Week beginning 13^th July 2020   

NB: This is the last week for home learning to be set daily.

• You might want to listen to the rest of our class reader by following this link – Charlotte’s Web and continue from chapter 13.
• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts) https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• Mathletics

Day

Maths - Time

Literacy – Firework Maker’s Daughter

Spellings

Monday

13.7.20

Converting 12 hour to 24 hour

10 am – 4CD Live lesson

Power Point or PDF

Task and answers

In this part of the chapter we meet Lila’s best friend – Chulak and his elephant Hamlet.

Read this section and make a note of the things that you would need to do to look after Hamlet if he came to stay.

This week all spellings are going to be based on the Year 3 and 4 words.

Use this reference sheet to remind you of the words and pick out the ones you find the hardest to remember.  You will be tested on a random selection of 20 words from the list so make sure you look and learn them all!

You could try to use rainbow colours to remember the words, use LCWCh, make a poster or anything else that will help you to remember these words before you enter year 5.  These sheets will also help you to practice the words before the spelling test.

Tuesday

14.7.20

Solving problems involving time

10 am – 4CD Live lesson

Have a look at this PDF for some hints for how to solve these problems.

Task and answers

Using your notes from yesterday write a set of instructions for how to look after Hamlet.

You could use this template to write on.

Wednesday 15.7.20

A mixture of time problems.

Now is the chance to test your knowledge from the past 2 weeks.  

Tasks and answers - all levels

Choose a level to try (they get harder as you go up)

10 am – 4CD Live Lesson

In chapter 2, Lila decides to follow her dreams and become a firework maker.  Let’s read what happens next to her and her father. 

Make some notes about the difficulties that he explains she will face on the way.

Thursday 16.7.20

Word problems

Again another chance to test your knowledge from the whole year with a selection of two-step problems to try.  Choose a level to try (they get harder as you go up)

Level 1      Level 2      Level 3

Your task is to write a letter from her father back to Lila, explaining the difficulties that she will face and begging her to come home. 

Use the information that you found out yesterday to help with what you would say.

4CD Teams Plan

Friday

17.7.20

Arithmetic papers - Tests 5 and 6

Test 5      Test 6

You have 30 minutes to complete each arithmetic test.  The answers are at the end of the test.

Let’s carry on reading to the end of the chapter to find out about Lila’s journey.

Oh no!  What is she going to do now?  What would you do if you were in the same situation?  Write a paragraph to describe your decision.

Spelling Test

10 am 4CD Live Spelling Test.

Ask someone at home to chose 20 random words from the list to test you on.

This week’s school topic: Minibeasts             

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

Week beginning 6^th July 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 11             Chapter 12            

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts)

                  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

• Mathletics
• French - Bonjour! This week’s topic is all about the artist Matisse.  Click on the link here

Day

Maths - Time

Literacy – Firework Maker’s Daughter

Spellings

Monday

6.7.20

Telling the Time Assessment.  

10.40 4AW Live lesson Maths

FIRST- Complete this assessment sheet to see what you can already do and what you need to learn next.   Here are the answers 

If you would like some help with telling the time, look at this powerpoint

THEN- start at the stage that you are on based on your assessment.  If you are stuck then use this interactive clock to help learn how to tell the time.  Turn the digital time off then move the hands of clock and look at the analogue time, which is written in words.                    

Stage 1 - 5 minutes past                     Stage 2 - 5 minutes to                       Stage 3 - 1 minute past                       Stage 4 - 1 minute to                        Answers for all the sheets

Be a reading detective

Complete this BBC Bitesize Daily lesson all about inference.

Task Sheet 1

Spellings for this week are all about homophones and near homophones

Use this LCWCh sheet to help with your learning of your spellings.

Tuesday

7.7.20

Minutes, hours and seconds

11:30 am 4CD Live Lesson

10.40 4AW Live lesson Maths

Watch the video and read through the powerpoint and then have a go at the tasks

Task Sheets

Answers

Watch this clip to introduce you to our new book ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’  The book has many different front cover since its publishing in 1995.  Your task today is to create your own front cover for the book. 

Take a look at these for inspiration.

Dictionary definitions.  Match the definition to the homophone.

