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Dear Hazel Class,
I hope you enjoyed your learning this week. Don’t forget to check the school website for this week’s challenge! Here is your learning for this
week. I have put lots of different suggestions on there so there will be something everyone enjoys. Please don’t feel like you have to complete
every task but if mums and dads ask you to, it is really important that you do because I have asked you to!
The key tasks I would like you to complete are:
Daily Spellings
Daily maths (White Rose, times tables or arithmetic)
I have written your writing activities for this week in the writing section! There are 3 different ones.
At least 15 minutes of reading a day
A reading task
How exciting was it to find out about our new teachers and classes for next year! Remember to email
admin to ask Mr Martin any questions you have for him!
Thank you to all the children who have been sending me their fantastic work. I really enjoy seeing your
wonderful projects and reading your stories. Keep up all the good work! We are fast approaching the
summer holidays where you can have a well-earned rest! Not long to go now.
Missing you all lots,
Miss Storey
Year 4 Home Learning Menu Week beginning 6.7.20
P.E. Creative (Music, Art, Drama)
Joe Wicks has become the UK’s PE teacher. Go on you tube at 9.00am every day to follow along.
If you have not access to You tube, can your child make up their own workout for you and the rest of the family to have a go at.
The Daily Mile – 1 mile or 15 minutes of exercise a day!! I’ve been
going on a daily walk of 5km – 3miles! I wonder if you can record your walking/running/hopping/jumping
distance and covert them?
Health, fitness and well-being ideas
Handstand: Learn how to do a still, or walking, handstand.
Squats: Research and test how your foot position changes which muscles you use in your legs.
Animals: Use the internet to teach you how to draw your favourite animal and draw it each day for a week.
Skipping: Learn how to skip normally, or develop into double or triple unders.
Counting: Try learning to count by seeing the numbers in your mind, rather than saying them in your head.
Family & Friends: Play a game with someone far away, using the telephone or internet. Try games like battleships, chess, boggle or hangman.
There are some online classes being offered for example Emma Scott runs an art session online at 2pm every day.
Drama: This is not a….
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIDqU3x93ww
Have a go at trying this out yourselves at home.
Music:
Change the words to one of your favourite songs, creating a new
song about your favourite things!
Send me your new lyrics and I’ll try to guess your song
Art:
Research a famous artist – why are they famous? What is unique
about them? Create a poster about your chosen artist and share with
your friends.
Make comparisons between the artist you have chosen and their
chosen artist. What do you like the most? Why?
Weekly Subject Focused Project: Science
LO: To understand food chains. Discuss how food gets to our plate. Where does meat come from? How do those animals eat? What do they eat? Draw a simple food chain for chicken. Label the food chain with key vocabulary – producer, predator and prey.
Ask children to think about a food chain for a different animal and have a go at researching and drawing their food chain. Research different skulls of herbivores and carnivores – can children identify similarities and differences between thm? Why do different animals have different teeth? Why do some animals need larger canines? Why do some have larger incisors? Key Questions: Can they compare the teeth of herbivores and carnivores?
Can they explain what a simple food chain shows? Can they construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey?
Spelling and Grammar
This week’s focus is adverbials of manner. 1.awkwardly 2.frantically 3.curiusly 4.obediently 5.carefully 6.reluctantly 7.hurriedly 8.deliberately 9.unexpectedly 10.rapdly Activities: Look, see, cover, write and check every day Draw a picture using the word to show its meaning:
Rainbow writing to show sounds or parts of the word:
Stupendous: Put your spelling words in alphabetical order.
Key Grammar Videos and Quiz
Fronted Adverbials: Video and Quiz
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zp937p3
Co-ordinating conjunctions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z9wvqhv
Subordinating conjunctions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zqk37p3
Prepositions:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zw38srd
Modal Verbs:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zps4pbk
How many different ways can you change these
sentences using adverbials?
The dogs ate the biscuits. They started to grow really fast. Now they
are big. They need to eat a lot of food.
Reading
Read for 15 minutes a day. Then use some of the sentences stems below to come up with questions about what you have read. Select a different focus for each day.
Alternatively, if you would like a change from coming up with your own questions go to www.pobble365.com and there are pictures and a story starter with questions to answer.
Activity 1:
Record or video yourself reading a favourite story out loud. Make sure you use a fluent storytelling voice so it is
entertaining. Listen to the recording. Decide how to improve it and record again.
Activity 2:
Who is your favourite author – research and create a presentation about him or her. It could be a powerpoint
or an information booklet. You might want to include something about their childhood, what inspires them to
write etc…
Activity 3: Inference
What can you see? What do you think? What do you wonder? Discuss and/or record your ideas here: See think wonder.
Once you’ve done the see, think, wonder, have a go at these
questions:
What is the dad doing? Why is the girl standing behind him? Why is she dragging a kite on the floor? Has she said anything to him? Does he know she’s there?
