Y4 Home Learning IdeasTimetable advice

Dear Year 4 Parents,

We hope you are all well and that the children are happy and settled.We hope that you will find the information within this letter helpful and that you will be able to use it to support your children throughout the following weeks – if

you choose to. There are a number of links to online learning that we have recommended, in addition to these links we would also like to sign post you to the

‘Gloucestershire Healthy Living and Learning’ website, they too have directed online learning which is linked to different subject areas

-https://www.ghll.org.uk/covid19/covid19-online-educational-support/

If at any time you would like anymore guidance in terms of resourcing or teaching content, please don’t hesitate to email us.

tharris@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.ukasutch@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk

This is a suggested typical timetable – take what you wish from it and use the extra suggestions as you see fit – whatever works for you and your child - adjust timings or what you choose to do when. Please remember, if your day doesn’t go according to plan it is OK, settled and happy children are the most important consideration at all times.

Subject area

Approximate time

Description/ideas

Physical exercise:

30 minutes

Joe Wicks/Just Dance/Go Noodle/circuit challenges in the garden

Timetables practice:

15 minutes

Rock Stars/Hit the button/’Timetables me’ generator/99 challenge sheet (please see Virtual Book Bag for the sheets – if children cannot remember the challenge they are on, please email us)/supermovers -https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/times-table-collection/z4vv6v4 http://www.timestables.me.uk/

Maths consolidation:

30 minutes

See below – Choose a task from either White Rose, CanDo Maths or Corbett Maths

Social Break and snack:

30 minutes

Face timing friends/extended family members, playing a game with family members

Reading: 30 minutes

listening to an audio story/reading from a ‘real’ book/CLP extracts – found on St James’ virtual book bag/Reading challenge questions

Literacy: 40 minutes

Writing project – see below for suggestions

Lunch Break:

1 hour

SPaG (Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar):

20 minutes

See below

Creative project:

Child led See below Science, Geography, History, Art, Design and Technology Tasks can be completed over a series of sessions, or within one – depending on how in-depth a child chooses it to be

Newsround/FYI Sky news channel

7 minutes An update of news events - optional

Daily exercise:

30 minutes – 1 hour

Walking/Dog walk/bike ride/scooter/run

It is important to work in short sessions, unless your child is fully engaged and desperate to finish something.

Maths White Rose Home Learning https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Follow the weeks on this site as they are added. There is a useful teaching clip and activity to accompany each learning step.Week 1 Tenths and Hundredths Week 2 Tenths and Hundredths

There is no need to print out individual sheets, instead the children can just write the answers to questions within an exercise book.

Can Do Maths Parent Packshttps://stjamesbookbaghome.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/candomaths-workouts-4.1-4.2-march-2020.pdfThese focus on practising and applying learning that has already taken place this year and will follow the same basic structure: some ‘Do It’ practice, problems to solve including a game, empty box, challenges and worded problems. The content will be based on units taught so far this year - more content will be produced by Can Do Maths and will be added to the St James’ Virtual Book Bag as we receive them. At the moment there are three workouts available for each year group. Although they are no longer able to produce a video for each day of the workouts, they have updated the playlists on their channel and have put together generic videos for each game and workout for reference.www.buzzardpublishing.com/cando-videos

Corbett maths – 5 a day tasks (consolidation of number sense) Silver or Gold task sheets.Videos – Addition Video 1, Adding decimals Video 15 – watch video and then answer the questions given. https://corbettmathsprimary.com/

Extra challenges – investigate under LK2 (Lower Key Stage 2)Areas of mathematical learning to consolidate:

Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 Reading and writing negative numbers Estimate and use inverse operations to check answers to calculations Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

WritingAny writing at all would be wonderful! Select one writing project each week and follow this simple structure:

Newspaper article about the disaster of Pompeii erupting/schools shutting and home learningDiary entry on tea stained paper – written as a citizen of PompeiiBiography of a great modern day explorer – Bear Grylls, Tim PeakeNon – Chronological report on famous natural disasters – this could be presented as a PowerPointInspirational writing using a picture stimulus - https://www.pobble365.com/ - scroll down for short and long writing ideas. By clicking on the Pdf link, the writing tasks are presented as a Power Point – much more user friendly for children to use independently.Day Approximat

e timingsDescription/tasks

Day 1 30 – 40 minutes

Immerse the child in examples of the writing genre – encourage them to look at examples on the internet and around the house. Are children able to identify the features present, making a list of what they would expect to find (look at the layout of writing and the grammatical features – for example, is the writing laid out in paragraphs? Written in the third person? What tense is it written in? etc …)

Day 2 30 – 40 minutes

Plan and research a piece of writing that follows the same structure – the content can be on anything your child is interested in – for example, if they enjoy Space, they might choose to write a biography about Tim Peake; a British astronaut.

