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Year 4 Home Learning Project Week 7

Weekly English Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Listen to your child read and let them discuss what they have read. Encourage them to read with expression and intonation.

● Can you create your own board game? Write a set of instructions for ‘How to play the new game?’ Remember to include a list of things they will need. Also not forgetting to include headings and subheadings. Then write their set of instructions, remembering to include imperative verbs. (Verbs that command you to do something). Think about the key rules!

● Can you write a character description of a your favourite character from you favourite book? Remember adjectives and adverbs!

Weekly Spelling Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Practise your spelling on Spelling Shed● Practise your spelling on Spelling Frame● Choose 5 Common Exception words and practise spelling them using bubble letters. Write the word in bubble letters,

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Weekly Maths Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day)

● Practise telling the time. This could be done through this game. https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/116/telling-the-time

● Read to the quarter hour and the nearest 5 minutes. ● Recap with your child… how many seconds in a minute, how many minutes in an hour, how many hours in a day,

how many days in a week, how many weeks in a year. Ask your child questions based on this, such as how many hours will be in 3 days, etc.

● Practise converting times between analogue and digital. Explain how digital times use a 24 hour clock. Use this website to help https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkfycdm/articles/zcrmqty Ask your child to present what they have learned in a poster.

● Get a piece of paper and ask your child to show everything they know about Money. This could be pictures, diagrams, explanations, methods etc. They can be as creative as they want to be.

Year 4 Home Learning Project Week 6

Learning Project - to be done throughout the week.

This project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about celebrations. Learning may focus and different types of celebrations that take place and who may celebrate them. It could look at how people celebrate different events differently in other parts of the world.

Let’s Wonder: How are birthdays celebrated around the world? India China America Africa etc.. maybe there's a particular country they would like to find out about. Create fact files to show the similarities and differences between them.

Let’s Create: Create a board game that focuses on celebrations. Think about what they can learn from it? Think about how to play the game. Is it going to be a game like Monopoly or Snakes and ladders? Are they going to need a dice? Cards? Characters? etc….

Be Active:Why not play a game of hopscotch? Can’t find any chalk? Use a stone from the garden. Raining? Build an indoor den and have an imaginary celebration with their toys.

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

Time to Talk: Look through old photos of previous celebrations them and their family have taken part in. What can they remember happened? Why do they and their families celebrate the way they do?

Understanding Others and Appreciating differences:How many different types of celebrations are there? Who celebrates Christmas? St Patricks? St George? St David? Easter? Eid? Diwali? Chinese new year? And how? Which celebrations have they taken part in? What usually happens?

#TheLearningProjects

These are some extra

resources for you to have a

go at this week. They are

from Nottinghamshire

County Council and are all

about cycling! Have a go!

Maths: Monday 18th May 2020 Videos/resources found at: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Reading: Monday 18th May 2020

Think about the whole story of ‘The Promise’. Answer these questions using the sentence starters I have given you and evidence from the book.

1. Did you like the story? Why?

I liked / did not like the story because…

2. What part of the story might readers find entertaining or would make them smile?

I think that the book was entertaining when…

3. What part of the story might readers find informative or useful? (Gives them information about something)

I think that the book might be informative when…

Writing: Monday 18th May 2020 Writing the opening for the next chapter of ‘The Promise’

Let’s read the Opening paragraph of our narrative WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like!)

Keeping a Promise

Calmly breathing in the fresh South African air, Anthony headed closer toward the vast beach. Could there be anything quite as peaceful as an amble with your best buddy by the coast? As Jazzy scampered freely ahead, Anthony threw out her ball for her to catch. The sea was like a rippling blue blanket, dashing against the sand. Squabbling seagulls flew overhead and gannets dive-bombed the stretched layer of the sea far out from shore. Admiring the flock of albatrosses skimming the surface of the water, Anthony thought about how taking Jazzy out for an afternoon walk was his favourite part of the day.

This gives you some good ideas for writing your opening paragraph. Look back at your planning from Monday last week and use it to write your opening. Remember to think about:

• Describe the main character that has stolen the acorns – use adjectives and fronted adverbials.