How is she feeling? What is she thinking? Do you think this has happened before? Why/why not
Vocabulary Explain
The word/phrase ______________ shows that… A synonym for __________ is… The word(s) ______________________ suggest that the character is feeling... A definition for the word ___________ is…
The most interesting/exciting part was... because… I think the text is arranged in this way because... The best structural/literacy feature was ... because... The author engages the reader by...
Inference Retrieve
The description of (character) shows that they are... The following word(s)/phrase makes the reader feel... My overall impression of this text is... because… I can tell that... because.... The character behaved in this way because....
The key characters in the text are… The story takes place in a/near to a … The genre of this text is horror/fantasy/ historical fiction/adventure. I know this because… With adult support, consider appropriate responses to: How did...? How often...? How ... is ...? Who had...? Who is...? Who did....?What happened to...? What does ... do? Where did ... go?
Prediction Summarise
Based on the front cover, I think this text will be about... I think this story will be about...because… In the next chapter, I think (character) will... because.... The story is set in.... this makes me think that... I think (character) will change their mood/behaviour/feelings in the future because…
The first thing that happened in this chapter was... The main theme of this story/chapter/page is… The key events in chronological order are… A Heading for this chapter could be... because... At the beginning... In the middle… At the end...
Writing
New Talk for Writing – Amazing Aliens!!
For many years, humans all over the world have wondered whether we really exist. Well, I can tell you we do and, what's more, we have been getting up to all sorts of mischief on our visits to Earth! Now I’m hoping we can help you with your writing and inspire you to believe that aliens are amazing!
New Story:
Activities:
Read the story and discuss what happens.
Write a summary for the story for someone in your house to read.
Draw a story map for your story.
Complete tasks at the end of the pack.
Maths
Friday Arithmetic questions at the bottom of the pack.
Additional Challenges:
1. Write an explanation for a written maths method to give to a younger child. Eg column subtraction, bus stop division etc
2. Draw a polygon with smallest number of sides you can, and then the largest number of sides.
3. Invent a Maths game. 4. Play battle ships game. 5. Draw symmetrical patterns and colour them in
(rangoli). 6. Measure objects in your bedroom. 7. Learn To Tell The Time
If you have access to a computer, use: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Here you will be able to access a lesson a day of maths, there is a
video of what to do. They are no longer supplying worksheets. I have attached the sheets to the bottom of this document. There are 2 for each day (Mon-Friday).White Rose have a separate challenge for a
Friday. I would advise the children complete the lesson (left) and times tables on a Friday.
Use these link to access the maths worksheets for each day. I have not included them in the pack as they appear blurry and difficult to read. Links to maths sheets: Monday: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lesson-1-Identify-angles.pdf Tuesday: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lesson-2-Compare-and-order-angles.pdf Wednesday: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lesson-3-Triangles.pdf Thursday: https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Lesson-4-Quadrilaterals.pdf Stupendous challenge: How many different shapes can you find in your environment? What angles can you see around you?
BBC BITESIZE https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z63tt39/year-4-and-p5-lessons/1
Daily maths lessons are available from BBC Bitesize that supply a daily maths lesson and worksheets.
Addiontional Suggested Activities
Geography
Find the names of the countries of Europe.
Can you find out their capital cities?
Draw their flags.
Research food from different countries. Science
Can you design and make your own toothpaste?
Make a box for a new type of toothpaste.
Create an advert to tell people how and why to brush their teeth.
Design a flag for Chesterton Primary School.
Make some recycled paper.
Grow a plant by taking a seed from something you have eaten.
Count and list all the things in your house which run on electricity.
Learn to write your name in binary.
For many years, humans all over the world have wondered whether we really exist. Well, I can tell you we do and, what's more, we have been getting up to all sorts of mischief on our visits to Earth! Now I’m hoping we can help you with your writing and inspire you to believe that aliens are amazing!
First, here are some facts about our species.
You can listen to an audio recording of the facts below here
https://soundcloud.com/talkforwriting/amazing-aliens/s-B4gFcIoZ82m
Amazing Aliens
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to meet an
alien? Read on and find out more about our fascinating
species.
What is an alien?
An alien is a peculiar humanoid from outer space.
Appearance:
Most aliens are tall and can grow to over 10 metres in
height. However, the Pigmy alien is the tiniest of aliens and
is the size of a household mouse. Additionally, aliens have
tough, green skin that is often wrinkled to help keep them
warm. Amazingly, some aliens have shiny scales that are
harder than diamonds.
Habitat:
Aliens are found across the Solar System. The majority like
to live well away from planets inhabited by human beings.
Usually, they live in pods or space shacks made of ice. Some
aliens like to sleep in cocoons, which are woven from a silk-
like thread that space worms produce.
What do they eat?
All Aliens are vegetarian, but also candyarian, which means
they have an extremely sweet tooth. They love chocolate,
cakes and desserts. Furthermore, they are extremely fond
of fizzy drinks. Their favourite food is ice-cream.
