St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4: Blog items
HOME LEARNING Monday 1st February 2021
Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 1:42pm
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 1st February 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a fabulous Friday and a wonderful weekend. Welcome to another week of Home Learning - keep doing your best and trying to work as independently as you can. Remember to post your learning on Seesaw – I have been so impressed with the learning I have seen so far and have enjoyed seeing your videos and pictures too!
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.
How would you describe this story or text? What genre is it (this means the type of story, for example, adventure, horror, mystery, fantasy, science fiction etc) and how do you know?
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Monday 8th February 2021. They are all homophones. Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently.
tide tied knight night break brake fought fort
waist waste guest guessed feet feat
Write the long date Monday 1st February 2021
Copy the homophones carefully into your book. Find out the meanings of any words you don’t know. Can you add any pictures or symbols to some of the words to help you remember what the different spellings mean?
English
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 3 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_PDiOvipfc&safe=active
Make sure you look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning.
- As you are reading, write down the date and names of places the family sailed to. See the document ‘Dates and places’ attached to the blog – print this out and complete it as you are reading or copy the table into your book. Extend your retrieval skills by adding some details about the sea conditions (was it stormy, gale force winds, no wind at all etc). The date and learning objective are on the ‘Dates and places’ document.
- After you have read the chapter, use an atlas to find the places in your table and label them on the map of the world (see page 2 of the ‘Dates and places’ document.) If you click on the link below it will take you to an interactive map of the world and you can zoom in on different areas / countries. Alternatively, you could use an atlas if you have one at home.
https://24timezones.com/worldmap#gref
- In your own words, write a paragraph to describe one of the incidents with Stella Artois. You can write about the first incident on February 7th OR the second incident on pages 42-44.
Write the long date Monday 8th February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain part of the text in my own words?
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
A times tables challenge has been set on Sumdog. This is to consolidate and practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables.
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 4th February 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷11.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 25’s from 0 to 350 and back again. Count in 25’s from 500 to 775 and back again. Think about what you found tricky? Write the numbers down as you say them – what do 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 Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 3, Doubles/halves, Upto 100. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Remember make jottings to help!
Eg double 57 Partition into 50 and 7
Double 50 = 100 Double 7 = 14 100 + 14 = 114
Repeat this game a couple of times and see if you can calculate more quickly and more accurately each time.
Today, we are going to learn what factors and factor pairs are.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Factor pairs’ attached to the blog.
Please click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 01.02.21
Write the learning objective Can I show an understanding of factors and factor pairs?
Complete the worksheet and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers in the document ‘Answers Factor pairs’. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
History
Write the long date Monday 1st February 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain what the Romans believed?
Follow the link below to take you to “What did the Romans believe?”
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-did-the-romans-believe-60tp2r
Watch the video and answers the questions in full sentences in your book, when prompted.
You can find more information by clicking on the link below. Look on the left-hand side of the page and click on Roman Gods
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
You should either:
- write down the names of some of the different gods and provide some information about them
OR
- choose two of the gods listed. Draw a picture of them and research them in more detail.
Please share your work on Seesaw.
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org. Carry on where you left off.
https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH
PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education)
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week - the theme is 'Express Yourself'.
Mental health is about our feelings, our thinking, our emotions, and our moods. Looking after our mental health is important. We have small feelings every day – they may be happy or sad, but they go away before too long. Sometimes we experience big feelings, these may feel strong or overwhelming for a longer time.
Each day you will be asked to write a ‘Well-being journal’ which will be attached to the blog. In addition, there will be 2 other activities to have a go at.
Today, please:
- Complete the Well-being journal attached to the blog
- Have a go at the ‘rectangular breathing’ activity on the second page of the journal
- Choose one of the mindfulness activities on the third page of the journal to have a go at
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths challenge to practise subtracting 1’s, 10’s and 100’s from numbers within 1000 (a lot of you find this tricky)
- A spelling challenge based on this week’s homophone spellings
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 8th February 2021
HOME LEARNING Friday 29th January 2021
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 3:29pm
Year 4
Fabulous Friday 29th January 2021
It’s fabulous Friday!
Fridays are now a lighter day with limited screen time to give you and your families the chance to catch up and switch off!
Today you just need to :
- Read
Snuggle up in your favourite place and enjoying reading for pleasure
- Complete the number activity, Nice and Nasty (see attached document)
- Finish anything off that you want to upload to Seesaw for me to see
The rest of the day is yours, you’ve earned it!
Have a fabulous Friday and wonderful weekend.
HOME 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.
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 27th January 2021
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 4:11pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 27th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all safe and well, and have got yourselves into a routine with your Home Learning. Keep working hard and doing your best and make sure you thank anyone at home who helps you too. Thank you for posting your super learning on Seesaw, it is fantastic to see what you have been doing at home and some of your posts really bring a smile to my face.
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 describe a setting in your book? Describe it in detail to someone else, or draw a picture of what it looks like.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Use look, cover, write, check to practise your spellings. Write each word out three times using this strategy.
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please re-read / listen again to Chapter 2 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Then, please listen to the start of Chapter 3. A video / audio will be uploaded to Seesaw on Wednesday morning. If you wish to read the story instead, please read Chapter 3 up to the end of the October 11th log on pg 29, and no further.
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I plan an informal letter?
Tomorrow you are going to write a letter, as Michael, to your best friend Eddie. Today, you are going to plan the letter. You will need to use information from Chapter 2, as well as the first part of Chapter 3 (which you should have read or listened to).
An example of an informal letter (called Example informal letter) has been attached to the blog to help you recognise the features. You may want to print it out and underline or highlight the features. Informal letters are written to people we know well, like friends and family.
Use the planning sheet (called Letter planning sheet) attached to the blog to help you organise your letter into paragraphs. Either print the sheet off and fill it in, or write a plan straight into your Home Learning Book. Just make bullet points or notes to help you with your ideas as you will write full sentences in your letter tomorrow.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 2850 to 3500 and back again. Count in 50’s from 40 to 890 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 Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Repeat the addition games you played yesterday but choose a shorter time between the questions. For example, if you chose 10 seconds between each question yesterday, choose 7 seconds today etc.
Click on play game. Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + ones. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + tens, choose a time interval and play again.
This week, we are going to revise and learn new mental multiplication strategies.
- You need to be able to multiply accurately by 10 and 100 and understand what happens to the digits and why.
Please click on the video below and watch the explanation carefully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0zSnhiShc
Write the short date 27.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I accurately multiply by 10 and 100?
Complete the maths sheet attached to the blog called ‘Multiply by 10 and 100’. If you find this tricky, draw a place value grid like Amber did in the video and use this to help you work out the answers.
Once you have completed your sheet check your answers which are attached to the blog.
- For this lesson, you will be sent a video in the morning (through Seesaw). It explains how to use related facts to multiply multiples of 10 and 100 (for example numbers like 30, 60, 200, 800 etc).
Use the strategy from the video to answer the questions on the sheet attached to the blog called ‘Related facts’.
Write the short date 27.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I use related facts to multiply a multiple of 10 or 100?
PLEASE DRAW THE TRIANGLES EACH TIME TO HELP WITH YOUR WORKING OUT AND TO SHOW YOUR UNDERSTANDING. An example is given on the work sheet.
Once you have completed your sheet check your answers which are attached to the blog.
Please upload your work to seesaw.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
RE
A parish is a Christian community in a local area. Our families and the school community are part of that parish community.
Write the long date Wednesday 27th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe the parish community?
Answer the following questions in your books or answer them verbally – you may want to send me a video of you answering the questions.
- What is the name of the local parish?
- Where is the parish church?
- What is the name of the parish priest?
- What does the local parish do to spread the Good News? (What activities are happening in the church?)
- How does the school and parish link up? (What activities is school directly involved in with the church?
- Why is the local parish community important?
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Dance – Space adventure
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Space%20Adventure.pdf
Games – Blast off
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Blast%20Off.pdf
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.
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 26th January 2021
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 4:48pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 26th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you managed to complete your Home Learning yesterday. Try not to worry if you don’t manage to finish everything in one day, sometimes things may take a bit longer.
It is important that you continue to work hard, both recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things. Keep posting all your fabulous work on Seesaw, I’ve enjoyed seeing the little messages you have sent too – thank you, they really brighten my day.
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.
Summarise what you have read in no more than 100 spoken words. Get someone to count the words as you speak.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Tuesday 26th January 2021
Write each of the words in your book in different coloured shapes like you did yesterday. Can you remember which shape and colour you used for which word?
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 2 of Kensuke’s Kingdom. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and a link to the audio is below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDOVYDjXZc
Whilst reading or listening to the story, look up any words if you are unsure about their meaning. Write the word and the definition in your Home Learning book.