Wednesday 8.7.20

Years, months, week and days

11:30 am 4CD Live Lesson

10.40 4AW Live lesson Maths

Watch the video and then have a go at the tasks

Task Sheets

Answers

10 am 4CD Live Lesson

9.30 4AW Live lesson literacy

Lila is the main character in this book.  Your task today is to listen to chapter one and then write a character description.

Description from the book.

You could use this sheet to write it on

 Write this week's homophones into sentences.  You could make the spelling words stand out by writing it in diifferent colours.

Thursday 9.7.20

Telling time to nearest 5 minutes and converting analogue to digital

11:30 am 4CD Live Lesson

10.40 4AW Live lesson Maths

Watch the video and look at the powerpoint and then have a go at the tasks

Task Sheet                   Answers

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Or if you are feeling confident after Monday’s assessments then try these challenges.          Answers

10 am 4CD Live Lesson

9.30 4AW Live lesson literacy

Lila and her father work hard to create brand new fireworks. 

Watch this clip and then write a description of how it would feel to be at a firework festival.

Remember to think about the sights, sounds, smells and feelings.  Use this sheet to help plan out your ideas.

Word search. 

Using the words you have learnt over the last three weeks, how many can you find?

Friday

10.7.20

Telling the time to the nearest minute    and converting digital to analogue 

11 am 4CD Live Lesson  

10.40 4AW Live lesson Maths

Watch the video and look at the powerpoint and then have a go at the tasks

Task Sheet                Answers                   

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Or if you are feeling confident after Monday’s assessments then try these challenges.      Answers

Today you are going to become a firework maker.  Think carefully about the ingredients you would use and what you would name your firework.

Read the description from the book for some ideas.

Use this sheet to write out your recipe.

And this checklist to ensure you have included everything.

Spelling Test.

10am- 4CD Live Test

Ask someone at home to test you on your spellings.  Remember to get them to say the word in a sentence so that you know which one to spell.

This week’s school topic: Games   

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

Week beginning 29^th June 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 9             Chapter 10             

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts)

 https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

• Mathletics
• French - Bonjour! This week’s topic is countries. Click here

Day

Maths - Shape

Literacy – Charlotte’s Web

Spellings

Monday 29.6.20

Plotting Co-ordinates

11 am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW Live lesson

PowerPoint or PDF

Task Sheet

Challenges

Answers

Chapter 5 – Friendship

Watch to this clip to find out who was speaking to Wilbur.

 Today’s task is all about pronouns.  Click on this BBC Bitesize link, watch the video and complete the tasks.

Task Sheet 1     Task Sheet 2

Spellings for this week are all about homophones and near homophones

Use this LCWCh sheet to help with your learning of your spellings.

Tuesday 30.6.20

Plotting Missing Co-ordinates

11 am 4CD Live Lesson

PowerPoint or PDF

Task Sheet

Challenges

Answers

Chapter 6 – Summer Day

10am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW Live lesson

EB White describes the perfect summer’s day.  How would you describe a day during summer?  Think about using your senses and maybe some of the phrases from the book.  Have a look at this to help you with some of your ideas.

What do these words mean?

Sheet 2

Wednesday 1.7..20

Translating Shapes on a grid

11 am 4CD Live lesson

9.30 4AW live lesson

PowerPoint or PDF

Task Sheet

Challenges

Answers

10 am 4CD Live Lesson

10.40 Live lesson

One of the man themes in the book is the friendship between Charlotte and Wilbur.  Today you are going to plan a story that involves friendship.

PowerPoint or PDF

Planning Sheet

Homophones can be tricky to remember – watch this BBC video today to give you some ideas of how to remember them.

Thursday

2.7.20

Co-ordinate Challenges

11am 4CD Live Lesson

Now it’s time to put your learning this week to the test.  Try these challenges all about co-ordinates.

Challenges                

10.40 live lesson 4AW

From your plan yesterday, you are going to write your story.

Things to think about:

- Use different pronouns rather than repeating yourself.

- Expanded noun phrases

- Different types of conjunctions

- Paragraphs to separate your ideas.

Use this word mat to help with your ideas

Spot the mistake.

Sheet 3

Friday

3.7.20

Arithmetic Test 4

You have 30 minutes to try this arithmetic test.  The answers are at the end of the test.

