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Read moreYear 4 Friday 3rd April Home Learning
English
Today, you are writing your ending to your Dragon Slayer story. You need to think what might have happened to the Dragon Slayer and his little dragon family in the future. Maybe you could use one of our novels as inspiration - what happened at the end of Charlotte’s Web or the Butterfly Lion? Make sure the reader feels happy at the end and the Dragon Slayer is no longer a killer!
Maths
Let’s use our extended method for multiplication now with three digit numbers. Fist watch my short video and do a few examples with me.
Then complete the further activities on the sheet below. I will put the answers on from 6.00 tonight! No cheating though!
Purple mash time - conversions.
Reading
Have you managed to do a quiz yet this week? Which books have you enjoyed? Why not share what you have read on our class blog. Is there a good book you can recommend?
Weekly activities
How did you get on? Which have you got left to do?
Year 4 Thursday 2nd April Home Learning
English
Time to write your resolution paragraph. This is when the Dragon Slayer makes his decision and then the other babies appear! Try to use those fronted adverbials to make the start of your sentences more interesting. You may need possessive apostrophes and don’t forget to slip in some extended noun phrases!
Maths
Now complete IXL H8 and H9. You will need to work out some of the answers using the extended method in your maths books but others are easy enough to work out mentally.
Purple mash Time - mixed clock times.
I have also set you a new Sum Dog challenge - practising multiplication and division. On Friday, I will set you a few to keep you busy over the Easter holidays. I know you all love it!
Daily reading and select some thing/s from the weekly tasks. Happy learning!
Year 4 Wednesday 1st April
Happy April Fool’s Day!
English - Writing your Dragon Slayer Story
Today it is time to write the dilemma. What does the Dragon Slayer DO to show he is in a dilemma? Why is he in a dilemma? Write this paragraph including some speech-dialogue and show the reader how he feels. You can still use extended noun phrases to describe the little baby dragon. Aaaah!
Maths
Today we re going to learn another new skill - multiplying a two digit number by a one digit number using THE EXTENDED METHOD. It is really important that you do this just as I teach you, rather than skipping to the next step.
New Sum Dog challenge set today Practising x and divide.
there is a Purple mash time 2 do - if you have time!
Daily Reading
I hope you have a really good book you are enjoying like me! Don’t forget to quiz!
Weekly tasks
Remember to go back and choose from these fun learning activities. Feel free to send pictures to my email about what you are up to!
Year 4 Weekly tasks for week beginning Monday 30th March - with Flute added!
Year 4 Tuesday 31st March Home Learning
English - Writing your Dragon Slayer story
Check the story planner below and write the build up paragraph today using extended noun phrases. You should watch that part of the film and maybe make a few notes of key actions that happen to help you remember.
Maths
Practise your new skill of multiplying 3 numbers on IXL. H12 and H13
Purple Mash telling the time 2do - Five to the hour today!
Daily Reading
I hope you have a really good book you are enjoying like me!
Weekly tasks
Remember to go back and choose from these fun learning activities
Year 4 Daily tasks Monday 30th March
English
Watch again the film below. Each day this week, I would like you to write a part of the story (1 paragraph) as we do in class. I have included a story planner below. Today, you need to write the beginning paragraph. Introduce the setting and main character, using extended noun phrases. Don’t forget to include the weather!
Maths
We are going to learn a new skill today - multiplying 3 numbers. Look at the help sheet below and complete the activities in your maths book. I will put up the answers tomorrow so you can mark it!
Also, complete the quick 2do in purple mash about time - Quarter to today.
Reading
I am still watching those reading targets on Accelerated reader and have set some new ones. Every day, curl up and read somewhere for at least 30 minutes. Then don’t forget to quiz when you’ve finished. There is a link to Accelerated Reader log in on the Help your child section. There are also lots of free books to read on the site too!
This week I finished my book ‘The Colour Purple.’ (I cried!)
Year 4 Weekly tasks for Week beginning Monday 30th March
To try something different this week, alongside daily Maths, English and reading, there are weekly tasks that you can pick from.
You can choose to do them any day which gives you a bit more freedom - see what you are in the mood for each day. You could choose to do a few on one day and none on another!
Follow the links below this image for the Science task
Year 4 Friday 27th March Home Learning
Hello everyone and a happy Friday to you! Here is your home learning below. Have a good rest over the weekend - or catch up on anything you are behind with! Keep up with all that lovely reading too.
English
The Dragon Slayer grammar! Today we are thinking about using Possessive Apostrophes. I know you did this in class with Miss Edmondson. I have put a video on the Help section and I would like you to read my helpsheet below and then complete the mild, spicy and hot activities in your Yellow Home Learning books. Make sure you feel really confident with how to use apostrophes and especially WHEN NOT to use them - they are not for every word ending in s!