Open the document called ‘Character description instructions’. This will give you the information you need to carry out today’s lesson.
Write the long date Tuesday 26th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write a character description of Michael?
- Read the document called ‘Character description instructions’ attached to the blog.
- Print page 2 and label the picture with a description of Michael’s character using information from Chapters 1 and 2. (Alternatively, draw a picture of Michael in the middle of your page). Remember to use evidence from the text, his personality may be clearly stated or may be hinted at from what is written.
- Piece these ideas together and write a character description of Michael explaining what his personality is like and how you know this. Remember to use different sentence openers! You should aim to write at least 2 excellent paragraphs about Michael’s character.
Focus on capital letters, punctuation, beautiful handwriting and using different sentence openers.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 900 to 2100 and back again. Count in 50’s from 6550 to 7850 and back again. Think about what you found tricky
Please count in 11’s from 111 to 232 and back again – can you go any further? (If you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 111 222 222 add 10 = 232 + 1 = 233 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + ones. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 3 digit numbers + tens, choose a time interval and play again.
In order to keep practising our mental maths strategies, our lesson today will involve completing an Arithmetic test – you will be familiar with these from class. Please make sure you have everything you need before your start:
- A pencil and a ruler
- Your Home Learning book OR a printed copy of the Arithmetic test (attached to the blog)
- A 20 minute timer
- The arithmetic answers (to check your answers afterwards! These are attached to the blog)
Please make sure you make jottings / show your working out – this is so important and the most confident mathematicians do this. Try and complete the test independently and go through the answers carefully when you have finished. It doesn’t matter if you get an answer wrong, the most important thing is to work out why you made that mistake. If you’ve made jottings this may help in finding out where you made the error.
Before you start the test, please watch the video on Seesaw which will explain a few strategies. This will be uploaded on Tuesday morning.
Good luck!
Post your answers on Seesaw so I can see how you got on!
Check your answers from yesterday’s arrays lesson in the document ‘Answers Using arrays’ attached to the blog.
Please remember to log onto Sumdog to consolidate your learning about arrays.
French
We were doing really well with our French phonics so here’s a video to watch first to practise some sounds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkR7BTicoxc
Now click this link and download lesson 14 with audio.
http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y4_French/Yr4SpringFr.php
We will recap the shapes and colours that we learnt last week and move on to look at the work of a French artist called Matisse. Click on the sound buttons to hear the teacher say the phrases and repeat after her. A key phrase today is’ Il y a…’ there is …. And there are new words for different kinds of lines. Work through the PowerPoint. The instructions are underneath each slide.
In your book, write the date mardi vingt-six fevrier
Write the learning objective Can I research some facts about Henri Matisse?
Using these two websites, can you write some interesting facts about Henri Matisse and his work? You might like to copy a part of one of his works.
https://www.ducksters.com/biography/artists/henri_matisse.php - good for facts
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/who-is/who-henri-matisse - good for pictures.
Well done year 4. Soon we will be doing a piece of art inspired by Matisse and describing it in French!
Music
Please click on the link below for Lesson 4
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/developing-body-percussion-part-2-6cw6cr
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.
HOME LEARNING Monday 25th January 2021
Date: 24th Jan 2021 @ 3:49pm
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 25th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a lovely weekend. I was shocked when I woke up on Saturday morning and saw the snow! Although it was quite chilly, it was still lovely to go outside for a walk and some fresh air – I hope you managed to do something you enjoy too.
Keep doing your best and working as independently as you can. It is important that you continue to work hard, both recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things. I have enjoyed seeing your work on Seesaw – please keep posting what you can.
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.
Find ten adjectives (a word that describes a noun) and write the words you have found in your Home Learning book. To find an adjective, first find a noun. Then look for any words which describe it.
eg. The hat on the chair was blue.
Monty the sleepy dragon was guarding his valuable treasure
Purple words = nouns Red words = adjectives
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means ‘amongst’ or ‘during’.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write each of the words in your book in different coloured shapes
English
Last week we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, please read / listen to Chapter 1 of Kensuke’s Kingdom again. A copy of the book is attached to the blog and links to the audio are below. You may read or hear information which you missed on Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEa-beSa0o&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1ii4BPJN4&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 2)
- Download the sheet ‘For and against’ attached to the blog. Instructions are given on the sheet – you can complete the table on the sheet or copy the headings into your book.
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I give reasons for and against sailing around the world?
- Choose 3 reasons for and 3 reasons against sailing around the world.
Write one paragraph to FULLY EXPLAIN your reasons for not wanting to sail around the world.
Write one paragraph to FULLY EXPLAIN your reasons for wanting to sail around the world.
An example is given on the second page of the ‘For and against’ document. Use the sentence openers given to help you construct your paragraphs.
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain my reasons for and against sailing around the world?
Once you have finished your work, check your spellings, capital letters and punctuation very carefully.
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Following on from last week’s learning, please practise your 11 and 12 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
Please practise your own tables target using Hit the button. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky. If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 28th January 2021 – if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷9.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 50’s from 0 to 750 and back again. Count in 50’s from 850 to 1550 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Writ the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers with composition, choose a time interval and play again.
If you found this tricky last week, give yourself a longer time interval, if it was too easy, give yourself a shorter time interval.
Last week, we saw lots of arrays on the maths videos and worksheets. Many of you found this concept quite tricky. Today we will learn more about arrays in order to consolidate this learning. It is important that you are confident with this concept as it will help with your mental and written multiplication strategies later on.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Arrays’ attached to the blog.
Either click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Using arrays
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/week-9-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 25.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I show an understanding of arrays?
Complete the worksheet and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from Friday in the document ‘Answers Multiply 3 numbers’. Look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
To consolidate arrays further, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Remember, an array is a picture which helps us to understand our times tables. Multiplication is the same as repeated addition. 5 x 3 can be shown in 2 arrays:
3 + 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 15 5 + 5 + 5 = 15
History
Follow the link below to take you to “What was it like in Roman Britain?”
Read the information, click on the images to reveal further information, and watch the clips.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j/articles/ztqg4wx
Write the long date Monday 25th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe how the Romans changed Britain?
COMPLETE EITHER 1a or 1b (you can do both if you wish). Then complete number 2.
1a Write a subheading What were Roman houses like?
In your own words, describe what Roman houses were like (they were very different from Celtic houses).
Sketch a Roman Villa and label it using ideas from the website
1b Write a subheading What was a Roman town like?
Sketch a Roman town and label it using ideas from the website
- Write a subheading What technology did the Romans bring?
In your own words, explain how the Romans brought roads and aqueducts to Britain. How did they make them? What were they for? What was special about them?
You can find more information by clicking on the link below. Look down the left hand side of the webpage to find out more about Romans Baths, Roman Houses, Roman Life, Roman Roads, Roman Towns etc
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
Computing
Using the link below to log into code.org. Carry on where you left off.
https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH
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.
HOME LEARNING Friday 22nd January 2021
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:20pm
Year 4
Home Learning Friday 22nd January 2021
Good morning Year 4. Well done for all your Home Learning this week. You have worked hard and put in a lot of effort. I’m sure you’re looking forward to relaxing over the weekend and enjoying some time with your family.
Look out for the ‘Friday catch up’ which will be sent via Seesaw later on this afternoon.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Find ten common nouns (general words for people, places and things) and five proper nouns (specific names for people, places or things – they always have capital letters). Write the words you have found in your Home Learning book.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 28th January 2021. They all have the prefix inter. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Inter means amongst or during.
Copy the new words into your book carefully and make sure you find out the meanings of any words you don’t know. Please practise these words in your books, they are NOT on Sumdog this week.
interact international intercity interlink
interview intermediate internet interface
intercept interchange intercom interfere
English
Yesterday we started our novel Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo.
Today, as you read / listen to Kensuke’s Kingdom, write down the names of all the characters you meet.
If you want to read Chapter 1 to yourself, please download the copy of Kensuke’s Kingdom attached to the blog. ONLY READ Chapter 1 please.
If you want to read Chapter 1 and listen to it being read, please click on the links below (at the end of Part 1 it should automatically go to Part 2 – the link is here incase it doesn’t).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcEa-beSa0o&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR1ii4BPJN4&safe=active (Chapter 1 Part 2)
- Download the sheet ‘Chapter 1 Definitions’ attached to this blog. Instructions are given on the sheet – either print the sheet off, complete it and stick it in your book, or copy the words into your book and write the meaning and a sentence below the word.
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I find definitions for words and use them correctly?
