St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Thursday 25th February 2021
Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 3:15pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 25th February 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you have had good week so far and are back in the swing of Home Learning again. As it’s Fairtrade Fortnight, I have attached a sheet to the blog with some activities you may like to try. You may also like to learn more about Fairtrade by visiting their website here.
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.
Ask someone questions about the chapter you have just read. Start your questions with each of these words: who; what; where; when; why; how; which, and explain.
Remember if you need any new reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Monday 29th February 2021. They all have the suffix -ation.
A SUFFIX is a string of letters that go at the END of a root word, changing or adding to its meaning. Suffixes can show if a word is a noun, adjective, adverb or verb. Sometimes root words change when suffixes are added (eg create could become creation, created or creative, imagine could become imagination, imagined or imaginative).
The suffix -ation is added to verbs to form nouns.
education sensation creation celebration punctuation expectation
calculation hesitation imagination invitation location investigation
Write the long date Thursday 25th February 2021
Practise the spellings by splitting them up into chunks in different colours.
Eg education creation hesitation
A spelling challenge has also been set on Sumdog.
English
Today you are going to be writing the next chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom which you planned yesterday. Read over your planning ideas from yesterday. You should be in a good position to start your writing.
Write the long date Thursday 25th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write the next chapter of Kensuke’s Kingdom?
When you are writing please focus on:
- Handwriting – neat and joined up correctly – please sharpen your pencil before you begin!
- Capital letters for proper nouns (places and people)
- Ambitious vocabulary
- Past tense (it has already happened) and third person (using the pronouns he, she, it, they etc)
- Paragraphs (start a new paragraph for each part of the chapter eg the opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending)
- A variety of sentence openers (see ISPACE and your ideas from yesterday)
- Connecting sentences using words such as and, but, or, yet, so
- Including some correctly punctuated speech BUT NO MORE THAN 6 SENTENCES OF SPEECH
Please time yourself and write for 20 minutes. It does not matter if you do not finish your chapter within this time, however, you should have written nearly one side of A4 in 20 mins.
Read over your work. Then time yourself to write for another 5 minutes.
Read over the last 5 minutes work.
Please give your chapter a title which is appropriate.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 2, 5 and 10 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 a mixture of x3 and x6 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.
Write the short date 25.02.21
Write the title Times tables test
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 10’s from 280 to 450 and back again. Count in 10’s from 1950 to 2100 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 0.1’s (tenths) from 2.8 to 4.5 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Now count in 0.1’s (tenths) from 19.5 to 21.0 and back again – can you go any further? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do you notice now?
What is the relationship between 0.1 and 10?
Maths
Click here to play Daily 10.
Click on play game. Choose Level 3, Ordering, Smallest first, Three-digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc.
You will be given 3, three-digit numbers and you will have to write them down in order from smallest to largest. Remember if the hundreds are the same, you will have to look at the tens to see which has the largest value.
Eg 953 958 932 Smallest to largest 932 953 958
All the numbers have 9 hundreds.
Look at the tens. One number only has 3 tens, so this is the smallest.
Now compare the units / ones. 953 number has 3 ones and 958 has 8 ones. Therefore 958 is the largest number as it has 8 ones.
Today, we are going to learn more about area.
Before you start, write down everything you can remember about area so far. Can you give a definition? What is a closed shape? How can you calculate area?
Write the short date 25.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I make shapes with different areas?
Watch today’s teaching video here.
Open the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Making shapes’.
Complete the worksheet / answer the questions in your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers with the document ‘Making shapes answers’ attached to the blog. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong and try to understand why you made the error. Can you write a sentence to explain what you have learnt today?
Science
Please open the sheet called ‘The Surface of Mars’ attached to the blog. Everything you need for your science lesson is explained in this document.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables)
- A maths challenge all about decimals – tenths
- A spelling challenge based on this weeks spellings (-ation)
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.
A new spelling challenge will start tomorrow.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.