YEAR 4  HOME LEARNING

Set on Wednesday 2.7.25

Due Monday 7.7.25

Reading: Please read with an adult at home a minimum of 3 times a week, and answer questions based on the text.

Spellings: Select the spellings for your English group, the lists can be found below. 

Maths: Mrs Brown's group - Purple Mash - Perimeter and Polygons 

            Mrs Dane's group - Busy Things 

            Mrs Czapla's group and Mrs Janjua's group - My Maths activity

TTRS - Children should be aiming for 10 minutes a day times tables practise.  

 This website helps children learn their times tables facts

4 Zerba songs for assembly

Stage Directions for the Introduction:

All students stomp twice, then clap once, in the famous rhythm of the original song ("stomp, stomp, clap"). Repeat this throughout the song.

Verse 1: Early Humans

(Students mime shivering, then pretending to hunt with spears.)
👣 "Long, long time ago, out in the cold,
👣 People had no houses, just caves and stone."
👣 "Hunting with a spear, chasing after deer,"
👣 "Trying to survive year after year!"

Chorus:

(Students raise their fists in the air and chant together.)
🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)
🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)

Verse 2: Fire & Tools

(Students pretend to strike two stones together, then mime using a hammer and chisel.)
🪨 "Striking up a spark, making some fire,"
🪨 "Now we’ve got warmth, the flames go higher!"
🪨 "Tools from flint, axes and knives,"
🪨 "Helping us hunt, helping us thrive!"

Chorus (Repeat)

🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)
🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)

Verse 3: Cave Paintings & Farming

(Students pretend to paint on a cave wall, then mimic digging and planting seeds.)
🎨 "Painting on the walls, stories to tell,"
🎨 "Hunting, animals – we drew them well!"
🌾 "Then we learned to farm, growing some grain,"
🌾 "No more moving, we stayed the same!"

Final Chorus (Big Finish!)

(Students crouch low and slowly rise while singing, then punch the air for the last "Stone Age!")
🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)
🔥 "We will, we will STONE AGE!" (Stomp, stomp, clap!)
🔥 "We… WERE… the STONE AGE!" (Final stomp, stomp, BIG clap!)

Final Stage Directions:

• All students freeze in a dramatic pose like cavemen for a few seconds before bowing to the audience.

We Are the Champions – Ancient Greece Edition

(To the tune of We Are the Champions)

Stage Directions for the Introduction:

All students stand in a proud, heroic pose, like Greek statues, as the music begins. They sway slightly with the rhythm.

Verse 1: Philosophy & Democracy

(Students gesture as if debating, then pretend to vote with a show of hands.)
🏛 "Long ago, in a land so wise,"
🏛 "Socrates and Plato opened our eyes."
🏛 "Thinking deep, asking ‘Why?’"
🏛 "Aristotle teaching how to reach for the sky!"

🗳 "Athens had a plan, let the people decide,"
🗳 "First democracy – we took great pride!"

Chorus:

(Students raise their arms in a triumphant "V" shape.)
🌍 "We are the Greeks, my friends!"
🌍 "Our ideas live on till the end!"
🌍 "Philosophy, science, democracy, too!"
🌍 "Ancient Greece – we’re part of you!"

Verse 2: Greek Warfare & The Navy

(Students march in place like soldiers, then row an imaginary boat in unison.)
⚔️ "Spartans stood strong, trained to fight,"
⚔️ "Battle of Thermopylae – what a sight!"
⚓ "Ships on the sea, triremes in line,"
⚓ "The navy of Greece, fast and divine!"

Chorus (Repeat)

(Students pound fists on their chests like warriors, then raise their arms again.)
🌍 "We are the Greeks, my friends!"
🌍 "Our ideas live on till the end!"

Verse 3: Theater & Drama

(Students mime putting on masks—one smiling, one frowning—then act out dramatic gestures.)
🎭 "Theater was born, stories were told,"
🎭 "Tragedies, comedies, legends of old."
🎭 "Dionysus watched from above,"
🎭 "Plays full of laughter, war, and love!"