- You should have a list of names you heard whilst you were reading / listening to the story. Choose 4 of those names and write everything you have learnt about that character so far in the story. (You should try and include some main characters, such as Mum, Dad, Michael and Stella Artois, as well as some minor characters, such as Barnacle Bill, Eddie Dodds etc)
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain what I have learnt about a character using evidence from the text?
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
If you did your test yesterday and sent it to me on Seesaw, I may have given you a new target. Please start to practise your new target today.
If you didn’t do your test yesterday, please do it today and send it to me on Seesaw so that I can see how you are getting on learning your tables.
If you have a new target, please practise that on Hit the button.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Counting
Count in 100’s from 800 to 2100 and back again. Count in 100’s from 550 to 1750 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Writ the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 2, subtraction, 2 digit numbers with composition, choose a time interval and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiply 3 numbers’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, Multiply 3 numbers
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 22.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I multiply 3 numbers accurately?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers 11 and 12 times tables’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Science
Yesterday, you may have set up a freezing activity.
If you set this experiment up, please take your frozen liquids out and leave them until they start to melt.
Download the lesson using this link and goto slide 5
Look at the table on slide 5 and copy it into your Home Learning Book under the date and learning objective.
Date - Friday 22nd January 2021
Learning objective - Can I make observations of frozen liquids?
Record the observations of your frozen liquids beginning to melt in your table, adding as much detail as you can. There is a good example on slide 9.
Well done – you are becoming experts on changing states of matter
RE - Community
Jesus proclaimed God the Father’s love by what he said and did. People who followed Jesus Christ in the early Church began to be called Christians. They formed a Christian community called the Church. At the beginning of his ministry on earth, Jesus chose certain people to follow him and share in his work. They were to be apostles and would be sent out to spread the Good News. God chooses people to serve him today through their parish communities. Read Mark 3: 13-19 below.
Questions to think about
How do you think the apostles felt when Jesus chose them to help him in his work?
Why do you think he chose people to help him?
What do you think the Good News is?
Write the long date Friday 22nd January 2021
Learning objective Can I describe how James / Andrew etc felt to be chosen as an apostle?
(Write the name of your chosen apostle where I have written James / Andrew etc).
Draw one of the apostles in your book. Draw a speech bubble and write the words you think they would say to Jesus immediately after he chose them to help him in his work. You MUST write a minimum of 8 words!
Please upload your RE to Seesaw
Art
Last week, you had a go at designing your own mosaic border using 5 rows of squares and either 2 or 3 colours. This week, I would like you to design another border, using a different pattern / different colours.
Please download the document called ‘Mosaics’ attached to the blog – this gives some examples on pg 3.
Attached to the blog is some squared paper for you to use (Mosaic squared paper).
REMEMBER ONLY USE 2 OR 3 COLOURS AND REPEAT THE PATTERN
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your creative designs.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New challenges will start on Monday 25th January 2021
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Thursday 21st January 2021
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 3:15pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 21st January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all happy and well. Make sure you say a big thank you to everyone at home who has helped you in any way. They may have helped with your Home Learning, made you something to eat or drink, or given you a hug and a big smile. Thank you also from the Year 4 team for all your help and support at this tricky time.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Tell someone about your favourite character in the book. What is their name and what does it suggest about them? What is it about the character that you like? Can you describe their appearance (what they look like) and their personality (what they are like)?
Spelling
This week’s spellings all have the prefix ‘super’. 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 21st 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:
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Today we will be starting a class novel – Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. This is one of my favourite books and our English learning will be based on it.
Please open the document attached to the blog called ‘Front cover and blurb’.
Write the long date Thursday 21st January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I make predictions and ask questions about a text?
Look at the front cover carefully (slide 1). In your book:
- Write a list of what can you see in the picture.
- Explain where you think this is and why.
- List who and what you see in the boat.
- Is the sea calm or do you think the boat is in danger? Explain why you think this.
Read the blurb on the back carefully (slide 2). Answer these questions in your book.
- Who do you think Michael is and how old is he?
- How did Michael get washed up on an island?
- Why do you think Michael was on a boat in the first place?
- How do you know Michael is not alone on the island and is this ‘person’ a friend or an enemy? Why do you think this?
- What genre of book do you think this is? (this means what category / kind of
story do you think it is, for example science fiction, fairy tale, adventure story, fantasy, horror, mystery, thriller etc)
- Explain why you think the book belongs to this genre.
Now read the first 2 paragraphs of Chapter 1 on the third and fourth slide (you will be sent a recording of these 2 paragraphs through Seesaw on Thursday morning, so you can listen to and read the text at the same time).
In your book, write 6 questions that you would like to ask now you have read these first 2 paragraphs. For example:
How did Michael disappear?
How did he come back from the dead?
Why has he had to keep this secret for 10 years?
Please remember to write your answers in full sentences, in your best joined up hand writing, using questions marks and capital letters in the correct places.
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 ÷8 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 21.01.21
Write the title Times table test
Check your answers carefully.
Please share your ‘test’ on Seesaw.
Counting
Count in 100’s from 100 to 1500 and back again. Count in 100’s from 180 to 1280 and back again. Think about what you found tricky.
Please count in 11’s from 11 to 132 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 10 then 1 onto your last number if counting up or subtract 10 then 1 if counting down). Write the numbers down as you say them - do you notice any patterns?
Eg 11 22 22 add 10 = 32 + 1 = 33 etc
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Repeat the addition games you played yesterday but choose a shorter time between the questions. For example, if you chose 10 seconds between each question yesterday, choose 7 seconds today etc.
Click on play game. Choose level 2, addition, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 2 digit numbers and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ’11 and 12 times table’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, 11 and 12 times tables
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-1-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 21.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate using the 11 and 12 times tables?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Divide by 1 and itself’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
Science
Click this link for today’s lesson investigating freezing and melting. https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=54CF08BDFC25132B!24310&ithint=file%2cpptx&authkey=!AJO_FWydZh6aBrk
In school, we will be setting up the freezing activity on slide 5 and then coming back to this tomorrow once the liquids have frozen. Then, we will watch the chocolate making video and investigate how chocolate melts as described in the second video clip on slide 9. You will need some dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate for this activity. If you are able to do this investigation, please plan and record your experiment on the sheet attached to the blog called ‘Science Investigation Sheet’.
Write the long date Thursday 21st January 2021
Write the learning objective for the chocolate experiment, which is Can I plan and carry out an investigation about melting?
If you don’t have chocolate, you could try the ice investigation on slide 6. Record your work under these headings:
What I used
What I did
Which ice cube melted fastest and why
How I could improve my investigation
The next day, take your frozen liquids out and leave them until they start to melt. Record your observations in a table like the one on slide 5. Add as much detail as you can. You can have a look at a good example on slide 9.
The learning objective for the frozen liquids experiment is Can I make observations of frozen liquids?
Well done – you are becoming experts on changing states of matter
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 20th January 2021
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 4:18pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 20th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. Well done for keeping up the fantastic work – I have really enjoyed seeing your learning on Seesaw, please keep posting.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Tell someone what you think will happen next – explain why you think this will happen using ideas and evidence from the text.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 21st January 2021. They all have the prefix super. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Super means ‘above’ or ‘over’.
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
Write the long date Wednesday 20th January 2021
Look at the word, cover it up then write it. Check it carefully. Then, put your pencil on the page, close your eyes and write the word again without looking and without taking your pencil off the paper. Can you spell it correctly?
English
Today you are going to be editing the spy story 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 story 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
- Read through your work and correct any words that need capital letters. Correct any words where you have a capital letter but they shouldn’t be there (correct with your coloured pen or pencil)
- Read through your work and include punctuation where needed, for example, is your speech punctuated correctly? 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
- Choose 3 words which you could change to more ambitious vocabulary. Write the alternative word neatly in your work.
Write the long date Wednesday 20th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I edit my work?
Re-write one or two paragraphs of 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
Practise your 4 and 8 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
On Monday 4th January, you were all given your individual table targets (if you are unsure, please message me on Seesaw). Please practise your table target using ‘Hit the button’ and the link below. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.
If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 21st January 2021 - if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷8.
Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Counting
Please count in 4’s from 500 to 650 and back again – can you go any further?
Count in 8’s from 300 to 400 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 8 on to your last number if counting up or subtract 8 if counting down)
Count in 10’s from 2050 to 3090 and back again. Count in 10’s from 1552 to 1692 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Maths
Use the link below – to play Daily 10.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
Click on play game. Choose level 2, addition, 2 digit numbers. Choose the time interval between each question eg 3 seconds, 5 seconds etc. You will need to write the answers down and check them at the end.