Maths
Quite a lot of Sum Dog challenges today to practise those tables. If you dont finish today, do some over the weekend.
Science
I hope you enjoyed your investigation into PItch and Volume yesterday. Today we are going to be thinking about ears and how the sound reaches them. Please read your instructions below on my helpsheet/experiment sheet.
Then read the info about Animal Ears.
Finally, Check your Purple Mash 2 dos make a leaflet all about Animals with the best hearing!
Year 4 children Thursday 26th March Home Learning
Maths
Continue carrying out your Sum Dog challenges. Are you getting very good at counting in 11’s now? I wonder if you can count in twelves? Write the multiples of twelve in a list in your maths books up to 12 x 12.
Is it similar to the elevens? How?
Purple Mash maths task
This is in your 2do’s on telling the time.
Science
In class last week, we discovered through many activities that sound is caused by something vibrating, which vibrates the air.
Today, it is time to explore volume and pitch. Follow the ideas below and in the ‘Help your Child’ section to find out how the volume and pitch of a sound is changed. I wonder if you can guess how it affects the sound waves? Have great fun exploring!
English
Today, I would like you to learn how to replace nouns with pronouns. Please read and complete the activity below first. Then do English IXL C1 C2 and C3. If you have more time, you could do C5 and 6 too.
Year 4 Wednesday 25th March Home learning
Good morning my little sunshines! It has been lovely to hear from some of you on the class blog or through email. I am missing you all very much! Ready to extend those brains and be like Sadie Spider today? Good!
Growth Mindset ‘Home School’ poster
I would like you to create a poster for your home school with all our learning characters on. Do you like the Lyons’ family home learning poster? It is up in our office! You could put it up in your work space at home! Why not tell your parents all about our learning characters and how each one helps us to learn? If you are learning at school, ask a teacher for some card and create one for your learning space at school!
Contact me!
Today, I would love to hear from you in the class blog. Access it in purple mash.
I would also love an email with a photo showing what you have been up to if possible.
Here is Megan, who has been busy with her school work but also doing a spot of decorating too. I love removing wallpaper!
Mrs Hotchkiss’s class are sending jokes too. I do love a good joke. Here are some for you on one of my favourite themes!
How do two cats end a fight? They hiss and make up!
What do cats say when confused? I’m purrrrplexed!
Maths
Continue to complete fresh challenges on Sum Dog today. Also begin to practise your 11 x table. Write down all the multiples up to 12 x 11 in your Maths home learning book. Whats the pattern?
Purple Mash maths task
This is in your 2do’s on telling the time.
English
You may need to go back and watch the Dragon Slayer film again today because I want you to get descriptive! You are going to teach your parents the grammar skill extended (or expanded noun phrases) and do lots of lovely ones about the Dragon Slayer story in your home learning books. You can draw the characters too if you like. Try and use powerful vocabulary. There is a song and a quick film in the ‘Help your child’ section to jog your memory.
Again, don’t forget daily/weekly learning. Have you made your rainbow yet? Have you spotted any?
Year 4 Tuesday 24th March. Home Learning
HI YEAR FOUR! I’M SO SORRY - I’VE JUST REALISED I DIDN’T PUT THE FRONTED ADVERBIAL VIDEO IN THE ‘HELP YOUR CHILD’ SECTION! IT IS THERE NOW UNDER THE SUM DOG ONE! I WILL MAKE SURE I DO THESE DAILY FROM NOW ON!
Good morning everyone! Are you raring to go? I have set up a class blog in purple mash, where you can ask questions and share things. Why not take a look?
Maths
Today you should find you have two challenges set in Sum dog. Log in and have a good go so I can check your progress later. If the site is slow, keep trying at different times of the day!
Purple Mash maths task
This is in your 2do’s on telling the time. It is easy today but it will get harder!
English
Today, we are focusing on using the key Year 4 grammar skill FRONTED ADVERBIALS. In the ‘Help your Child’ section, there is a video explaining all about them to jog your memory. The Purple Mash 2do activity, ‘A Day out,’ you did last week, explored fronted adverbials - so if you’ve not done it, log in and try now.
We have done them lots in class, so you will be able to teach your parents all about them. Then look at the sheet below for a grammar activity to carry out in your Yellow home learning books.
Eventually, (next week) we will be writing the story of the Dragon Slayer - so don’t be tempted to do it yet!
Art
This is your normal Art day. Check on the Art page to see what Mrs Curtis wants you to do today.
