Year 4 Home Learning

Week Beginning 22nd June 2020

A note from the Year 4 teachers…

Hello Year 4,

Once again we have been mightily impressed by the quality of work you are emailing in to Mr Hawkins. Through the work you are completing, you are all demonstrating the values of the Berrywood Way, especially determination, integrity, growth mindset and being critical thinkers.

This week’s project is going to get your brains thinking and in science we are going to be taking a closer look at our mouths, make sure you have brushed your teeth!

Keep up the fantastic work, enjoy the activities and make sure you find time to enjoy playing outside and being creative.

English Daily Deliberate Practice: Each school day, aim to spend about 20 minutes on each of these activities:1) Reading (on your own or to an adult). 2) Practise spellings on Spelling Shed.

Weekly Learning Activity: Discussion Text

Your Activity: Is television good for children?

Last week you used notes you had made about wearing school uniform and put the for and against arguments into full sentences. You then organised them into two paragraphs, one for and one against

the idea.

Activity 1This week you are going to gather, organise and communicate opinions for and against whether television is good for children. To do this it might be useful to find out what other people think.

You may want to ask an adult, sibling or friends.

Remember you are looking for arguments/reasons that support children watching television and arguments/reasons against.

You might want to use a grid like the one below, to make your notes.

We have included one example of each, to get you startedReason For Reasons Against

Television programs can be educational Stops children going to play outside

Activity 2Write the responses on post-it notes, making sure you have equal amounts of for

and against.

Looking at your two lists, select two or three of the most important reasons that support the idea that watching television is good for children. Then select two or

three of the most important reasons why watching television is not good for children

Activity 3AChoose either for or against to begin (one of your two lists). Write a paragraph that includes your two or three most important points. Take time to consider how you are writing each sentence: make sure you

are precise, formal and that you include enough accurate information to clearly explain each idea.

Example paragraph from last week, see how the main points have been expanded and the sentences connect together:Being asked to wear school uniform means that valuable time in the mornings can be saved, as there is no need to consider what to wear. This also means that there will be more time available for important activities such as eating breakfast or enjoying the walk to school. Many children and parents are grateful to gain an extra few minutes to enjoy these activities without needing to worry about choosing clothes.

Challenge 1Use your second list (the opposite point-of-view) to write your second paragraph. Think about how to begin this section. You might need to use adverbial phrase such as: ‘On the other hand,’ or ‘However,

some people….’. Again, take time to consider how you are writing each sentence: make sure you are precise, formal and

that you include enough accurate information to clearly explain each idea.

Challenge 2Does it matter which order you write your arguments in your paragraph? Explain your thinking.

Think carefully about the sentence types you use, the vocabulary you use and our Year 4 non-

negotiables (fronted adverbials, capital letters, full stops, conjunctions and neat handwriting). Good luck and have fun!

GIVE ME MORE! Extra learning links…

BBC Bitesize Activity: Book Club Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvbf382

Listen to these extracts from Michael Morpurgo’s Kensukes Kingdom. It’s an excellent book and the setting at the beginning of the story is Fareham Creek, which is near to Portchester Castle!

Complete the 3 activities about the extracts

Sentence Activity: Can you use similes to describe the scene?

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things. The simile is usually in a phrase that begins with the words "as" or "like."

The rain poured down like...The closely packed umbrellas looked like...The red umbrella stood out like...The ferules of the umbrellas stood up like...

Maths

Daily Deliberate Practice:Each school day aim to spend about 20 minutes practising your times tables. This could be using Times Tables Rockstars. You could also try using https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Weekly Learning Activity: Decimals

Your Activity: White Rose Maths Year 4 Home LearningYou will need to go to https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

Make sure you select the correct ‘Week 2’ (not the Summer Term week two) by going down the page and clicking on the cross next to ‘Week 2’

to open up the lessons.

Your lesson this week is

Challenge:

GIVE ME MORE! Extra learning links…

Problem Solving:

You will need to work out and note down the different combination of weights for each of the three problems.

It may be helpful to draw out some tablesto keep your workings together for each pairs of cats. This will help you to find out how much each cat weighs.

Doubling and Halving Partition Practice: Over the last two weeks we have been practising halving and doubling numbers by partitioning them into hundreds, tens and ones. This week we are going to continue our practice by answering the word problems. Make sure you read the question carefully to ensure you know whether you need to double or halve the number.

1. Jo bought a bag of 64 cherries. Jo ate half the number of cherries in the bag. How many cherries did Jo eat?

2. Ella had 68 dojos last week. She doubled her dojo score this week. How many does Ella have now?

Cat 1 Cat 21kg 6kg2kg 5kg3kg

Cat 2 Cat 31kg 7kg2kg 6kg3kg

Cat 1 Cat 31kg 10kg2kg 9kg3kg

3. Lisa got 147p pocket money. How much pocket money did she have in two weeks?4. Martin had a packet of Smarties. He ate half the number of Smarties in the packet. Martin had 38

Smarties left. How many Smarties did Martin buy?5. Jayne bought a punnet of grapes. She ate half the number of grapes in the punnet. Jayne had 97

grapes left. How many grapes did Jayne buy?6. Lily bought a bag of toffee popcorn. She ate half the number of pieces of popcorn in the bag. Lily

had 178 pieces of popcorn left. How many pieces of popcorn did she originally have?