Choose level 3, addition, 2 digit numbers and play again.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Divide by 1 and itself’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below and watch the lesson, Divide by 1 and itself
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-11-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 20.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I divide by 1 and itself?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Multiply by 1 and 0’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last week, we revisited and learnt more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Dance – Move to the beat extravaganza
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Move%20to%20the%20Beat%20Extravaganza.pdf
Games – Battleships
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Battleships%20.pdf
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 19th January 2021
Date: 18th Jan 2021 @ 2:51pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 19th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you managed to complete your Home Learning yesterday. Try not to worry if you don’t manage to finish everything in one day, sometimes things may take a little longer. Remember just to try your best.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Summarise what you have read so far by speaking for one minute without hesitating or saying ‘um’?
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 21st January 2021. They all have the prefix super. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Super means ‘above’ or ‘over’.
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
Write the long date Tuesday 19th January 2021
Use look, cover, write, check to practise your spellings. Write them 3 times each.
English
Today you are going to be writing your own spy story 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 Tuesday 19th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write a spy story?
Give your story a title, for example, Mission Possible. 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 story eg the opening, build-up, problem, resolution and ending)
- A variety of sentence openers (see the ISPACE document attached to the blog)
- 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 story 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. Tomorrow we will edit our work, with a fresh set of eyes. Well done!
Please share your work on Seesaw
Times tables
Practise your 4 and 8 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
On Monday 4th January, you were all given your individual table targets. Please practise your table target using ‘Hit the button’ and the link below. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.
If you are in school this week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 21st January 2021 - if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷8.
Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Counting
Please count in 4’s from 100 to 150 and back again – can you go any further?
Count in 8’s from 100 to 200 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 8 on to your last number if counting up, or subtract 8 if counting down)
Count in 10’s from 880 to 1060 and back again. Count in 10’s from 925 to 1095 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles Multiples of 10, Upto 500. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 180 Double 100 (200) then double 80 (160) and add the two together (200 + 160 = 360)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
See how many you can get right in 1 minute. Then play again and see if you can beat your score.
Over the next couple of weeks, we are going to learn more about multiplication and division.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Multiply by 1 and 0’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Multiply by 1 and 0
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-10-number-multiplication-division/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 19.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I multiply by 1 and 0?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Perimeter of a rectilinear shape’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
For the last week or so, we have been revisiting and learning more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
French
Here’s a song to recap colours
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4kNeFGBAcw
Visit this website: http://www.rachelhawkes.com/Resources/Y4_French/Yr4SpringFr.php
Click on Lesson 13 with audio. Can I name some shapes in French?
Download the PowerPoint and work through it, focussing on correct pronunciation.
Replay each one several times, and make an action to correspond to the shape, as you say the word. The lesson ends with colour mixing!
Write the date mardi dix-neuf janvier
Write the learning objective Can I name some shapes and add a colour in French?
Draw the 5 mathematical shapes (square, circle, rectangle, triangle, oval) and colour each with a different colour. Remember to use a ruler to draw straight lines. Now colour each one a different colour. Write the correct word next to each shape and the colour you’ve used : Un cercle bleu, or whatever colour you used. Remember the colour goes after the noun in French! A circle blue.
You can draw and name the other shapes too if you want.
Now read them again, making sure your pronunciation is correct.
Bon travail
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your super French.
Music
Please click on the link below for Lesson 3
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Monday 18th January 2021
Date: 17th Jan 2021 @ 10:43am
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 18th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you all had a good weekend and enjoyed spending time with your family. Although it was quite chilly, it was nice to be able to go out for a lovely walk without getting wet. I hope you managed to get some exercise too.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
When you are reading today, try and think of the voice the characters might use – are they a grumpy person, are they always happy, would they have a deep or a high voice? Use lots of expression and different voices for the characters.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 21st January 2021. They all have the prefix super. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Super means ‘above’ or ‘over’.
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
Write the long date Monday 18th January 2021
Write each of the words in your book but in different colours and in different styles eg
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Today you are going to be planning your own spy story. In preparation, read over the work you have done over the past couple of weeks – this will remind you of the Mission Possible story, character names and profiles you have created, ideas for settings, and spy codes and spy gadgets you have invented – all of which you could use in your story.
Scroll to pg 28 Let’s start to create and plan your story.
Read the information given carefully which shows the structure of the story ‘Mission Possible’.
Scroll to page 29 The Story Road
Read the page carefully – it shows the beginning, the build-up, problem, resolution and ending.
Scroll to pg 30 Story Planner
Write the long date Monday 18th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I plan a story?
Print pg 30 out if you wish and complete each of the boxes with ideas for your story – stick this into your book. Alternatively, write subheadings on your page (eg Characters – write your characters names underneath, Setting – write where your story will be set etc).
You should now have some basic ideas for your story.
Scroll to pg 31 Story Ideas
Read the ideas given to help you if you are struggling.
Scroll to pg 32 Use this road to plan your story
Print pg 32 out if you wish and complete each of the boxes. The top box is the opening, next box the build-up, followed by the problem, then the resolution and finally the ending. Alternatively, write subheadings on your page (eg Opening – summarise the opening to your story, Build-up – briefly describe the build-up etc). Refer back to p29 if you get stuck.
You should now have all the information you need to write your story tomorrow. DO NOT WRITE YOUR STORY TODAY.
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can give feedback and support.
Times tables
Practise your 4 and 8 times tables on Sumdog (a challenge has been set).
On Monday 4th January, you were all given your individual table targets (if you are unsure, please message me on Seesaw). Please practise your table target using ‘Hit the button’ and the link below. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.
If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target on Thursday 21st January 2021 - if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷8.
Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Counting
Please count in 4’s from 0 to 50 and back again – can you go any further?
Count in 8’s from 0 to 100 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 8 on to your last number if counting up or subtract 8 if counting down)
Count in 10’s from 250 to 400 and back again. Count in 10’s from 72 to 232 and back again. Think about what you found tricky?
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles Multiples of 10, Upto 250. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 230 Double 200 (400) then double 30 (60) and add the two together (400 + 60 = 460)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
See how many you can get right in 1 minute. Then play again and see if you can beat your score.
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Perimeter of rectilinear shapes’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Perimeter of rectilinear shapes,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-9-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 18.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from Friday, they are in the document ‘Answers Perimeter of a rectangle’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
For the last week or so, we have been revisiting and learning more about measurement – length and perimeter. To consolidate this learning, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go.
History
Follow the link below to take you to “What was life like in the Roman army?”
Read the information, click on the images to reveal further information, and watch the clips.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwmpfg8/articles/zqbnfg8
Write the long date Monday 18th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain what life was like in the Roman army?
Using your own words, give definitions for the following words:
- Legionaries
- Auxiliaries
- Legions
- Centuries
- Centurion
Print off the sheet attached to the blog called ‘Roman soldier’. Please label the javelin, sword, tunic, sandals, helmet, armour, and shield. Add some information to your labels to show your understanding. (Eg Javelin. Another name for the javelin is a pilum. It had a sharp iron spike at one end and was made of wood. Before charging into battle, a Roman legionary would throw his pilum towards his enemy.)
If you want to, you may also write a diary extract:
Write the long date Monday 18th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I write a diary extract as a Roman soldier?
Write a short diary extract as if you are a soldier in the Roman army. Make sure you include information about what you have been asked to do and your thoughts and feelings. (eg explain what you have to wear and the equipment you carry, have you spent the day training - marching 20 miles whilst wearing all your armour and equipment which would weigh approximately 35kg. What did you encounter during your march? Following this you have set up camp – how tired are you feeling? Did you see anyone not follow orders or fall asleep on duty?)
If you want to have a go at drawing a Roman solider, I have found a video which gives step by step instructions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uEkOhWJWb0
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your super history.
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org. Carry on from where you left off.
https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 4 and 8 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Measure the perimeter of 2D shapes’
- A grammar challenge ‘Inverted commas / speech marks’ to consolidate last week’s learning
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Friday 15th January 2021
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 3:56pm
Year 4
Home Learning Friday 15th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you all had a good week despite the weather being a little cold and wet. It really brought a smile to my face when looking at your work on Seesaw this week – you should feel proud of everything that you have done, you really are amazing Year 4! Have a wonderful weekend and make sure you look after yourselves and everyone at home.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
ANSWERS – for Subtract lengths (Tuesday’s work) and Measure Perimeter (Wednesday’s work) are also attached to today’s blog.
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 find 10 adjectives in your reading book (adjectives describe a noun and you used them to help describe your mirror this week). Try and choose adjectives which are more ambitious, unusual or are new words for you – write today’s date and write them in your book.
Spelling
These are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 21st January 2021. They all have the prefix super. A PREFIX is a group of letters that change the meaning of a word when they are added to the START. Super means ‘above’ or ‘over’.
Copy the new words into your book carefully and make sure you find the meanings out of any words you don’t know. Please practise these words in your books, they are NOT on Sumdog this week.
superstar supermarket supernova supermodel
superpower superhero supernatural superglue
supersonic superintendent supersaturated superstore
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Next week you will be planning and writing your own spy story. Today you will be designing a spy gadget.
Scroll to pg 27 Design a Spy Gadget
Read the information given carefully and watch the video.
Write the long date Friday 15th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I design a spy gadget?
- Draw a picture of you gadget and label its features
- Write a sub heading How the (write the name of your gadget here) works and explain how it works and its features
- On the next clean page, design a poster to advertise your gadget so that other spies will want to buy it
Success criteria for a poster
- Name of the gadget / catchy slogan (you could use rhyme / alliteration etc)
- Eye catching and colourful layout
- A mix of information boxes and pictures / diagrams
- Include a rhetorical question (For example, You wouldn’t want to be the only spy without the Scuba Skateboard, would you?)
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can give feedback and support.
Read over all the work you have completed during the past week in English. Next Monday you will be planning your spy story, so reviewing what you have done so far will help with ideas. DO NOT DO ANY PLANNING TODAY!
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
On Monday 4th January, you were all given your individual table targets (if you are unsure, please message me on Seesaw). Please practise your table target using ‘Hit the button’ and the link below. If you are on ‘free’ tables, please practise a times table or division fact which you know you find tricky.
If you are in school next week, you will be tested on your individual target - if you are on ‘free’ tables, you will be tested on ÷8.
Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
I have also attached a ‘Times table Practice Sheet’ to the blog which you will recognise from school. You may also find this helpful when practising your individual target.
Counting
Please count in 3’s from 0 to 50 and back again – can you go any further?
Count in 6’s from 0 to 100 and back again – can you go any further? (if you get stuck, add 6 on to your last number if counting up or subtract 6 if counting down)
Count in 9’s from 0 to 108 and back again – can you go any further than 108, adding 9 each time?
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles from 50 to 100. If you get stuck, partition the number. This is quite tricky, so practising again today will help with fluency, accuracy and speed.
eg Double 67 Double 60 (120) then double 7 (14) and add the two together (120 + 14 = 134)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Perimeter of a rectangle’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Perimeter of a rectangle,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-9-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 15.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate the perimeter of a rectangle?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Perimeter on a grid’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last Monday (4th January 2021), we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
RE
Open the file called ‘RE – Community’ which is attached to the blog. Read the story carefully.
Write the long date Friday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I show an understanding of what community means?
Answer these questions in your book:
- What do you think are the advantages of being part of a community?
- What do you think are the demands of being part of a community?
- What helps to build up community?
Write your own ending to the story showing how Jack or Holly and the community could help Alfie.
Draw a picture at the bottom which shows how Jack, Holly and the community have helped Alfie.
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your super understanding.
Art
Watch the 2 videos below which explain how archaeology uncovers Roman remains including mosaics. (Archaeologists are people who study history by looking at remains buried in the ground and left by people long ago).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNoQH3GYT0U&safe=active
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNm-Fy7T8Dw&safe=active
Mosaics are pictures and patterns made from tiny pieces of coloured stone called ‘tesserae’. Follow the link below to look at some Roman mosaics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/mosaics_gallery_05.shtml
Open the document called ‘Mosaics’ attached to the blog. Read the facts and look at the mosaics and borders.
Today I would like you to explore and have a go at designing a border using 5 rows of squares and either 2 or 3 colours. You can find some examples on page 3 of the Mosaics document (eg chequerboard, zigzags, castle top etc). Remember only 2 or 3 colours are used and each pattern repeats itself again and again.
Have a go – it doesn’t matter if you get it wrong – art is all about having a go and celebrating what we have done, as well as thinking of ways to improve our work.
I have included some squared paper for you to use, which is attached to the blog (Mosaic squared paper) – print this off if you can, have a go at your border and stick this in your book with the date Friday 15th January 2021, and the learning objective Can I design a mosaic border?
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your creative designs.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths challenge ‘Types of lines and angles’
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
New Sumdog challenges will start on Monday.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Thursday 14th January 2021
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 1:31pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 14th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good day yesterday and managed to complete your Home Learning. Don’t worry if you don’t manage to finish everything in one day, sometimes things may take a little longer. Remember just to try your best.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Does the mood of the main character change throughout the story? If so, how does it change and can you find any examples which show evidence of this change?
Spelling
This week’s spellings all end with ‘ture’ or ‘sure’. Children in school will be tested on these words today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Make sure you write the ‘test’ in your Home Learning book and check any that you get wrong. Good luck! The words are:
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Soon you will be planning and writing your own spy story and you should already have some character names. Today we will be revising inverted commas (speech marks).
Scroll to pg 24 Speech Marks
Read the information given VERY CAREFULLY
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I use inverted commas correctly?
Copy this into your book (don’t worry about using red or blue, just write in pencil):
Use arrows and label the sentences like the example at the bottom of page 24. This will help you understand the golden rules for speech.
Scroll to pg 25
Using the example and golden rules, punctuate the sentences given correctly.
Try and think about how the person speaks instead of saying ‘said’ each time. Eg shouted, cried, exclaimed, whispered etc.
Write your own sentences when one person speaks and someone answers. Try and make the conversation interesting and punctuate it correctly. NO MORE THAN 6 SENTENCES PLEASE.
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can give feedback and support.
Scroll to pg 26 Create a secret code!
Read the information given and have a go at making your own secret code. You may want to use this in your story.
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I create my own secret code?
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to go to ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles from 50 to 100. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 67 Double 60 (120) then double 7 (14) and add the two together (120 + 14 = 134)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Perimeter on a grid’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Perimeter on a grid,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-9-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 14.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate perimeter on a grid?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Measure perimeter’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last Monday (4th January 2021), we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
Science
Follow this link:
You will need some plastic cups and a variety of liquids suitable for children such as water, milk, cooking oil, syrup, juice and washing up liquid. You will still be able to use these again afterwards – they won’t be wasted.
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I compare the thickness of different liquids?
Read through the slides and try the activities.
Draw the table on slide 5 to record your results. Try different races.
Put a sub-heading What I found out
Then order your liquids from most viscous to least viscous. Viscous means how thick or runny the liquid is.
There are some extra exciting ideas on slide 6. You could draw a picture in your book and label it or take a photo if you try one of these experiments.
Good luck! Don’t forget to clean up after yourself!
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your super science.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested on Thursday)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 13th January 2021
Date: 12th Jan 2021 @ 4:03pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 13th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good day yesterday and managed to complete your Home Learning. Well done for working hard and a big thank you to everyone at home who is helping you in any way. We are all doing our best and trying to be positive at this tricky time. Hopefully, by working together, we can help keep ourselves and each other happy and safe.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
You should have received an email inviting you to join your child’s account on Seesaw – please check your junk mail if you have not received this. Through Seesaw, you will be able to upload work which has been completed at home and I will be able to give feedback. You will only see your child’s work and all feedback given will be private to your account. I am looking forward to seeing the super learning which has been completed at home.
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 describe your favourite part of the story so far? Why do you like this part - is it exciting? Does it make you feel especially happy? Can you see the scene in your mind and if so, what does it look like?
Spelling
This week’s spellings all end with ‘ture’ or ‘sure’. They will be tested on Thursday 14th January 2021. They are:
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
Practise the spellings by writing them in different coloured clouds. Try and remember the word and colour you wrote it in yesterday and keep it the same – then you may link the word leisure with blue, enclosure with yellow, picture with green etc. Write the date in your Home Learning Book (Wednesday 13th January 2021) and have a go.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Soon you will be planning and writing your own spy story and you should already have some character names. Today we will be doing some work on settings and adjectives.
Scroll to pg 22
Read the first paragraph on page 22
Write the long date Wednesday 13th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I collect some setting ideas?
Write a list of settings from stories you have read or films you have watched – remember, this is where the story takes place. If could be a town, city, country or specific place eg Preston, England, Paris, Spain, the Arctic etc. Or something more general eg in a hospital, in space or in a jungle.
Read the paragraph starting, “Mission Possible is set in London” …… and the information below this.
Write a subheading Normal everyday settings
Write a list of normal everyday settings underneath – some have been given to get you started.
Write a subheading Scary settings
Write a list of scary settings underneath – one has been given to get you started
Write a subheading Interesting / Unusual settings
Write a list of interesting / unusual setting – some have been given to get you started.
Scroll to pg 23
Read the page very carefully.
Remember an adjective is a word which describes a noun.
Write the long date Wednesday 13th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I use adjectives to describe the Emperor’s mirror?
Draw a picture of what you think the mirror looks like.
Write a paragraph to describe the mirror and that could go in the story. Use the example given on page 23 to help you. Can you underline your adjectives (describing words)?
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can give feedback and support.
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to go to ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles to 50. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 47 Double 40 (80) then double 7 (14) and add the two together (80 + 14 = 94)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Measure perimeter’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
You will need some string or wool to complete today’s maths sheet. Listen carefully to the video as this will explain what to do.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Measure perimeter,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-9-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 13.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I measure perimeter accurately?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Subtract lengths’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last Monday (4th January 2021), we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
PE
Watch the clips below and follow the instructions on the cards.
Dance – Move to the beat
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Move%20to%20the%20Beat.pdf
Games – Avoid the defenders
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/sites/default/files/Home%20PE%20Avoid%20the%20defenders.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciN7RoiB9Lc&safe=active
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested on Thursday)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 12th January 2021
Date: 11th Jan 2021 @ 3:46pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 12th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good day yesterday and managed to complete your Home Learning. Well done for working hard – keep doing your best and make sure you stay happy and safe.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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 describe one of the characters? Does their name suit them? What is their appearance like – describe them from head to toe. What is their personality like?
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
This week’s spellings all end with ‘ture’ or ‘sure’. They will be tested on Thursday 14th January 2021. They are:
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
Practise the spellings by writing them in different coloured clouds. Write the date in your Home Learning Book (Tuesday 12th January 2021) and have a go.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Soon you will be planning and writing your own spy story. In preparation for this, you we will be doing some more work on characters today.
Scroll to pg 19
Read page 19 from where it says Learning from Other Writers.
Read the paragraph and find out the meaning of any new words.
Answer the questions yourself or discuss them with someone else if you can. YOU DO NOT NEED TO WRITE ANYTHING. Remember to look for evidence from the paragraph to explain your answers.
Scroll to pg 20
Read the paragraph taken from Chapter 1 of Never Say Die and the questions underneath. Find out the meaning of any new words.
Write the long date in your Home Learning Book Tuesday 12th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I answer questions using evidence from a text?
Answer the questions about the lady in the story (answer the question then leave a line). Make sure you write in full sentences and take care with your handwriting, spellings, capital letters and presentation. Use evidence from the text to answer the questions FULLY and copy spellings carefully.
Scroll to pg 21 – Your characters
Write the long date Tuesday 12th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I create profiles for my characters?
You should choose 2 characters for your own story – one goody and one baddie (you thought of names for them yesterday).
Create profiles (like you did last week) for your characters. Write the headings which are given on page 21 and describe them carefully. Include a picture of what they look like.
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to go to ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles from 10 to 20. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 17 Double 10 (20) then double 7 (14) and add the two together (20 + 14 = 34)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Subtract lengths’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Subtract lengths,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 12.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I subtract lengths accurately?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Add lengths’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
On Monday, we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
Music
Following on from last week’s lesson, please click on the link below for lesson 2.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/exploring-different-sounds-c9k3gc
French
Bonne annee! Happy new year!
Last term, we looked at some verbs that are used a lot in French. Je fais means I do. Je vais = I go. Tu joues= you play. Elle regarde = she watches Il aime = he likes.
Now we are going to make them negative, turning I go into I don't go, I play into I don't play etc.
All we have to do is put ne ....pas (nuh ......pa) round the verb. So il joue becomes il ne joue pas. Je vais becomes je ne vais pas.
Write the long date mardi douze février
Write the learning objective Can I make verbs negative?
Have a go at the worksheet attached to the blog. If you can manage to change the seasons so that the sentences make better sense as well, that's even better! You can always use an online dictionary to help you with any vocabulary, such as this one: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french .
Finally, can you read your sentences? Remember final consonants are usually silent. The online dictionary will speak the words for you to help with pronunciation.
Good luck!
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested on Thursday)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Monday 11th January 2021
Date: 10th Jan 2021 @ 11:03am
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 11th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good weekend and managed to do something fun and exciting with your family. Although it was chilly, I wrapped up warm and went for a lovely walk – this helped me to relax and exercise, as well as spend time with Basil and my family.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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 find 5 new or interesting words from your reading book? Write down the words and their meanings in your Home Learning Book along with today’s date (Monday 11th January 2021). Use each word to write your own sentence.
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
This week’s spellings all end with ‘ture’ or ‘sure’. They will be tested on Thursday 14th January 2021. They are:
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
Practise the spellings by splitting them up into chunks in different colours. Write the date in your Home Learning Book (Monday 11th January 2021) and have a go.
Eg future nature pleasure measure
English
Download the ‘Mission Impossible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Soon you will be planning and writing your own spy story. In preparation for this, you need to create some names for your characters.
Scroll to pg 17 – Character Names
Read page 17.
Write the long date in your Home Learning Book Monday 11th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain what I notice about character names?
Write a paragraph to FULLY explain:
- Whether you think the names of the people in the Mission Possible story suggest something about them, and if so, what it suggests about them
- Whether you like their names and WHY you either do or do not like their names
- What you notice about their names (eg rhyming, alliteration, suggests that they are a spy, thief etc)
Scroll to pg 18 – What are your favourite names of characters in stories that you have read? Look at the 3 clouds.
Think about your favourite names of characters, write them under the paragraph you have just written. Make sure you write the name of the book or film they were in too. Make sure you choose 3 different names and remember your capital letters.
Read the rest of pg 18 very carefully – it gives suggestions for inventing your own character names. Use these ideas to invent your own names for good characters and bad characters.
Write the long date Monday 11th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I make suggestions for character names?
Use the top half of the page to play around with ideas (for example list some names and put different first names and surnames together or think about a job and invent a surname to fit your character – this is all explained on page 18). Then, at the bottom half of the page, make a table and write in your favourite ideas for names. An example is given below.
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Names for main characters – goodies |
Names for main characters - baddies |
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Willy Wonka Bilbo Baggins Dennis Sims Honey Lovely |
Cruella de Vil Sapphire Diamond Tina Trotts Timothy Snodgrass |
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to go to ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Number bonds, Make 100 (tens) and Make 100
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Add lengths’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
and watch the lesson, Add lengths,
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 11.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I add lengths accurately?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from Friday, they are in the document ‘Answers equivalent lengths m and km’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
On Monday, we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
History
Our current topic is Romans. Last week, we completed a History Timeline in our books and talked about dates. A timeline gives information about when different events happened and how they relate to each other.
BC means Before Christ – you may see it written as BCE - Before Common Era.
AD means Anno Domini – you may see it written as CE - Common Era.
Today I would like you to complete a Roman Timeline. Print the document ‘Roman Timeline’ attached to the blog. Cut the pictures out and order them. Start by placing the ‘0BC / AD Jesus is born’ in the middle of your table and then put all the AD dates to the right and the BC dates to the left. Next, try and put them in the correct order. This diagram will help.
Once you are happy with the order, write the long date Monday 11th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I arrange key events in Roman History on a timeline?
Stick the pictures in the correct order in your book (you may want to turn the book on its side or have 2 rows of dates).
If you cannot print the sheet, draw and write the timeline into your books instead.
Follow the link below and click on the first lesson – How the Romans conquered Britain. Read the information, click on the images to reveal further information, and watch the clips.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j
Write the long date Monday 11th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I explain how the Romans conquered Britain?
Write some paragraphs to explain:
- When the Romans tried to invade Britain and who lead the attempts (there were 2 unsuccessful attempts before the third one in AD43!)
- Why the Romans wanted to invade Britain (you may think of some reasons which were not suggested in the video)
- How the Celts fought back
- What happened when Boudicca faced the Roman army?
Please focus on accurate historical facts, capital letters, handwriting and spellings (please copy spellings correctly).
Computing
Use the link below to log into code.org. Carry on from where you left off.
https://studio.code.org/sections/LKRPFH
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested on Thursday)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Friday 8th January 2021
Date: 7th Jan 2021 @ 3:17pm
Year 4
Home Learning Friday 8th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good evening last night and completed your work successfully yesterday. I can’t believe it’s Friday already! Make sure you keep positive and try and do something fun and exciting this weekend.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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 describe one of the characters – what do they look like and what sort of person are they? Explain how you know.
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
This week’s spellings all had an apostrophe in. Children in school will be tested on these words today. Therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Make sure you do the ‘test’ in your Home Learning book and check any that you get wrong.
The words are:
they’ll aren’t won’t we’ve
couldn’t who’s would’ve there’s
they’ve can’t shouldn’t you’ve
New spellings
Here are your new spellings which will be tested on Thursday 14th January 2021. All the words end in ‘ture’ or ‘sure’
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
Copy the new words into your book carefully. You can practise them in your book and they will be on Sumdog from 4pm today.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Scroll to pg 12 – Characters in stories
Read the character profile of Willy Wonka. It provides information about his age, where he lives, siblings, appearance and personality.
Write the long date Friday 8th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I complete two character profiles?
Please complete a character profile for EITHER Polly (pg 13) or Pete (pg 14) (you can print the page from the booklet or draw the character and use the headings in the booklet to write your profile.)
AND
Please complete a character profile for EITHER Dodgy Rodger (pg 15) or Raucus Reggie (pg 16) (you can print the page from the booklet or draw the character and use the headings in the booklet to write your profile.)
Focus on descriptive language, spellings and creative but sensible suggestions for your chosen characters.
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to goto ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Maths
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Kilometres’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
and watch the lesson, Kilometres,
OR click on the link below for the video
Write the short date 08.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate equivalent lengths m and kilometres?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers equivalent lengths mm and cm’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
On Monday, we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
RE
Our new topic is ‘Community’.
Each one of us belongs to several different communities, e.g. our family community, the school community, the parish community or the area where we live (our neighbourhood) etc. If you are part of a team or a member of a group then they too are another community that you belong to.
During the past year we have all seen the effects of the global Coronavirus pandemic. You will have heard about lots of ways in which communities have worked together to help and support each other. You might have done something yourself like collecting food for the local foodbank or you may have written to people in hospital or a care home to show that you are thinking about them. You may have also taken part in ‘clapping for carers’ to show how much we appreciate the work that they do to help us in our communities.
Think about your own ‘class community’. What makes it function well? What are the ways in which individuals help make the class community a happy one?
Write the long date Friday 8th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I describe the communities I belong to?
To start our topic, I would like you to write the word COMMUNITY in the middle of your page and write around the outside / draw pictures to show all the communities you belong to (or would usually belong to without the pandemic). For example, you may write things like, My family, St Oswald’s Primary School, Year 4, Dance club, Gymnastics club, Cubs, Football Team etc. I’m sure you can come up with lots of other ideas. Try and include a small picture for each community too.
Focus on spellings, capital letters and presenting your work beautifully.
Underneath this work, write a few sentences to explain how people help make our class community a happy one. What do people in our class do which make it the lovely, friendly place it is?
Music
Click on the link below and follow the instructions, pausing when told to. Have fun!
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/body-percussion-basics-69j30t
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested next week, this challenge will start at 4pm tonight)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely weekend and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Thursday 7th January 2021
Date: 6th Jan 2021 @ 2:19pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 7th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all safe and well and completed your work successfully yesterday. Remember to stay positive and try and do other things that you enjoy and may not always get time to do, for example baking, playing board games or drawing.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Try and discipline yourself to get up each morning and do your work to the best of your ability. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please ask your parents to email or ring Mrs Rothwell and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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 predict what will happen next? Use evidence from the story to make your prediction.
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
This week’s spellings all have an apostrophe in – they are all contractions.
Please make sure you practise your spellings on Sumdog and in your exercise books. These spellings will be tested in school on Friday 8th January, so please aim to learn them for Friday.
they’ll aren’t won’t we’ve
couldn’t who’s would’ve there’s
they’ve can’t shouldn’t you’ve
Can you write the words out in full eg they’ll = they will
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Re-read the text on pages 3, 4, 5 and 6 to remind yourself of the story.
Scroll to pg 10 – What happened next?
Write the long date Thursday 7th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I sequence a story?
If you can, print the page out then cut out the 5 boxes at the bottom – arrange them at the correct places on the story mountain at the top and stick this into your book
OR
Write the information in the 5 boxes at the bottom in the correct (chronological) order in your book.
Scroll to pg 11 – Wonderful words
Write the long date Thursday 7th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I find definitions for words?
Copy out the words into your book and write the correct definition next to it (make sure you copy the words correctly and write in your best handwriting, taking care with joins and presentation)
Are there any other words you are unsure of? If so, copy them carefully into your book, find the definition of them (use a dictionary or online dictionary) and copy this into your book too.
Scroll to pg 12 – Characters in stories
Write the long date Thursday 7th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I draw and label my favourite story character?
Who is your favourite story character? What makes them your favourite character? Draw a picture of your favourite story character and label them with information about their appearance (what they look like) and personality (what they are like).
Remember – all your work should be completed in your best handwriting and to the best of your ability. Please use a ruler to underline and label your character carefully. Also, focus on capital letters, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary and presentation.
Times tables
Either carry on with your log from yesterday, or make a new ‘Hit the answer’ log in your exercise book like the one below
Hit the answer
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Date |
Times table / division fact |
Number correct in 1 minute |
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07.01.21 |
X8 |
5 |
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8 |
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10 |
Practise your times table target or 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?
Maths
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Equivalent lengths mm and cm’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
and watch the next lesson, Equivalent lengths mm and cm,
OR click on the link below for the video
Write the short date 07.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate equivalent lengths mm and cm?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers equivalent lengths m and cm’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Science
In science, we will be learning about States of Matter using this resource:
https://www.ase.org.uk/ase-coronavirus-hub-primary-remote-learning-resources#year4
Scroll until you see Year 4 Resources -States of Matter and click on Lesson 1 - Solids, Liquids and Gases.
You'll need some household objects to use in the practical parts of the lesson but the suggestions are all on the slides. Enjoy.
Write the long date Thursday 7th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I classify a range of objects and materials as solids, liquids or gases?
Please record your written work underneath the date and learning objective (you may print out slide 7 if you wish)
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
HOME LEARNING Wednesday 6th January 2021
Date: 5th Jan 2021 @ 2:21pm
Year 4
Home Learning Wednesday 6th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you are all safe and well. It was lovely seeing you all on Monday – you always bring a smile to my face. Unfortunately, things have changed and we are not able to be together as a full class until after February half term (at the earliest). Please all try your best to stay positive, I’m sure many of you will keep in contact with each other during this tricky time.
Each evening, I will put the following day’s Home Learning on the Year 4 Blog. Please complete the work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation and vocabulary. Try and discipline yourself to get up each morning and do your work to the best of your ability.
Please collect the purple Home Learning exercise book you used during our isolation weeks in November, from the school office. Alternatively, you may collect a new book. This exercise book will be used to record your Home Learning – be proud of all your achievements – you will be able to share these with me, Mrs Whitworth and your class mates when we return to school.
If you need any reading books, please ask your parents to email or ring Mrs Rothwell and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
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.
Have you found any new words today? If so, copy them carefully into your reading diary. Use a dictionary to find the meanings and write the definitions in your diary.
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
This week’s spellings all have an apostrophe in – they are all contractions.
Please make sure you practise your spellings on Sumdog and in your exercise books. These spellings will be tested in school on Friday 8th January, so please aim to learn them for Friday.
they’ll aren’t won’t we’ve
couldn’t who’s would’ve there’s
they’ve can’t shouldn’t you’ve
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Scroll down to pg 2 and read the title and information given.
Read pages 3, 4, 5 and 6 – make sure you are reading with understanding. (You can also listen to an audio version of the story if you click on the link on page 3)
If you come across a word you are unsure of, use other clues from the sentence to help with its meaning. Does it have a capital letter? Is there part of the word you recognise from another word you know? Look the word up in a dictionary if you are still unsure.
Scroll to page 7 – Let’s chat about the story
Write the long date Wednesday 6th January 2021
Write the title Can I record my thoughts about a story?
Either complete the tasks on the sheet or in your Home Learning Book.
Scroll to page 8 – True or false Quiz
Write the title Can I use evidence from the text to answer questions?
Complete the quiz on the sheet or in your Home Learning Book. Give a full explanation as to how you know whether the answer is true or false.
Scroll to page 9
Explain whether the statements are correct or not. Write in full sentences, using clues from the story to help.
Write the title Can I write a quiz based on a story I have read?
Now make your own quiz for someone, based on this story or a story you have read or are currently reading. Don’t forget your question marks!
Remember to record your answers in complete sentences, explaining your answers fully. Focus on capital letters, spellings, punctuation and vocabulary, using evidence from the text to help back up your answers.
Times tables
Make a log in your exercise book like the one below
Hit the answer
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Date |
Times table / division fact |
Number correct in 1 minute |
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Practise your times table target or 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?
Maths
Please open the maths worksheet attached to the blog called ‘Equivalent lengths m and cm’. You may print this off if you have a printer.
Please click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-8-measurement-length-perimeter/
Watch the first lesson, Equivalent lengths m and cm, and either complete the worksheet as instructed or write the answers in your Home Learning Book.
Can you use a ruler and accurately measure some items around your home in cm?
Make sure you record the item and the length of it. Remember to include the units, cm.
