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Term 2 Week 3 –

Home Learning Plan – Year 4 Dear Parents/Carers,

On the following pages you will find a table outlining daily activities for your child to complete. Please complete all written work in homework books. Suitable book standards should still be maintained for example: only using lead pencil unless otherwise stated, underlining headings in red pen or pencil, dating work and no textas in books please. This work will be marked upon returning to school.

Some relevant websites to access over this period include:

www.mathletics.com www.readingeggs.com

http://www.pobble365.com https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Typing Sites: https://www.typingclub.com/ http://www.keybr.com/ www.typing.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

Physical Exercise

Children should do 30 minutes of physical activity daily. Ideas for getting moving might be kick a ball, bounce on the trampoline, make up a dance and perform it for a partner or pet, shoot some hoops.

NOTE: Please remember to limit screen time sessions to 30 minutes at a time. After 30 minutes please take a screen break and do another activity or some physical exercise.

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Home Learning Plan – Year 4 – Term 2 – Week 3 The English activities below are based on students working with an appropriate novel or a picture book of at least 10 pages. Please visit the following website for texts if you do not have any suitable books at home. https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Monday 11/5/20 Tuesday 12/5/20 Wednesday 13/5/20 Thursday 14/5/20 Friday 15/5/20

Morning English Choose a new book or story that you would like to read. (If you have finished your last book/story) Look at the name of the book and what it is about. Read for approximately 20 minutes. Writing When we are persuading someone we must use high modality or persuasive language. Saying ‘You should rescue dogs.’ Is not as persuasive as ‘You must rescue dogs.’ Low modality words include: maybe,

Indonesian Complete the online activities for the day. English Read for approximately 20 minutes. Writing Loaded Language Part 1 The more ‘loaded’ our language is the more convincing our arguments become. Eg Catching seals for their fur is bad.

By changing the underlined words to

Music Complete the online activities for the day. English Read for approximately 20 minutes. Writing Loaded Language Part 2 Complete 4 more loaded language sentences. Throwing rubbish out of car windows is a silly thing to do. People who smoke in public are spoiling the environment.

English Read for approximately 20 minutes. Writing Go to the Pobble 365 site. Find ‘The Great Race’ April 25th 2020. (Use the pick-a-day icon in the top right-hand corner to find the date) Complete the following Read the story starter and continue the story – Who is chasing Emma? Is this a race or is she on another adventure? Complete ‘Question Time’. Complete ‘Sentence

Library Complete the online activities for the day. English Reading Log on to Reading Eggspress Complete 20 minutes of ‘MY LESSONS’ Writing Choose a paragraph from your book and rewrite it using beautiful cursive handwriting. Spelling Ask someone to give you a spelling test using

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possibly, by chance, hopefully, in my opinion, perhaps, could Medium modality words include: sometimes, unlikely, ought to, luckily, apparently, seldom High modality words include: always, never, obviously, definitely, must, have to, absolutely, need * Now try to persuade someone that you should have pizza for dinner. Write one sentence using a low modality word. Write one sentence using a medium modality word. Write one sentence using a high modality word. Now reread your sentences. Which sentence do you think was the most convincing? Why?

better or ‘loaded’ language we improve the persuasiveness of our sentence. Eg Trapping seals for their fur is horrendous. Rewrite the following sentences by only changing the underlined words to ‘loaded language’. Rubbish is blocking our rivers and causing harm. Films of animals in the wild are interesting. Whales should not be killed. Cutting down forests should be stopped.

Spelling Write out your spelling list Start working on the spelling activities at the bottom of these pages (remember to write the subheadings and

Saving the lives of endangered animals is important. Dropping litter makes the environment untidy.

Spelling

Write out your spelling list Continue working on the spelling activities at the bottom of these pages (remember to write the subheadings and underline in red) Work on the activities for 20 minutes.

Challenge’ Spelling Write out your spelling list Complete the spelling activities from Tuesday and Wednesday. If you have completed them you may do the following: Write your spelling list out and circle the consonants. Write your spelling list in order from shortest to longest.

your spelling words. Grammar Apostrophes ’’’’ Apostrophes are punctuation marks that look like a floating comma. They are used in contractions to replace letters from two words being joined together. Contractions eg. you’re = you + are The letter ‘a’ has been removed and the apostrophe goes in its place. Make these words contractions. cannot = will not = did not = I will = I am = Now make these contracted words their full words. eg you are = you’re

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Spelling The rule for spelling this week is: The ‘ph’ letters together make the ‘f’ sound. Eg foto = photo See spelling list at the bottom of these pages. Write out your list of words. WORD OF THE WEEK delicious 1. Write the definition of delicious. 2. Put the word delicious into a sentence. Make it interesting.

underline in red) Work on the activities for 20 minutes.

couldn’t = wouldn’t = wasn’t = haven’t = we’ve = Now use at least 6 of these words in interesting and complex sentences.