10am Maths Challenge 4AW

Use the time today to finish your story and then have a look at this success criteria to edit and improve your work.  Remember that it is not just a tick sheet but to be used to remind you of the key elements in Year 4 writing and for you to add and improve.

4CD be ready to read some of your story during our afternoon TEAMs meet ups

Spelling Test.

10am- 4CD Live Test

Ask someone at home to test you on your spellings.  Remember to get them to say the word in a sentence so that you know which one to spell.

 2.00 Maths catch up 4AW

This week’s school topic: Art and Artists                 

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

Week beginning 22^nd June 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 7             Chapter 8             

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts)

                                      https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

• Mathletics
• French - Bonjour! This week’s topic is transport and towns.   Find the link here.

Day

Maths - Shape

Literacy – Charlotte’s Web

Spellings

Monday 22.6.20

Line Symmetry in Shapes

11 am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW live lesson

Today we are looking at line symmetry in polygons (2d shapes). Watch this video and look at the PDF to help you identify them.

Task 1   Task 2

Today we are going to look in more detail with chapter 1.  PowerPoint or PDF

Here are two activities for you to try all about using adverbs and adverbials to start and improve sentences.

Activity 1     Activity 2

Spellings for this week are all about homophones and near homophones

Use this LCWCh sheet to help with your learning of your spellings.

Tuesday 23.6.20

Triangle or Quadrilateral Poster

Today you are going to show all the knowledge you have gained over the last two weeks to create some information posters.  Either chose types of triangles or quadrilaterals and make a poster to explain the properties,

Here are some examples from the children in school for you to look at.

11 am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW live lesson

In chapters one and two, we learn all about Fern’s first day with Wilbur. 

Your task is to plan a diary entry that she could have written at the end of her typical day.

Planning sheet.

Using all the words you are learning this week complete these sentences!

Sheet 2

Wednesday 24.6.20

Completing a symmetrical figure

11 am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW live lesson

PowerPoint

Task Sheet

Challenge

Now using your plan from yesterday, you are going to write Fern’s diary entry.

This PowerPoint will remind you of the features of a diary.

4CD Teams Guided Write - have a look to remind you what we did together yesterday.

Use this sheet to write out your entry.

Homophones can be tricky to remember – watch this BBC Bitesize video and then try the activities underneath the video.

Thursday 25.6.20

Symmetry challenges

11 am - 4CD Live lesson

Now it’s time to put your learning this week to the test.  Try these challenges all about symmetry.

Challenges       Answers

10.40 4AW Live lesson

Today we are going to look in more detail with chapter 3.

Here is an activity for you to try all about using conjunctions to improve these superhero sentences.

Another try to practice putting your spelling words into sentences.

Sheet 3

Friday

26.6.20

Arithmetic Test

You have 30 minutes to try this arithmetic test.  The answers are at the end of the test.

Test Paper 3

11 am 4CD Live lesson

10.40 4AW live lesson

Have a listen to chapter 4

What advice would you give to Wilbur now he has moved to Uncle Avery’s farm?  How would you cope with being lonely?

Use this sheet to write a letter to Wilbur to help him now he is feeling lonely.

10am- 4CD Live Spelling Test

Spelling Test.

Ask someone at home to test you on your spellings.  Remember to get them to say the word in a sentence so that you know which one to spell.

This week’s school topic: Superheroes

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

Week beginning 15^th June 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 5             Chapter 6             

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts):  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• Mathletics
• French - Bonjour! This week’s topic is transport. Find the link here.

Day

Maths - Shape

Literacy

Spellings

Monday 15.6.20

Identifying and comparing angles

4AW Live lesson 10.40

Today we are going to be looking at different types of angles.

Work though the PowerPoint and then have a go at the tasks.

PowerPoint

Task Sheet

Challenge

If you would like more practice - go to BBC bitesize and do the activities there

Voices in the Park

We are going to read about Charles today – Voice 3 and focus on the colours that Anthony Browne has chosen to use in his pictures.

PowerPoint

Task Sheet.

Spellings for this week are continuing with the same pattern - ch (sh sound), ch (k sound) and homophones.

Use this LCWCh sheet to help with your learning of your spellings.

Tuesday 16.6.20

Triangles

4AW Live lesson 10.40

It’s different types of triangles today - the properties of scalene, right angle, isosceles and equilateral triangles.