• Describe the setting – use adjectives.

• Use some speech for the characters. Have you remembered the inverted commas (speech marks), capital letter, punctuation inside the inverted commas and an exciting word choice for ‘said’?

See the next slide for some writing speech reminders!

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Introduction, Build Up, Problem, Resolution, Ending Self/peerassessment

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Powerful adjectives and verbs.

Adverbs to describe how and when.

Conjunctions to extend sentences

Fronted adverbials to vary sentence starters

Some short sentences to add suspense.

Punctuation Full stops, capital letters, question marks, exclamation

marks (ALWAYS!)

Inverted commas for speech

Commas for listing adjectives

Remember the features of a narrative and keep checking back to this page each day to check that you are including them in your writing!

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Success Criteria• I can understand how heat can cause solids to change to liquids and vice versa.

• I can identify materials that melt at different temperatures.

• I can investigate the melting and freezing temperature of a material.

Science- Monday 18th May 2020LO: Describe how objects change their states of matter.

What MakesMaterials Change State?

Materials can be in three different states: solid, liquid or gas.

But how do materials change state?

Have a look at the diagram opposite and choose the correct labels for each arrow.

Labels: freezing

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What MakesMaterials Change State?

When a solid turns into a liquid it is called melting.

The temperature at which a solid material melts is called itsmelting point. Different materials have different melting points.

If a solid material is heated to its melting point, it will start to

melt and will change state from a solid to a liquid.

In a solid, the particles are closely packed together and are vibrating

on the spot. When a solid is heated, the particles start to move faster and faster. If enough heat is

applied, the particles will have enough energy to move about. They are still close together, but can

move over and around each other. At this point, the solid has melted to form a liquid.

What MakesMaterials Change State?

When a liquid turns into a solid it is called freezing.

The temperature at which a liquid material freezes is called itsfreezing point. Different materials have different freezing points.It is important to remember that some materials have freezingpoints above 0°C. For example, the freezing point of iron isaround 1550°C! Interestingly, this means its melting point is alsoits freezing point, just in reverse! Above this temperature, it will beliquid iron. Below this temperature, it will be solid iron.

If a liquid material is cooled to its freezing point, it will turn from a

liquid to a solid.

The particles in a liquid are close together, but can move quite quickly around and over each other. As it

is cooled, the particles start to slow down. Eventually, they slow down so much that they only move

gently on the spot, and a solid structure is formed. The material has frozen.

In your previous learning, you’ve demonstrated what the particles look like in solids, liquids and gases. Can you draw a diagram showing how the particles will change when a solid melts, and then one for when a liquid freezes?

Melting

Freezing

Maths: Tuesday 19th May 2020 Videos/resources found at: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Reading: Tuesday 19th May 2020

Think about the story of ‘The Promise’.

Can you use the question suggestions from these 3 reading dogs to create your own questions about the story? See if you can make 3 from each reading skill!

Extra Hot Challenge: Test them out on an adult or person that has listened to the story with you. Did they get them right? Did you know the answer to mark theirs?!

Writing: Tuesday 19th May 2020 Writing the build up for the next chapter of ‘The Promise’

Let’s read the build up paragraph of our narrative WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like!)

As he stretched out his arm to throw the tennis ball as far as he could, he notice Jazzy wasn’t looking at him. In fact, she wasn’t the least bit interested in catching her beloved ball. Instead, Jazzy was frozen as a statue, facing the opposite direction. “Jazzy?” Anthony exclaimed in a high pitch, dog-friendly voice as he put the ball back into his coat pocket, “Jazzy, my girl. What are you looking at?”

This gives you some good ideas for writing your build up paragraph. Look back at your planning from Tuesday last week and use it to write your build up. Remember to think about:

• Where has you character ran to? Use adjectives to describe the place and adverbs to describe how they are moving. Use interesting verbs!

• How is the character feeling about the bag of acorns? Use adjectives.

• Does the character say anything to themselves or what are they thinking? Write some speech for them, remembering all of the rules for inverted commas!

