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Year 4 Home/School Learning

Year 4 Week – 12 Week beginning 29.06.20 The learning outlined below is set for both school and home learning. Literacy, mathematics and topic learning will be set weekly linked to Year 4’s theme ‘Norway.’

Literacy Mathematics Topic Monday PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER

AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE OK ON DB PRIMARY Daily Spellings: See spellings for this week below. Practise Look Cover Write Check for 10 minutes a day. Remember to look at the spelling rule in the spellings, this will help you remember them. Daily Reading -10 minutes – read to an adult or a sibling. Take a look at the website ‘oxford owl’. They have books for all ages. The details are on our webpage. Handwriting Practise:

Arithmetic focus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb Continue to practise you knowledge of shape with The Forest of Fractions and Decimals. It is a challenge – make sure you have a piece of paper and pencil ready to calculate your

Reasoning focus: Today we will continue practising adding fractions before moving on to subtracting fractions tomorrow. Remember, when we add fractions, if the denominator is the same, we only add the numerators. If the denominator is different, we need to create a common denominator by multiplying both the denominator and numerator. Let’s have a go at creating common denominators. If I

am adding 1

4 + 1

2 I have two

fractions with different denominators. This means I need to multiply one of my fractions.

Geography Focus: Last week, we looked at some of the things that Norway is famous for, particularly its tourism and stunning landscapes. This week, we’re going to explore another area in which Norway has become well known for: Renewable energy. What do you already know about renewable energy? Do you know the difference between non-renewable sources and renewable? Watch this clip to find out: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zm9jmyc

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Literacy Task: Grammar task - Click on the link to play this fantastic new – Grammar and Punctuation Game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/crystalexplorers?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzbm8scw Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Home learning focus To understand how to use brackets to add extra information to your

writing. Brackets can be used to add additional information to a sentence. Watch this short clip to see an example of how to do this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/article

s/zkfvgwx Extra detail can be added to a sentence using brackets. The extra detail should not change the meaning of the sentence - it should just make the sentence more interesting or informative.

answers using column method.

Times Table Rock

Stars –10 minutes practise. Log on to Rock Stars and practise your times tables for 10 minutes. Each Monday a Rock Battle -4D against 4H– will

begin at 12pm. It will finish at 12pm on Friday! Which class will be the Rockstars winners? Reward stickers

will be posted on DB Primary for everyone that participates! Good luck! Mental Arithmetic challenge sheets

I can see that 4 is double

2, so I can multiply my 1

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by 2. Remember: Whatever I do to the bottom I must do to the top. 1 x 2 = 2

2 x 2 = 4 = 2

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Now I can add. 1

4 + 2

4 = 3

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All of this week’s Maths worksheets have been saved on the Year 4 Homework Page in Week 12. We have tried it this way to see if we can make them clearer.

There are 4 main types of renewable energy- Wind, biomass, hydro and geothermal. Each method however, including non-renewable sources, has some advantages and disadvantages. Use the PowerPoint and video to complete the activity below. PowerPoint: Renewable and Non-Renewable.pdf Video: http://ypte.org.uk/videos/re

newable-energy First, decide which sources are renewable and which are non-renewable. Then, consider what the advantages and disadvantages of each kind of energy source are.

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For example: Albert the alien was in charge of the wrecking ball. Albert the alien (who had no training) was in charge of the wrecking ball.

The extra information is about the footballer.

The footballer shot the ball (which was covered in mud) at the massive net.

The extra information is about the ball.

Activity 1 – follow the link on Bitesize.

Check how well you understood the video by highlighting all the words that should be in brackets.

Remember: Brackets contain extra information. The sentence should still make sense if

are on Year 4 Week 12 Class page.

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you took the extra information away. Activity 2 Watch the Bitesize clip:

This video tells the Viking story of how the world was created by a great god called Odin. It’s narrated by the Viking god of fire, Loki. Copy out the sentences below and complete them using an option from the phrase bank. The phrases provide extra information, so they should go inside the brackets. See Monday’s Literacy for Task 2

Activity 3 Finish these three sentences by putting your own extra information inside the brackets. For example: The Giants (who were the gods’ enemies) lived in a land

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made from freezing cold ice and frost. Activity 3 Finish these three sentences by putting your own extra information inside the brackets. For example: The Giants (who were the gods’ enemies) lived in a land made from freezing cold ice and frost. Top tip!