Days 3 – 5

30 – 40 minutes

Begin writing in short bursts – 30 to 40 minutes at a time. Then allow time for your child to read through their work, sharing it with someone as a support for editing and redrafting.We tend to write over a number of days, which will allow for editing and rewriting of sentences/phrases before any new writing begins.

Extra/optional to above, challengesLiteracy Shedhttps://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/the-lighthouse-ks2-activity-packUse The Lighthouse - a video clip - as a stimulus for your writing – If you go directly to the link, there is a KS2 Activity pack which will allow you to find the clip. You will find lots of supporting documents that the children might like to use to develop their own writing and storytelling techniques – guidance is given in the activity pack.Further possible ideas

Write as a setting description Complete a Non Chronological Report about the history of lighthouses Writing the story from the man’s point of view – including an action scene using lots of

powerful verbs and adverbs

Jane Considine Super Sentence Stackers - great writing sessions on YouTube - live lessons but can be easily re-watched, e.g. Blue Umbrella, La Luna… You don’t need to limit yourself to just one chunk!

Poetry PowerPoints found in the Virtual Book Bag – suitable for all ages to work together

Here is the link to the expectations in writing for Y4 to help you to remember what elements to include:http://stjamescofeprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/writing-key-objectives.pdfPlease feel free to email your writing to Mrs Harris or Mrs Sutch – we would love to read it!

Spelling, Grammar and PunctuationLearning areas taught:

Identifying word classes – nouns, verbs, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, determiners, pronouns

Acknowledging and understanding punctuation types Identifying statements/questions/commands Placing fronted adverbials Using co coordinating and subordinating conjunctions accurately to extend ideas and

thoughts Dictionary challenges Thesaurus challenges Correct use of regular and irregular past tenses Relative clauses

Task Name DescriptionGames Going Ask your child to go shopping for one or more of the above

and Challenges

shopping learning areas, for example, expanded nouns/different sentence openers – how many can they find on one page of their reading book.

Dice Roll Create an A4 grid of 9 spaces – place numbers 1 -9 within each square and write a grammatical term. Get 2 dice, roll them together, total the dice rolls and find the grammatical term/punctuation type that links with the number. Then find an example of that term/punctuation within a reading book and write it as evidence within the square, for example, irregular past tense verb = fought.

Bingo A bingo board game of grammatical terms could be made with an accompanying deck of cards – turn a card over, for example, dashing, if you have the term verb on your board, you can cross it out.

Website links

BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mnVideo clips and games linked to grammar terms

The School Run

https://www.theschoolrun.com/primary-grammar-glossary-for-parentsThis is an excellent website that explains the world of SPaG, using explanations that your children will be hearing within the school day

Year 3/4 common exception words

Common exception list of words

http://www.crosslee.manchester.sch.uk/serve_file/253974Keep practising the Y3/4 Common Exception Words – using the small cards given, through water painting them on the patio, using chalk, magnetic letters, writing in a dusting of flour, tracing them on the back of someone, playing hang man, unscrambling the letters, finding them in newspapers or story books etc If confident and all accurately spelt, set synonyms and antonyms challenge for a selected set of words

General SPaG activities

Twinkl SPaG mats/Twinkl SPaG mysteries

Please email teacher if you would like to access this.

These are just a few ideas that the children might like to create/ actively engage in, but I know there are plenty of others. Hopefully, the children will be able to make/play these games independently.

ReadingReading for pleasure is one of the most important gifts we can give our children – books can be read to them, shared with them or children can read to us or on their own.

Here are some short reading challenges –ask your child to read for 20 minutes and then answer one of the challenges from the list below – they could create a reading journal; writing their response to the challenge given.

