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Year 4 – Week Beginning 4.5.20

Ongoing skills

work and extra

fun!

Please use these pages as a guide for learning at home, with a mixture of activities to keep your brain busy! Although we have outlined the

work in daily sections across the week, please feel free to re-order the days’ activities into your own timetable. Remember,

if you especially enjoyed any activities from previous weeks, you can still have fun with these. Watch out for our special

VE Day Celebrations section on Friday.

Lots of great fun is being had on Seesaw! Don’t forget to look out for two activities during this week that we would like you

to add to your journal. You can also choose another piece of home learning work to upload.

If you haven’t already, you might find the Parents and Carers Helpsheets from Thinkuknow UK helpful in

supporting your children in being safe online - there is one especially parents of primary aged children.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/globalassets/thinkuknow/documents/thinkuknow/parents/pdf/thinkuknow-parents-helpsheet-

primary.pdf

Monday Computing – internet safety:

Follow the link to the Thinkuknow internet safety website.

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/watch/

Watch the animation with an adult at home and talk to them about the story.

What did Alfie do when he realised something wasn’t right?

Talk together about the different ways you like to use the internet.

Extra: You could make a list of the different apps and sites you use most often.

English – grammar:

Watch the clip to remind yourself about

how adjectives work. Complete the

‘highlight the adjectives’ activity and the ‘adjectives quiz’ on the same

page. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc

Find 5 objects around your home to describe using different

adjectives. Say your sentences to someone at home or even over the

phone. Can you upload a video to Seesaw of you describing them?

Now sketch your favourite object to draw and label your object in your book.

Maths – Measures:

Follow the link to remind yourself about measuring how heavy something is using grams and kilograms. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zbvgkqt

What’s in this

column?

This is where you

find those everyday

learning activities

like Accelerated

Reader,TT

Rockstars and

Spelling Shed, which

help to keep some

of your key learning

skills sharp!

You will also find

different ideas for

keeping active and

some fun activities

you might enjoy any

time.

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If you have kitchen scales at home, you could try using them to find out how heavy different items are in your house. You could write

down what you find out each time, taking care to write the correct measurement in grams and kilograms.

Or you can follow this link for a game with virtual scales and click on the ‘amounts in steps of 50g’. https://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/mostlyPostie/index.html

Remember to read

every day for 20

minutes as you would

do at school.

https://ukhosted108.renle

arn.co.uk/2236330/

You are aiming to

achieve an 80% pass

rate when you quiz

online. We will be

checking your

percentage scores, to

see how you are getting

on.

https://vimeo.com/36088583

Enjoy listening to this

fascinating tale while

you watch the

animation.

Tuesday Maths - number work

Order these measures in descending order (heaviest to lightest).

50g 670g 300g 150g 1kg 5g

Maths - problem solving

Measure at home: Today you will be using household items to

investigate mass.

Find yourself a tin from the cupboard (baked beans, tomatoes,

kidney beans etc). This will be used as a standard measure (a

measure to compare the mass of other items).

1. Can you find two objects in the kitchen that have a greater

mass than your tin? (e.g. 1 item may be a packet of cereal)

2. Can you find two objects in the kitchen that have a lighter mass than your tin?

3. Check if you were correct.

Record what you have found out in your home learning book. You may want to take

photos.

Challenge: Use inequality symbols (< >) to compare your objects.

> greater than < less than

E.g. tuna tin < baked bin tin

baked bin tin > tuna tin

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English – grammar:

Make a poster to show what adjectives are. Imagine you are making the poster for someone who has no

understanding of what an adjective is.

Make sure you include: what adjectives are and some examples of adjectives.

You may want to draw pictures or use pictures from old magazines etc. to illustrate your examples.

Geography – Climate zones: Follow the link to find out about Earth’s climate zones.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zr7hyrd

Find out about the climate in different places around the world. You could use an atlas, or

Google Maps to explore some different landscapes. Choose as many of these places as you like.

You could use the ‘Satellite’ view on Google Maps to see what the land is like. Talk to someone at

home about what you notice. Try looking up these places:

Svalbard, Sumatra, Vermont, Namibia and Corsica.

Extra: You could design the perfect outfit to wear in any of the locations you have investigated, based on the kind of climate you think is experienced by people living there.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ipl

ayer/episode/m000hqxy/c

beebies-bedtime-stories-

749-tom-hardy-hug-me

If you are looking for a

story, at bedtime, or any

other time, try this one on

iplayer from Tom Hardy.

https://play.edshed.co

m/

You have been set an

assignment to complete:

you must complete this

by the end of the week.

To do this, go into the

assignments area on

your Spelling Shed

dashboard. These will

be checked and

updated weekly. Use

this as an opportunity

to move up on your

spelling colour.

Wednesday

Maths - Number work: Convert the measure below. Remember to look at the resource in your home learning book to help.

1000g = …kg

2500g = …kg

5000g = …kg

1.5kg = …g

3.5kg = …g

Maths – problem solving:

1. A cake is cut into 10 slices, each of which weighs 140g. What is the weight of the cake?

2. Each apple weighs 150g. How much do 9 apples weigh in kg?

3. A casserole is made with 800 g of meat and 1.2 kg of vegetables. What is the combined weight of the ingredients?

4. A gardener has 10 plants to pot. Each plant pot needs 50g of soil. How much soil does the gardener need altogether?

a) In grams

b) In kilograms

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English – grammar:

Follow the link and explore the first four sections to find out more about adjectives.

https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-

activities/languages/words/adjective-detective/

Then complete the quiz and the game in the last two sections.