Verse 4: Greece’s Legacy

(Students point to themselves, then spread their arms wide as if referencing the world today.)
🌟 "Look around, can’t you see?"
🌟 "Math and myths, Olympics, and astronomy!"
🌟 "Buildings still stand, words still remain,"
🌟 "The world remembers Greece’s name!"

Final Chorus (Big Finish!)

(Students slowly rise onto tiptoes, fists in the air for the final line.)
🌍 "We are the Greeks, my friends!"
🌍 "Our ideas live on till the end!"
🌍 "Philosophy, science, democracy, too!"
🌍 "Ancient Greece – we’re part of you!" (Final heroic pose!)

Final Stage Directions:

• Hold the final pose for a dramatic pause before bowing together as a group. 🎭

"Another One Bites the Dust" – Henry VIII & the Tudors

(To the tune of Another One Bites the Dust)

Stage Directions for the Introduction:

• Students march in place like royal courtiers. One student (as Henry VIII) stands center stage, looking proud and tapping their foot to the beat.
• A group of students in a semicircle pretend to whisper and gossip as the "wives."

Verse 1: Henry VIII & His Wives

(Henry puffs out his chest, looking smug, while "wives" walk on and off stage in turn.)
👑 "Henry’s here, yeah, he’s on the throne,"
👑 "Six different wives but he’s all alone!"
👑 "Catherine first, she had a girl,"
👑 "So Henry went and changed the world!" (Students point dramatically!)

💔 "Another one leaves the court! Another one leaves the court!"
💔 "Divorced, beheaded, died – divorced, beheaded, survived!"

Verse 2: The Church of England

(Henry mimes ripping up a scroll, then putting on a big crown.)
✝️ "The Pope said no, so I broke away,"
✝️ "Made my own church, had my own way!"
✝️ "More power, more land, took it all,"
✝️ "Built up England, standing tall!" (Students lift arms like building towers.)

Final Chorus (Big Finish!)

(Everyone stomps and claps to the beat while chanting.)
🎶 "Another wife bites the dust!" (Point dramatically at Henry!)
🎶 "Another wife bites the dust!" (Throw hands up in shock!)
🎶 "Divorced, beheaded, died – divorced, beheaded, survived!" (Final pose: Henry shrugs while his "wives" look exasperated!)

🌍 "Radio Ga Ga" – Greek Geography

(To the tune of Radio Ga Ga)

Stage Directions for the Introduction:

• Students sway side to side, then form the shape of Greece with their bodies (islands spreading out, mountains standing tall, etc.).

Verse 1: Mountains & Land

🏔 "Mountains, valleys, rocky land,"
🏔 "Farming's tough, soil is sand."
🏔 "Built on hills, city-states,"
🏔 "All divided, always great!" (Students step apart, arms crossed, then give a proud "Greek warrior" stance.)

Verse 2: Islands & the Sea

🌊 "Islands, islands everywhere,"
🌊 "Traveling by boats was fair!"
🌊 "Sailing far, setting trade,"
🌊 "Olives, grapes – money made!" (Students pretend to row boats, then trade goods.)

Chorus:

🌍 "Greece was, Greece was, Greece was shaped by land and sea!"
🌍 "Mountains kept them all apart, islands helped with trade so free!"

(Students point to a "map" drawn on the floor, acting out the different locations!)

Final Pose:

• Students strike heroic Greek statue poses! 🎭

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Carousel Learning

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At Ryvers, we continue to use Carousel Learning as a useful retrieval and assessment tool that can be used for all subjects and enables teachers to build a solid picture of the learning of all children, continue building on a variety of skills - such as questioning, speaking and listening, identifying key information and retrieval of previous learning, and ensure that no learning opportunity is missed.

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Carousel Learning allows children to access retrieval tasks independently and take more ownership of their learning journey, which are important skills that teachers work to embed from Early Years through to Year 6. Carousel Learning allows children to assess their own tasks and learning across a range of subjects, enables them to learn from their mistakes and helps to promote discussion in class to support their speaking and listening skills as part of our Oracy focus.

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