Year 4 home learning work – Monday 18 th – Friday 22 nd May

Hello everyone

It has been so lovely to see that so many of you are viewing and using the work I am sending you on FFI. It makes my day when I see your work uploaded including so many other fun activities you are doing at home. Whilst this is a different time away from school you are all doing so well and should be very proud of yourselves. Keep up the fantastic work and remember to keep sending me work or fun activities through Free Flow Info (FFI) as I check it every day!

Don’t worry if you haven’t finished the work from previous weeks but if you have, here is some more work for you to do this week. This week your work will all be around a short Anglo Saxon story called The Sword in the Stone – A King Arthur Legend. You may have the book at home or have watched the film version. Here are a couple of links to versions of the story https://www.storiestogrowby.org/story/king-arthur-and-the-legend-of-the-sword-in-the-stone-stories-for-kids/

http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/playstory15621-the-sword-in-the-stone.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmv1QrrLs-0

This will be the last week we complete work on the Anglo Saxons. After the half term holiday we will move to a new topic.

Remember you should still be using Reading Plus (about 30 minutes) and Times Table Rock Stars (5 games = 5 minutes) every week as I do check to see who has been on and how well everyone is doing.

Take careMiss Colligan

English Please complete the work either in the jotters from your packs or any paper you have at home.

1. Activity 1 – To write a detailed setting description. 2. Activity 2 – To write a detailed character description3. Activity 3 – To answer questions linked to version of the

Sword in the Stone text 4. To plan and write diary as Arthur on the day he became

King .5. To create a knight worthy of a seat at the round table

Activity 1 – To write a detailed setting description. Write a setting description for one or both of these images from the Sword in the Stone Things to include

Power of three adjectives (at least one adjective in a sentence) Five senses (new paragraph for sights, sounds, smells, anything

exciting) Different sentence openers At least 3 similes and 1 metaphor Challenge – personification and onomatopoeia Remember you are not in the setting – third person

Activity 2 – To write a detailed character descriptionWrite a character description for Merlin using the images to help you.Things to include

Full and interesting paragraphs (appearance, eats, sounds, lives, thoughts and feelings)

Power of three adjectives (at least one adjective in a sentence) Adverbs At least 3 similes and 1 metaphor Different sentence openers Expanded noun phrase (look online to help you remember these)

Activity 3 – To answer questions linked to version of the Sword in the Stone text

Activity 4 – Activity 4 - To plan and write diary as Arthur on the day he became King .Reread/ listen to the story of the Sword in the Stone – A King Arthur Legend. Now imagine you are Arthur on the day you became King. You are going to use the events in the story to plan and write your own diary. Remember a good quality Year 4 diary should be filled with everything you have learnt in school and should be about3/4 to a whole page long at least. Things to remember for a diary

Past tense (all past tense rules correctly followed) and first person Full and interesting paragraphs Time conjunctions Relevant detail including adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, similes Personal thought and feelings in every paragraph Reflecting opening sentence and hope for the next day at the end

Time conjunction What happened? Detail  adjectives Adverbs Conjunctions simile

Thoughts and emotions

 This morning      

 Then      

 Later that day      

In the evening      

Now it is time to write your detailed diary. Here is a little reminder of what to include

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Activity 5 – To create a knight worthy of a seat at the round table

Here is an extract from part of the Legend of King Arthur

The Round TableAs a wedding present, Guinevere’s father, Lodegreance, gave Arthur a round table. The table had actually been a gift to Lodegreance from Arthur’s father, Uther. Arthur was pleased with the gift because it had enough space for all of his knights and it allowed them to discuss things as equals. Each seat had the name of one of Arthur’s knights on it except for one seat which was nameless. This seat became known as the Siege Perilous. This seat was for the greatest knight in the world and if anyone who was unworthy sat there, that knight would die.

You need to create a knight who would be worthy of sitting on the nameless seat. Your knight creation must include

Name (remember we are in the Anglo Saxon times) A background- did your knight come from a rich home or did he earn

his way A special weapon including how your knight got the weapon An interesting and exciting tale on how your knight is worthy to sit on

the seat.

When we are back at school I will choose the knight who is worthy of the seat based on you work.

Remember you might be at home but all your work should be your very best and should show you working at your hardest. It is just a bit more comfy doing school work in pjs!