YEAR 4 HOME LEARNINGW/C 8.6.20

NEW INFO! As many children are returning to school this week we have increased the amount of work which we are setting for home learning to bring the children still at home more in line with their peers in school. We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can.We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to Claire.Donoghue@schools.sunderland.gov.uk in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback.

We would also love to see your work and hear how you are getting on! So we would like to host a weekly virtual catch up where you will have the opportunity to see other children in your class and share some of the lovely work you’ve been doing with each other and a teacher from school. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). The teacher who will be hosting your classes chat will send a Marvellous Me message with the link to the meeting and the date and time. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning!This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week.There are additional spelling and handwriting tasks this week. Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent along with next week’s timetable.

Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 12th):

READING

Please ensure you have read Chapters 1 & 2 of JK Rowling’s new, exciting online book ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/Complete the work detailed below on ‘The Ickabog’ – VIPERS questions.CGP book – pages 8 & 9: An Interview with Jacqueline Wilson. Complete all questions about the text.*Please continue to listen to your child read regularly*

WRITING

The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’.For more information see below.You can complete these as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday.CGP book – Pages 4 & 5

HANDWRITINGYou have been given a poem, ‘The Moon’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book.Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish.Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call.

SPELLINGYou have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn.This week we are revising the ‘sc’ sound. Your ten words are:Science, scissors, scent, scene, scenery, descend, fascinate, scientist, crescent, muscle

MATHS

My Maths: Five tasks (one per day or you can do them as you wish over the week. Please complete the lesson first and then do the homework task).Tasks allocated on My Maths and will be available from Monday.Teachers are providing feedback for you on MyMaths tasks so please ensure you check this later in the week.**My Maths FeedbackLogin to your My Maths account. Click the ‘Scores’ tab at the top, then there is a smiling emoji face; click on this and in the bottom left corner there will be a comment/feedback. It might direct you to other games or suggest you try it again. Please ensure you are regularly checking this feedback.

Maths Reasoning: Stickers (see below)Maths Challenge Nrich (OPTIONAL): Zios and Zepts (see below)Times Tables Rockstars –play your part by regularly playing TTR over the course of the week and look out for battles.

FOUNDATION

Mental Health and WellbeingThis week our school is focusing on Mental Health and Wellbeing and Year 4 have been given the theme ‘Self-Esteem’. See the task below.You can also continue to complete the history, geography and science tasks that were initially set as many people haven’t sent us any completed work.

English- Reading, Writing and Art Inspired by J.K Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’.

From the home reading that you’ve been telling us about we have noticed a definite love of Harry Potter amongst our readers! We were delighted when Mrs Softley told us that the wonderful J. K Rowling has written a new fairytale story, which she is kindly publishing chapter by chapter for free! This is because she wanted children in lockdown to have something new to read, but even more exciting is that she wants those children to illustrate it!Follow this link to her website to read what she has to say about her fantastic illustration competition and to read the story for free!https://www.theickabog.com/home/

How exciting it would be if someone from FJS had a drawing included in the published version! If you tweet your entries to the competition, make sure you tag us or hashtag #fulwelljuniorschoolWe will be posting reading and writing work linked to chapters of The Ickabog each week and we really hope you enjoy reading the story and completing this work.We are suggesting that you read two chapters per week. This week’s work will be based around chapter’s one and two. See your year group’s tasks below. The teacher that you chat with during our weekly virtual chat (fingers crossed this is successful!) will want to see and hear some of the lovely work that you’ve done!

This week’s reading: VIPERS ‘The Ickabog’

Read the first two chapters of ‘The Ickabog’. There are some VIPERS questions for you to answer below which will help you to meet these objectives:

Explain how the same word can have different meanings in different contexts Infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, justifying inferences with evidence.

V (Vocabulary) 1. “All that was left for Fred to do was to beam at his subjects” the word beam has more than one meaning- what does it mean in this sentence.I (Inference) 2. Why do you think that the grownups in Cornucopia made the Ickabog sound so scary to children?P (Prediction) 3. Predict what the ‘terrible troubles’ that are mentioned at the end of chapter 2 might be.E (Explain) 4. Do you think that Lord Spittleworth and Lord Flapoon are good friends? Explain why or why not.R (Retrieve) 5. Find two different areas of Cornucopia and what they are famous for?S (Summarise) 6. Summarise (retell) the story so far to someone who hasn’t read it.

This week’s writing: ‘The Ickabog’

Your writing task is to imagine that you have just arrived in Cornucopia as a visitor and have spent the day exploring the area. Write a letter home to a friend describing the kingdom in detail. Use imagery, such as similes (e.g. the cakes were as light and fluffy as a cloud) to help the reader paint a picture of the setting in their imaginations.These are the objectives you’ll be successful with if you do this task well:

Use fronted adverbials including the correct use of a comma (e.g. King Fred, who was fearless, ruled Cornucopia.) In narratives, describe settings using ‘show not tell’ techniques Use joined handwriting throughout independent writing Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors, making changes to improve writing

Once you have finished your description, use it to help you to draw a map of Cornucopia including all of its different areas.

This week’s poem for handwriting:

Year 4- The MoonRobert Louis Stephenson

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,

And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,The howling dog by the door of the house,

The bat that lies in bed at noon,All love to be out by the light of the moon.

But all of the things that belong to the dayCuddle to sleep to be out of her way;

And flowers and children close their eyesTill up in the morning the sun shall arise.

This week’s spellings:

Date (W/C)

Spelling Rule Spellings Activities

8th June S sound with ‘sc’ spelling. 1. Science2. Scissors3. Scent4. Scene5. Scenery6. Descend7. Fascinate8. Scientist9. Crescent10. Muscle

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This week’s maths reasoning & optional challenge:

Week 2

Maths Challenge Nrich (OPTIONAL)

This week’s foundation learning: Mental Health and Wellbeing.

8/6/20 Mental Health Week – Self-Esteem

Watch the animation of the Hare and the Tortoise or the Snail and the Whale: https://bbc.co.uk/programmes/p011syc1 https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000cslw/the-snail-and-the-whale Why is it important to believe in ourselves and others? What is self-belief? Explain that self-belief is that positive feeling inside that

you are able to face your challenges. It is having confidence in your ability to make a difference. This is important to our mental wellbeing.

Sometimes the challenge we are facing may feel difficult, but the important thing is to use our skills to the best of our ability and keep trying.

Why did the tortoise succeed - is he really faster than the hare? What did the tortoise do to make the most of his strengths? In the story there were some things the tortoise could control and some

things he couldn’t. What did he focus on? Why? Why did the snail not believe in herself during her journey with the whale? How did she find self-belief? Who did she make a difference to? Can you think of a time when you faced something tricky and weren’t sure how it would turn out, but you gave it a go and did the

very best you could?

Task: Draw a self-portrait and label it with 2 positive things about yourself, 2 things people like about you, 2 new experiences you have had in the past year, 2 things you have achieved and at least 2 ways you have made a positive difference to the people around you.