Working at Home During School Closures- Year 4

WEEK 5

Feel free to dip in and out, but I would recommend doing the MUST, then the SHOULD sections, followed by the

COULD section if you have the time/desire.

Even during normal school, everyone has differing views on how much home learning primary aged children should have. We are taking a balanced approach to the work we are suggesting, but this is an unprecedented situation and everyone’s main focus is rightly on family security, health and well-being. Any work suggested by school is not exhaustive and I’m sure you and your children can think of many great and

innovative ideas of your own!

At the end of this document is some ‘extra work’ for children who want to revise key concepts like phonics and

number bonds.

TOP TIPS

Try to stick to a routine and include plenty of breaks, free time and fun!

Drink plenty of water and eat healthily throughout the day.

Try to monitor the amount of ‘screen time’ your child has. We understand that given the circumstances there may be slightly more of this, but please remember online safety guidance: www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

MUST 1.Spellings – spend ten minutes a day. Remember to look up words you do not know the meaning to! Write the words into a sentence to ensure you fully grasp the definition. See the end of the document for differentiated spellings. Get someone in your home to test you at the end of the week! 2.Rockstars – spend five minutes a day. 3. Read for at least 15 minutes every day. If you have read all your books at home, there are plenty available online at https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx or https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ or www.Time.com or using the Press Reader app (see Week 2 pack for instructions). When you have finished a book, try filling in the ‘Question Grid’ (from week 3) to deepen your understanding of the text. Mrs Jordan has also managed to get access to Accelerated Reader at home, so you are able to quiz on any books you have read https://ukhosted69.renlearn.co.uk/1896055/ 4. Keep fit! 30minutes- 1 hour a day. Access Joe Wicks’ Youtube channel and do his online PE session each dat at 9:00.Try some Pilates as well. If you can’t remember poses from our lessons, have a look at the sheet at the end of this document. 5. Science- total topic lessons should take up between 5-8 hours for the whole week. Here is another science experiment: turning chocolate milk into chocolate ice cream within 5 minutes! Instructions are at the end of this document!

SHOULD 6. MATHS- 45-60 minutes daily. Visit White Rose Maths, watch the daily tutorial and complete the daily task. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ Attached to this document there are also a selection of differentiated maths activities. There is also a maths PowerPoint to warm you up to the concepts. 7. ENGLISH- 45-60 minutes daily. Visit Hamilton Trust, and complete the daily task. https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/ Attached to this document is also a SPAG acitivty. 8. ICT Go to http://www.code.org and use logins sent home to access. 9. MUSIC Flute lessons online via the Suffolk Music Hub or their Facebook, Instagram, twitter.

COULD 10. SCIENCE: Check out https://www.businessinsider.com/8-awesomely-simple-science-experiments-you-can-do-at-home-2016-7?r=US&IR=Tto find some interesting science experiments that can be done at home.

11. ART. If you have a needle and thread and adult supervision, try making craft cards at: https://www.auntannie.com/Textiles/SewingCards/ 12.MUSIC. Choose one of your favourite songs. Listen to it repeatedly and try to copy down the lyrics. When you think you have the full set of lyrics written down, see if you can change some words and sentences to create your own lyrics to your favourite song. 13. ICT and ART and Design. Create your own online flipbook characters at https://flipanim.com/

Pilates:

Science: Ice Cream in a bag in 5 minutes

Make sure you do this with an adult.

Equipment:

Carton of chocolate milk (or any flavour you would like)

Bag of ice

Spoonful of salt

A small sandwich/ ziplock bag

A larger sandwich/ ziplock bag

Gloves (possibly)

Before you start! Write down what you think you will do to turn all that chocolate milk into ice cream in 5 minutes .

I think we will -

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________________

Method (instructions):

Pour all the chocolate milk into the smaller sandwich bag. Make sure it is shut tight.

Pour all the ice into the larger sandwich bag. Feel how cold it is.

Add the spoonful of salt and mix it amongst the ice cubes. What do you notice about how cold they are

now?

