Year: Year 4Week beginning: 15.6.20

Work to be undertaken at home over the course of this week. Each day will consist of one English activity, one Maths activity and other tasks that should be completed during the week. Lovely Year 4, How are you? I hope that you and your families are well. Even though, the weather has not been spoiling us in the last week, I am certain that you kept balance between home learning and playing outdoors. I have also heard from a lot of you about how hard you have been working. You are amazing, Year 4! Keep up the great work!

What do you think about our new book ‘The Story of Tutankhamun’? What new facts have you found out about the Ancient Egyptians? How about the Science topic? Have been surprised by any information about your teeth?

This week we will focus on: finding area of shapes in Maths, revising the spellings of more statutory words, completing reading comprehension, planning, writing, and editing an interview in English, reflecting on the teachings of the Apostles in RE, exploring Ancient Egyptian gods, and finally studying different types of diets and adaptation of animal teeth.

Remember to use Purple Mash, Education City and First News ihub to support your learning and to play various educational games, especially for times tables and spellings.

As usual, I linked all the Resources to One Drive documents. If you have One Drive installed on your device, you only need to CTRL+ CLICK on the underlined link and the attachment will open.

Like previously, you can also access TenTen resources where you will find daily prayers for you to pray at home and the Sunday Liturgy that you can lead at home too. We have now finished all the mysteries of the Rosary, however you are invited to continue to pray on the Rosary with your family.

Have you stared reading ‘The Ickabog’ by J.K. Rowling? You can access it online for free, you just have to click here to read the story!

Continue proving how hard-working and perseverant you are.Look after yourselves and your families!Remember to keep in touch!

Good luck and stay safe!Miss Stojek

Monday Maths Read and complete ‘Monday Textbook’.Complete ‘Monday Worksheet’.Please write down the answers in your green exercise book. For more explanation about finding area by counting squares, watch this BBC Bitesize clip.

English Read ‘Beth and the Nile, Chapter 5’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Monday’ in your green exercise book.Check the answers from the previous dictation, using ‘Words with -ation Dictation Answers’. Look at the ‘Statutory Words Table’. Do you understand all the words? If not, find the definition of each word in a dictionary. Click here to use online dictionary. Copy and fill in the table, practising your spellings. Make a wordsearch or crossword, using the spellings from the activity sheet. Once you confident enough, you can ask your adult/older sibling to carry out the dictation for you, using ‘Statutory Words Dictation’. This can be

completed any day this week. Take your time and make sure you know your spellings well.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Tuesday Maths Read and complete ‘Tuesday Textbook’.Complete ‘Tuesday Worksheet’.Challenge: Complete ‘Tuesday Challenge’.Please write down the answers in your green exercise book.

English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile, Chapter 5’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Tuesday’ in your green exercise book.Read ‘The Story of Tutankhamun’ p.9-13 and reflect: What is the difference between fact and opinion? Facts can be proven - in this case with historical evidence- whereas an opinion expresses a belief or a suggestion. For instance, Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh - is a fact. While, Perhaps Tutankhamun was a handsome man - is and opinion, as not everybody might agree with it. Can you give an example of a fact and opinion? Look at ‘Fact or Opinion’ and sort out the statements from the extract into a fact and an opinion. How did Tutankhamun die? Watch this video

to find out more about the hypothesis (possible reason) of Tutankhamun’s death. Now, read all the evidence from ‘Murder, Accident or Illness’. According to you, which one is the

most likely cause of Tutankhamun’s death? Support your answer with evidence from the document. Write minimum 5 sentences and explain your reasons using the following conjunctions: because, therefore, hence, due to the fact, as, since, as a result. For instance: I believe that Tutankhamun died following an accident, due to the fact that his chest cavity was caved in close to his time of death. I suggest that Tutankhamun died due to an illness, since he could have suffered from inherited genetic disorders.An X-ray carried out in 1968 revealed that Pharaoh’ s skull had a loose bone fragment and he could have suffered from a head blow, therefore I think that he was murdered.Make sure you use 1st person and formal language. Edit your sentences and make them sound very scientific. On Thursday, you will write and interview and will be answering questions, in role as an Egyptologist, explaining your opinion on Tutankhamun’s death.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Wednesday Maths This week, we start with a little test. Complete the ‘Times Tables Test’. If you are happy with your score and you are hungry for more, try the ‘Times Tables Test Challenge’. Remember to use mental maths only.Read and complete ‘Wednesday Textbook’.Complete ‘Wednesday Worksheet’.

English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile Chapter 5’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Wednesday’ in your green exercise book.Click on this BBC Bitesize video and revise how to use apostrophes for contraction. Complete the activity on the website. If you want to challenge yourself and find out more about how to use inverted commas to mark speech, go on the Education City and check the task that I set up for you.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute

Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.Thursday Maths Read and complete ‘Thursday Textbook’.

