HOME LEARNING Wednesday 2nd December 2020

Date: 1st Dec 2020 @ 4:44pm

Year 4

Home Learning Wednesday 2^nd December 2020

Good morning Year 4.  I hope you are all happy and well!

Well done for working hard during the time you’ve been at home – keep up the good work!

Please complete today’s written work in your exercise book, as you will need to bring it back into school when you return on 9^th December.

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.  

Take extra care with punctuation when you read today – pause at full stops and commas.

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. Please make sure you practise them on Sumdog.

Repeat what you did yesterday in your books - writing the words in different clouds / spiky shapes and colouring the backgrounds.  Keep the words and backgrounds exactly the same as yesterday – are there any you can remember without looking at yesterday’s work?  

Times tables

1. Practise a times table / division fact you know you find tricky 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?

2. Practise any times tables or division facts you like using ‘Hit the Button’, make sure it is something you know you could improve on (remember to keep going over tables / division facts you should know).  Repeat this and see if you can beat your score.

 

3. Today we are going to repeat the 9 times table with the rapping unicorn!  Get up on your feet and dance and sing along!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-9-times-table/zr2gt39

English

1. Create an advertisement for your Iron Man game

This week you have made your own Iron Man game and written a set of instructions.

Today, I would like you to make your own radio advertisement for your game. You have all heard radio and television adverts and have a good idea of the words used and how the presenter speaks. You will need to write the words you would say and practise saying them at home – I would love to hear them when we are back at school.

First of all, listen to some examples of radio adverts made by children at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMt9fPx9mLI

You don’t need to listen to them all, however, some I thought were of interest can be found at:

• 1 minute 17 seconds - Bubble Pop Malteasers
• 4 minutes 58 seconds - Kinder Chocolate
• 6 minutes 03 seconds - Easter Monopoly

Each one starts with a rhetorical question to engage the audience eg “Are you bored of your old board games?”  The advert then goes on to persuade the listener to buy the product being advertised.

Your advert will need to encourage people to buy your board game, so try and include some memorable words, short descriptions or a little ‘jingle’ (a short song or tune).

You will need to include:

• A rhetorical question - ask the listener a question and let them know how much they need the game, eg Have you ever needed ….
• The name of your game
• A brief explanation of what your game is
• Persuasive language – use positive language that will appeal to the buyer (eg exclusive, educational, one of a kind)
• A catchy slogan – a phrase that represents the product and makes people remember it (you could use alliteration, humour or rhyming)
• Hyperboles (pronounced hi-puh-buh-lees).  These are exaggerated claims or statements, so exaggerate the positive points about the game, eg the world’s greatest, the only game of its kind, voted number 1 educational game of 2020
• A customer review – this must be positive, eg Jack, aged 8, from Preston said, ‘It’s the best game I’ve ever played!’

The focus is on:

• Capital letters and punctuation
• Correct spellings
• Neat, joined up handwriting

Write today’s date and the learning objective, Can I write a radio advertisement?

Remember to have fun and persuade others to buy your board game.  You could practise saying your advert to someone at home! Would they buy it?

2. Please update your self-isolation diary for today.

 

Maths

1. As a warm-up, practise rounding to the nearest whole number, 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 9.9 to the nearest whole number’.

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?

Using a different strategy from yesterday, we are continuing to consolidate our mental subtraction skills when subtracting 2 digit numbers. Please use the strategy below when practising your mental subtraction today.

Find a difference counting up through a multiple of 10

Using this strategy, we count UP from the number we are taking away - we are finding the difference.  Make sure you count up to the next multiple of 10, then in tens, look at the examples carefully.

Please make sure when you do this that you use a NUMBERLINE to show your working out and to help you calculate accurately.

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.

2. Open ‘Sheet 3 subtract 2d from 2d’

Complete C or D

Time yourself and write down how long it took you to complete that section.

3. Open ‘Sheet 4 subtract 2d from 2d’

Complete C or D

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 as we will be building on these skills with larger and trickier numbers.

REMEMBER TO USE A NUMBERLINE EACH TIME.

Ask someone at home to check your work.

Mighty Maths Challenges

For those of you who enjoy a challenge, here are today’s maths challenges. 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. Have fun – answers will be published tomorrow!

1. Calendars Problem – see the sheet attached to the blog

Either print the sheet off or look at it carefully online but write your answers in your book.  Can you work out each person’s birthday from the clues given? Remember to show your working out / jottings.  Think carefully about where to begin – there is always a way in!

 

2. Futoshiki puzzle – see the sheet attached to the blog

Either print the sheet off or copy the numbers very carefully into your book.

This is very similar to a Sudoku puzzle.  You will need to place the numbers 1 to 6 into each row and column of the puzzle so that no number is repeated in a row or column AND so that the < > signs are obeyed.  As you work through the puzzle, write missing numbers at the end of the rows and columns and cross them off when you have used them.

(TIP – find the 2 columns with only 2 answers to write in and jot down the missing numbers at the bottom of the columns – you should be able to fill a couple of gaps in now!) 

Mighty Maths Challenge answers for Tuesday 1^st December

Question 1 - Shape puzzles 1

• Puzzle A    Rectangle = 8     Square = 2    Circle = 7
• Puzzle B   Star = 9     Sem-circle = 8      Square = 6
• Puzzle C    Hexagon = 1      Rectangle = 4    Circle = 8

Question 2 – Subtraction, how many ways

• 2 ways      61 – 7 = 54        60 – 7 = 53
• 4 ways      80 – 17 = 63       80 – 13 = 67        90 – 23 = 67        90 – 27 = 63

History - Romans

Please pick a topic about Romans you are especially interested in, for example:

• Roman inventions
• Roman roads
• Roman numerals and the calendar
• A famous Roman person
• The Roman army
• Roman baths
• Roman entertainment
• Roman gods
• Hadrian’s wall
• Roman mosaics
• Roman soldiers

These are only suggestions, there may be another topic you are interested in.

Please write 10 facts about your topic, although you may wish to write more.  Use bullet points and write each fact on a new line.  Please do not copy off the internet, if you are unsure about a word, ask someone or look it up, then write your fact so that children of your own age would understand the language used.

The focus is on capital letters, punctuation and spellings as well as finding some interesting facts! We will be able to share our facts when we are back in school.

Music

Please remember to practise our nativity songs – we will only have 1 day to practise when we are back at school!    

Well done for finishing today’s work.  Remember to complete today’s goal and tick it off on your chart. Why not challenge someone at home and play your Iron Man game? Keep safe and well Year 4.

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