YEAR 4 HOME LEARNING W/C 15.6.20 It was so great to see some of your work last week, thank you for the e-mails. Keep them coming! We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can. We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to [email protected]in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback. We will be hosting another end of week catch up this week and we are aiming to keep the days and times the same for consistency. However the times and links will be posted on the FJS website so please do check. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). The teacher who will be hosting your classes chat will also send a Marvellous Me message with the link to the meeting and the date and time. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning! This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week. Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent on Friday. Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 19 th ): READING Please read Chapters 3 & 4 of JK Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/ Reading task – VIPERS: once you have read the Ickabog, answer the VIPERS questions. CGP book – pages 24 & 25: Peter Pan. Complete all questions about the text. *Please continue to listen to your child read regularly* WRITING The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’. For more information see below. You can complete these as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday. CGP book – Pages 25 & 26 ‘Verbs with ing’ ‘verbs with have’ HANDWRITING You have been given a poem, ‘The Crocodile’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book. Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish. Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call. SPELLING You have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn.
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YEAR 4 HOME LEARNINGW/C 15.6.20
It was so great to see some of your work last week, thank you for the e-mails. Keep them coming! We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can.We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to [email protected] in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback.
We will be hosting another end of week catch up this week and we are aiming to keep the days and times the same for consistency. However the times and links will be posted on the FJS website so please do check. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). The teacher who will be hosting your classes chat will also send a Marvellous Me message with the link to the meeting and the date and time. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning!
This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week.Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent on Friday.
Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 19th):
READING
Please read Chapters 3 & 4 of JK Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/Reading task – VIPERS: once you have read the Ickabog, answer the VIPERS questions.CGP book – pages 24 & 25: Peter Pan. Complete all questions about the text.*Please continue to listen to your child read regularly*
WRITING
The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’.For more information see below.You can complete these as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday.CGP book – Pages 25 & 26 ‘Verbs with ing’ ‘verbs with have’
HANDWRITING
You have been given a poem, ‘The Crocodile’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book.Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish.Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call.
SPELLING
You have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn.This week we are revising the ‘sion’ sound. Your ten words are:Explosion, invasion, erosion, occasion, decision, vision, division, illusion, television, persuasion.
MATHS
My Maths: Five tasks (one per day or you can do them as you wish over the week. Please complete the lesson first and then do the homework task).Tasks allocated on My Maths and will be available from Monday.Tasks on My Maths: Bar division; Short Division; Bar multiplication & Division; Correspondence Problems; More Correspondence Problems.Teachers are providing feedback for you on MyMaths tasks so please ensure you check this later in the week.
Maths Reasoning: Lighthouses (see below)Maths Challenge Nrich (OPTIONAL): Shape times shape (see below)Times Tables Rockstars – play your part by regularly playing TTR over the course of the week and look out for battles &/or sessions.
You can also continue to complete the history, geography and science tasks that were initially set as many people haven’t sent us any completed work.
English- Reading, Writing and Art This week’s reading: VIPERS ‘The Ickabog’
Read the chapters three and four of ‘The Ickabog’. There are some VIPERS questions for you to answer below which will help you to meet these objectives:
Retrieve information from a text Infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, justifying inferences with evidence.
V (Vocabulary) 1. In chapter 4, find the word summoned. What does it mean?I (Inference) 2. Find two clues that the servants and maids were unhappy with King Fred after Mrs Dovetail’s death.P (Prediction) 3. Read right to the end of chapter 4, Do you think the Dovetails will be happy in their new home?E (Explain) 4. What made Daisy Dovetail such a good friend to Bert Beamish?R (Retrieve) 5. What kind of flowers did Daisy Dovetail pick?S (Summarise) 6. How do you think King Fred started to feel after Mrs Dovetail’s death and what made him feel like that?
Have a go at an illustration for one of these chapters- maybe a picture of Fred’s new clothes, what you imagine Bert and Daisy to look like or the scene of the funeral.
This week’s writing: ‘The Ickabog’
Your writing task is to write a diary entry. You should imagine that you are King Fred and your diary should summarise the recent events (so you could write it over several days or just one longer entry about the last couple of weeks).It should include key events such as:Why you needed new clothesWhat you wanted them to be like and who made them.What terrible event occurred.How did you feel about it?What difference did you notice in the way people looked at you?What happened when you went hunting?How did it make you feel?What did you decide to do about it?Are you happy with your decision?
You should try to write in paragraphs and use some of the following conjunctions and adverbials:Several weeks ago / That day / Sadly / because / unfortunately / later / Soon after / a week later / the next day / hopefully
These are the objectives you’ll be successful with if you do this task well: Write a recount in the first person Use varied and rich vocabulary drawn from reading Express time, place and cause using conjunctions Use past tense verb forms accurately. Use joined handwriting throughout independent writing Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors, making changes to improve writing
This week’s poem for handwriting:
The Crocodile - Roald Dahl
"No animal is half as vileAs Crocky–Wock, the crocodile.On Saturdays he likes to crunchSix juicy children for his lunch
And he especially enjoysJust three of each, three girls, three boys.He smears the boys (to make them hot)
With mustard from the mustard pot.But mustard doesn't go with girls,
It tastes all wrong with plaits and curls.With them, what goes extremely well
Is butterscotch and caramel.It's such a super marvelous treat
When boys are hot and girls are sweet.At least that's Crocky's point of viewHe ought to know. He's had a few.That's all for now. It's time for bed.Lie down and rest your sleepy head.
Ssh. Listen. What is that I hear,Galumphing softly up the stair?
Go lock the door and fetch my gun!Go on child, hurry! Quickly run!
No stop! Stand back! He's coming in!Oh, look, that greasy greenish skin!The shining teeth, the greedy smile!
2. Play Ping Pong spelling: Children work with a partner to practise spelling each word aloud whereby each partner (or even a toy at home for extra fun!) takes a turn at saying each letter aloud until the whole word has been spelled aloud. Repeat several times for each word. Can you get faster?
This week’s maths reasoning & optional challenge:
Week 3
Additional task shape times shape
This week’s foundation learning: Lockdown Diaries.
Lockdown Diaries: ‘A day in the life of Lockdown 2020’
The focus for the following week for our afternoon teaching / home learning will be around children writing their own personal diaries – capturing this significant moment of our time for future historians.Extracts from children’s diaries will be selected for inclusion in a compilation of entries to be published in a book at a later date.Year 4 children will explore Samuel Pepys as a stimulus. *The purpose of your diary entries is to give people in the future an idea of what it was like as a child living through ‘Lockdown’Your taskTo capture a day in the life of our lockdown journey in the form of a diary.
Use the powerpoint (available on the website) to help guide you through the following tasks before writing your own diary entry:
Samuel Pepys – discover more about him using the BBC bitesize website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z7d7gwx/articles/zhgxcqt Create a timeline of events of your lockdown – include emojis to show your emotions at different events that happened Choose 2 or 3 events from your timeline. Add more detail about your thoughts and feelings. Write your diary entry and
aim for 2 to 3 paragraphs. Illustrate your diary Secret Codes – create a code of your own. Use it to write this sentence: Samuel Pepys is famous for writing diaries. You
must be able to explain your code to others.
Sharing Your Entries:Children can share their diary extracts with others in their pod – reading them out aloud or for home learners on twitter or email [email protected] (for feedback from your teacher)Remember – your entries might be chosen for inclusion in our special ‘Lockdown Diaries 2020’ published book.
