spelling-rule/17/13-Endings-which-sound-like--spelt%E2%80%93tion%E2%80%93sion%E2%80%93ssion%E2%80%93cian-(1-of-2)

    Daily Tasks/Key skills

    Every day you must also complete the following: