HOME LEARNING Monday 7th December 2020

Date: 6th Dec 2020 @ 6:05pm

Year 4

Home Learning Monday 7^th December 2020

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you all had a lovely weekend with your family.  I am looking forward to seeing your smiling faces on Wednesday!  

Please complete today’s written work in your exercise book, as you will need to bring it back into school when you return on 9^th December.

Well done to the children who took part in the Sumdog challenges last week.  Ezra spent the most amount of time on the Maths challenge, Leo the most amount of time on the Grammar challenge and Leah the most amount of time on the Spelling challenge.  Well done Ezra, Leo and Leah – I will be rewarding you with Dojos when we’re back in school.

Please remember to take part in the Sumdog challenges that started last Friday (4^th December).  I will be seeing on Friday who has spent the most time on the challenges and there are plenty of Dojo’s up for grabs!

Reading

Today, 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 use lots of expression in your reading today? Think about the story and what you know about the characters so far, use the voice you think the character would have.

Ask someone at home for the meaning of words you are unsure of or look them up in a dictionary.

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

Your spellings for this week all start with either uni, bi or tri.    

unicycle         universe       universal      unicorn         bicycle        

biceps           biathlon       binoculars    bifocal         triangle

triple            triathlon      tripod           tricycle        trilogy

Please make sure you practise them on Sumdog.

Today, split the words up into chunks and write them out in different colours.

Eg    unicycle           universe       bicycle         biceps          tripod          trilogy

You will be tested on these words in class next Thursday (10^th December 2020).

Times tables

1. Practise a times table / division fact you know you find tricky using

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Play ‘Hit the Answer’ 3 times - see if you can improve on how many you get right in 1 minute.  Then play ‘Hit the Question’ 3 times, again see if you can improve on how many you get right in 1 minute.

Add your results to your ‘Hit the button’ log. Are you getting more right? Are you getting quicker?

2. Practise any other times tables or division facts you like using ‘Hit the Button’, make sure it is something you know you could improve on (remember to keep going over tables / division facts you should know).  Repeat this and see if you can beat your score.
3. Practise your 6 times tables with a catchy tune …..   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rYbk9PNuM

English

1. Descriptive writing

Click on the link below and look at the picture. Imagine the door was a portal to another place, where would it take you? There is also a poem next to the image which may give you some ideas.

https://www.j2e.com/?id=R2lSODdsRUpBTHNLWW40bg==&wp&blog=2&revision=3

I would like you to compose a short piece of writing today using lots of description.  Think about the door, does it open up to a place that is in the past, the present or the future. Is it a place in this country or another country, or even a different world?

Use your senses to help with your description, what can you:

• See
• Hear
• Smell
• Taste
• Feel

Choose your vocabulary carefully to fully describe the place and create a feeling of atmosphere.  Write in the first person using pronouns such as I, my etc.

Before you start, make a list of ideas like the example below – these are just ideas, your ideas will come from whatever place is behind that door.  This will help with vocabulary. You should also write down some adjectives and adverbs to help when you come to write.

See	Smell	Hear	Taste	Touch
Dinosaurs Sharks / sea life Alien beings Animals - tigers / lions Trees / rainforest Unknown shapes Bright colours Victorian people  Romans Darkness	Flowers Food - roasting Perfume Rubbish rotting Salty sea Manure Unknown sweet odour Blood Decay Fire / smoke	Animal noises - fierce Whispering voices Music Footsteps Singing Doors slamming Cart wheels on roads Horses hooves  Arguing Roaring Crackling of fire	Fire Fruit Meat Salt Something sweet Something savoury Popcorn Metal Blood Candyfloss	Nothing - I am floating Food An animal's fur Water – rain, moisture Clouds Coldness Metal - hot or cold Fur clothing Chainmail armour Rough skin of a dinosaur

 

The focus is on:

• Capital letters and punctuation
• Correct spellings
• Neat, joined up handwriting
• Creating a feeling of mystery / atmosphere
• Using ambitious vocabulary
• Describing the place using exciting adverbs, adjectives, a variety of sentences (eg long, short) and a variety of sentence openers

Write today’s date and the learning objective, Can I use my senses and ambitious vocabulary to describe a scene?

