Music YEAR 4

Summer Term Week 12

(13th July 2020)

Here is this week’s work – full of ideas and choices for you to pick and choose from

throughout the week.

REMEMBER to upload examples of your work onto Kidblog

https://kidblog.org/class/year-4-201920/posts

Maths to be completed every day.

1 Times tables Rockstars/Numbots - Work on your number facts everyday – by doing

these 5 times a week you will get better and better!

2 Hit the Button - Play on Hit the Button each day, working on your number bonds,

doubles or times tables!

3 Visit Topmarks - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/problem-

solving There are many mathematical games to choose from.

4 Daily task – Choose from one of the tasks which have been attached separately.

Please write your answers in your exercise books. Remember how to set out your work

neatly and date it.

Use it or lose it! Keep your brain exercised!

CHALLENGE

Do you know who Mozart is?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) was an Austrian composer. Mozart

composed music in several genres, including opera and symphony.

Interesting Facts

1. By the age of 6 Mozart was writing his own musical compositions.

2. He even composed his first great mass at the age of 12. In the year 1770, at the age

of 14 years, Mozart wrote his first opera, entitled ‘Mitridate Re di Ponto’. It was at

this time that the world knew what a great man had been born on the earth’s surface.

People used to believe that listening to Mozart

increased one’s mental ability to perform some

mathematical tasks (The Mozart Effect).

Scientists now believe that listening to any music

will in fact have a short-term positive impact on

one’s brain power.

Try learning the 8 times tables to music and see if it helps you to remember them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OshqTDn2_I (skip the advert)

Spellings Try to complete one every day if you can.

Prefix or suffix? Add a prefix, suffix or both to each root word to make a new word. Don’t

get tricked because some root words don’t have a prefix or suffix!

Prefix Root word Suffix EXAMPLE: unbelievable, disbelieve believe unbelievable, believed, believing,

believes

natural

naughty

notice

occasion

often

CHALLENGE

Scramble all five spellings and challenge a parent to unscramble the

letters. Give them two minutes and then check their work.

Spelling Detective Correct the spelling mistakes in this poem – Write the correct spellings in your book.

Challenging vocabulary of the week – Look up the words, composer, symphony

and classical to find their meaning.

Practise year 3 and 4 statutory spelling list below:

I fink a life in music is a life butifully spent

and this is wot I have devoted my life too.

Just becus a man lacks

the yoose of his eyes

doesnt mean he lacks

vision.

Reading Weekly reading tasks. Aim to read for 15 minutes every day and complete one activity from

the list below per day.

1 Your weekly reading comprehension task - Complete the weekly comprehension

activity attached to the email.

2 World samba band record smashed at Royal Albert Hall- Visit BBC website and

read about how more than 1500 children broke a world record!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/26421129

3 Word detective – our word of the week is inspirational. What does it mean?

CHALLENGE:

https://www.classicsforkids.com/music/musical_period.php?id=Baroque

Johann Sebastian Bach

https://www.classicsforkids.com/music/musical_period.php?id=Classical

Ludwig van Beethoven

https://www.classicsforkids.com/music/musical_period.php?id=Modern

Gustav Holst (you will need to scroll down the page to find him)

INSPIRATIONAL

Follow the links below then research and listen to the

music of these three inspirational composers. Listen to

special web programs about periods in music history.

Which period or composer do you like the most?

https://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=ssuWH5gx3j

8#action=share

Listen to the world’s

largest samba band

..here.

Weekly writing tasks. Aim to do one a day.

1 Note taking - Listen to this piece of music called Peter and the

Wolf, written by Prokofiev. Whilst listening, list any words that

come to your mind e.g elation, cheerfulness. You could also draw a

picture of what you think the song represents.

https://safeyoutube.net/w/fTz6

2 Story Writing – Please visit the website below and listen to the

story – Peter and the Wolf. Then write your own version of this

story. Remember to use expanded noun phrases, adverbs, a range

of conjunctions and try to include some speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va8Uz6MoKLg

3. Information Booklet - Make a mini-book about the instrument

families. Include: names of instruments within that family, famous musicians who use them,

country of origin and labelled illustrations. These websites are full of information:

https://kids.kiddle.co/Musical_instrument https://www.classicsforkids.com/

4. Advert - Invent a new instrument. Write a fact file about your instrument or design an

advert for the instrument when it goes on sale.

5. Favourite record – Can you find out the lyrics to one of your favourite songs? There are

plenty of websites you could use. Do the lyrics tell a story? What are they about? Can you see

what imaginative words you can find? If you’re not sure what it means, look it up with your

adult! Copy out the lyrics in your best joined handwriting.

6. DIARY WRITING – Mrs Banfield’s writing task is on the following page.

REMEMEBER to read your work and check it! It is a good idea to reread every sentence when

you have finished writing each one.

Here are some ideas of the things you might like to write about –

• Start by writing a general comment of how your week was

• Write about how the relaxing of the lockdown rules has impacted on you and your family

• Write about the friends you have now been allowed to see

• Write about something you are looking forward to

Success Criteria:

Punctuation: try to include speech marks “Happy birthday!” sang the everyone happliy.

Compound conjunctions: (FANBOYS) for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so

Expanded noun phrases with preposition; under, behind, before, between, next to

Adverbs: happily, luckily, ordinarily

To include ‘drop clause’ (relative clauses); ,who ,which ,where

Causal Conjunctions: because, unless, so that, otherwise, therefore, however

Hello Everyone! I hope that you have had another great week, and that you have managed to find

time to write your diary. As the lockdown eases once more, we got to see our best friends.

Topic Learning project – choose different tasks to complete each day throughout the week.

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for you to learn about the different periods in music,

great musical artists and different genres of music.

1. Make an instrument – Make your own musical instrument with adult supervision.

(be careful of choke hazards)

2. Timeline – Follow the link below to learn more about

the periods in music. Then create your own timeline of

key events.

https://www.classicsforkids.com/composers/composers_timeline.php

3. Rhythm Maker or Rhythm Breaker – Do you have good rhythm?

Test your skills with this game.

Follow this link - https://www.classicsforkids.com/games.html

4. Create a Poster – Who is your favourite popstar or group?

Find a picture of them and design your own poster of them.

5. Watch a West End Musical – Research the top ten children’s musicals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYrBFer7hk8 Which one would you like to see?

Perhaps you have seen one. Write a review and discuss the music, costumes and plot.

BOREDOM BUSTERS

SPARE TIME LIST –

Research key facts and create a quiz about a famous musician.

Use your hairbrush as a microphone and sing as if no one is listening.

Find your favourite songs with lyrics and sing along – singing is good

for your soul!!!

Make up your own song.

Play, ‘Guess my Song’. LA LA LA three notes of a song and see if

anyone can guess what it is.

Make your own drum kit with pots and pans and then make some

musical drum sounds.

Play, ‘Copy Cat’. Clap a rhythm and see if someone can copy it exactly.

Play musical bumps (when the music stops, the last one to sit down is

out).

Listen to music on the radio and dance around your sitting room.

Choose your favourite musical and have a themed family party.

Useful websites you may like to visit:

Charanga: https://charanga.com/site/

Times Table Rockstars: https://ttrockstars.com/

Here are a few websites you can use to practise and reinforce your spelling skills:

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html

http://www.spellzone.com/games