Art – Drawing:

Use your drawing skills to represent an animal. Which climate zone will your animal come from?

When you are drawing think about the shape of the animal and creating an outline with smaller shapes using light pencil lines before

adding more detail to bring your drawing to life.

You could also follow this link to the Twycross Zoo website for more

amazing animal drawing inspiration and tips. https://twycrosszoo.org/arts-and-craft-activities/?gclid=CjwKCAjw4pT1BRBUEiwAm5QuR1YUNzJI7peDutxLT2OduGdpmh4EZy6cC192eSTXMyTNND92QH23txoC1Q4QAvD_BwE

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student

1) Earn the right to

rock! You have been set

an assignment to

complete: once you

complete this challenge,

the rest of the game

modes will become

available. Don’t worry if

you find it tricky to

start with, just have a

go and notice your

progress.

2) Battle for your band!

New class challenges

are now up and running.

Earn bragging rights

for your class - the

team with the most

correct answers wins!

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Thursday Maths - number work:

Work out the measures on this scale which shows grams up to 1000g (1kg).

Need some support? Each interval (little line) on the scale goes up by 20g.

Maths - problem solving

When tackling word problems,

remember to:

1. Read the entire problem at least

twice.

2. Highlight key language and

numbers.

3. Identify what the problem is

trying to find out.

4. Decide on the steps you need to

take and in which order.

5. Choose an appropriate calculation

(+, -, , x). 6. Check your working

back.

English – writing:

Draw an animal of your own choice, This can be real or imagined but you can use your drawing

skills from yesterday to help you. Write adjectives around your drawing to describe the animal.

Can you include adjectives that describe how the animal looks, feels, sounds, moves and smells.

Science - Biomes

Biomes are areas of our planet with similar climates, landscapes, animals and plants. What lives in each biome

depends on: how warm or cold it is how dry or wet it is how fertile the soil is

Follow the link to find an animated video, information and images for you to look at,

as well as and a mini game. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z849q6f/articles/zvsp92p

https://www.topmarks.

co.uk/maths-

games/rocket-rounding

There are two

alternative game modes.

The first features a

number line. The second

mode is more

challenging as you have

to round numbers

without a visual clue.

Try answering 20

questions at the first

level ‘up to 99 to the

nearest 10’ using the

number line. See how

many you get right.

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Maths challenges: Make sure you have tackled your TT Rockstars Challenge for this week, then, solve these puzzles, showing your

workings out clearly in your book.

English – writing:

Write a description of the animal you created adjectives for yesterday.

In your paragraph, include description to tell your reader what the animal

looks like, feels like, sounds like, moves like and smells like.

Remember to include the adjectives you used yesterday.

Remember to use commas between 2 or more adjectives.

Challenge: Can you alter the position of your adjectives in your sentences?

https://www.nhs.uk/10-

minute-shake-

up/shake-

ups?filter=the-lion-

king#shakeups-hub

Explore some of the

‘Change for Life’ 10

minute Lion King

inspired shake up

games. Choose

something to fit the

weather and the space

you have available.

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

Remind yourself of the

French hopscotch game

La Marelle. Can you find

a place to set up this

game at home and

challenge yourself?

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Friday May 8th 2020 - VE Day 75 Celebrations

75 years ago today, on 8th May 1945 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the war had finally ended in Europe and Victory in

Europe was declared. This was VE Day.

On CBBC’s Newsround, which you can watch online here

https:// www.bbc.co.uk/newsround, young viewers will sit

down with their older relatives to discuss their memories

of the day, what happened, what it meant to them and

how it made them feel.

Some of the programmes on TV may remind you of Poppy

Day back in November, when we learned about people

who gave their lives for our country during different

wars. Lots of people will be stopping for two minutes of

silence at 11:00am, very much like the time we held a

special silence in the hall at school last November.

But, as well as being about Remembrance, VE day is also about celebration. Plans for celebrating VE

day may have been changed, but it is still a time when we can choose to take part in something that

is important to our nation. Some people will have special tea parties at home, and others will be

joining in with the ‘Nation’s Toast to the Heroes

of WW2’ at 3pm, standing to raise a glass of

something they like to drink and saying the

words: “To those who gave so much, we thank you.”

If you go out for a walk this weekend, you might see things in people’s windows and

gardens like the image of a soldier, or maybe a poppy. There might also be some flags

or bunting.

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Why not make your own special VE Day 75 ‘Great British Bunting’ to display in your window at home? There are resources to help you,

including a short video and a template, available through the BBC Local Radio website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4TrqYDyf4PMdLypxzyTwGDg/great-british-bunting

There are detailed bunting instructions here:

http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/england/pdf/how_to_make_your_great_british_bunting_step_by_step.pdf.

You could include designs and pictures like: • Union Flag • A dove of peace • Your message of thanks •

Your hero • A soldier from WW2 • Someone in your family who was in the army, navy or air force. •

Someone who did important jobs at home, like farmers, or fire fighters.

There are also printable resources to help mark this special day on this website:

https://ve-vjday75.gov.uk/toolkit/

Because returning home reflects a key idea for VE Day, when people who had been far away during the war could

begin to come home, BBC’s Bring the Noise website has a special song called ‘Take You

Home’ You can find out all about how the song was written, and explore it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/take-you-home-lyrics/zhqft39