PowerPoint

Task Sheet and Answers

Sheet 2 is your challenge activity today

Voices in the Park

Finally, today we get to meet Smudge.  Work through the PowerPoint and then have a go at the comprehension questions.

PowerPoint

Comprehension

Using all the words you have learnt over the last few weeks, let’s play scrabble!

Game Sheet

Wednesday 17.6.20

Identifying different types of lines

4AW Live lesson 10.40

Today we are looking at lines – horizontal, vertical, parallel and perpendicular.

PowerPoint

Task Sheet and Answers

Character and idea for own story

Over the next few days you are going to plan and write your own story based on The Voices in the Park.

Today you are going to think about the characters and design the front cover for your story,

PowerPoint

Task Sheet

Have a go at writing some silly sentences that include your spelling words.  The sillier the better to help you remember them!

Thursday 18.6.20

Quadrilaterals

4AW Live lesson 10.40

It’s all about shapes with 4 sides today!

PowerPoint

Task Sheet

Over the next two days, you will plan and write your story.

This powerpoint will help you to think about your character and what they might be like.  Use this planning sheet to help gather your ideas and this the mood sheet.  

This powerpoint will help you to structure your writing.

Remember to think about:

• Fronted adverbials
• Correct punctuation to start and end each sentence.
• Expanded noun phrases

Live literacy lesson 4AW - guided write to help you to write your character's voice

A word search is today’s activity.

Word Search

Friday

19.6.20

Arithmetic Test

You have 30 minutes to try this arithmetic test.  The answers are at the end of the test.

Test Paper

Spelling Test.

Ask someone at home to test you on your spellings.

Don’t forget Mrs Dark will be testing her class via Teams at 10am. Make sure you have a pen and paper ready.

This week’s school topic: Wildlife in the Garden

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

Term 6 Week 3

Monday 15th June tested on 19^th June

Focus  Endings  ch making the k or s sound, homophones

echo

meddle

mechanic

seen

machete

scene

moustache

technology

medal

fuchsia

Week beginning 8^th June 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.                                          

Chapter 3                         Chapter 4       

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts):  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
• Mathletics

Day

Maths

Literacy

Spellings

Monday 8.6.20

Addition and Subtraction (formal methods) Live lesson with Mrs Whittaker 10.35 

Watch these videos if you need to recap the formal methods

Addition video

Subtraction video

Addition questions

Subtraction questions

Challenge

This week we are focusing on the text – Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne. 

Work through this PowerPoint to introduce the story.

Then there are two sheets to complete.

Sheet 1 and Sheet 2

Voices in the Park

Spellings for this week are continuing with the same pattern - ch (sh sound), ch (k sound) and homophones. Have a go at drawing a spelling flower this week.  Draw a large flower with 10 petals and write one spelling word in each petal.  Colour and display to help you with your learning of them this week.

 Use this LCWCh sheet to help with your learning of your spellings.

Tuesday 9.6.20

Addition and Subtraction Word Problems

Use your knowledge from yesterday to answer these word problems

Why not try this Nrich challenge.

Voices in the Park

Today we are going to be discussing Voice 1 from the book.

Work through this powerpoint to look at Voice 1 and then complete the description of Charles' mother.

Complete the sentences using your spelling words and other words that fit the same spelling pattern

Sheet 2

Wednesday 10.6.20

Multiplication (formal method) 

Live lesson with Mrs Whittaker 10.40 

Watch this video if you need to recap the formal method - link

Multiplication questions

Challenge

The answers are at the end of each sheet.

Voices in the Park

Let's have a look at what Charles and his mum could be thinking whilst they are in the park.

Use the powerpoint and then complete the sheet to show what they could be thinking.

Task sheet

Today you are going to practice your spelling pattern along with some handwriting.

Handwriting sheet

Thursday 11.6.20

Division (formal method)

Watch this video if you need to recap the formal method - link

Division questions

The answers are the the bottom of the sheet

Voices in the Park

Now we are going to move on to voice 2.  Listen to the story again with the link above.

Use the powerpoint to focus on Smudge's dad then answer the task sheet.

Powerpoint

Task sheet

Use the correct homophone in the sentence.