Read the whole sentence first. Remember that brackets add

information about whatever is directly before them in the

sentence. See activity 3 below Have a go at writing two of your own sentences about the video, using brackets to add extra information. Look at the previous examples to help you.

See Monday’s Literacy for Task 4 below.

Tuesday PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE OK ON DB PRIMARY Daily Spellings: See spellings for this week below. Practise Look Cover Write Check for 10 minutes a

Arithmetic focus:

Reasoning focus:

This week we will focus on subtracting fractions with the

Geography Focus: Norway is leading the way in renewable energy and has made lots of changes to how they power their country to have the best

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day. Remember to look at the spelling rule in the spellings, this will help you remember them. Daily Reading -10 minutes – read to an adult or a sibling. Take a look at the website ‘oxford owl’. They have books for all ages. The details are on our webpage.

Handwriting Practise: Literacy Task: Grammar task -

Click on the link to play this fantastic new – Grammar and Punctuation Game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed

/crystalexplorers?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzbm8scw Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Today we are going to think carefully about writing a newspaper report. We will look carefully at all

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb Continue to practise you knowledge of shape with The Forest of Fractions and Decimals. It is a challenge – make sure you have a piece of paper and pencil ready

to calculate your answers using column method.

Times Table Rock

Stars –10 minutes practise. Log on to Rock Stars and practise your times tables for 10 minutes. Each Monday a Rock Battle -4D

same denominator. What happens when we add fractions with the same denominator? The denominator stays the same and we only add the numerators. We do the same with subtracting. Because we are subtracting the same amount, for example quarters, all we need to do it take some away- effectively rubbing them out. As you can see in this picture, they started with

7/8 and rubbed out 5/8 to leave 2/8 remaining. So, we can remember that if the denominator is the same,

we just subtract the numerators.

impact on the planet. There is lots that we can learn from them to reduce our carbon footprint too. Have a look at the information sheet about Norway’s approach to renewable energy.

Look at the image of the map. This shows how much renewable energy is used throughout each country. The darker colours represent the highest amount and the

lighter colours show the lowest amounts. What do you notice about Norway compared to the U.K? Currently, the U.K.’s carbon footprint is still very polluted- we still rely

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the features and think about creating a success criteria so that we can make sure our writing has clear steps for achievement. Newspapers are a journalistic writing style and they inform people of events that have happened, either locally, nationally or internationally. Local events are often reported in a local newspaper. For example: The Billericay Gazette. National newspapers report on stories from all over the country. International news are stories about

events that have occurred worldwide. Newspaper reports are meant to report only factual information but this can sometimes be exaggerated depending on the quality of the

newspaper you buy! On Monday’s Literacy below – can you work out what the features of a newspaper text are from reading it? Think carefully about the following:

How it is written?

against 4H– will begin at 12pm. It will finish at 12pm on Friday! Which class will be the Rockstars winners? Reward stickers will be posted on DB Primary for everyone that participates! Good luck!

Mental Arithmetic challenge sheets are on Year 4 Week 12 Class page.

All of this week’s Maths worksheets have been saved on the Year 4 Homework Page in Week 12. We have tried it this way to see if we can make them clearer.

on fossil fuels to power our electricity. We are starting to take steps towards more renewable energy but we still have a

long way to go.

As this picture shows, our footprint is made of mostly fuel, gas, factories and pollutant gases. Your activity is to recreate the footprint but fill it with things that we could do

instead to change how we power our country and reduce our greenhouse gases. You might draw some renewable energy sources, planting trees, reducing rubbish etc.

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What type of language is used?

What else has been included? What do you notice about the

style in which it is written? Look carefully at the example text (Monday’s Literacy) and follow the key to find the features:

Once you have completed the annotations using the key, can you find the same features in the other newspaper articles?

