St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Thursday 11th February 2021
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 2:41pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. I have seen some super videos showcasing your dancing for St Oswald’s Dance Week. If you haven’t managed to send your video yet, keep practising and make sure it’s uploaded by 12 noon today, so that we can include it in our whole school video! Click on the link here to see the dance video again.
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.
Use lots of expression in your reading today. Try and think about how the character would speak and what sort of voice they would have – a deep, gruff voice, or a high pitched squeaky voice? How else might they speak?
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Tuesday 23rd February 2021 (when we come back to school after half-term). They are another set of homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
him hymn new knew mist missed heel heal
side sighed piece peace rain rein reign
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Practise each of the words using look, cover, write, check.
Choose some of the homophones and write your own sentences using them correctly. Make sure these are different to the words you chose yesterday.
For example, him and hymn.
The muddy football boots belonged to him.
My favourite hymn is ‘All things Bright and Beautiful’.
English
Today you are going to be editing the description of the storm you wrote yesterday. You will need a different coloured pen or pencil (to use like you would your purple editing pen).
- Read through your work carefully OUT LOUD (to check you haven’t missed out any words and that it makes sense!) At the bottom write 2 things you are proud of and 1 thing that you would improve if you were to write the description again.
- Read through your work and find a short sentence where more information could be given – use a different colour pen or pencil to edit it (could you use and, but, or, so, because, when, while, as etc to extend the sentence)
- Read through your work and correct any words that need capital letters. Correct any words where you have a capital letter but it shouldn’t be there (correct with your coloured pen or pencil)
- Read through your work and include punctuation where needed, for example, is a sentence too long and you need to split it up with full stops?
- Read through your work and improve 3 sentence openers – check the ISPACE sheet from yesterday for suggestions and the last point on the success criteria
- Choose 3 words which you could change to more ambitious vocabulary.
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I edit my work?
Re-write your work in your best joined up handwriting with all your corrections. Compare it to the original. Remember, writing is a process, we need to read, improve, read improve …..
Please share your edited work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 2, 4 and 8 times tables.
Children in school will be tested on their tables today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on your individual target or ÷12 if you are on ‘free’ tables. Ask them to call out your tables in a mixed up order. This is how I do it in school – ask the question twice, count to 8, then ask the next question.
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Write the title Times tables test
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 10’s from 62 to 182 and back again. Count in 10’s from 1947 to 2107 and back again. Think about what you found tricky? Write the numbers down as you say them – what patterns do you notice?
Please count in 8’s from 100 to 196 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 8’s from 40 to 160 and back again. Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Doubles/Halves, Halves up to 250 Multiple of 10. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. Remember to write the answers down and to make jottings!
Eg Half 270 Partition into 200 and 70
Half 200 = 100 Half 70 = 35 100 + 35 = 135
(You could further partition 70 into 60 and 10. Half 60 = 30 Half 10 = 5
30 + 5 = 35)
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and accurately each time.
Today, we are going to use the written method of multiplication to solve word problems. This will build on the work you completed on Monday and Wednesday.
Write the short date 11.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I use the grid method to solve word problems?
Please watch the videos which will be uploaded to Seesaw on Thursday morning. These videos will explain how to use the grid method and answer word problems successfully.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiplication word problems’ attached to the blog.
Complete the worksheet and answer the questions in your Home Learning book. You must use the grid method AND write a sentence to answer the question as these are the strategies we are practising today!
Quite a few of you found multiplying a 3 digit number by a 1 digit number tricky yesterday. Please try your best to work through the questions today – there are some examples of how to set out grid multiplication on the worksheet, as well as various videos you can watch on Seesaw from earlier this week.
Check your answers with the document ‘Multiplication answers’ attached to the blog. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong and try to find where you made the error. Was it your multiplication or your addition which you found tricky? Did you remember to write a sentence to answer the question properly?
Science
Click here to download today’s final lesson in this topic on the properties and everyday uses of gases.
Make a poster as suggested on slide 6, using the word bank to help you.
Write the long date Thursday 11th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe some everyday uses of Gases?
Then use pictures and writing to show off your knowledge. A good example of the poster is shown on slide 9.
Can you find out what kind of gas is in crisp packets and why? You could add this to your poster.
Air is actually a mixture of gases – can you find out what they are? A good way to show the composition of air is to draw 100 small circles, representing the ‘whole’ (100%) of air. Colour them according to the percentage of each gas in air eg oxygen makes up 21% of air so you would colour 21 circles one colour to represent this. What is the rest? Remember to put a key at the side to say which gas each colour is. Add this to your poster too!
If you have a balloon, some bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, you could try the balloon experiment described on the left of slide 7. You could just mix the bicarb and vinegar and watch! Do this where you can clean up easily! What gas have you made in this chemical reaction?
I hope you’ve enjoyed this topic on solids, liquids and gases – the states of matter. You have worked as proper chemists to investigate their properties. Well done! We’ll move on to a new topic next half term.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise counting in multiples of 4, 5 and 8
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s new homophone spellings
Please make sure you log on and have a go! It is important that you practise these skills as they are invaluable in helping you to learn your number facts and multiplication and division facts. In addition, they will enable you to calculate accurately and at speed when working mentally.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.