Year 4 Home Learning - Week 17

Dear Year 4,

We hope you are keeping yourselves well and safe. Keep going with all your times-table and maths work on Hit the Button, TT Rockstars and Mathsbot.Parents, you can go to Twinkl.com to access a variety of free resources to help with home schooling and onto themathsfactor.com for more free maths resources. You can also access all of the spelling bee words on the school website. Well done for all your hard work, we are very proud of you!Parents/carers – we have now included an answer section. There is also a PSHE activity about respect included at the bottom of the document. Take care, from Mrs Westlake-Webb, Miss Morris, Miss Cormack, Mrs Gregory, Mrs Porter and Mrs Harrison 😊 1. I am an Artist – Self-portrait.To go alongside your letter to your new Year 5 teacher, it would be fantastic if you could draw a self-portrait so that your new teacher will know what you look like. You can create your self-portrait in any style that you like. You may wish to include some of the shading techniques we looked at a couple of weeks ago or may even wish to draw yourself in the style of Roy Lichtenstein or Andy Warhol. The choice is yours!

2. I am an Author (Writing) – Formal letter writing.Write a letter to your Year 5 teacher. You should include some information about yourself and a question for your new teacher to answer. Use the checklist and example on the sheet below to help you.

3. I am an Author (Reading).Read the sheets below on ‘Live Like an Emperor’ and ‘Layers of the Rainforest’ then answer the questions. (Answers can be found on the sheet below). Your child can either independently read and answer questions or you can read it with them and then discuss the answers.

4. I am a Scientist – The water cycle.Create a leaflet or poster explaining what the water cycle is. Remember to include the different stages, a diagram and explanations of what the scientific words mean (e.g. condensation and evaporation). Use the resources on the sheets below to help you. You can also refer to the videos and resources from last week too.

5. I am a Mathematician – MoneyThis week, your task is to learn how to add different amounts of money together and how to compare different amounts of money. In the sheet named ‘At the beach cafe’ your job is to add together the costs of different items to work out how much each customer spent. In the second sheet called ‘Comparing money amounts’, you need to add up the costs of different toys and then use the ‘greater than’ > and ‘less than’ < symbols to compare which group of toys was more expensive. Using your column addition skills will help you with this work. The answers are included. You can also watch the following videos to help you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvjeYkiA4oo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFNoEHnxPvM

6. I am an Author (SPaG). At school we started to learn about determiners. A determiner is a word that introduces a noun. Interrogative determiners can be used to ask questions (e.g. which, what and whose). Demonstrative determiners can be used to compare or show how close something is (e.g. this, that, those and these). Quantifiers give information about amounts (e.g. two, some and many). Possessive determiners are used to indicate who the owner of something is (e.g. my, his and your).Have a go at completing the determiner sheets below. There is a help sheet and answer sheet included for parents and you can also watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dka6-z-8qyY

Reading Comprehension Answers

Live Like an Emperor Layers of the Rainforest

The Water Cycle

Determiners

Determiners Answers