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Underline the different features that you notice and annotate the text as we would in class by drawing a line and writing next to it. Finally, make a list of what you think we will need to include in our success criteria to make our news reports good.

Wednesday

PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE

OK ON DB PRIMARY Daily Spellings: See spellings for this week below. Practise Look

Cover Write Check for 10 minutes a day. Remember to look at the spelling rule in the spellings, this will help you remember them. Daily Reading -10 minutes – read to an adult or a sibling. Take a look at the website ‘oxford owl’. They have books for all ages. The details are on our webpage.

Arithmetic focus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb Continue to practise you knowledge of shape with The Forest of Fractions and Decimals. It is a challenge – make sure you have a piece of paper

Reasoning focus: Today, we are going to look at subtracting fractions from whole numbers. Let’s have a

look at this example. 3 - 3

4.

In this case, our whole 3 is representing 3 whole lots of 4, just like these dots.

Geography Focus: Starter: Watch this video to explore how electricity is made. It explains the process of generating

electricity, why it is important and why change is needed. http://ypte.org.uk/videos/how-is-electricity-made Have a look at this webpage, it gives lots more examples of energy sources: http://ypte.org.uk/factsheets/energy/types-of-energy?hide_donation_prompt=1 Main activity:

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Handwriting Practise:

Literacy Task: Grammar task - Click on the link to play this fantastic new – Grammar and Punctuation Game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/crystalexplorers?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Fart

icles%2Fzbm8scw Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Today we are going to plan a newspaper article based on one of the Nordic Myths. The tale you are going to hear about in the video

clips is about Thor and the Giants. Listen carefully as you watch the story and pretend you are a BBC journalist about to report the facts! You may need to watch them several times to make sure you understand the story. Part 1

and pencil ready to calculate your answers using column method.

Times Table Rock

Stars –10 minutes practise. Log on to Rock Stars and practise your times tables for 10 minutes. Each Monday a Rock

Battle -4D against 4H– will begin at 12pm. It will finish at 12pm on Friday! Which class will be the Rockstars

winners? Reward stickers will be posted on DB Primary for everyone that participates! Good luck!

Remember, in order to subtract we need to make a common denominator. Here we can see I have 3 lots of 4 which makes 12 in total. To make the calculation simpler, we can rewrite it as a top heavy fraction. As we can see here we now have 12 quarters which I can

write as 12

4.

Now let’s finish our

subtraction. 12

4 - 3

4 = 9

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Let’s have a go with b. 3 - 𝟏

𝟑.

Step 1: multiply the whole number by the denominator: 3 x 3 = 9 Step 2: make a top heavy

fraction: 9

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This week you have learnt lots of information all about renewable energy sources- good and bad. Have a look at this video to see how burning fossil fuels affects the Earth’s atmosphere, causing the ‘greenhouse effect’. http://ypte.org.uk/videos/the-greenhouse-effect We all need to work together to help heal our plant and live a little bit greener. Below, you have

two hearts- one with an image of the earth on and one blank. Cut out both hearts and stick the only left edges together to form a ‘book’. Colour your earth picture and fill the inside of

your booklet with ways we can reduce pollution. You must include:

The 4 renewable energy sources

Examples of Norway’s renewable approach.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-viking-sagas-ep4/zj2bwty Part 2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-viking-sagas-ep5/zf37scw Part 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-viking-sagas-ep6/zjmgjhv As you watch them for the second

time, use the planning sheet to make notes about the story –try to bullet point just the facts/ people’s names and sequence of events. Use the planning sheet to help you think about the who, where, what, when, why and how.

You may wish to watch the following Bitesize clip to further your understanding: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2yycdm/articles/z2gk9qt

Mental Arithmetic challenge sheets are on Year 4 Week 12 Class page.

Step 3: subtract your

fractions: 9

3 - 1

3 = 8

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All of this week’s Maths worksheets have been saved on the Year 4 Homework Page in Week 12. We have tried it this way to see if we can make them clearer.

Ways that we can live a little cleaner, e.g. walking to school, picking up litter.

