MATHSThe best thing you could do is make sure you know your times tables. Every child in Year 4 should be able to answer any times table question from 0x0 to 12x12 in less than 6 seconds. Ask someone to test you. Here are some websites that could help you. TT Rockstars https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school

Hit the Button https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

Purple Mash https://www.purplemash.com/sch/ebor Don’t forget to learn the division facts that go with the times tables. Example: 3 x 4 = 12 and 12 ÷ 4 = 3. Practice telling the time using analogue and

digital clocks. Make a note of what time you went to bed and got up. Work out how much sleep you had. How long does it take to eat your lunch?

If you have a tape measure or ruler, measure yourself each week and keep a chart or graph to see if you have grown. Do the same for other people in your house.

Writing Use the pobble365

website as a stimulus for a writing. Describe the picture, use the story starter to write the rest of the story or build up sentences:

e.g. The man walked down the road. The fat, lazy man sauntered slowly

down the abandoned road. Sauntering slowly, the awkward,

strange man hobbled down the side street.

Make up your own story, take a picture of it and email it to your teacher.

Write a diary. It could be real and about you or made up. Each day you could write about what you’d like to be doing. What adventures will you go on?!

Use Bug

Club to read a book set by your teacher. Answer the questions under the bugs carefully.

Read a chapter / book of your own choice and us the VIPERS question stems below to ask yourself questions. You could choose a different VIPER each day.

Read a chapter / book and create a character profile using evidence from the book.

Write a book review of a book you have read.

There are templates on the Year 4 page of the Ebor Gardens Website to help you.

LKS2 – Easter Learning GridAim to do one Maths, one Reading, one Writing

and one PE activity each day and one of the Topic or Science activities.

PE: Make a safe fitness circuit inside or in your garden. Who can complete it the quickest you or an adult at home? Record your time and challenge yourself to do it quicker each day. E.G . star jumps, push ups, running on the spot and jumping . Alternatively, make a dance routine up and teach somebody at home the steps. You could also do Jo Wicks PE.

Science: Create a poster showing all your knowledge about the different types of rocks you learned

about in school. Remember, you made models of them with sweeties and chocolate.

Science: Could you think of a way to make a model of different types of rocks from things in your house like we did in school?

Science: Here’s a link to and edible soil project. Could you make your own with things in your house?

http://blog.learningresources.com/diy-earth-day-edible-soil-layers/

Science: Watch some of the clips on BBC Bitesize about rocks and soils.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z9bbkqt Can you make a presentation your parents or your siblings about what you have learned.

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:History: Watch a video(click the image below) about the Stone Age and present the information. Some different ideas to present are: you could write down facts, create a poster, make a leaflet, tell a story set in the Stone Age , draw a picture , create a slideshow or use publish on purple mash!

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Music: Find out about prehistoric musical instruments and musical stones.

Can you create raps or songs about Stone Age life?

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:History: Listen to and watch the story ‘ Stone Age Boy’. Click the picture below.

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Design technology: Design an outfit for a human living in the stone/bronze/iron age. What materials would they have used? What would they have needed to carry with them? Think about our stone age survival task we did in school. What did you choose first?

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Geography: Take a virtual tour of the cave of Lascaux in France. The cave is approximately 20, 000 years old and features examples of cave paintings. Click the picture for the link.

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Art : Sketch, colour , collage , paint or make a model of Stone Henge .

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Art : Design your own cave art. Try taping paper to the underside of a table and draw while lying on your back, as if you were working on the walls and ceiling of a cave. Close the curtains and turn the lights off to mimic painting in a dark cave. To learn a little more you could watch the video below. Click the image below.

Topic – Stone Age to Iron Age:Geography: Geography: Make a poster or factfile about Stone Henge. Can you discover why people believe it was built? Where was it built and when? Could you add any interesting facts?

Reading VIPER Question Stems

Vocabulary

What do the words ...... and …… suggest about the character, setting and mood? Which word tells you that….? Which keyword tells you about the character/setting/mood? Find one word in the text which means…… Find and highlight the word that is closest in meaning to……. Find a word or phrase which shows/suggests that…….

Infer

Find and copy a group of words which show that… How do these words make the reader feel? How does this paragraph suggest this? How do the descriptions of …… show that they are …….. How can you tell that…… What impression of …… do you get from these paragraphs? What voice might these characters use? What was …. thinking when….. Who is telling the story?

Predict

From the cover what do you think this text is going to be about? What is happening now? What happened before this? What will happen after? What does this paragraph suggest will happen next? What makes you think this? Do you think the choice of setting will influence how the plot develops? Do you think… will happen? Yes, no or maybe? Explain your answer using evidence from the text.

Explain

Why is the text arranged in this way? What structures has the author used?

What is the purpose of this text feature? Is the use of ….. effective? The mood of the character changes throughout the text. Find and copy the phrases which show this. What is the author’s point of view? What effect does ….. have on the audience? How does the author engage the reader here? Which words and phrases did ….. effectively? Which section was the most interesting/exciting part? How are these sections linked?

Retrieve

• How would you describe this story/text? What genre is it? How do you know?• How did…?• How often…?• Who had…? Who is…? Who did….?• What happened to…?• What does…. do?• How ….. is ……..?• What can you learn from …… from this section?• Give one example of……• The story is told from whose perspective?

Summarise

Can you number these events 1-5 in the order that they happened? What happened after …….? What was the first thing that happened in the story? Can you summarise in a sentence the opening/middle/end of the story? In what order do these chapter headings come in the story?