Weekly/Daily challenges
Don’t forget your other daily/weekly challenges on the main Year 4 page. Are you keeping up with your daily reading? Have you thought about buying and reading ‘The Butterfly Lion’ to your parents at home? It is such a good book!
Mrs Lyons is reading a book called, ‘The Colour Purple,’ which is actually my favourite colour too!
Year 4 Monday 23rd March Home Learning
Maths
We have a new and exciting way of practising our maths skills! This is called Sum Dog. If you go to the ‘Help your child’ section of Year 4, Mrs Hotchkiss has made a lovely video to explain all about how to get started. Today, I would like you to log in and have a play at some of the games. They look BRILLIANT! From tomorrow, you will have set tasks to complete on this that will appear when you log in!
English
We are going to be practising some of our grammar skills this week, whilst studying a great film called ‘The Dragon Slayer.’ (Click on link below to view) Today, I want you to get familiar with the film and carry out the activities given on the sheet attached below - Becoming familiar with the story.
It is important that, at first, you only watch the film up to 3 minutes 7 seconds, because then I ask you to predict what will happen next before carrying on watching.
You can answer the questions about the film orally to a grown up or write the answers down.
Don’t forget about your other daily/weekly challenges in the blog section - eg Reading, PE etc
Monday March 23rd - Using Sumdog while we learn from home/school
Helping you to learn maths at home with SUM DOG
Follow the instructions, log on and play!
Dear children welcome to our online learning community. We will be helping you to keep learning every day!
We have subscribed every child in the school to the interactive maths website “SUM DOG.COM”. To get started I have made a little on screen instruction video below. You will need your username and password. The passwords for each class are to be found below :
Homework to be handed in on Thursday 26th March
Homework set early this week. If you are at home you can be doing this in the next 3 days. More home learning will be set for you tonight. Enjoy!
Maths
7x table. As last week you can use the sheet given to practise. Look for patterns eg Are the answers odd or even?
Try learning Percy Parker’s 7 x table song below:
There is also a link to a site where you can practise all your times tables learned so far. Do a little bit often!
English
Please complete the Purple mash grammar 2 do’s ‘Day out’ and ‘Harry’s Party.’
Don’t forget to learn your spellings too. Can you write a short paragraph including all your spelling words to show you understand what they mean?
Spellings set Tuesday 17th March for test on Monday 23rd March
Year 4 key words:
breath breathe question heart early actual
(Before root words beginning with l, prefix in becomes il
logical illogical legal illegal legible illegible
Please discuss what each word means.
Homework to be handed in on Thursday 12th March 2020
Maths
This week, we have been learning our 9 x table. First we noticed that we add 10 and take away 1 each time. This makes lots of patterns in the 9x table. Please write in your homework book the multiples of 9 going down your page - then explain the patterns you spot to your grown ups. Write a written explanation of this.
Then use the sheet given, ‘Practising the 9x table’ to learn the facts through playing a game - follow the instructions on the sheet.
Finally, keep practising each day - with quick- fire questions eg 7x9 3x9 until you know it off by heart.
Assembly Parts
Our assembly will be about ‘The Garden of Gethsemane,’ on Wednesday 1st April. Please learn your assembly parts for next week. Some of you have a song to learn instead:
English
The Anglo-Saxons loved to share Riddles and Kennings - (both different types of poetry) with each other. We have learnt in class how to write a Kenning. For your homework, please write 2 Kennings. One about yourself (see sheet for help to plan this) and another about anything for me to guess! It could be a type of animal, an item of clothing, a sport - anything - but please give me lots of clues! Go to the ‘Help your child’ section for an information poster and a teaching powerpoint about kennings to refresh your memory.
No spellings given on 9.3.2020, therefore no spelling quiz will be given on 16.3.2020. Thank you, Miss Edmondson
Home learning given out 6.3.2020 to be returned 12.3.2020
Flute— The children are going to be putting on a performance for Year 3 in the last week of school before Easter, so please make a really good effort with your practice over these next few weeks. Please revise ‘We will rock you’, ‘Happy’, ’Mamma Mia’ and ‘Prince of Belair’ this week on your flute.
Maths—Please practise your 4 and 8 times tables—be active, sing them or do a family quiz maybe. Can you write the link between these times tables and prove it to me with 3 examples? Make sure a grown up writes a note so I can give you learning points children.
Lent - Please discuss jobs and donations to CAFOD and see if you can bring in a donation next week.
Spellings—Please continue to practise your spellings for your quiz on Monday.
Spellings given on 2.3.2020 to be quizzed on 9.3.2020
confusion
revision
explosion
division
decision
television
fruit
minute
learn
exercise
regular
interest