Why it is important. Please send pictures of your booklet to your teacher on DB Primary – remember that we need to see all of it – front cover and inside! You could also get your parents to either- send a picture into the school office via email or tweet

some pictures to our twitter feed!

Thursday PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE

OK ON DB PRIMARY

Arithmetic focus: Reasoning focus: Today we are going to find fractions of an amount. For

Science focus: Learning objective:

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Daily Spellings: See spellings for this week below. Practise Look Cover Write Check for 10 minutes a day. Remember to look at the spelling rule in the spellings, this will help you remember them. Daily Reading -10 minutes – read to an adult or a sibling. Take a look at the website ‘oxford owl’. They have books for all ages. The details are on our webpage. Handwriting Practise:

Grammar task -

Click on the link to play this fantastic new – Grammar and Punctuation Game.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/crystalexplorers?exitGameUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzbm8scw

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/article

s/zn2y7nb Continue to practise you knowledge of shape with The Forest of Fractions and Decimals. It is a challenge – make sure you have a piece of paper and pencil ready to calculate your answers using column method.

Times Table Rock

Stars –10 minutes practise. Log on to Rock Stars

example, ½ of 12. We can see already that we can divide 12 by the denominator (2) to find our answer (6). So here we are divide the whole amount (12) into 2 separate groups. We are able to do this because the numerator is 1 which means it is a unit fraction. This means we are finding one part.

Let’s use our dots again. Here are 12 dots. Let’s find 1/3 of 12. So we need to find one part. As we can see, one part of 3 lots of 12 is 4. Or 12 ÷ 3 = 4

I can use a key to identify invertebrates. I can use evidence to identify an invertebrate. Watch the PowerPoint presentation to explain the different classifications of invertebrates. Using the Invertebrates Classification Key in the local environment see if you can find, identify and name invertebrates in your

garden or the park, next time you visit. Record what you have found on the Each child records the invertebrates they have found on the Invertebrates Hunt Activity

Sheet. Think carefully about the creatures you have found and identified. Using the Invertebrate Identification Activity Sheet chose the favourite creature that you

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Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy – this will guide your writing today, so listen carefully and pause if you need it. Today we are going to write a newspaper report about Thor and the Giants. You will need your planning sheet facts to aid you. To make our work successful we need to ensure we are including the following features in our writing:

Written in third person Written in past tense

Includes factual information Formal reporting language Adverbials to link paragraphs Chronological order Direct/ reported speech Rhetorical question Headline

Caption The opening paragraph is the most important – it will outline exactly what has happened and then the next paragraphs will expand on it.

and practise your times tables for 10 minutes. Each Monday a Rock Battle -4D against 4H– will begin at 12pm. It will finish at 12pm on Friday! Which class will be the Rockstars winners? Reward stickers will be posted on DB Primary for

everyone that participates! Good luck! Mental Arithmetic challenge sheets are on Year 4

Week 12 Class page.

The best way to find multiple parts is to begin with one part, and multiply it by the amount you need to find. For example: 3/5 of 45 Step 1: Find one part by dividing the whole number by the denominator: 45 ÷ 5 = 9 Step 2: Multiply your one part (9) by the numerator: 9 x 3 = 27 This means that 3/5 of 45

is 27.

found and draw and label the diagram, writing the invertebrate’s name, and describing the characteristics that you have used to help with its identification. Challenge: Paly the Invertebrates sorting game with your family.

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We have saved a couple of different newspaper templates to help you set out your writing on the Year 4 class page- week 12. Remember: When you are writing your own newspaper article:

Make your headline short and snappy.

In the first sentence sum up what the story is about.

Write your report in the third person and the past tense.

Split your newspaper report up into paragraphs to help

the reader clearly understand the information.

If you use quotes to make your report more interesting, don't forget to use speech marks!

Use a photo with a caption to

give the reader more information.

Fill your newspaper report with both facts and opinions. Facts give the reader all of the information they need by using the 5 Ws.

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Please send us a copy of your Newspaper reports on DB Primary – we can’t wait to read them!

