Home Learning Year 4

Week beginning 1st June

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Our new value for June is Kindness! Have a chat about why is kindness important for

everyone at school!

Your new topic for this term would have been Healthy Me. So, what does being healthy

mean to you? What are some of the things you do to stay healthy?

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Offline learning activities

1. This week’s spellings are:

quarter strength strange straight question

science scenery scissors fascinated crescent

weigh weight wait woman women

therefore though thought through various

Every week there will be five new ones.

If you are finding them tricky, use different strategies to help you such as rainbow writing, pyramid

writing, look cover check, mnemonics, bubble writing and silly sentences.

It would be brilliant if you could ask a grown up or older sibling to test you and then email your

teacher your score on 2email (2email can be found on purple mash).

2. One of the most common ways in which people like to sustain a healthy diet recently has been

through drinking smoothies! Smoothies are a great, easy way to drink many of the amazing

nutrients that fruits and vegetables provide for us.

Can you create a leaflet to instruct somebody how to make the perfect smoothie? To create the

leaflet, grab a piece of paper and fold it in half, then in half again! Below are some reminders of

some of the features for a set of instructions. There are also two word mats at the bottom of this

document to help you with some vocabulary.

Must Should Could

Capital letters and full stops

Imperative verbs

Bullet points for ingredients

Numbering for steps

Accurate punctuation

Imperative verbs

Time adverbials/ conjunctions

Adverbs

Bullet points for ingredients

Subheadings

Numbered instructions

Imperative verbs

Time adverbials/

conjunctions with

commas as appropriate

Adverbs for precision

Expanded noun

phrases for detail

Exciting vocabulary to

engage the reader

3. Kicking off a healthy-me topic without an active challenge would not be right! Grab your nearest

piece of sports equipment, it does not matter what it is. It could be any type of ball, tennis

equipment, hockey equipment, anything! Your challenge is to see how many times you can keep

your ball in the air without dropping it! Each time you drop it, you must do 10 star jumps before

you give it another attempt. Maybe you could get other family members involved and do the

challenge together, or maybe even go against each other to see who gets the highest score? Feel

free to use 2email to tell Mr Hamilton, which type of sports equipment you used, if you had to

do many star jumps and what your highest score was!

(Pro Tip: If you do not have any sports equipment, scrunch up a ball of paper and use it as a

volleyball or blow up a balloon if you have one. This is what Mr Hamilton used to do to keep himself

busy when he was your age, lots of fun is assured!)

Online learning activities

Make sure that you save and ‘hand in’ the 2dos when you complete them so your teacher can

view your learning and write a comment.

1. Earlier in the year, we learnt about properties of lines during our maths lessons. During this

time, we learnt how to spot perpendicular lines (lines that meet at a right angle). We also

learnt that angles where two lines meet at greater than a right angle are called obtuse

angles. On the other hand, two lines that meet at an angle less than a right angle are known

as acute angles.

Can you complete the ‘Acute and Obtuse’ 2do on purple mash and correctly label these

angles?

2. Eating healthily is a huge part of staying healthy! What we eat has a big impact on many

things. For example, the health of our vital organs like the heart, our ability to think clearly

and even how much energy we have throughout the day! What is your favourite healthy

meal?

Using the ‘Plan a Meal’ 2do, can you draw and label your meal? Use the caption box at the

bottom to explain which ingredients make the meal healthy!

3. Read chapter 4 of ‘The Switcher’ on Purple Mash. Complete the multiple-choice quiz to

check your understanding and then complete the ‘switching place’ writing task.

There are also a number of other activities that you can complete for this chapter. You can

find these additional activities by searching for ‘The Switcher’ on Purple Mash and clicking

on the PDF activities in the chapter 4 section.

Read

Remember to read every day – it does not have to be a paper book! You could try a

newspaper, a magazine, a book on Bug Club or a Serial Mash book on Purple Mash. Write a review about a book that you have enjoyed reading over half term. Make sure that

you include the following information: the title, the author’s name, a summary of what

happens, reasons for why you enjoyed the book and why someone else might enjoy it.

Extension tasks:

Sign in to TT Rockstars! Can you make it to the next level in your career? Keep practicing

using the Studio mode!

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