Can you find 3 items which are exactly 10cm?
PE
Exercising is excellent for both your mental and physical health.
Watch the video at:
Download the document called Feeling Flexible?
Have a go at the circuit. How many times can you repeat the circuit?
Can you challenge someone else to have a go?
If possible, go out for a walk, run or bike ride with an adult at home.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.
Date: 18th Dec 2020 @ 1:48pm
Year 4
Friday 18th December 2020
Year 4 - well done for all your hard work over the last term, both at school and at home. We have been impressed by the progress you have made and the resilience shown. Many of you are eager to share your knowledge and learning with the class and this is lovely to see.
During the holiday, make sure you relax and enjoy spending Christmas with your family. We look forward to seeing you on Monday 4th January 2021, refreshed and ready to learn.
Have a safe, enjoyable and fun filled Christmas, and a Peaceful New Year.
Mrs Tipping and Mrs Whitworth
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 10:57pm
Online Safety over the Christmas Holidays
Date: 16th Dec 2020 @ 2:11pm
Here you will find some help and advice for keeping your family safe online over Christmas.
Home Practice Friday 11th December 2020
Date: 11th Dec 2020 @ 3:50pm
Year 4
Home Practice 11th December 2020
We’ve had a fantastic 3 days in Year 4 – it’s so lovely to see you all back in school and with your friends again. I am proud of each and every one of you for the superb work you have done at home – you have obviously worked hard and your Iron Man board games were fantastic. Thank you to everyone at home who has helped and supported the children in any way – it is very much appreciated.
This week, we played our Iron Man board games with a partner and evaluated them, thinking about what worked well and what we would change if we made the game again. In addition, we shared our adverts with the class – this was great fun – some of your performances were exceptional. In maths, we consolidated our mental subtraction skills and our times tables. We created some beautiful art work and were filmed singing and playing the glocks for the Nativity. In French, we designed and described a Christmas jumper – Mrs Quilliam said we did a super job on our first day back in school after 2 weeks!
As we missed ‘tree dressing’ day in school last week, we had our very own celebration outside. We all made decorations during our time at home and we hung these on a tree near the nature area. We also enjoyed the Sponsored Santa dash, which is helping to raise funds for reading books.
Well done to Gabriella T, India and Molly who spent the most amount of time on Sumdog this week – on Monday, you will be given 10 Dojos each to start the week! Well done to everyone else who has been on Sumdog during the last week, practising the skills set will help you to make even more progress.
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Make sure you discuss the story and the characters. Find the meaning of any new words too. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
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.
Times tables
You have been given your own individual times table target. Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Wednesday (16th December 2020). Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?
You can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’. Select the times tables or division button and then the table that you want to practise. This is an excellent way to practise your tables. Either type in ‘hit the button’ (the game is on Top Marks) or use the link below:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Spellings
This week, our spellings focus on words many children get wrong in their independent writing. These words will be tested next Thursday (17th December 2020). Please practise the spellings below each evening at home, on Sumdog, by writing them out, and by writing your own sentences including these words spelt correctly. Remember to take care with your handwriting and punctuate your sentences correctly too!
We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.
does doesn’t there their they’re were
where to too two your you’re
went would could our are goes
Sumdog Challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the above spellings
- A maths challenge (mental subtraction within 1000)
- A maths times table challenge (based on arrays for the 3, 4 and 8 times tables)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
HOME LEARNING Tuesday 8th December 2020
Date: 7th Dec 2020 @ 4:58pm
Year 4
Home Learning Tuesday 8th December 2020
Good morning Year 4. I am looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow. Please bring the work you have completed at home, your reading books, your PE kit, and your tree decoration – we will be having our own ‘Tree Dressing’ session in the next few days. We will be extremely busy when we get back to school with our learning as well as preparing for the Nativity which will be videoed on Thursday!
Please remember to take part in the Sumdog challenges that started last Friday (4th 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.
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
Please make sure you practise your spellings on Sumdog.
Write each word in a silly sentence – check your spellings afterwards to check they are right. Did you remember your capital letters and full stops?
You will be tested on these words in class next Thursday (10th December 2020).
Times tables
- 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?
- 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.
- Practise your 9 times table with the rapping unicorn
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-9-times-table/zr2gt39b
English
- Write a letter
Today I would like you to write a letter to me. Please take care with your capital letters, punctuation, spelling and handwriting. Organise your writing into paragraphs:
- Paragraph 1 – what you have been doing over the past 2 weeks
- Paragraph 2 – what you are looking forward to when we are back in school
- Paragraph 3 – the goals you are going to try and achieve when we are back in school and in the Spring term
Below, I have given you an idea of how to set your letter out and an example of how to start your paragraphs.
Dear Mrs Tipping Monday 7th December 2020
Today is the last day of home learning as we will be back in school tomorrow. During the past 2 weeks, I have …….
When we are back in school, I am looking forward to ……
I have thought carefully about what I need to do to in order to improve my learning. Before we break up for Christmas, I am going to ……. In addition, in the Spring term I am going to …….
Make sure you finish your letter off appropriately!
- Please update your self-isolation diary for today.
Maths
- As a warm-up, please have a go at the Sum blocks puzzle by clicking on the link below. You will be shown a sum and you need to drag the number blocks up to make the target sum. This starts off quite straightforward but do not be fooled, it gets progressively harder!
https://www.mathplayground.com/logic_sum_blocks.html
- Maths investigation
Today I would like you to carry out a maths investigation which will help practice and consolidate your addition and subtraction strategies. You may use different strategies, depending on the numbers in the calculation (eg a compensating strategy, counting up, subtracting by partitioning).
- Choose a 2-digit number eg 27
- Reverse the digits and subtract the smaller number from the larger number
27 reversed is 72, so the calculation will be 72 – 27
Use a numberline / jottings to solve the calculation
Eg 72 – 27 = 45
- Now, reverse the digits in the answer and add this to your answer
The answer to the subtraction was 45, reversed, this is 54, so the calculation is 54 + 45
Use a numberline / jottings to solve the calculation
Eg 54 + 45
50 add 40 = 90 5 + 4 = 9 90 + 9 = 99
- Do this with different 2-digit numbers
- What do you notice?
- Does this happen with any 2-digit number? Are there some exceptions?
- Why do you think this is?
Please show your working out and write what you notice in your books.
Extension
For a challenge, have a go with 3-digit numbers, an example is given below
- Choose a 3-digit number eg 431
- Reverse the digits in the number and subtract the smaller number from the larger number
Eg 431 – 134 = 297
- Reverse the digits in the answer and add it to your answer
The answer to the subtraction was 297, reversed, this is 792
Eg 792 + 297 = 1089
- Do this with different 3-digit numbers
- What do you notice?
- Does this happen with any 3-digit number? Are there some exceptions?
- Why do you think this is?
Please show your working out and write what you notice in your books.
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!
- Carrying cards – click on the link below
Can you work out what the missing numbers should be?
If there was another row of four children standing behind the fourth row, what numbers would they be holding?
- Cracker – see the sheet attached to the blog
Have a go at the Christmas Code Cracker – what words can you find?
Mighty Maths Challenge answers for Monday 7th December 2020
Question 2 – Rows of Coins
- 5p 2p 20p 1p 10p
- 2p 5p 1p 2p 1p 5p or 5p 1p 2p 1p 5p 2p
When you use two 10p coins as well
2p 5p 10p 2p 1p 5p 1p 10p or 10p 1p 5p 1p 2p 10p 5p 2p
Science
In our science topic, we have been learning about animal classification and habitats. Humans can have both positive and negative effects on habitats and environments. They can help to both sustain environments and destroy environments. In your books, please write the date and the learning objective, then divide your page into 2. Write Positive Impacts on one side and Negative Impacts on the other. Can you think of / research examples of each? Make sure you know why your example has an impact on habitats and environments, although you do not need to write this down. I have given you an example below:
Tuesday 8th November 2020
Can I give examples of the human impact on habitats and environments?
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Positive Impacts |
Negative Impacts |
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Setting up a bird house Making nature reserves Having garden hedges instead of fences |
Cutting down trees Dropping litter Polluting rivers, streams, and lakes |
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 – I’m looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow!
HOME LEARNING Monday 7th December 2020
Date: 6th Dec 2020 @ 6:05pm
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 7th 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 9th 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 (4th 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 (10th December 2020).
Times tables
- 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?
- 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.
- Practise your 6 times tables with a catchy tune …..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7rYbk9PNuM
English
- 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.
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See |
Smell |
Hear |
Taste |
Touch |
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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
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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?
- Please update your self-isolation diary for today.
Maths
- 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.
- 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!
- 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).
- 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 4th 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. 