Put the chocolate milk bag into the ice bag.

Close the ice bag. Make sure it is shut tight.

Give the ice bag a really, really, good shake. This is where the gloves might be useful because your hands

may get cold.

You need to keep shaking for about five minutes. Time it using a stopwatch or phone.

After 5 minutes, get the milk bag out of the ice bag and check on the consistency. It should be much thicker,

like ice cream. If it’s not quite as thick as ice cream yet, put it back in and keep shaking!

When all the milk has turned into ice cream, you can stop.

Before you eat it! Write down why you think this experiment froze the chocolate milk so quickly. What is the

science behind it?

I think the milk turned into ice cream so quickly because

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

See the next page for the science behind it.

The science:

The same reason salt is used on icy roads in winter explains why salt is mixed with ice to make ice cream:

Water freezes at 0℃ to become ice. When salt and ice mix, the freezing point of the ice is lowered: the freezing

point reached depends on the amount of salt used. The more salt is added, the lower the temperature can get. For

example, a 10% salt solution freezes at -7℃ and a 20% solution freezes at -17℃.

When salt is added to ice, you should have felt the bag of ice grow colder because the salt was lowering the

temperature. Some of the ice begins to melt because the freezing point has been lowered and it is only at 0℃.

Melting is a reaction and so it needs energy. That energy comes in the form of heat from the surroundings and, in

this case, it’s from the warmer chocolate milk. By lowering the temperature at which ice freezes, you were able to

create an environment in which the chocolate milk could freeze at a temperature below 0℃ and become ice cream.

The shaking moves the milk from the inside to the outside of the bag so it can freeze evenly.

See https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/homemade-ice-cream-sick-science/ for more

information.

SPAG

Nouns and verbs!

Bronze:

Cut out each word and sort it into “noun” or “verb”

Bronze answers:

Any words not listed fit into both/ either categories.

Nouns:

Tree house

Marker

Hair bow

Heart

Wallet

Computer

Turtle

Necklace

Verb:

Breathe

Giggle

Crawl

Stare

Count

Babble

Blink

Sniff

Silver

Silver answers:

Gold

Gold answers:

Versions of:

Diamond extension:

Diamond challenge:

Can you adapt each word to create a noun, adverb, adjective and verb?

You can add prefixes or suffixes. For some, you may not need to change anything.

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb

Agreement Disagree Agreeable Agreeably

Courage

Entertaining

Decide

Thoughtfully

Determined

Diamond challenge answers:

Versions of:

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb

Courage Encourage Courageous Courageously

Entertainment Entertain Entertaining Entertainingly

Decision Decide Decisive Decisively

Thought Thought Thoughtful Thoughtfully

Determination Determine Determined Determinedly

Maths

Bronze:

Bronze answers

Silver answers

Gold answers:

Silver

Gold:

Diamond extension

Diamond extension answers:

1.

a. Identify the perimeter of each square: 16 cm and 12 cm

b. How man 1cm would fit into each square: 12 and 8

c. The perimeter of the centre square = 3.2m or 320 cm

2.

a. 1.6 km + 250 m + 150 m

b. 250m + 1 ¼ km + 0.5 km

c. 750 m + 0.5km + ¾ km

3. Sam cycles 80km. Tom cycles 40km

4. Each brick weighs 150g

5. The car weighs 250g. The doll weighs 400g

Spellings

Bronze Silver Gold Diamond Mastery Olympian

Blue Even Address Length Blacken Destitute True Break Busy Strength Brighten Contemporary Clue Steak Business Purpose Flatten Frivolous Rescue Great Heart History Lengthen

Drew Move Fruit Different Mistaken New Prove Breathe Difficult Strengthen Few Improve Strange Separate Shorten Grew Sure Complete Suppose Thicken Flew Sugar Extreme Therefore Tighten

Threw Eye Forwards Knowledge Toughen

Colour by addition

Can you make the right amount for each jar?