St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolHOME LEARNING Thursday 26th November 2020
Date: 25th Nov 2020 @ 5:49pm
Year 4
Home Learning Thursday 26th November 2020
Good morning Year 4. I hope you had a good night’s sleep and are all well and happy.
Remember to complete the work set each day in your exercise book and be proud of the work you do.
Please remember to take part in the Sumdog challenges that started last Friday. Only 17 children have taken part in the Maths challenges and 7 in the Spelling challenge. New challenges will be starting tomorrow (Friday 26th November), so make sure you get involved. 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! Well done to Sophia and Evie who are currently in the lead.
Reading
Today, please read out loud to someone at home for 20 minutes. Make sure you discuss what has happened in the chapter / story and who the characters are – who is your favourite and why. Can you predict what might happen next and why you think this?
Ask someone at home for the meaning of words you are unsure of or look them up in a dictionary – you may like to write the new vocabulary in your reading diary and then you can use these words in your own writing.
Spelling
You would have been tested on your spellings in school today. Please therefore ask somebody at home to test you on this week’s spellings. (They all have ‘sc’ in them which sounds like ‘s’.) Remember you can find these spellings under Year 4 Home Practice Friday 20th November 2020.
If you get any wrong, practise them again and ask someone to retest you on them.
New spellings will be set tomorrow.
Times tables
- Practise your current 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 yesterday’s log. Hopefully, you should see an improvement and will have achieved more than yesterday!
- Practise any times tables you like using ‘Hit the Button’ (remember to keep going over tables / division facts you should know). Repeat this and see if you can beat your score.
- Complete the Sumdog times table challenge.
Writing
We finished reading The Iron Man this week. I have given you a very brief summary of each chapter of the book:
Chapter 1 – The coming of the Iron Man
The Iron Man falls off a cliff and puts himself back together then walks off into the sea. No-one knows where he has come from.
Chapter 2 – The return of the Iron Man
Hogarth sees the Iron Man and runs home frightened. The Iron Man eats lots of metal and farm machinery. Hogarth tricks the Iron Man into falling into a pit. The Iron Man is buried.
Chapter 3 – What’s to be done with the Iron Man?
The Iron Man frees himself. Hogarth feels sorry for the Iron Man and leads him to a junk yard. The Iron Man enjoys his feast!
Chapter 4 – The Space-Being and the Iron Man
A space-bat-angel-dragon lands on Australia – it is enormous. It demands food, otherwise it will eat what it wants! Many countries attack the SBAD with weapons but he is not harmed and just smiles. Hogarth asks the Iron Man if he can come up with a plan.
Chapter 5 – The Iron Man’s Challenge
The Iron Man is taken to pieces and put back together again in Australia. He challenges the SBAD to a contest and wins. The SBAD becomes a slave to the world and sings at night. This makes all the people in the world feel calm and peaceful, and countries start to live in peace with each other. The Iron Man is a hero.
1. Please write a book review of The Iron Man.
Write the date and learning objective, Can I write a book review?
Write the title The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
- Paragraph 1 – Give a brief summary of the plot that doesn’t give too much away. Include the main characters, plot and setting.
- Paragraph 2 – Comment on the book’s strengths and weaknesses – give your opinion of what you liked and didn’t like – remember to include reasons WHY you liked or disliked something.
- Paragraph 3 – Who would you recommend this book to (eg what age of person, what sort of person, for example, someone who enjoys fantasy stories / science fiction / stories with underlying themes / stories about peace in the world etc). Again, explain why you are recommending it to these people.
- Paragraph 4 – How many stars out of 5 would you give the book? And WHY.
- REMEMBER to check spellings, capital letters, punctuation and sentence openers!
Below you will find some links to book reviews written by other children. These are just examples, please follow the outline above to make your book review a superb piece of work.
https://www.storyroom.co.uk/book-review-hamish-and-the-worldstoppers-by-danny-wallace/
https://www.storyroom.co.uk/book-review-the-land-of-far-beyond-by-enid-blyton/
https://www.storyroom.co.uk/the-magicians-nephew-book-review/
- Please update your diary for today.
Maths
As a warm-up, practise some doubling on Hit the Button, doubles to 50 and doubles from 50 to 100.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
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 ‘Multiple of 10 – multiple of 10 eg 70 – 20
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 ‘2d number – multiple of 10 eg 53 – 40
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. Use a numberline to help counting back in tens.
Ask someone at home to check your work.
Science
Last week we learnt more about food chains.
Please follow the link to “What is a food chain?”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q/articles/zwbtxsg
Watch the video and read the information below the video. Then have a go at completing the food chain and the quiz.
Please either print off the attached sheet (called Food Chains) or draw pictures and write the answers in your exercise book. Make sure you write in your best, joined up hand-writing and spell words correctly – you will find many of the words on the sheet and the website.
NOTE – a secondary consumer is the second animal to each something, they can be either carnivores (meat eaters) or omnivores (meat and plant eaters). A primary consumer is the first animal to eat something and they are herbivores (plant eaters).
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 and keep smiling. 