Sheet 3

Friday 12.6.20

Multiplication and Division Word Problems

Use your knowledge from the last few days to answer these word problems

Voices in the Park

Today we are going to summarise the character of Smudge's dad. What sort of things can we learn about him from the text.

Powerpoint

Task sheet

Spelling Test

Ask a parent or older sibling to test you.

Don’t forget Mrs Dark will be testing her class via Teams at 10am. Make sure you have a pen and paper ready.

This week’s school topic: Explorers

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

French 

Bonjour!  This week's work can be found here

Group 1

Friday 5^th June at 12pm.

Group 2

Friday 5^th June at 12:45pm

Group 3

Friday 5^th June at 1:30pm

Group 4

Friday 5^th June at 2:15pm

Ashley

Connor

Dzuigas

Mantvydas

Natalie

Vaughan

Nisha

Danny

William

Maciej

Dominykas

Diana

Kiya

Taya

Imogen

Charlie

Isabella

Lola

Annabel

Talia

Grace

Sandra

Karina

Emilija

Rebecca

James

Maja

Logan

Bella

Jessica

Adrian

Hollie

Week beginning 1^st June 2020

Daily extras:

• Listen to our class reader – Charlotte’s Web by E B White.  If you have a copy of the book at home, then you could read along.

Chapter 1             Chapter 2             

• Hit the Button (number bonds, halving, doubling, times tables, division facts):  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Day

Maths

Literacy

Spellings

Monday 1.6.20

Summer Term – Week 6

Lesson 3 – Fractions of quantities

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

Today’s activity is a comprehension all about the famous Wimbledon Tennis Championship.  Remember to read the text carefully and refer back to the text when answering the questions.

Comprehension and Answers

This week’s spelling pattern is ch (sh sound), ch (k sound) and homophones.

Use the LCWCh sheet to practice your words for this week.

Tuesday 2.6.20

Fractions of quantities

 If you did not get to do yesterday’s worksheet then watch the video link from Monday to help with today’s work.

Choose a worksheet to complete.

Level 1    or     Level 2

Why not try the challenge

Answers

Keeping with the theme of tennis and famous people it is tennis star Rafael Nadal’s birthday tomorrow. 

Read the information sheet about him and then we are going to have a go at some possessive apostrophe work.

What other words follow this weeks spelling pattern?

Use Sheet 2 to help you recognise and sort the words.

Wednesday 3.6.20

Summer Term – Week 6

Lesson 4 – Calculate Quantities

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Worksheet 

Answers

Challenge

Today we are going to find out about two famous women who changed the world.  Work through the powerpoint to find out about their work and what they did.

Then complete the comprehension.

Try this wordsearch to help you to spot the correct spelling of each word. 

 Each word is only there once.  How quickly can you spot them all?

Thursday 4.6.20

Calculate Quantities

If you did not get to do yesterday's worksheet then watch the video link from Wednesday to help with today's work.

Choose a worksheet to complete.

Level 1    or    Level 2

Why not try the challenge

Answers

Yesterday we looked at two biographies of famous women and now it is your turn.

You are going to plan your own autobiography using the ideas on the planning sheet.

 Put the correct homophone into the sentence.  Remember that homophones sound the same but are spelt differently so it is important to know which one to use.

Sheet 3

Friday

5.6.20

Lesson 5 –Arithmetic Test

You have 30 minutes to try this arithmetic test.  The answers are at the end of the test.

Today you are going to write your own autobiography.

Think about how you will layout your page and have a look at these examples to help you.

Take your time when writing and presenting your work.

Use first person because you are talking about yourself.  Also can you use the present perfect tense? If you have forgotten how to use this then take a look at this powerpoint to help.

Capital letters and correct sentence punctation.

Also try to us some other punctuation eg. commas and possessive apostrophes that we looked at on Tuesday.

Spelling Test

Ask your parents or an older sibling to test you on this weeks spellings.

This week’s school topic: Famous People

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges

French

This week's activity is continuing with the theme of transport.  Find the link here

 WC: 18.05.20

Maths 

Literacy

Monday

Week 4 (w.c 11^th May)

 Lesson 1 – Multiplication and division problems

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

 Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

Following the theme of lights camera action, today you will be director. Direct your actor as to how they would play your lead character

Follow the link here

Tuesday

Lesson 2 – Perimeter

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

 Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

 Time to promote the movie of the year! Imagine turning your favourite book into a film and plan how you would promote it.

