HOME LEARNING Wednesday 25th November 2020

Date: 25th Nov 2020 @ 2:41pm

Year 4

Home Learning Wednesday 25^th November 2020

Good afternoon Year 4 – thank you for being so sensible this morning when you were waiting to be picked up.  You will all be at home by now and I hope you have enjoyed your lunch.  Although it seems a long time, these 14 days will go really quickly and we will soon be back together again, just in time for some fantastic learning in school before Christmas!

Over the next 2 weeks, please complete the work set.  Some of it will be new learning and some will be practising key skills which will help you to make more progress once we are back at school.

Reading

It is important to keep reading EVERY DAY over the next 2 weeks.

Please read out loud to someone at home each day.  Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story and who the characters are – who is your favourite and why.   Ask someone at home for the meaning of words you are unsure of or look them up in a dictionary – you may like to write the new vocabulary in your reading diary and then you can use these words in your own writing.

Spelling

Practise this week’s spellings and write each word in a sentence of your own.  Make sure you punctuate your sentences correctly and use capital letters for proper nouns.

Times tables

Although we completed our times table test today, I will be giving out new tables targets when we return to school on 9^th December.  For today, please practise your current table target using ‘Hit the button’.

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.

Keep a log of which times table you are practising and how many you get right in 1 minute, hopefully you should see an improvement!

Hit the answer

Hit the question

Writing

I would like you to stay happy and positive over the next 2 weeks.  A super way to do this is to set yourself a small goal for each day, this is because when we reach our goals it gives us a sense of achievement and makes us feel happy. I know Year 3 and Miss Smith set themselves a goal for each day and it really helped to keep a positive mindset.

Please copy and complete the table below and write in a goal for each day – tick your goals off once you have achieved them.

REMEMBER to write neatly in your best joined up your handwriting, use capital letters and spell accurately. (I have put an example in for you!)

Here are some ideas:

• Exercise for 15 minutes
• Make a cake or bake something tasty
• Learn something new
• Speak to a friend
• Do some mindfulness yoga (have a look on youtube)
• Draw something (find a tutorial video on youtube eg you could draw characters / 3d images / a Celtic knot)
• Clean your bedroom
• Write a letter or make a card for an elderly person in Longton (see last week’s school newsletter)
• Stay off screen all day (phone, TV, computer, ipad, xbox, PS4 etc)
• Create your own workout
• Make your own game up, teach it to someone at home and play it together
• Make a den in the house and enjoy spending some time in it
• Write a poem about a topic of your own choice
• Write down 8 things you are thankful for

Please also keep a diary over the next 14 days of what you have been doing and include any thoughts and feelings.  Start this today in your exercise book – it’s been a very different day for us all.

Keep safe and well Year 4 – I’m missing all your smiley faces already.