Friday PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE OK ON DB PRIMARY Daily Spellings: See spellings for this week below. Practise Look Cover Write Check for 10 minutes a day. Remember to look at the spelling rule in the spellings, this will help you remember them. Handwriting Practise: Practise all ten spellings again and then ask an adult to test you – send your

teacher your spelling score on DB Primary! Daily Reading -10 minutes – read to an adult or a sibling. Take a look at the website ‘oxford owl’. They have books for all ages. The details are on our webpage. Grammar task :

Click on the link to play this fantastic new – Grammar and Punctuation

Game. https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/crystalexplorers?exitGameUrl=http%3

Arithmetic focus:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb Continue to practise you knowledge of shape with The Forest of Fractions and Decimals. It is a challenge – make sure you have a piece of paper and pencil ready to calculate your answers using column method.

Times Table Rock

Reasoning focus:

Today we will be looking at finding the whole amount if we only know one quantity. For example, let’s look at this bar chart. We can see we are using 11ths as our bar is split into 11 equal pieces. We also know that 4/11 is equal to 12. To find

what the whole amount is equal to, we first need to find one part. Step 1: Look at what we know. We can see that 4 parts are equal to 12. That

RE Focus: Blessed Oscar Romero of El Salvador Find El Salvador on a map of the world. Oscar Romero was a martyr –a martyr is someone who dies for what they believe. Watch this short film from CAFOD that tells you about his life:

https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Primary-teaching-resources/St-Romero Watch the PowerPoint about Oscar Romero saved in the Week 12 class folder. While you watch it, think carefully about the following questions:

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A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzbm8scw Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Today’s Literacy is a reading comprehension. We have specifically chosen a newspaper report to extend your understanding further. You should be able to recognise the features we have studied this week within the text. See below for Friday’s Literacy.

Stars –10 minutes practise. Log on to Rock Stars and practise your times tables for 10 minutes. Each Monday a Rock Battle -4D against 4H– will begin at 12pm. It will finish at 12pm on Friday! Which class will be the Rockstars winners?

Reward stickers will be posted on DB Primary for everyone that participates! Good luck.

Mental Arithmetic challenge sheets are on Year 4 Week 12 Class page.

means that there are 4 equal groups of something that add to 12. So what do we need to do? Divide 12 by 4 = 3. Step 2: We now know that 1 part is equal to 3. Now all we need to do is multiply 3 by our denominator (11) to find the whole amount (11/11). 3 x 11 = 33.

All of this week’s Maths worksheets have been saved on the Year 4 Homework Page in Week 12. We have tried it this way to see if we can make them clearer.

Q What made Oscar Romero extraordinary?

Q Why do we call Oscar Romero a martyr?

Q Why does CAFOD

look to Oscar Romero as an example?

Q How does Romero’s story help to show us what God is like?

Design your own Oscar

Romero Cross using the information and template saved in the Week 12 Class folder. You could also make a cross out of salt dough and when it dries, paint your design on to it.

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Monday’s Literacy Task 2:

Copy out the sentences below and complete them using an option from the phrase bank.

The phrases provide extra information, so they should go inside the brackets.

Top tip!

Read the sentences carefully. They should still make sense with the extra information

added.

Phrase bank

Home of the Humans

who was puzzled

with a great roar

the god of fire

filled with trees, lakes, flowers and rivers

who lived a long time ago

1. The Vikings (.....................................) sailed around in very long ships.

2. Loki (.....................................) watched Odin create the world.

3. Loki (.....................................) said, “Isn’t it a bit generous, giving a home to our enemy the giants?”

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4. Odin (.....................................) sent a freezing wind across the blackness.

5. Odin breathed gently and a new world (.....................................) appeared.

6. This land was called Midgard (.....................................).

Task 3:

1. The palaces (...........................) had turrets of gold and silver.

2. This land was called Asgard (...........................).

3. Odin (...........................) created the world.

Task 4:

Place the bracket in the sentence to enclose the additional piece of information

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Friday’s Literacy

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Monday’s Geography

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Tuesday’s Geography

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Wednesday’s

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Thursday’s Science

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