Wednesday

Lesson 3 – Perimeter of rectilinear shapes

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

 Worksheet

 Answers

Challenge

Every author, be it for a fiction book or a play script, needs to edit their work. Follow these activities on BBC bitesize to help you edit writing more effectively.

Thursday

Lesson 4 – Area

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Worksheet

Answers

Challenge

Today you are going to write speech for characters in a short film. Watch the clip ‘The Cloud Maker’ and follow the guide of how to write speech in a play script.

Friday

Lesson 5 – Challenge

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

The most suitable questions for Year 4 are 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. But why don’t you work with your family on the rest of the problems. Do as many as you can! Help each other out

 Today you will be writing a review on a short film - will you recommend it and it become a box office success?

Watch the clip here

Topic

This week’s school topic is:  Lights camera action!

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges.

 WC: 11.05.20

Maths 

Literacy

Monday

Week 3 – w.c 4^th May

Lesson 1 – multiplying 2 digit number by 1 digit

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Challenge and answers

This week we will be using Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree as our inspiration. Today complete the grammar activities from these extracts.

Tuesday

Lesson 2 – multiplying 3-digit number by 1 digit.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Challenge and answers

 Today we are looking at expanded noun phrases and how you can use them to help describe a setting

Wednesday

Lesson 3 – Dividing 2 digit number by 1 digit

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Challenge and answers

Reading today – read the first chapter from The Faraway Tree and answer the questions.

Thursday

Lesson 4 – Dividing 3 digit number by 1 digit

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Challenge and answers

For the next 2 days you are going to write your own description of a land at the top of the tree. Listen to some extracts from The Faraway Tree for inspiration first. There is also a link on the topic page to hear more of the story.

You may also draw an illustration of your land.

Friday

Lesson 5 – Challenge

This week is a recipe challenge

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

or you can try the Mathletics that has been set up for you today.

Topic

This week’s school topic is:  Trees and Plants

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges.

 WC: 04.05.20

Maths 

Literacy

Monday

This week we will continuing to focus on decimals and putting them into the context of money.

Week 2 (commencing 27^th April) – Rounding decimals

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Challenge and answers

This week we are linking to our theme ‘under the sea’ and writing a non- chronological report about a sea creature of your choice.  Click here for today’s link.

Tuesday

Week 2 – Halves and Quarters

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Challenge and answers

Today we are going to look at how to write an introduction. Don’t worry if you missed yesterday’s work – you can use my facts on my favourite sea creature – turtles.

Wednesday

Week 2 – Pounds and Pence

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Challenge and answers

Today you are going to plan your paragraphs and write subheadings. Use the guide to help you organise your (or my) information.

Thursday

Week 2 – Ordering Money

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Challenge and answers

Today we will write our main paragraphs – use your work from earlier in the week or the information on sea turtles.

Friday

Week 2 – BBC Bitesize Challenge

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Finishing your report – Add appropriate pictures and captions  

Topic

This week’s school topic is:  Under the sea

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges.

 WC: 27.4.20

Maths 

Literacy

Monday

Summer Term 1 – Week 1

Lesson 1 – Making a Whole

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Challenge

Answers

Today we are going to look at how authors describe different settings in their books, particularly shops. Follow the link for today work

Tuesday

Summer Term 1 – Week 1

Lesson 2 – Write Decimals

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Challenge

Answers

Shopping involves talking to people. Today we look at how to include speech to further describe a setting or character or to move the story along.

Wednesday

Summer Term 1 – Week 1

Lesson 3 – Compare Decimals

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Challenge

Answers

Today’s work is a comprehension about one our authors this week – David Walliams.  If you would like to push yourself, there is a more challenging version here.

Thursday

Summer Term 1 – Week 1

Lesson 4 – Ordering Decimals

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Challenge

Answers

Today and tomorrow we are going to be looking at writing our own shop scene for a story. Today we will be planning using this guide.

Friday

Summer Term 1 – Week 1

Lesson 5 - Challenges.  The most suitable questions for Year 4 are questions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 but you might want to work on the rest with your family.