Write a short paragraph predicting what you think will happen next in your story Look back at the prediction– were you correct? Explain how, if not, what happened instead? “Quote” something a character said in your book and explain what this tells you about them. “Quote “something a character in your book did and explain what this tells you about them. Who would you recommend the book you are reading to? Explain why they would like it. Summarise what has happened in your story so far in approximately 50 words. Think about

what has happened since the beginning and not just the recent pages you have read. Write down two words from your book that you don’t know the meaning of. Look them up in a

dictionary and then write your own sentences using them. Choose a non-fiction book about weather or natural disasters. Write down 5 things you have

found out about from reading this book. Don’t forget to include the title too. Write down one question you would ask a character in the book you are reading. Then imagine

you are them, write down what their response would be. Don’t forget to say the character you

have chosen. Write about any parts you did not like and explain why Write about what you think the author wants you to learn from reading this book

SHORT READING COMPREHENSIONS – BY CLICKING ON THE FOLLOWING LINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DOWNLOAD A SET OF SHORT READING COMPREHENSIONS FOR THE CHILDREN TO LOOK AT INDEPENDENTLY OVER A COUPLE OF SESSIONS; https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/resource/stage-4-reading-packs

Free Audio books: Google David Walliams soundcloud freeAudible.com https://stories.audible.com Access the FB page to hear Mrs Sutch reading ‘The Finders’

Within the virtual book bag, there are a 100 book suggestions for Years 5/6 – have a look for inspiration, as there are some great titles which I know Year 4 would love too.

Please email your teacher if you would like specific comprehension tasks for your child to complete.

Creative projectsPlease visit the Virtual Book Bag on the St James’ website for project ideas. These ideas include History, Geography and Art and Design tasks. Please select from them as you wish.

So far we have placed Task sheet 1 – The Romans and Task sheet 2 – The Anglo Saxons.The next task sheets will be based on ‘The Wizard of OZ’ and Natural Disasters.

ScienceNext half term we would have begun looking at States of Matter in Science; teaching under the following objectives:

Can I compare and group materials according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases? https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/30642/what-stuff-doeshttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87hhttps://www.theschoolrun.com/what-are-states-of-matterhttps://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-states-of-matter/

Can I observe materials that change state when they are heated or cooled? https://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/33266/biscuit-bashinghttps://www.stem.org.uk/resources/elibrary/resource/33254/intriguing-icehttps://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?term=states+of+matter+melting+chocolate

Can I measure or research the temperature that a change of state occurs? Can I identify evaporation/condensation in the water cycle and associate this with the rate of

evaporation with temperature?

After your child has watched a clip, are they able to start a knowledge organiser on an A3 piece of paper? Each time adding more and more key information to it once another video has been watched. This can be done independently, all they need to know and understand is that, they need to write/draw down the key information they have learnt from each of the short video tutorials. See below for an example – there are plenty of other examples on the internet for inspiration/ideas for presentation.

Some cool experiments to investigate and discuss:https://raisinglifelonglearners.com/freezing-ice-balloons/

Sort materials or pictures of materials into solids, liquids and gases.

Carry out some practical investigations:

Explore reversible changes such as heating and cooling by making chocolate crispy cakes or ice-lollies

Explore irreversible changes by making a bicarbonate of soda volcano, baking cakes or making toast

Investigate how to separate solutions using sieving and filtering

https://lifestyle.howstuffworks.com/crafts/science-projects/science-projects-for-kids-states-of-matter.htm Please note, some of these experiments need quite a few materials, others are more simple to stage! We would love to hear how you get on. You can log one of your experiments on you knowledge organiser.

Possible recording of experiments:Set a timer, keep checking every 1 minute, record observations of changing state through pictures and words.Formally record the experiment using Twinkl link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-m-511-science-experiment-recording-sheet---ks2Create a States of Matter quiz using all the observations and facts you have acquired.Create a board game, using a track, make sure spaces include miss a go, move forward, move backwards, roll again etc…Create a comic strip of a rain drop as they move through the water cycle – using this short clip as inspiration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhZf1olD-no

Religious Education and P4C (Philosophy for Children)https://www.natre.org.uk/uploads/Free%20Resources/2%207-11%20RE%20Today%20and%20NATRE%20home%20learning%20Spirited%20Arts.pdf

Click on the above link to find out more about the Spirited Art and Spirited Poetry competition. You will have 3 themes to choose from, and you are able to use any resources and medias. Your work can be 3d or 2d and remember to use the sentence stems on page 3 to explain your thoughts about your art as you were doing it.

The closing date is the 31st of July 2020, so you have plenty of time to be creative.

P4Chttps://www.thephilosophyman.com/free-p4c-resources/ks2Explore the above link under KS2 resources – it has a set of thinkers games for children to consider and respond to, it also has a set of ‘Spot or Stripe’ videos. These are 1 minute videos in which a debate is started, then hand it over to the children to argue out!