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

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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 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!

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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.

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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 :

Reception Sumdog Passwords

Year 1 Sumdog Passwords

Year 2 Sumdog Passwords

Year 3 Sumdog Passwords

Year 4 Sumdog Passwords

Year 5 Sumdog Passwords

Year 6 Sumdog Passwords

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?

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.

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.

 

Home learning given out 28.2.2020 to be returned by 5.3.2020

Flute— Please practise ‘We will rock you’,  ‘Prince of Belair’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ this week on your flute.

History—Please visit this website page https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/story-of-england/early-medieval/ and make an information poster about the Anglo Saxons, typed out or handwritten the choice is yours. Please include paragraphs of information, a diagram and captions for your images. Please click on this page https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-augustines-abbey/history-and-stories/who-was-st-augustine/  within the website and include a paragraph about St Augustine in your work.

Spellings— Please continue to practise the spellings given on 24.2.2020 for the spelling quiz on 2.3.2020. 

 

Home learning given out 7.2.2020 to be handed in on 13.2.2020

Flute— Please practise ‘We will rock you’,  ‘Prince of Belair’ and ‘Mamma Mia’ this week on your flute.

Maths—Please play on this game to practise your times tables. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button  Please practise 3s, 4s and 6s. If needed recap on 2s, 5s and 10s. Please write a comment in your child’s homework book so I can see how they are getting on and so I can award them learning points.

RE—As part of my teacher worship this week we discussed how we could help try to combat loneliness in our community, the children came up with some lovely ideas. One of their ideas was to make cards for people who may be lonely and to give these out, I loved this suggestion and Father Peter has very kindly said that we can have a box of them placed at the back of church. Please can each child make at least one card to go in the box (feel free to make more), bring them into school by Thursday and I will pass them on to Father Peter. Make them bright and colourful please children. Inside you could write something like this

To the reader of this card

Remember you are not alone, Jesus is in your heart.

Love the Year 4 children at Our Lady Star Star of the Sea (We are not adding names to keep our children safe).

Spellings— Please continue to practise the spellings given on 3.2.2020 for the spelling quiz on 10.2.2020.

 

Spellings given out on 3.2.2020 to be quizzed on 10.2.2020

The children thought of loads of great, fun ways to learn their spellings on Friday. Please ask them which way they would like to try (the nerf gun spelling quiz where you get blasted if you are too slow was not my idea! Mine were more sedate like flour on a baking tray and water and a paintbrush outside on garden flags, so please don’t hold me accountable for any Nerf gun related injuries! )

Spellings this week

remember

history

sentence

opposite

natural

separate

serious

obvious

hideous

anxious

jealous

enormous

Homework given out 31.1.2020 to be handed in by 6.2.2020

Flute— Please learn ‘Mamma Mia’ and continue to practise ‘We will rock you’ this week on your flute.

Maths—Please revisit the 2 and 4 times tables, can you find a link between the calculations in the 2s and the 4s? How are the answers related? Ask someone to quiz you on them and write a comment on how you are getting on. Perhaps children you could quiz a grown up or even get the whole family involved, why not set a prize? Breakfast in bed for the winner or they get to choose a film for film night!

Spellings—Please continue to practise the spellings given on Monday ready for the spelling quiz on 3.2.2020.