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Middle Mathematics Warm Up Think about which times tables you need to improve upon and recite them to someone at home and time yourself. 2D Shapes Students make a list of all the 2 dimensional shapes that they know. For each shape make up a fact card including how many sides it has, the number of vertices (please read the note below about vertices and angles) and if it has parallel sides. Students can also describe if the angles are right angles or larger or smaller than right angles (think back to last week’s lessons on angles). Students can then draw the shape on the card. Then the students need to locate a real life example of the shape and draw that

Mathematics Warm Up Think about which times tables you need to improve upon and recite them to someone at home and time yourself and see if your time was faster than the day before. 2D Shapes Use the cards from yesterday and play ‘What shape am I?’ with someone at home. They can use the properties that you found about the shape to make clues for you to guess the shape. For example: I have four equal sides, two angles larger than a right angle and two angles smaller than a right angle. What am I? (A rhombus) Put the heading in your book: Parallelograms and Trapeziums

Mathematics Warm Up Think about which times tables you need to improve upon and recite them to someone at home and time yourself and see if your time was faster than the day before. 2D Shapes Make multiple copies (the same size) of a shape. For example 5 triangles. Use the shapes that you have made and combine them in different ways to make new shapes. Draw the new shapes that you have made showing how they were combined. Look at your shape cards and investigate whether the shapes on the cards have been formed by combining shapes. For example:

Mathematics Warm Up Think about which times tables you need to improve upon and recite them to someone at home and time yourself and see if your time was faster than the day before. 2D Shapes Use the cards from Monday and play ‘What shape am I?’ with someone at home. Write the following into your book: Transformations are moving a shape from its original position to a new position. The following are the main ways of transforming a shape. Translation/slide is when we slide a shape in any direction.

Every point of the shape must move the same

Mathematics Warm Up Think about which times tables you need to improve upon and recite them to someone at home and time yourself and see if your time was faster than the day before. 2D Shapes Tessellation is the action of fitting 2D shapes together so that there are no gaps and no overlaps. A regular tessellation is a pattern made by repeating a regular shape Examples:

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onto the card, labelling what the item is. (Keep these cards for use during the week) Note: • The term ‘vertex’ (plural:

vertices) is used when referring to the point where two sides of a shape meet (a corner).

• An angle is the amount of space between two lines.

Write the following definitions and draw an image to represent both. A parallelogram has four sides with two pairs of sides that are parallel for example a square and rectangle. A trapezium is a four sided shape that has only one pair of parallel lines. Look around your house and see if you can find examples of both of these. Find and list 5 real life examples and write them in your book. Create a picture using only parallelograms and trapeziums.

A trapezium is formed by a rhombus and triangle

Look around your house and describe and/or name other shapes formed from a combination of common shapes. Now reverse the process by splitting a given shape. A parallelogram can be split like this:

Now draw a hexagon, with each side being about 10cm in length. Use different coloured pencils to show all the ways that it can be split. Complete assigned Mathletics tasks.

distance and in the same direction.

Draw your own example of translating Reflection/ flip is when we flip a figure in any direction. Every point of the shape is the same distance from the mirror line.

Draw your own example of a refection Rotation/ turn is when we rotate a shape a

A semi-regular tessellation is made of two or more regular polygons. The pattern at each vertex must be the same! Examples:

Create your own tessellating pattern. Complete assigned Mathletics tasks.

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certain degree around a point. Here a triangle is rotated around the point marked with a "+"

Draw your own example of rotation Symmetry A symmetrical shape has an imagined line of symmetry that creates a mirror image or flip. It creates a reflection. Examples of symmetrical images

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Create a picture that is symmetrical. Look at the following links for tips https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/reflection.html https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/symmetry-reflection.html

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Afternoon

Visual Art Did you know that the Chinese invented fireworks? Create your own fireworks masterpiece – this can be drawn, sketched, painted, stamped etc PE

Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today.

Technology Over the past few weeks you have created a lot of wonderful work. Now it’s time to pick one of your favourite pieces of writing and publish it to send to your teacher. PE Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today.

Geography Earth’s Environment Answer these questions in full. What is the equator?

How might your location around the equator affect the weather?

Did you know that the Indigenous people have their own seasonal calendar? For the Jawoyn people, from around Katherine near south east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, six seasons are described in the tropical zone in which

Science and Technology Feeling Friction 1. Try rubbing 2 of your fingers together, think about how hard or easy it is. Now put a small amount of dishwashing detergent on your fingers and rub them together again. Was it easier to rub them together with the detergent on?

What is friction? Friction is something that acts between two surfaces in contact producing grip. Copy that definition into your book. Did your fingers without detergent have more or less friction than your fingers with detergent? 2. Read: What is Force? Forces can affect objects in different ways, including the way they move. Forces are usually thought of as

PE Complete one of the activities from the PE folder. PD/H A Growth Mindset is helpful thinking. When we haven’t been practising growth mindset or helpful thinking skills, we sometimes use ‘unhelpful thinking’ which makes us feel less hopeful and more upset.

Write down a list of things that you can do or say that help you change your thinking from unhelpful to helpful. Choose one of the ways that you thought of and create a poster telling others about it.

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they live: Copy the Jawoyn’s Peoples’ seasons into your book. January–February: Jiorrk, the wet season March: Bungarung, the end of the rains April–May: Jungalk, the hot start of the dry June–July–August: Malaparr, the cooler, dry September–October: Worrwopmi, the humid time November–December: Wakaringding, the first rains PE Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today.

pushes and pulls and can include forms such as friction, gravity and magnetism.

3. Investigation: You will need a heavy object like a large book (such as a phone book) and to choose 3 different surfaces around your house such as grass, tiles, carpet, concrete etc. You will be pulling your object across the 3 different surfaces to investigate the friction force between the surfaces. Conduct your experiment

4. Answer these questions in your book:

a. How were the surfaces different?

b. What did it feel like when you pulled the heavy object across each surface?

c. Was there a difference in the size of the pull?

For example:

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d. How did friction affect the movement of the heavy object?

5. Read: look at the information below. You can use different sized arrows to represent a large or small pull and an opposing arrow to represent a large or small amount of friction.

PE Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today

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