Year 4 Home/School Learning

Year 4 Week – 13 Week beginning 06.07.20 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:

Literacy Task: Grammar task -

Arithmetic focus:

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

zn2y7nb Continue to

practise you knowledge of

shape with Battle for Mathematica.

It is a challenge – make sure you

have a piece of paper and pencil

ready to calculate

your answers using column

method.

Reasoning focus:

This week, we are going to move

on to decimals, looking at numbers to one decimal place. This means

that our decimals will move only into the tenths column in our place

value chart. Decimals are similar to fractions as they represent a

part of 1 whole. For example, think back to our Dienes. If we

consider a 10 rod to be the whole, then each square with in it

becomes a part. The whole as a fraction would be 10/10 because there are 10 cubes in total. One

square would be 1/10.

Have a go at changing the

numbers below into fractions out of 10.

6= 4= 2= 5= 7=

Geography Focus:

Create a PowerPoint about

Norway. You could either include facts about their

culture, landscape, tourism, climate etc or you could base

it on their advances in the world of renewable energy,

e.g. wind turbines, solar panels, hydropower and

biomass. Your PowerPoint should be at

least 6 slides long. Include lots of pictures as well as facts. You could present it to

a family member or upload a video of your presentation to

DB primary (just remember to keep the camera on your

powerpoint rather than your face). If you are posting on

db primary please let your teacher know that you have

done so.

Click on the link to play

this fantastic new – Grammar and

Punctuation Game.

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bm8scw Literacy Task:

Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy A suffix is a letter or group of letters

that goes on the end of a word and changes the word's meaning.

Watch this clip to learn more about the suffixes -ing and -ed.

Watch the short Bitesize Clip: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvqn2v4

Some suffixes have specific uses. Adding -ing can change a noun

into a verb.

For example: garden to gardening.

While adding -ed can put a verb into the past tense.

For example: jump to jumped. Different suffixes follow different

spelling rules.

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!

Now, when we convert these into

decimals, we divide by the whole. Therefore, our 6 for example

would be divided by the whole amount, which is 10. 6 ÷ 10 = 0.6. You can use place value

charts to help you divide by 10. Have a go at converting the rest

of your fractions into decimals. Can you remember what happens

when a decimal ends in 0?

You could even add a short

quiz at the end to test your friends and family!

Watch this next clip to learn about the

spelling rules to follow when using the suffixes -er, -ing, -est, -ed and –y.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z

vqn2v4 There are four spelling rules to

remember when adding -er, -ing, -est, -ed and -y.

Top tip! To understand spelling rules, you

need to know the difference between vowels and

consonants. Vowels are the letters a, e, i, o and u. Consonants are all the

other letters. You also need to know what root

words are. Root words are the basic words that are used to

form other words. They haven't had prefixes or suffixes added

to them yet. Suffix spelling rules

Rule 1: For words ending in two consonants, just add the suffix to the root word.

For example: smart + er = smarter

Rule 2: For words that end in a short

vowel sound followed by a consonant, you need to double the last letter then

add the suffix. For example: mop + ed = mopped Rule 3: For words ending in a

consonant followed by an ’e’, you need to drop the ‘e’ before you add the

suffix. For example: stride + ing = striding Rule 4: For words that end in a consonant and a ‘y’, change the ‘y’ to

an ‘i’ and then add the suffix. For example: cry + ed = cried However if the suffix you want to add starts with an ‘i', you keep the original

‘y’ so that you don’t end up with a double ‘i’. For example: cry + ing = crying Watch out! These rules are true most of the

time but there are always exceptions to spellings in the English language. For

example, skiing.

Practise You may need paper and a pen or

pencil for some of these activities.

Activity 1 Have a go at this suffixes quiz. Can

you get all five questions correct?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvqn2v4

See Below for Activities 2-4

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 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.

Arithmetic focus:

https://www.bbc.c

o.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/

zn2y7nb Continue to practise you

knowledge of shape with Battle

for Mathematica. It is a challenge

– make sure you

have a piece of

paper and pencil ready to calculate

your answers

Reasoning focus: Today we will look at hundredths,

so let’s look at our place value chart again. We know that if we

divide a whole number by 10 we move it one place to the right.

When working with hundredths we divide by 100, moving 2 places

to the right.

Instead of our numbers showing part of 10, if they have 3 digits,

Geography Focus:

Make a wind turbine. One of the renewable energy

sources that we have looked at has been wind turbines.

Watch this clip to remind yourself how a wind turbine

works. https://youtu.be/X3XgIueu4xk

Today, have a go at making

your own turbine. Can you generate wind force from your

turbine? Test it to see if you can move any small (or large)

items.

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Literacy Task:

Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy This week we will be using the

information we have learnt about Norway to compare it to the UK before writing persuasively to adopt their Eco

friendly way of life.

At the bottom of the page, think carefully about how advanced Norway

are in setting a leading world example of living an Eco friendly life. What do

they do to promote ‘green’ living? Think about the different types of

energy that they have, about their eco cars, fishing and farming. How to they look after their environment?

How do they encourage recycling? Create a mind map (Knowledge

harvest) of all the positive ways each country adopts this.

