St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Thursday 14th January 2021
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 1:31pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 14th January 2021
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good day yesterday and managed to complete your Home Learning. Don’t worry if you don’t manage to finish everything in one day, sometimes things may take a little longer. Remember just to try your best.
Please complete today’s work as if you were in school, taking care with your handwriting, spellings, punctuation, vocabulary, and of course, your presentation. Remember to try and do the work on the day it is set as it usually follows on from the previous day. It is important that you continue to work hard recapping and practising previous learning, as well as learning new things.
If you need any reading books, please let us know and we will arrange for some books to be collected from the school office.
Reading
Please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story so far.
Does the mood of the main character change throughout the story? If so, how does it change and can you find any examples which show evidence of this change?
Spelling
This week’s spellings all end with ‘ture’ or ‘sure’. Children in school will be tested on these words today, therefore, please ask someone at home to test you on them. Make sure you write the ‘test’ in your Home Learning book and check any that you get wrong. Good luck! The words are:
future nature creature feature
mixture picture adventure treasure
pleasure enclosure measure leisure
New spellings will be given tomorrow.
English
Download the ‘Mission Possible’ booklet attached to the blog.
Soon you will be planning and writing your own spy story and you should already have some character names. Today we will be revising inverted commas (speech marks).
Scroll to pg 24 Speech Marks
Read the information given VERY CAREFULLY
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I use inverted commas correctly?
Copy this into your book (don’t worry about using red or blue, just write in pencil):
Use arrows and label the sentences like the example at the bottom of page 24. This will help you understand the golden rules for speech.
Scroll to pg 25
Using the example and golden rules, punctuate the sentences given correctly.
Try and think about how the person speaks instead of saying ‘said’ each time. Eg shouted, cried, exclaimed, whispered etc.
Write your own sentences when one person speaks and someone answers. Try and make the conversation interesting and punctuate it correctly. NO MORE THAN 6 SENTENCES PLEASE.
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can give feedback and support.
Scroll to pg 26 Create a secret code!
Read the information given and have a go at making your own secret code. You may want to use this in your story.
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I create my own secret code?
Times tables
Practise your 3, 6 and 9 times tables on Sumdog.
Use the link below to go to ‘Hit the button’. Choose a times table or division fact you know you find tricky. Play ‘Hit the answer’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log. Play ‘Hit the question’ – see if you can get faster and add your results to your log.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
By the end of Year 4 you should know all your tables and division facts, therefore please keep practising!
Maths
Use the link below – play Hit the button, Doubles, Doubles from 50 to 100. If you get stuck, partition the number.
eg Double 67 Double 60 (120) then double 7 (14) and add the two together (120 + 14 = 134)
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Please open the maths worksheet called ‘Perimeter on a grid’ attached to the blog. You may print this off if you have a printer.
EITHER click on the link below which will take you to White Rose maths and watch the lesson, Perimeter on a grid,
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/week-9-measurement-length-perimeter/
OR click on the link below for the video.
Write the short date 14.01.21
Write the learning objective Can I calculate perimeter on a grid?
Complete the worksheet as instructed (if you have printed it off) and stick it in your book or write the answers directly into your Home Learning Book.
Check your answers from yesterday, they are in the document ‘Answers Measure perimeter’ which is attached to the blog. Make sure you look carefully at any questions you got wrong.
Last Monday (4th January 2021), we started revising types of lines (parallel and perpendicular) and angles. To consolidate this, I have set a challenge on Sumdog. Please log on and have a go. We will return to this topic when we are all back in school so being confident with this now will be beneficial.
Reminder - right angles - 90°
- acute angles less than 90°
- obtuse angles more than 90° but less than 180°
Science
Follow this link:
You will need some plastic cups and a variety of liquids suitable for children such as water, milk, cooking oil, syrup, juice and washing up liquid. You will still be able to use these again afterwards – they won’t be wasted.
Write the long date Thursday 14th January 2021
Write the learning objective Can I compare the thickness of different liquids?
Read through the slides and try the activities.
Draw the table on slide 5 to record your results. Try different races.
Put a sub-heading What I found out
Then order your liquids from most viscous to least viscous. Viscous means how thick or runny the liquid is.
There are some extra exciting ideas on slide 6. You could draw a picture in your book and label it or take a photo if you try one of these experiments.
Good luck! Don’t forget to clean up after yourself!
Please share your work on Seesaw so that I can see your super science.
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A maths times table challenge (based on the 3, 6 and 9 times tables)
- A maths ‘types of lines and angles’ challenge
- A spelling challenge (for the words which will be tested on Thursday)
Please make sure you log on and have a go!
Well done for finishing today’s work. Have a lovely evening and stay safe.