Interestingly, aliens can dislocate their jaws in the same
way as a snake, so they can fill their mouth with huge
portions of sweet treats.
What do they do?
Aliens are best known for exploring in spaceships. They
usually land their spacecrafts in remote areas and like to
find out about the planets they are visiting. Interestingly,
most aliens are extremely good mathematicians and they
love to calculate the answers to complicated maths
problems in their heads. Fascinating facts
• The fastest aliens can run up to 450mph.
• Aliens can live until they are 205.
• Aliens can make themselves invisible if they are threatened.
• Nightshade aliens are the only nocturnal alien, that means they come out at night.
Are aliens on earth?
Watch out! The next time you see someone in your class
guzzling extraordinary portions of sweets, getting top
marks in their times tables tests and winning every race at
Sports’ day, just maybe you’ve got an alien invader of your
own!
©Maria Richards 2020
Amazing Aliens
Glossary - definitions of some of the technical
vocabulary: humanoid: something that has the
shape of a human being cocoon: a silky case,
usually spun by insects vegetarian: a person or
creature that does not eat meat or fish
dislocate: to move a bone out of its normal position
Tick the picture below that best represents each word:
humanoid
cocoon
vegetarian
dislocate
Now take a look at this line from the text:
All Aliens are vegetarian, but also candyarian, which means they
have an extremely sweet tooth.
Vegetarian is a real word but candyarian is an alien word and
only exists in our alien language. Let’s explore alien words by
playing the Alien Word game with compound words.
Compound words are made when two words are joined to form
a new word, for example: blackboard. I have taken compound
words from your language and split them up. Your challenge
is:
Join a word in column 1 with any word in column 2.
Write the new word in the box below.
Invent a definition for your new alien word.
I’ve done one for you and remember – be as inventive as you like!
Column 1
Column 2
water melon lady bird
basket ball snow man
hand bag door way
play ground butter fly
The Alien Word Game
Alien word Definition of the new alien word
snowmelon fruit that grows on frozen space-trees in a solar winter
What do the words mean?
Read the information on aliens again. Underline
any words you don't know the meaning of. Can you
find out the definition? You could ask someone
else in your home to tell you, use a dictionary or
search the internet. Write your definitions out on a
separate piece of paper.
★ Challenge: can you put these new words into a sentence?
Alien Comprehension!
Here’s a quick-fire reading quiz about aliens. How many
can you answer?
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Where do aliens like to sleep?
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What is the name of the smallest alien species?
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What type of food might be on an alien’s shopping list?
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Why might aliens scare humans?
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Why might you have an alien in your class if you spot someone
doing extremely well in maths tests?
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Help! I’ve seen an alien!
★ Let’s investigate some of the words and
phrases that would help you to describe an
alien to a friend if you ever saw one.
The Adjective Game:
Adjectives are used describe things
(nouns): e.g. The fluffy, grey cat slept on the comfortable
sofa.
To make descriptions more powerful for a reader you can add
adjectives to describe different nouns. Your challenge is to
describe my alien friend below, using two adjectives. I have
done one for you.
Remember, when you use two
adjectives, you separate them
using a comma.
The alien I saw had fiery, oval
eyes.
Write some interesting adjectives to
describe different bits of the alien.
The alien I saw had:
__________________ , ___________________ horns
__________________ , ___________________ teeth
__________________ , ___________________ claws
__________________ , ___________________ skin
__________________ , ___________________ head
Writing Tip – “Has every word earned its place?”
Make sure both adjectives you have used to describe your alien
are telling the reader something different. For example, large,
big teeth doesn’t work because large and big are saying the
same thing.
The ‘Talk like an Expert’ game
Now let’s invent some facts about aliens. Imagine
you are world expert on aliens and you are
answering the interview questions below. Make up
one fact for each question.
★ Start your answers with one of these generalisers. These
are words that sum up things e.g. most, all, some, many,
a few. For example: Most aliens like cheese.
Where do aliens go on holiday?
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What do aliens like to do to relax?
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How to aliens travel to work?
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Why do aliens live alone?
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Challenge: Add on to your facts by using the
adverb ‘additionally’. Use it to start a NEW sentence to
add on to your fact. For example:
Most aliens like cheese. Additionally, they also enjoy eating
broccoli covered in marmite.
Rewrite your sentences below. Remember to use a capital
letter to start, a comma after additionally and a full stop at
the end of your sentences. Check you have two
sentences.
___________________. Additionally,
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★ Now write your own questions to ask an alien. Use
the question words: who, what, when, where and how.
Don't forget to end your sentence with a question mark.
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Creative challenge: On a separate piece of paper, create
your own alien.
How many eyes will it have? How many legs? What colour
will its skin be? What special powers will it have? Label your
alien to show what it can do e.g. laser eyes for fighting
enemies.
