Year 4 Home learning Friday 15th May

English

Well - are you ready for the final chapter? Lets see what happens.. Who will triumph at the Firework competition? Will Lalchand have to be killed? Will Lila become a firework maker?

I have put the last chapter below. (I was tempted to read it to you so I could put on my silly Italian voice for Signor Scorchini but I changed my mind!)

I would like YOU to read this together with an adult - maybe take in turns to read. Read actively - picture the beautiful scenes on display. The names of the firework makers are very funny!

  1. Take an accelerated reader quiz on this book - click on the how to help your child link to get straight to our ‘Accelerated Reader Quizzes’ page.

2. You also have a book review to do some time over the next week - in Purple mash.

Maybe consider which book YOU would like to read next. How about reading some more Phillip Pullman? How could you begin to challenge yourself with your choices of books so that you are reading books with vivid language and marvellous characters like this?

Maths

Today we will be finding fractions of quantities/amounts. This will need a lot of focus, effort and practice. You can do it Year 4! Grow your brain.

Year 4 Home learning Monday 11th May

English

Let’s finally meet the ferocious……….fire-fiend. The wrong date is on the video - don’t worry about that. It is the right one!

Maths - Thursday’s answers. How did you do?

Maths today:

I would like you to practice the fractions skills you have been acquiring over the last few days by completing IXL BB3 and Y20 and the Sum dog unit called ‘Practising Equivalent Fractions.’

Year 4 Home Learning Wednesday 6th May

English

Today, you are going to use your collected ideas from yesterday to write a character description.

Maths

Mark your answers from yesterday - let’s see if you understand mixed fractions!

Today’s Maths

We are going to be counting in fractions past 1 today.

Year 4 Home Learning Friday 1st May

Maths

First mark your answers from yesterday. Are you being a Lizzie Ladybird and trying hard to get better and better?




English

Today’s task is to write a character description for one of the characters you gathered ideas for yesterday. Watch my video to see me re-write a poor one! Remember, you will need to fast forward the video to where you were up to yesterday.

Year 4 Home learning for Thursday 30th April

Maths

If you found yesterday’s lesson tricky, it is well worth revising fractions on IXL. Y1 - Y7 revise recognising fractions.

Today’s lesson moves on to equivalent fractions. Watch carefully and do your best. Don’t Give up Sadie Spider. If you are finding it a little too hard, you could revise equivalent fractions from Year 3 here. Week 2 lesson 5 ‘Equivalent Fractions’ is good.


English

Today we will be reading a little more of the story and thinking about the characters. I have copied the task I want you to do underneath the video. This video is for today and tomorrow’s lesson so you will stop it when I say to complete your activity then return to it tomorrow.

Year 4 Home Learning Wednesday 29th April

Its mid-week! Don’t forget to keep up with your reading Year 4. Nessy children need to be doing this each day. How are your weekly activities coming along?

English

I have kept you waiting a while but now its time to enjoy more of the book. We are reading the next 20 pages! I will read it to you again - but you can always re-read it afterwards. Then you have a reading skills task to do.

Maths

Are you ready to start Fractions? Today there is a short video, with activities for you to complete afterwards. This first lesson is revising how we represent Fractions. If you feel you need a refresher, there are two sheets below of fractions for you to recognise. You could print out and fill in or simply go over each answer with an adult.

Year 4 home learning Tuesday 28th April

Maths

The video below shows how I reached the answers for the assessment. It helps you improve your learning by helping you see where you went wrong.

I would like you to make sure that you practise any areas you struggled with - as we are moving on to Fractions tomorrow.

English

Today, I would like you to write a high quality persuasive letter. Watch the video below to remind yourselves how to do this. Please send it to me when you have finished.

Year 4 Home Learning Friday 24th April

Maths

Similar to Wednesday, I now want you to practise your new skill of dividing HTO numbers. Please do 20 calculations choosing a number from the left and a divisor from the right. Use the part-part whole models to figure out your answers. Remember - it is all about clever partitioning!

Sumdog - I have added LOTS of Sumdog challenges for you to be ticking along with. Dont panic when you see how many - its to keep you going for a few weeks!

English

Today, I want you to think about the lovely way Phillip Pullman describes things - there’s a chance to do a bit of drawing too. Watch my little video below and create your own page in your English book collecting interesting description for the elephant, the fireworks, the people and the other things


Year 4 Home learning Thursday 23rd April

Maths

Time to learn some higher level division. You can do it Year 4. Watch my lesson and follow the instructions. Do your answers in your maths book and please send me pictures so I can see how you are getting on.

English

Today I would like you to complete the reading activity below. We are still focusing on the chapters we have already read. This skill requires us to summarise what we have read and find 3 reasons why we know something using the text.

Year 4 home learning Wednesday 22nd April

Maths

Practise your division skills now using the part part whole models to partition and exchange. Some will have remainders and some will not. Ask a grown up to mark them for you.

English

Today I will read some of chapter 2 to you. Then we will be thinking about figuring out the meaning of words from their context and then checking by looking up in a dictionary.