St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Monday 30th November 2020
Date: 29th Nov 2020 @ 1:57pm
Year 4
Home Learning Monday 30th November 2020
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a lovely weekend and managed to do something exciting with your family!
Please complete today’s written work in your exercise book, as you will need to bring it back into school when you return on 9th December.
Well done to the children who took part in the Sumdog challenges last week. Izaiah spent the most amount of time on the Maths challenges and Evie spent the most amount of time on the Spelling challenge! Well done Izaiah and Evie – I will be rewarding you with Dojos when we’re back in school.
Please remember to take part in the Sumdog challenges that started last Friday (27th November). I will be seeing each week who has spent the most time on the challenges and there are plenty of Dojo’s up for grabs!
Reading
Today, please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Can you use lots of expression in your reading today? Think about the story and what you know about the characters so far, use the voice you think the character would have.
Ask someone at home for the meaning of words you are unsure of or look them up in a dictionary.
You can find even more books to read on our website. Go to Year 4, Home Learning and click on Oxford Owl. Use the class login and password and explore lots of books to read.
Spelling
Your spellings for this week all have ‘ou’ in them, the ‘uh’ sound.
touch trouble young nourish flourish
tough courage encourage double enough
discourage rough cousin country couple
Please make sure you practise them on Sumdog.
Today, split the words up into chunks and write them out in different colours.
Eg rough touch young
Times tables
- Practise your PREVIOUS times table target using
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Play ‘Hit the Answer’ 3 times - see if you can improve on how many you get right in 1 minute. Then play ‘Hit the Question’ 3 times, again see if you can improve on how many you get right in 1 minute.
Add your results to your ‘Hit the button’ log. Are you getting more right? Are you getting quicker?
- Practise any times tables you like using ‘Hit the Button’, make sure they are different from last week’s (remember to keep going over tables / division facts you should know). Repeat this and see if you can beat your score.
- Get up on your feet and dance and sing with Filbert Fox whilst practising your 8 times table!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-8-times-table-with-filbert-fox/z4mrhbk
(Apologies to those of you who aren’t Leicester fans - I’m looking for a Deepdale Duck times table song!!)
English
- Create a quiz based on The Iron Man
I know that some of you have enjoyed making your own quizzes at home and sharing them with the class. Today, I would like you to create a set of questions / a quiz based on the novel The Iron Man.
You will need to write questions that test the players’ knowledge of the book and characters. Try and write a variety of questions, eg some true / false style questions; some where the answer is quite straightforward and others where the person needs to explain their answer. Some examples are given below:
The Iron Man lost the battle with the space-bat-angel-dragon. True or False.
(This is not a question, it is a statement, therefore it does not need a question mark)
What was the name of the boy who befriended the Iron Man? (Hogarth)
Why did the Iron Man walk back into the sea at the end of Chapter 1? (He couldn’t find his ear and he thought the sea had stolen it)
The focus is on:
- Capital letters and punctuation (full stops and question marks)
- Correct spellings
- Neat, joined up handwriting
- A variety of question openers eg what, why, how, which, when, where, who etc
- Making an interesting set of questions which tests the players’ knowledge of the novel
Write today’s date and the learning objective, Can I write a quiz based on The Iron Man?
Write each question then leave a line.
- Please update your self-isolation diary for today.
Maths
- As a warm-up, practise rounding to the nearest 10, using the link below.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding
Click on ‘Play Game’ then decide whether you want to use a numberline or not. Play ‘Up to 99 to nearest 10’ first, then ‘Up to 999 to nearest 10’ and lastly ‘Up to 9 999 to nearest 10’.
See how many you can get right in a minute.
If you found this tricky, come back to it later on today and have another go. Can you have a go without using a numberline? Can you beat your score from earlier today?
Today we are practising our mental subtraction skills using a compensating strategy. Consolidating this strategy now will enable us to build on it further with larger numbers, and in different and more complex problems, when we are back in school. Please make sure you use a numberline to show your working out.
Attached to the blog are some subtraction maths sheets. You don’t need to print the sheets you can write the questions and answers in your exercise book.
- Open the sheet ‘Subtracting 9 from a 2d number’
Complete A, B, C OR D (A is the easiest, D is the hardest – choose your challenge!)
Time yourself and write down how long it took you to complete that section.
- Open the sheet ‘Subtracting 99 from a 3d number’
Complete A, B, C OR D (A is the easiest, D is the hardest – choose your challenge!)
Time yourself and write down how long it took to complete that section.
If you find them tricky and need more practise, come back to them later today and have another go. These are key skills in mental subtraction, so please practise them. Use a numberline each time, showing your subtraction of 10 / 100 and then adding 1 back on.
Ask someone at home to check your work.
Mighty Maths Challenges
For those of you who enjoy a challenge, I will be including some maths challenges from today. Please feel free to have a go, making sure that you show all your working out, trial and improvement jottings and full written explanations (where appropriate) to demonstrate your maths understanding. Answers to Challenges 2 and 3 will be published tomorrow!
- Subtracting a near multiple of 10 or 100
Using the strategy above (compensating when subtracting 9 and 99), write questions and answers which demonstrate how to subtract 19, 29, 39, 198, 199, 397, 498, 998, 999 and 1999. Make sure you show your working out on a numberline. (You only need to give one example of each, although you may wish to do more). This is a super way to show your understanding of how to modify a strategy, according to the numbers involved.
- Make 21 – see the sheet attached to this blog.
Either print the sheet off or draw the circles in your book. Remember to show your working out / trial and improvement jottings. Think carefully about where to begin – there is always a way in!
- Joins – see the sheet attached to the blog
Either print the sheet off or copy the numbers very carefully into your book. Read the instructions and see if you can find the solutions. Make sure you show your working out and see how quickly you can add mentally using strategies we have learnt in class.
English and DT
You should have a list of questions you wrote for English today. Using these questions, I would like you to make your own Iron Man board game.
You will need to think about:
- The layout
- The object of the game (ie how do you win – do you win the most points, is it the first to reach the end or the person who answers the most questions etc)
- The method of play (eg with a dice, follow a trail, pick up cards)
- What sort of counters are used?
- How the game is scored?
- Whether you need to give a certain amount of time to play the game (eg the person with the most points after 5 minutes wins)
Tomorrow you will need to write the rules for your game, so also be thinking about:
- What equipment you need
- How to decide who goes first
- What happens when you land on a square or question
- How to finish / win
Before you start, have a think about board games you have played before eg Snakes and ladders, Monopoly, Game of Life or even Top Trumps. You could base your game on one of these or come up with your own idea. My top tip though, is to keep it simple!
I have included some board game templates which you can either copy or print out if you wish. Alternatively, you can make your own according to whatever your game is. Children in previous years who have made their own games have come up with some fantastic ideas. Have fun and enjoy making your very own Iron Man game.
Music
Mrs Winter has asked me to remind you to practise our songs for the school nativity. The nativity will be recorded the week we go back to school, so we will not have much time to practise in school. Therefore, please practise EVERY DAY at home. The words and music can be found on the website under ‘Parents’, ‘Nativity 2020’. Our songs are Silent Night and It was on a Starry Night.
Well done for finishing today’s work. Remember to complete today’s goal and tick it off on your chart. Keep safe and well Year 4, I can’t wait to see your board games.