St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Thursday 28th January 2021
Date: 27th Jan 2021 @ 2:54pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 28th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are well and keeping positive. Well done for all the work you have completed at home so far – I am always impressed by what I see on Seesaw.
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 predict what you think will happen next? Make sure you use reasons from the text to back up why you think this will happen.
Spelling
This week’s spellings all have the prefix ‘inter’. Children in school will be tested on these words today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Write the date in your book - Thursday 28th January 2021 and the title Spelling test and complete the test underneath. Once you’ve completed the test, check any words that you got wrong. Good luck! The words are:
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
If you wish, either re-read or listen again to Chapter 2 and part of Chapter 3, upto page 29. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio for Chapter 2 is below. Please see yesterday’s Seesaw for an audio of Chapter 3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Write the long date Thursday 28th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write an informal letter?
Today you are going to be writing your letter from Michael to Eddie. Please read over the document attached to the blog called ‘Example formal letter’ again. This shows how to set out your letter and explains the features of an informal letter.
Use the date and address on at the bottom of the page for your letter.
Read over your planning from yesterday to refresh your memory.
In your writing today, please focus on:
- Capital letters
- Correct spellings
- Beautiful handwriting
- Using paragraphs
- Correct punctuation
- Ambitious vocabulary
- Using subordinating conjunctions (see ‘Conjunctions’ sheet attached to the blog)
Please share your work on Seesaw
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 ÷9 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 28.01.21
Write the title Times table test
Check your answers carefully.
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 100’s from 800 to 2200 and back again. Count in 100’s from 50 to 1250 and back again. Write the numbers down if this helps! Think about what you found tricky. What patterns did you notice?
Please count in 12’s from 12 to 144 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 2 onto your last number if counting up, or subtract 10 then 2 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 12 24 36 36 + 10 = 46 + 2 = 48 60 etc
Maths
Use the link below to play ‘Fruit splat group counting’
https://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math/early-math/group-count-game/
Choose a number eg 5. Choose whether to play in relaxed mode (without being timed) or timed mode. You will be shown arrays, all connected to the multiple 5. See how quickly you can work out what the array represents and click on the answer. Play the game various times, using different multiples (choosing different numbers).
Watch the video which will be sent on Seesaw on Thursday morning. This video will explain a mental multiplication strategy to use when multiplying a 2 digit number by a 1 digit number.
After watching the video, complete the worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Mental multiplication – partitioning’.
MAKE SURE YOU PRACTISE USING THE STRATEGY GIVEN and SHOW YOUR WORKING OUT.
Then, use the answer sheet to check your answers.
Please upload your work to seesaw.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
Science
Write the long date Thursday 28th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I investigate how quickly water evaporates from different containers?
Read through the slides, paying careful attention to the scientific vocabulary. Please make sure you understand the words on slide 9 so that you can use them when you write about your investigation.
Click on the link to find today’s lesson.
You can choose either Can I investigate how quickly water evaporates from different containers? using the powerpoint resource to help….
Or a different investigation you could do involves wetting tea towels and timing how long they take to dry. This one is quicker than waiting for bowls of water to evaporate.
You could use 3 tea towels made from different fabrics, or you could use 3 of the same tea towel and change a different variable. Think about what you will need to keep the same to make sure it is a fair test. For example, would it be fair if you screwed one up in a ball and spread another one out flat? Remember you should only change one variable and keep all the other variables the same.
- Write the title of your investigation as a question in this format:
How does ……………………………………..affect the time a tea towel takes to dry?
The one thing you are changing goes in the gap eg How does the type of fabric affect the time a tea towel takes to dry? Or How does the amount of water on the tea towel affect the time it takes to dry? Or How does the place affect the time a tea towel takes to dry?
- Draw your results table. You can use the same table as on slide 6 but change the headings to match the variable you are changing
- Set up your investigation.
- Record the time you start. Check them every say 30 minutes and record the amount of water left. Is it still soaking or beginning to dry or almost dry? Then complete the final time for tea towels to dry table.
- Draw a bar chart of the 3 total times to display your results.
- After your table and graph, put a heading: What I found out and answer these questions:
Which tea towel dried first? Why do you think this was? Could your investigation be improved?
Good words to use: evaporated, temperature, surface area, wind, material.
An example of good work is given on slide 10.
Whilst you are waiting for your tea towels to dry, can you design a machine to speed up evaporation? Be creative! We know we use hair dryers to speed up drying our hair and tumble driers for our clothes and hand driers for our hands. What they all have in common is that they use warm air to speed up evaporation. Can you invent a machine to dry a wet dog or to dry wet wellies after a walk? What other machine can you think of that maybe hasn’t been invented yet? I’m sure you’ll have some great ideas. Draw a large, labelled diagram of your machine, showing where the warm air comes from to speed up evaporation. You could make this diagram part of an advertisement to sell your machine if you like!
Please post your pictures on Seesaw. I look forward to seeing your work!
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 11 and 12 times tables)
- A maths challenge based on ‘arrays’ and the 3, 4 and 8 times tables
- A grammar challenge ‘capital letters’ (this is something which I am having to correct in writing every day, therefore I am setting it as a challenge this week)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 1st February 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.