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Now we will write our scene – You will be looking to write 3 or 4 paragraphs using your plan. Use the following guides to remind you of some of the features you could try to include:

Pronouns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z64q7nb

Speech

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zvftsbk

Topic

This week’s school topic is:  Shops and Shopping

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges.

 WC: 20.4.20

Maths 

Literacy

Monday

Today we are looking at dividing a 2 digitnumber by 10.  Remember to think about your place value and how the numbers move to the right. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/ 

Click on Week 2 Lesson 1

This week we are going to link with our topic and look at explanation texts.

Look at the text and see if you can find the features.

Tuesday

Today's lesson is a recap over hundredths.

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Click on Week 2 Lesson 2

Why not try these challenges

Challenge answers

Wallace and Gromit have a fantastic series called cracking contraptions. Today you are going to watch one of these and write an explanation as to how the ‘Soccomatic’ works

Wednesday

Moving on to writing hundredths as decimals 

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Click on Week 2 Lesson 3

A bit of comprehension today and back to Dudley and his explanations.

Thursday

 This session will help you to recognise how to write decimals when they are represented on a place value chart.

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Click on Week 2 Lesson 4

Try today's challenge

Challlenge answers

A fantastic invention to read about today – The Teacher Pleaser! Read the example and have a go at designing your very own invention to make your life easier

Friday

Today we are looking a dviding 1 and 2 digit numbers by 100. 

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Click on Week 2 Lesson 5

Challenge Time

Challenge answers

Today you will be writing about your design. Remember to include an introduction explaining what your machine does as well as step by step explanation.

To add detail to your explanation, you may include adverbs to say how various things are done, for example the wheel turns slowly. 

Use this bitesize guide to recap adverbs

More specifically, you may choose to add fronted adverbials to add more detail

 For a reminder of the features of an explanation text, look back at Tuesdays link. 

Topic

This week’s school topic is:  Inventors and Inventions

From the list of activities, choose the things you would like to do linked to this topic:

* Simpler activities       *** More complex challenges.

Welcome to Week 2! We hope you have enjoyed the tasks last week. In Maths we are now moving onto decimals in particular looking at tenths and hundredths. We will also be revisiting how to find a fraction of a quantity. In Literacy we are continuing with the book ‘The Journey’ and you will be writing your own version of the story. In Geography, we will be locating continents, oceans and important locations on the world map.

Task 1

Task 2

Task 3

Fractions of amounts – practice your skills at finding a fraction of an amount.

Today we are looking at describing a setting, in particular by using prepositions.

Geography On the world map, locate each of the continents and the oceans.

Answers

 Today we will be looking at recognising tenths and hundreths. Please go to the white rose website and look at week 1 lesson 1. Watch the video and complete the worksheet. Answers are also available https://whiterosemaths.com/

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Determiners help use to give extra information about a noun. Learn about the different types today and use them when writing a paragraph about a page from ‘The Journey. ‘

Geography

Name the countries in the

British Isles and their capital cities.

Colour the sea in blue.

 Again on White rose, we will be loking at tenths as decimals. Watch the vieo and answer the questions on the worksheet. 

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What will happen next? Use your prior knowledge to predict what may happen next in our story.

Geography

Locate the main countries in Europe, including Russia.

Label their capital cities

 Today we are looking at tenths on a place value grid. Watch the video and complete the worksheet

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Now it’s your turn. Over the next 2 days write your own next part of the story ‘The Journey’. Where will the magic crayon take the girl next? Draw pictures and write paragraphs alongside to show what happens on her next adventure.

In your writing try to include speech, expanded noun phrases and as an extra bonus - possessive spostrophes!

Use the links to help remind you:

Speech

Possessive apostrophes

expanded noun phrases

 History - Tody we will be looking at Roman roads. We will dicover how and why they were built and then you can present what you know in the form of an inormation poster

 Lastly for this week, we are looking at tenths on a number line https://whiterosemaths.com/

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Extra Daily activities:

• Mental arithmetics – using the times table generator to work on the tables practise that has been allocated to you.
• Handwriting- using your cursive joins to copy up a favourite poem.
• Reading- independent learning
• Reading – Oxford Owl are offering a free membership which gives you access to online e books - these books mirror lots of the book we would be using with your children.

If you wanted to, you could;

• Look in your garden at what creatures you can see. Where in the food chain do they fit? Can you draw your own food chain to show this?