Think about the following five areas

that you might know about. Is there anything else you could add to your

mind map?

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!

e.g. 1.23, they represent part of

100. The process is the same, only we

divide by 100 rather than 10. Therefore, in this case 6 ÷ 100 = 0.06

Have a go at turning the numbers below into fractions out of 100

and then convert them into decimals. 36= 42= 28= 50= 4=

Once you have created the list, which

country do you think has the better environmental record and why?

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.

Handwriting Practise:

Arithmetic focus:

https://www.bbc.c

o.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/

zn2y7nb

Continue to practise you

knowledge of shape with. Battle

for Mathematica. It is a challenge

Reasoning focus: Let’s look at how we order

decimals. When we compare numbers such as 9, 98, 987-

how do you know which numbers are larger? It’s all to do with where they sit in a place value

chart. We know that numbers in the hundreds column are larger

amounts than those in the tens.

How would you find the largest

amount between these numbers? 189 and 187.

You move through the columns, starting with the hundreds column,

Geography Focus: Over the past weeks, we have

been investigating Norway- looking at their sustainable

way of life and admiring their beautiful landscapes and scenery.

Think back to everything you have learnt about Norway,

from the topographical models

you made, their climate,

tourism, renewable energy etc. It’s time to complete the final

column in your KWL grid to show all of the learning that

you have been doing.

Education

Farming

Sustainable energy

Environment

Recycling

Literacy Task: Grammar task -

Click on the link to play

this fantastic new – Grammar and

Punctuation Game.

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Literacy Task: Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Today we are going to think carefully

about identifying the features of writing Persuasively

The features of persuasive texts are: Title implies a point of view

Reasons to support the viewpoint Facts and evidence to support

reasons Connectives to link ideas (e.g.

however, therefore, furthermore) Persuasive devices: Agreement

(e.g. obviously, without doubt)

Powerful adjectives Rhetorical questions

– 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 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!

then the tens and finally to the

ones. We use the same process to

compare decimals. Look at this chart. We always start from the left and work to the right.

Although B has smaller numbers- 0’s and 1’s, the 1 is in the ones

column. A has nothing in the ones column which means that B is the

larger number.

Remember to write your new

knowledge in full sentences and complete the box with as

many new facts as you can! How many of your questions been answered?

Send a picture of your

completed KWL grids to your teacher on DB primary.

Conclusion to summarise and

state opinion Task 1:

Read over the different examples of persuasive texts. Can you identify their features in each of them? You may

wish to get some colour pencils to find the different parts in each.

What do you notice about each of the texts?

Task 2:

Read the information about Fidget Spinners (See below) and why children

want to have them in the classroom. Can you persuade us that they should

be allowed? Write a short paragraph using some of the features of persuasive writing to convince us!

Send them to us on DN Primary.

Have a go on your own with this

one.

Thursday 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

Reasoning focus: Rounding decimals is very similar

to rounding whole numbers! All you need to remember is that

numbers 4, 3, 2, 1 round down and 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 round up!

E.g. 19 rounds up to 20, 14

rounds down to 10.

Practise with these whole numbers first:

Science Focus: Last week, we spent a bit of time looking carefully at

different invertebrates and seeing if we could find them

in their natural habitat.

We have thought carefully

about how living things can

be grouped and classified using a branching key.

Activity 1: Sort it!

Grammar task -

Click on the link to play

this fantastic new –

Grammar and Punctuation Game.

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Literacy Task:

Watch SPTV for Daily Literacy Today we are going to use our plan to

write our piece of Persuasive writing. Persuasive writing needs to have a

focus so that it becomes balanced in its viewpoint. Our writing is going to have

the big question: Why should Britain become more Eco friendly like Norway?

When writing we need to make sure

that we follow the structure carefully. Our writing must include:

An introduction that outlines our discussion and mentions the question.

1-3 paragraphs about Norway and what it does to promote sustainable

shape with Battle

for Mathematica. 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 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

34= 29=

72= 57= 3= 92=

Remember, when rounding we look to the last digit in a number, it’s just the same with decimals. We

round them to their nearest whole number. E.g. 3.7 would round up

to 4. 3.2 would round down to 3.

Practise with:

3.7= 9.8= 2.7= 12.3=

24.8= 76.4=

Play the sort it game! This is

based on the traditional game ‘Happy Families’ where you

have to group people. This time you are going to group plants! See the instructions

and the game below.

Activity 2: Classifying What the BBC learning clip

about why we try and group animals.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/what-is-an-

ecosystem/zdrtscw As you know, careful

observations of living things are needed so that scientists know which group they

belong to.

Look carefully at the set of leaf images - spend time

looking at the leaves and think carefully about what

they look like. You may wish to collect your own leaves

for classification if you go

on a walk with your family. http://www.woodlandtrust.org

.uk/naturedetectives/activities/2015/09/leaf-id/

energy, recycling and protecting the

environment. 1-3 paragraphs about the United

Kingdom and what it does to promote sustainable energy, recycling and protecting the environment.

Concluding paragraph giving an opinion on the question.