Complete ‘Thursday Worksheet’.Challenge: Complete ‘Thursday Challenge’.Please write down the answers in your green exercise book.

English Read a book of your choice and complete one of the Reading Journal Activities in your green exercise book.Look at your sentences from Tuesday. Today, using the information collected about Tutankhamun’s death, you will write an interview with you in role as an Egyptologist. You will be answering a reporter’s questions about possible cause of Tutankhamun’s death. You have to decide whether you suggest it was a murder, an accident or an illness. It is up to you, as far as you use evidence from your sentences and ‘Murder, Accident or Illness’ document. Remember to use formal language, facts (true information) and scientific evidence. Do not forget to include the following: conjunctions, noun phrases, exciting verbs (I believe, I suggest, I think) adverbials, -ing, -ed and adverbs as sentence openers. Do not use contractions, such as ‘It’s, wasn’t, can’t’. Use full forms instead, e.g. It is, was not, cannot etc.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Friday Maths Complete ‘Cracking Values Investigation’ in your green exercise book.

English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile Chapter 5’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Friday’ in your green exercise book.Edit your interview from previous session. Have you included all features? Is you spelling and punctuation correct? You can publish your interview and act it out. Maybe you can record it too, pretending you give an interview on TV.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

RE: Read ‘The Teaching of the Apostles’. Imagine you have been chosen to prepare to be an apostle. To begin, study some of the teachings of the Apostles from p.2. Select the teaching you want to make known. Plan: How will you make it known? On TV, YouTube? To whom will you make it known? Will you work alone or with someone else? What resources will you need? Quote the teaching which you are going to make known. Explain it in your own words. Give examples to show how you would put it into practice. How the teachings of the Apostles help you in life? Write a prayer about it.

Foundation Subjects:Ancient Egypt

Reflect: Click here to read the Ancient Egyptian creation story. What sort of story is this? What are creation stories? They explain how the Earth and all living things were created. Do you know any other creation stories? Understand: Now, read ‘The Birth of the Sun God’. Which version of the Ancient Egyptian story did you like the best? Why? What differences are there in these two stories? What is the same in both stories? Both stories are based on really old myths that the Ancient Egyptians believed. They were passed on orally as well as being shown in tomb paintings and on papyruses and details were changed over the retelling. Even amongst the Ancient Egyptians there were variations in the story. At different times during the Ancient Egyptian civilisation different gods were worshipped as the main god, and the versions varied depending on this too. Sometimes Hapi/Hapy (the River Nile) is described as the fifth child of Re/Atum.Look at images in the ‘ Ancient Egyptian Creation Images ’ – can you identify the various gods/goddesses on the paintings? Challenge: Look at the ‘Short Version of the Creation Story’. Can you create your own version of the flow chart/family tree to show the creation story (check the example in

‘Flow Chart Example’ on page 3)? Annotate the diagram with further details about the gods (click here to find more details on The British Museum website). You can also draw images of the various gods/goddesses to illustrate the diagram, again check the gods in ‘Flow Chart Example’.

Animals Including Humans

Reflect: What different types of teeth do you know? What are their jobs?Did you know that many animals have similar digestive systems to humans? Different animals have different sorts of diets though. Look at these 3 words: carnivore, herbivore and omnivore. Do you know the meaning of these words? Find them in a dictionary. Write the definitions under each word. Now compare with my definitions.Carnivore is a meat and fish-eating animal. Herbivore is an animal that feeds on plants (including plant products such as nuts, berries, grains and cereals). Omnivore is an animal that feeds on both plants and animals. Think of 3 examples to go for each of the words. Human and animal diets partly depend upon what is available. Humans in other parts of the world eat different fruits, vegetables and animals than in the UK because different plants and animals thrive in that particular climate and terrain, e.g. Inuit eat seals, Peruvians eat guinea pigs, Japanese people eat a lot of seaweed. Can you think of other examples? Do you like trying different foods if you go on holiday to another country? Animals have slight adaptations to parts of their digestive system depending on their diet.Challenge: Look at ‘Comparing Animal Teeth’ and answer the questions in the document. Are there any types of teeth that all three have in common? Why do they have these in common? Whether an animal is meant to be a carnivore, herbivore or an omnivore will determine what their teeth will be like. We are meant to be omnivores so our teeth will need to be able to rip flesh and cut plants. A big cat will need use their teeth to hold on to their prey and then to rip the flesh from the bones. They have molars but hardly chew their food, instead they bite it into smaller chunks and swallow it. You can also watch this video to find out more about animal’s teeth.