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Maths: Wednesday 20th May 2020 Videos/resources found at: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year

Reading: Wednesday 20th May 2020

Think about the story of ‘The Promise’.

Can you use the question suggestions from these 3 reading dogs to create your own questions about the story? See if you can make 3 from each reading skill!

Extra Hot Challenge: Test them out on an adult or person that has listened to the story with you. Did they get them right? Did you know the answer to mark theirs?!

Writing: Wednesday 20th May 2020 Writing the problem for the next chapter of ‘The Promise’

Let’s read the problem paragraph of our narrative WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like!)

Warily walking over to Jazzy, Anthony caught sight of what had caught her attention. It was lying motionless on the beach. He recognised it. He’d never seen one on land before. They’re known for having the longest wingspan of any bird. Using their formidable wind spans, they ride the ocean winds and sometimes glide for hours without rest: an albatross.

Anthony knew instantly what had happened to this lifeless albatross. He’d learnt about it last year in Geography with Mrs Wynne. Looking around, he saw the perpetrator scattered all over the beach. Many birds accidentally eat plastic and other marine debris floating in the ocean, mistaking it for food. However the problem is intensified in albatrosses because of the way they catch fish, squid and other seafood: by skimming the surface of the water with their beak. Along the way, they accidentally pick up a lot of floating plastic, which they then feed to their chicks. Adults can regurgitate plastic they’ve swallowed, but chicks are unable to, so it fills up their stomachs. It’s probable that it injures or kills the birds by cutting their stomachs or taking up space, making them feel “full” when they are starving.

This gives you some good ideas for writing your problem paragraph. Look back at your planning from Wednesday last week and use it to write your problem. Remember to think about:

• Where do they go first? Make it somewhere they can’t plant the acorns. How do they get there? What are they thinking?

• Where do they try next? Make this one not work too!

• Who do they meet that could help them? What do they say to them? Remember the inverted commas rules!

Think about how they might get there – don’t use boring verbs like walk and run! Could they ‘zoom at great speed across the vast, bustling city’ or ‘tiptoe silently across the deserted skate park’?

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Success Criteria• I can understand how heat can cause solids to change to liquids and vice versa.

• I can identify materials that melt at different temperatures.

• I can investigate the melting and freezing temperature of a material.

• I can investigate what may turn a liquid into a gas.

Science- Wednesday 20th May 2020LO: Describe how objects change their states of matter.

• In your previous science lesson, you looked at what caused solids to melt and what caused liquids to freeze.

• However, liquids can do something else too. You will find out today! You will need adult help for this lesson, so make sure you have one with you to be safe.

• Key question: When you boil the kettle, what do you notice happening to the water? List everything you notice below.

• I notice…

• Today, you will be completing an experiment to see what happens to liquids when they boil. You will be completing a report using the sheet on the following page to help.

• Before you start- you will need: clingfilm, a container that can hold boiling water, a kettle.

• You are going to boil the water, pour the water into the container and place clingfilm over it and record what happens. REMEMBER, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ADULT TO HELP HERE.

• Before you start, you will need to write your equipment list, your hypothesis (prediction) and your method. Once you’ve set up your experiment, you will need to leave it for 10 minutes and write down what happened in your results section. Leave your conclusion and diagram sections blank for now.

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• If your experiment went as it should, you should have noticed the following:

• Steam rose from the water to the top of the glass. This steam should have turned back into small water droplets on the cling film.

• Is this what you expected?

• Have you noticed anything similar happen before?

• You may have noticed something similar happen before…

• In your bathroom when you run a bath or have a shower!

• On your car window!

• Keep your experiment report safe, we will return and add to it on Friday!

Maths: Thursday 21st May 2020 Videos/resources found at: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

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Writing: Thursday 21st May 2020 Writing the resolution for the next chapter of ‘The Promise’Let’s read the resolution paragraph of our narrative WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like!)

Why hadn’t he ever noticed all the disgusting plastic before? Why is it sprinkled across his lovely beach? Why are people doing this? Bottle tops, plastic bags, food wrappers… they should all be put in the bin, not left on the beach.