Use this boxed up plan to help you.

As well as following the structure we

need to think about the language features that need to be included. See

the Sentence Mat that should help you with sentence starters and the formal

tone and structure that is needed.

Please send us a copy of your

Persuasive Writing to us on DBPrimary – we can’t wait to read them!

participates! Good

luck!

Place the leaves face down

on the table – ask a family member to turn one over and

then play the yes / no game. What questions can you ask about the leaves to try and

identify them? Eg: Is it smooth on both

sides? Write down the questions that

you ask and the answer you receive.

You can then take 4 leaves

and glue/ tape them to the bottom of the page. Then

work your way upwards to create a branching data base – what was your starting

question? See the woodland trusts guide to help you

(saved below).

Can you create a branching data base for the spiders

and insects you explored last week?

Friday PLEASE MESSAGE YOUR TEACHER

AND LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE OK ON DB PRIMARY

Arithmetic focus: Reasoning focus:

RE Focus:

Nitu’s Story

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: Practise all ten

spellings again and then ask an adult to test you – send your teacher your

spelling score on DB Primary! 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’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, last week, within the text.

See below for Friday’s Literacy.

https://www.bbc.c

o.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/

zn2y7nb Continue to practise you

knowledge of shape with Battle

for Mathematica. 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 against

Today we will be looking back

through our learning on decimals. Use the SPTV videos and the input

from this week to remind you how to find decimals and how to convert them into whole numbers.

Feel free to message your teacher on DB primary if you have any

questions.

Watch the CAFOD Powerpoint

called Nitu’s Story. Think carefully about the thought-

provoking questions in the story. How did it make you feel?

Over the last few weeks we have been thinking about the

special qualities that different people have and how

wonderful they are.

Read the following letter of St Paul with the children:

Paul was always writing

letters to the friends he had made all over the world. In one letter to the Christians in

Colossae he said: “You are created by God, to

be like God. You are God’s people, his

saints. He loves you. You are all different.

You come from different places, speak in different

ways, have different

customs. But the important thing is

that you are God’s children.

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!

Starter:

So love one another, help

one another, be at peace with one another.

And let the love of Jesus fill your hearts and minds.” (based on Colossians

3:10−11)

Or, in another letter to the Christians in Corinth, Paul

talked about the different gifts that people are given by

God (1 Corinthians 12:4−30, adapted).

There are many different

gifts. There are all sorts of things to be done for others. God gives each of us

different gifts. Some are wise; some can explain

things well; some can make people better; some can make

people happy. It’s like your body. Different parts have a

different job to do. Each part is different and

important. Your body needs

all the parts to work well together. You need a head to

think, eyes to see, hands to hold, feet to walk, ears to

hear. If your whole body

was just an eye, how would

you hear anything? If your whole body was just an ear,

how would you smell anything? Each part is put there by God for a special

purpose. Just as each gift is given to us by God for us

to use, we need one another so that everything that needs

to be done is done.

Look carefully at the picture of the box of chocolates.

Although each one looks and tastes different, they all

contribute to the whole package – just as we all have a place in this world

and we rely on one another

from everyone else –it’s what

makes us unique It is a good think to be different.

Write a short paragraph outlining all the gifts and

special qualities you have.

Monday’s Literacy

Activity 2

Add a suffix to each word in the list, making sure to spell it correctly.

Choose from the suffixes: -er, -ing, -est, -ed.

Try to use each suffix at least once.

1. Laugh

2. Short

3. Tall

4. Help

5. Hop

6. Slip

7. Shop

8. Chat

Top tip! Remember spelling rules 1 and 2.

For words ending in two consonants, just add the suffix to the root word.

For words that end in a short vowel sound followed by a consonant, you need to double the last letter then

add the suffix.

Activity 3

Add a suffix to each word in the list, making sure to spell it correctly.

Choose from the suffixes: -er, -ing, -est, -ed.

1. Shine

2. Joke

3. Happy

4. Like

5. Funny

6. Worry

7. Cute

8. Try

Top tip! Remember spelling rules 3 and 4.

For words ending in a consonant followed by an ’e’, you need to drop the ‘e’ before you add the suffix.

For words that end in a consonant and a ‘y’, change the ‘y’ to an ‘i’ and then add the suffix. However if

the suffix you want to add starts with an ‘i', keep the original ‘y’.

Activity 4

Now you are a super speller, try this activity!

Read each sentence carefully then add a suffix to the word in brackets so that it makes sense in the

sentence.

Choose from the suffixes: -er, -ing, -est, -ed.

Think carefully about the four spelling rules.

1. I am (plan) to go on a walk at the weekend.

2. I (walk) for miles yesterday.

3. Sally was busy (write) in her diary.

4. Kim (carry) the shopping in from the car.

5. Number 4 always have the (bright) Christmas lights on the street.

6. When I am older, I want to be an Olympic (swim).

7. I got told off for (spy) on my sister.

8. The new sofa was much (wide) then the last one.

Tuesday’s Literacy

Wednesday’s Literacy

Friday’s Literacy

Thursday’s Science – Sort it game

Friday’s Comprehension

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