YEAR 4 HOME LEARNINGW/C 29.6.20

It was so great to see some of your work last week, thank you for the e-mails. Keep them coming! We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can.We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to Claire.Donoghue@schools.sunderland.gov.uk in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback.

We will be hosting another end of week catch up this week and we are hoping to enable your child’s own class teacher to be able to host the chat, however, bear with us as our IT firewall needs to be adjusted to allow teachers to make these video calls from school and this could take some time. If it is not up and running in school by the end of the week then the teachers working from home will continue to host the chats. The chat time, date and link will be sent via Marvellous Me. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). Please ensure that the username is the child’s name to enable us to take a register. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning! There will also be a midweek ‘drop in’ session for each year group to allow you to ask any questions you may have about the week’s learning before the end of week session.

This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week.Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent on Friday.

Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 3th):

READING

Please read Chapters 7 & 8 of JK Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/Reading task – VIPERS: once you have read the Ickabog, answer the VIPERS questions.CGP book – pages 20 & 21 ‘The girl who walked on air’*Please continue to listen to your child read regularly*

WRITING

The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’.For more information see below.You can complete these as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday.CGP book – Pages 18 & 19 Adverbial Phrases as introductions

HANDWRITINGYou have been given a poem, ‘Be the best of what you are’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book.Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish.Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call.

SPELLING

You have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn.This week we are looking at ‘ous’ words. Your ten words are: Adventure, adventurous, danger, dangerous, mountain, mountainous, poison, poisonous, courage, courageous

MATHS My Maths: Five tasks (one per day or you can do them as you wish over the week. Please complete the lesson first and then do the homework task).Tasks allocated on My Maths and will be available from Monday.Teachers are providing feedback for you on MyMaths tasks so please ensure you check this later in the week.

Maths Reasoning: (see below) Sally’s Super Sandwich ShopMaths Challenge (OPTIONAL): (see below) toy ShopTimes Tables Rockstars – play your part by regularly playing TTR over the course of the week and look out for battles &/or sessions.

FOUNDATION

This week’s theme is ‘Aspirations’.There are a variety of tasks for you to complete over the course of the week focusing on these themes: curiosity, resilience and excellence.There is also a French themed task linked to Aspirations.All PowerPoints necessary to complete this week’ learning will be available on the website on Monday.

1. Faculty of Aspirations:Tasks – 1. Pen portrait for famous person/family member. 2. Drawn portrait of the person.

2. Aspiration – curiosityTasks – 1. Write 3 questions that you want to find out about the world. 2. Research and record your answers to the questions you posed.

3. Aspiration – ResilienceTask – 1. Record response to question: ‘Are you more like the hare or tortoise?’ Explain why.

4. Aspirations – ExcellenceTasks – 1. Design an excellence trophy or medal. 2. Explain why you would achieve this award.

5. Aspirations – FrenchTask – 1. Record responses to meanings of French words.

English- Reading, Writing and ArtThis week’s reading: VIPERS ‘The Ickabog’

Read the chapters 7 and 8 of ‘The Ickabog’. There are some VIPERS questions for you to answer below which will help you to meet these objectives:

Retrieve information from a text Infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, justifying inferences with evidence.

V (Vocabulary) 1. What do you think the word ‘sumptuous’ means?I (Inference) 2. Why do you think the king decided he wanted to do something kind at the start or chapter 8?P (Prediction) 3. Read right to the end of chapter 8, what special thing do you think King Fred will do to ‘prove what a wonderful man he was’?E (Explain) 4. “Major Beamish was in a most unfortunate position” Why did he feel this way at this point in the story?R (Retrieve) 5. Why did King Fred not know about the fight between Daisy and Bert?S (Summarise) 6. How do you think Fred felt when he was given the medal by King Fred?

Have a go at an illustration for one of these chapters- maybe a picture of the feast that the Lords and King Fred were enjoying or a scene from The Day of the Petition.

This week’s writing: ‘The Ickabog’

Your writing task is to ‘write in role as a character from a story.’You should write the story of the Day of the Petition as if you are King Fred, so you will write in first person. You can include details from the text but you can also make up details of your own. It would be great to include some speech, maybe one of the citizens telling King Fred one of their problems. We would also like you to practise using some fronted adverbials. Remember they need a comma after them and they add details about time, manner or place, e.g. Early this morning, .......In the courtyard, ........Feeling anxious, .......These are the objectives you’ll be successful with if you do this task well:

Write a story in role as a character Use fronted adverbials including correct use of a comma Use inverted commas to punctuate speech Use joined handwriting throughout independent writing Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors, making changes to improve writing

This week’s poem for handwriting:

Year 5- Be the Best of What You AreDouglas Malloch

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,  Be a scrub in the valley — but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;  Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,  And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass —  But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,  There's something for all of us here,

There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,  And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,  If you can't be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail —  Be the best of whatever you are!

This week’s spellings:

29th June Suffix ‘-ous’. 1. Adventure.2. Adventurous3. Danger

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4. Dangerous5. Mountain6.Mountainous7.Poison8.Poisonous9.Courage10.Courageous

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This week’s maths reasoning & optional challenge:

Week 5

This week’s foundation learning: Home Learning Task - Year 4Faculty of Aspirations

Monday 29th June

DAY 1

Tuesday 30th June

DAY 2

Wednesday 1st July

DAY 3

Day 1 TaskFaculty of Aspiration’ Introduction Power PointOutcomes:

1. Pen Portrait for famous per-son/family member

2. Drawn Portrait of above

Day 2 TaskASPIRATION – CURIOSITYPower PointOutcomes:

1. Write 3 questions that you want to find out about the world.

2. Research and record answers to above questions

Day 3 TaskASPIRATION – RESILIENCEPower PointOutcomes:

1. Record response to question ‘Are you more like the hare or tor-toise?’

Explaining why.

Thursday 2nd July

DAY 4

Friday 3rd July

DAY 5

Day 4 TaskASPIRATION – EXCELLENCE Power PointOutcomes:

1. Design an excellence trophy or medal2. Explain why you would achieve this

award.

Day 5 TaskASPIRATIONS – FRENCHPower PointOutcomes:

1. Record responses to meanings of French words task