2. Please update your self-isolation diary for today.

Maths

1. As a warm-up, please have a go at the Do / undo addition puzzle at

https://www.mathplayground.com/do_undo_addition.html  

Click on the arrow to take you to the game.  The first game is straightforward, adding the numbers together and dragging the answer to the correct place.  However, the next round ‘Take numbers apart’ is a little trickier – you need to work out which 2 numbers add together to make the sum.  There are 3 levels and they get progressively harder.   

Over the past few weeks, we have worked hard to practise and refine our mental addition and subtraction using different strategies.  Today, I am going to give you some addition and subtraction questions and I would like you to write in your books, how you would answer them, using jottings / a numberline to explain your strategy (we have done something similar in class).  Remember that we have practised strategies such as partitioning, compensating, counting up, doubling, using known facts, bridging 10 and 100, pairs to 10 etc.  Which strategy you use will depend on the numbers in the question and how you like to calculate (for example, I like doubles and near doubles) however, you should be using a variety of strategies.

2. Open the ‘Which way and why’ sheet attached to this blog

Either print it off or write the question and your methods in your books.

Remember to use a numberline / show your jottings.  You are recalling and practising strategies which you feel are most appropriate for the numbers given in the question.  If you struggle with this activity, do what you can and move onto the next question.  Please have a go and do what you can, some questions are challenging.

Mighty Maths Challenges

For those of you who enjoy a challenge, here are today’s challenges. Please feel free to have a go, making sure that you show all your working out, trial and improvement jottings and full written explanations (where appropriate) to demonstrate your understanding. Have fun!

1. Christmas Tree Lights - click on the link below

https://www.transum.org/software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/Students/Christmas_Tree_Lights.asp?Level=1

Level 1 - Consecutive numbers are numbers which are next to each other eg 1 and 2

Level 3 – Prime numbers are numbers which have only 2 factors, 1 and itself (this is quite advanced learning – a factor is a whole number which divides into another number exactly, leaving no remainder, so 3 is a factor of 6 because it divides into 6 without leaving a remainder – don’t worry if you don’t fully understand this at this stage).  The prime numbers in the question are 2, 3, 5 and 7, so no two of these numbers can be joined by the wire. Have a go and have fun! (No answers will be published for this challenge as there are a few and you can check whether your answer is right or not).

2. Rows of Coins – see the sheet attached to the blog

Read the instructions carefully and see if you can use your reasoning skills to solve the problems. The solutions will be published tomorrow.

Mighty Maths Challenge answers for Friday 4^th December 2020

Question 1 – Dressing Elves

Did you find a systematic way to work out all the possibilities?

Question 2 – Christmas puddings

478g + 398g = 876g                    502g – 478g = 24g

502g + 398g = 900g                    605g + 478g = 1083g

605g + 398g = 1003g                  605g – 502g = 103g

605g – 478g = 127g                     478g – 398g = 80g

502g + 478g = 980g                    605g – 398g = 207g

RE

Yesterday was the second Sunday of Advent, when the second purple candle on the Advent wreath was lit – it represents hope.  The second candle of the Advent wreath is sometimes called the Bethlehem Candle to remind us of the place in which preparations were made to receive and cradle Jesus.  Hope is a gift that we must be prepared for – God gives us the gift of hope which we turn into faith.

Today I would like you to write a poem or a prayer about hope – what do we hope for? What does having hope do? How can we give hope to others? How does having hope help our faith? These are not questions for you to answer in your writing, but they may help with some ideas.

Make sure you write in your best joined up handwriting and decorate your work beautifully if you wish.

Music

Please remember to practise our nativity songs – we will only have 1 day to practise when we are back at school!    

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Remember to complete today’s goal and tick it off on your chart. Have a lovely evening Year 4. 

 

 

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