Project: THE ANGLO-SAXONS - Sustainable Saxons

Your Activity: Anglo-Saxon Entertainment Part 1

Very few Anglo-Saxons could read or write. However, they were keen storytellers, all their stories were told to them by their friends and family. They would gather together in feasting halls, around a log

fire and tell thrilling stories. Often their stories would be accompanied by music played on an instrument called a lyre.

Anglo-Saxons loved tales about brave warriors and their adventures. One of the most famous stories which was passed from generation to generation was a story about a man called Beowulf. Beowulf was a heroic prince, who battled the fierce man-eating monster Grendel. When the original story was written

down in the 8th century it was over 3000 lines long.

Activity 1: Watch a brief overview of this Anglo-Saxon tale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cKGz-st75w (watch the first 3:03)

Listen to a storyteller tell part of this incredible story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUJ0A8AcMyY

What did you notice about how he re-tells a story?

Re-tell a story to a member of your family. Make it interesting with how you use your voice and the pace of your words (building up pace when something exciting is happening, slowing the pace when building tension)

If you would like to know the full story, you can read it here: http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/userstory8584-beowulf.html

Activity 2: As well as telling stories, the Anglo-Saxons loved to make up riddles to entertain each other. Then, those who heard the riddle had to work out the answer.(A riddle is a puzzling question; they often end with “What am I?”)

Here is an example of a riddle:

Four dilly-dandies (teats on the udder)Four stick standies (legs)Two crookers (horns)Two lookers (eyes)And a wig wag (tail)What am I?

The answer is a cow.

Here are some other riddles, can you work out the answer?

When I am alive I do not speak.Anyone who wants to take me captive cuts off my head.They bite my bare bodyI do no harm to anyone unless they cut me first.Then I soon make them cry. What am I?

I am the yellow hem of the sea's blue skirt.What am I?

Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.What are they?

No one can see me or catch me in their palms,I spread the noisy sound of my voice through the world,I can break to pieces the oak with my loud, crashing strength,As I beat against the high poles of the sky and traverse the fields.What am I?

Activity 3: Write your own Anglo-Saxon story, maybe retell it to your family or you have a go at writing a riddle and challenging members of your family to work out the answer.

GIVE ME MORE! Extra learning links…

Find out about other activties which the Anglo-Saxons enjoyed doing in their spare time.http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons/who.htm#:~:text=The%20Anglo%2DSaxons%20enjoyed%20horse,whipping%20tops%20(spinning%20tops).

https://octavia.net/games-and-pastimes-of-the-anglo-saxons/

Science: Digestive System

This week we are going to explore our teeth, the different types and the roles they play in the digestive system.

Teeth are the first part of the digestive system, with the very important job of breaking up the food into smaller pieces

How many teeth do you have?Using a mirror in your house, look into your mouth and count the number of teeth you have.

You may want to ask an adult to take a photo of your teeth to help you see and count.

How many of your teeth are your milk teeth (baby teeth)?How many of your teeth are permanent teeth (adult teeth)?

If you have a full set of milk teeth you will have 20 teeth. By the time you are an adult you will have 32 teeth, including wisdom teeth (as long as you look after them). Babies’ jaws are too small to hold all those big teeth.

Follow this link to discover the names of your teeth. https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/science/teeth-and-eating/types-of-teeth/

Follow this link to discover the timeline of how your teeth develop in your mouth and find out the average lifetime of your teeth. https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/science/teeth-and-eating/tooth-timeline/

Did you notice that your teeth are different shapes and sizes? This is because your teeth are designed to have different roles to help you break up the food that you are eating.

1) Take a small bite of a piece of fruit (apple) – Where does the fruit go to in your

mouth when you start eating it? Which teeth are you using?2) Now take another small bite of your fruit – This time use only your incisor (front teeth) – keep

chewing until its small enough to swallow. What did you notice?

Your incisors are not meant to grind the food up which is why it felt so odd to only chew with them.

Follow this link to discover the different roles of your teeth. https://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/learning-activities/science/teeth-and-eating/uses-of-teeth/

Watch the Operation Ouch, Doctors demonstrate why you need different shape teeth to eat your food safely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttqqobnSUHE

ActivityLabel the four different types of teeth in the upper and lower parts of the mouth.

Next, write a short explanation of the role of each type of tooth. Does it rip, tear or chew?

Challenge: Why do we need to keep our teeth healthy?What do you need to do to keep your teeth healthy? https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/teeth-movie.html

GIVE ME MORE! Extra learning links…

Find out how animal teeth are different to humans.

Why do they need to be different?