Learning about this global problem in class was shocking enough but seeing a victim with his own eyes triggered many more emotions. Anthony clenched his fists and stared intently at the innocent albatross. “This has to stop,” he stated, “I promise you, I’ll do what I can to help.”

Calmly breathing in the fresh South African air, Anthony strode along the empty beach. Smelling the salt from the ocean, he could hear the waves crashing onto the shore. As always, Jazzy dashed ahead, looking back for Anthony to throw her ball. The golden layer of sand swept across the well-kept beach.

Smiling to himself, Anthony felt proud the beach looked so clean. His beach clean-up had been a success. With the help of Mrs Wynne, practically the whole year group and their families gave up their Saturday morning to help pick up plastic bags, bottle caps and plastic waste from all along the coast. It had never looked so good. In addition, his campaign to educate others about the importance of using reusable bags had been going well.

This gives you some good ideas for writing your resolution paragraph. Look back at your planning from Thursday last week and use it to write your resolution. Remember to think about:

• How does the new character solve the problem of not being able to plant? Do they take them somewhere or show them how?

• What happens when the main character knows how to and where to plant? What happens to the setting?

• What do the characters say to each other? Create some speech for the resolution.

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Reading: Friday 22nd May 2020

Re-read the text from yesterday about Air Pollution.

Use a pen or highlighter to find the important information.

Can you create a poster, leaflet or Powerpointpresentation to inform people about air pollution and what they can do to help reduce it?

Extra Hot Challenge! Can you use fronted adverbials and conjunctions in your information text?

Writing: Friday 22nd May 2020 Writing the conclusion/ending for the next chapter of ‘The Promise’Let’s read the conclusion paragraph of our narrative WAGOLL (What A Good One Looks Like!)

In the distance Anthony spotted a rookery of beautiful albatrosses soaring over South African sea. Thinking back to that fateful day when he found the albatross, he remembered his pledge. Gazing up to the birds, he declared, “I promise I’ll continue to help. This is just the start.”

The conclusion is often a bit shorter than the other paragraphs!

This gives you some good ideas for writing your conclusion paragraph. Look back at your planning from Friday last week and use it to write your resolution. Remember to think about:

• Who is going to steal the bag of acorns this time? Use adjectives to describe them.

• What has the main character learned?

Extra Hot Challenge!

Check through your writing and see if you can tick off everything from the success criteria that you created. I have put mine on the next page in case you haven’t got yours.

Can you be an author and edit and improve your work? Remember, you can use an online thesaurus to up-level your vocabulary! https://www.thesaurus.com/

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Success Criteria• I can understand how heat can cause solids to change to liquids and vice versa.

• I can identify materials that melt at different temperatures.

• I can investigate the melting and freezing temperature of a material.

• I can investigate what may turn a liquid into a gas.

Science- Friday 22nd May 2020LO: Describe how objects change their states of matter.

• Last lesson you completed an experiment to do with boiling water. Make sure you have your experiment report and read back through it to remind yourself of what happened.

• You should have noticed the water turning into steam and then water droplets should have formed on the clingfilm.

• We will look into why this happened today.

• When water heats up, the particles begin to vibrate and move around. If they are heated too much, they move quicker and quicker until they separate. As you’ve already seen, when particles are far away from each other, they are a gas. So this is what is happening to your water when it boils. The water particles move so quickly they separate and turn into a gas called steam

• When that gas hits a cool surface, like the cling film, those particles slow down and come together again, turning back into a liquid. This is why you could see water on the cling film.

• When a liquid is heated and it turns into a gas, we call this evaporation. • When a gas cools and turns into a liquid, we call this condensation. • Watch this short video for another explanation of this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/zydxmnb

Recap:

• For a liquid to evaporate it needs to be:

• For a gas to condense it needs to be:

• Return to your experiment report.

• Can you now explain in your conclusion, why the steam turned back into water on the cling film?

• Can you draw a diagram showing the particles rising up to the clingfilm?

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