Good morning year 4. Here are your learning tasks for today:
Maths: more telling the time (My Maths set)
Topic: Art
Writing: description
Additional: reading and quizzing, times tables and spelling practice
Here is some more information if required:
Maths: I have set some more challenging time questions on My Maths.
Challenge 1: quarter past/quarter to and telling the time
Challenge 2: introduces timetables
Challenge 3: more timetables
Topic: Art
Choose your favourite African animal. Using the resources you have available, create a piece of art – we would love to see them! Here are some ideas:
- an elephant made from stone
- a zebra from black and white paper
- a lion’s mane made from tissue paper
- a sketch using shading
Use your artistic flair and be resourceful.
Writing: to use adjectives and adverbs in order to write a description. Extension: to use prepositional openers
‘Google an African scene’ or use the one below for inspiration. Write a descriptive piece of writing to describe the scene.

Examples and tutorials:
Adjectives: humid, dry, dusty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc
Adverbs: slowly, carefully
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zgsgxfr
Prepositional opener: Below the tree, a stripy zebra walks slowly through the dry glass.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zw38srd
Could you record the description?
Have a great day!
Miss Reece