Year Four Home Learning Week Beginning 8th June 2020
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Here is your home learning for the week:
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English-Let’s listen to the classic legend-Sinbad the Sailor
Monday 8th June – Listen to the first part of the story of Sinbad’s fifth voyage. Retell the story. Year 4 Week 12 Day 1
Revise or learn about conjunctions and practise joining clauses. Conjunctions and Prepositions with audio
Tuesday 9th June – Listen to the second part of Sinbad’s story. Retell the story. Revise prepositions and use these to form expanded noun phrases and good descriptions. Year 4 Week 12 Day 2
Wednesday 10th June – Listen to the last part of the story of Sinbad. Retell the story. Do creative writing, using prepositions to add description and conjunctions to join clauses. Year 4 Week 12 Day 3
Thursday 11th June – Read several humorous poems. Research vocabulary. Learn a poem by heart. Year 4 Week 12 Day 4
Friday 12th June – Read a draft poem and notice amendments to improve it. Write own poem, making several drafts. Perform poem. Year 4 Week 12 Day 5
Guided Reading-
Read chapter two of the text-Osiris or listen on this YouTube clip and complete the activities below during the week. Next week we will be looking at chapter three.The Story of Osiris
Remember if you are working below the year four curriculum you have been set reading books on Reading Planet that are for your ability. Click on the link and access books especially chosen for your child. Their user name is their first name with a capital letter for example, Anna and their password is planet. The centre id is 211526.
https://my.risingstars-uk.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f
Activities for The Story of Osiris:
Daily Reading Ancient Egypt Activity 2 – Print Friendly
Maths-This week we will be revising place value and adding with exchanging. If you work through this revision quickly, choose an nrich activity to do from https://nrich.maths.org/14580. I recommend this activity if you are not sure where to start- magic v https://nrich.maths.org/6274
Monday-
Lesson 1 – 1s, 10s, 100s, 1,000s 2019
Tuesday-
Lesson 2 – Add two digit numbers – no exchange 2019
Wednesday-Watch video to revise what you need to remember when adding with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAvuom42NyY
Lesson 3 – Add two 4-digit numbers – one exchange 2019
Thursday-
Lesson 4 – Add two 4-digit numbers – more than one exchange 2019
Friday-Look out for the maths challenge which is updated during the week.
exchanges
Further support-What is column addition
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39
Remember Mathletics is updated every week to give you three new activities to try. You can then do any other activity or play games on live Mathletics to earn points. Those children with certificates for earning more than 1,000 points each week will have their certificate shared on Class Dojo.
If your child normally works with Miss Alvarez they can try these lessons if they find the year four learning too hard.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ Please contact Miss Danzey on Class Dojo if you would like the sheets which go along with these lessons.
Science-Let’s get back to our exciting electricity topic:
L.O- I can recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit
Activity Sheet Investigating Switches
I.C.T-This week have a go at coding a flappy game
https://studio.code.org/flappy/1
R.E-
L.O-I know what Muslim’s believe
https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/what-do-muslims-believe-year-4-wk5-4
Art-Have a go at making an Egyptian God or Goddess mask. Please post photos of your mask and you wearing your mask to Class Dojo.
https://www.yac-uk.org/activity/make-an-ancient-egyptian-death-mask
https://www.bakerross.co.uk/craft-ideas/teachers/pharaoh-golden-mask/
paper plate
mask if bought one or paper and pens if not
History
Mummification:
Watch the following video clip and read the PowerPoint
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FiM8S2_nSg
You may have already had a go at mummifying a tomato. If you haven’t tried this yet, you should it is great fun! Have a go at drawing or writing a set of instructions for mummification.
If you can’t remember the steps to success for instruction writing, check out this BBC Bitesize clip for help
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgcwmn/articles/zfrcmfr
Music
As well as our normal music opportunities from Out of the Ark, we also have access to making music from Croydon Music and Arts.
https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music
The password is
makingmusic123
This week on Out of the Ark, there are songs about recycling. Singing can be a good way to cheer yourself up, so why not give it a try?
https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home/?utm_source=homepage&utm_campaign=ootamathome2&utm_medium=banner
Latin
This week we are starting to learn a new tense. Very exciting! Over the next few weeks, we will start looking at how to translate verbs in the past tense and learning their different forms. New tense
We are also looking at Aristotle’s views of the meden agan. He was a famous Greek philosopher who believed that the key to being a good person was to always choose the meden agan or middle path. He advised that nothing should be done without careful consideration and picking the middle path. Can you suggest what the extremes would be for each of his emotions? The first has been done for you and the answers will appear after each mouse click.