St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Friday 8th January 2021
Date: 7th Jan 2021 @ 3:17pm
Year 4
Home Learning Friday 8th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good evening last night and completed your work successfully yesterday. I can’t believe it’s Friday already! Make sure you keep positive and try and do something fun and exciting this weekend.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Can you describe one of the characters – what do they look like and what sort of person are they? Explain how you know.
You can find even more books to read on our website. Go to Year 4, Home Learning and click on Oxford Owl. Use the class login and password and explore lots of books to read.
Spelling
This week’s spellings all had an apostrophe in. Children in school will be tested on these words today. Therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Make sure you do the ‘test’ in your Home Learning book and check any that you get wrong.
The words are:
they’ll aren’t won’t we’ve
couldn’t who’s would’ve there’s
they’ve can’t shouldn’t you’ve
New spellings
Here are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 14th January 2021. All the words end in ‘ture’ or ‘sure’
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
Copy the new words into your book carefully. You can practise them in your book and they will be on Sumdog from 4pm today.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Scroll to pg 12 – Characters in stories
Read the character profile of Willy Wonka. It provides information about his age, where he lives, siblings, appearance and personality.
Write the long date Friday 8th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I complete two character profiles?
Please complete a character profile for EITHER Polly (pg 13) or Pete (pg 14) (you can print the page from the booklet or draw the character and use the headings in the booklet to write your profile.)
AND
Please complete a character profile for EITHER Dodgy Rodger (pg 15) or Raucus Reggie (pg 16) (you can print the page from the booklet or draw the character and use the headings in the booklet to write your profile.)
Focus on descriptive language, spellings and creative but sensible suggestions for your chosen characters.
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to goto ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Maths
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Kilometres’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
and watch the lesson, Kilometres,
OR click on the link below for the video
Write the short date 08.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate equivalent lengths m and kilometres?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers equivalent lengths mm and cm’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
On Monday, we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
RE
Our new topic is ‘Community’.
Each one of us belongs to several different communities, e.g. our family community, the school community, the parish community or the area where we live (our neighbourhood) etc. If you are part of a team or a member of a group then they too are another community that you belong to.
During the past year we have all seen the effects of the global Coronavirus pandemic. You will have heard about lots of ways in which communities have worked together to help and support each other. You might have done something yourself like collecting food for the local foodbank or you may have written to people in hospital or a care home to show that you are thinking about them. You may have also taken part in ‘clapping for carers’ to show how much we appreciate the work that they do to help us in our communities.
Think about your own ‘class community’. What makes it function well? What are the ways in which individuals help make the class community a happy one?
Write the long date Friday 8th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe the communities I belong to?
To start our topic, I would like you to write the word COMMUNITY in the middle of your page and write around the outside / draw pictures to show all the communities you belong to (or would usually belong to without the pandemic). For example, you may write things like, My family, St Oswald’s Primary School, Year 4, Dance club, Gymnastics club, Cubs, Football Team etc. I’m sure you can come up with lots of other ideas. Try and include a small picture for each community too.
Focus on spellings, capital letters and presenting your work beautifully.
Underneath this work, write a few sentences to explain how people help make our class community a happy one. What do people in our class do which make it the lovely, friendly place it is?
Music
Click on the link below and follow the instructions, pausing when told to. Have fun!
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/body-percussion-basics-69j30t
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested next week, this challenge will start at 4pm tonight)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.