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Home Learning Pack

Year 4

Week 15/6/20

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Contents 3 Digital home learning poster

4 Suggested Weekly Timetable

5 Spellings for the week

6 Spelling Menu

8 Reading text for the week

Monday

10 Reading – Task 1 (Vocabulary)

11 Writing – Task 1

13 Maths – Task 1

Tuesday

16 Reading – Task 2 (summarising)

17 Writing – Task 2

19 Maths – Task 2

Wednesday

22 Reading – Task 3 (retrieval)

23 Writing – Task 3

24 Maths – Task 3

Thursday

27 Reading – Task 4 (inference)

29 Writing – Task 4

30 Maths – Task 4

Friday

34 Reading – Task 5

35 Writing – Task 5

36 Maths – Task 4

38 Spanish

47 Topic Activities

60 My Lockdown Experience

62 Squared Paper

63 Answers – Maths

67 Answers – Reading

TO PRINT

We have tried to identify the key pages to be printed out as we realise this pack contains a lot of pages.

Printing in black and white would also be an option.

If we were at school, we would have had a busy week this week with the Mini Olympics and our residential trip to Burwell. We are all sad that these cannot happen this year, but Burwell has been booked for you to go next summer, in year 5, and we have some exciting activities from

them for you to try at home.

We also have new topic activities for you to try on Ancent Greek life and

architecture and many more!

Mrs Henderson & Miss Thomas

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Please remember that this time table is just an example of how to structure the day if you are unsure. Feel

free to use a structure which you find is working best for you.

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Spellings Watch a video of Mrs Henderson explaining this week’s spelling rule:

https://youtu.be/GsWN7gLSRHY

Practise these spellings using the Look, Cover Write Check strategy or using an alternative

way from the Spelling Menu on the next page. Write each of the words into a sentence.

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Reading Text

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Reading Text - Sunrise Zoo

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Monday – Reading Task 1 – Vocabulary Click here to hear Mrs Henderson reading and talking about the text: https://youtu.be/InYbTSOiRW4

Write a definition for these words as they are used in the poem (remember some words have multiple meanings so select the one that fits the poem!). Then use each word in your own sentence. attraction ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ stroll ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ mode ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ endangered ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ extinction ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Monday – Writing Task 1 – Build up This week you will be continuing to write your own adventure stories involving a mission or quest for the main characters.

Starter – Spelling and handwriting

Task 1 – Write your Build-up

Use your boxing up from last week and Mission Possible as a good example. Don’t forget the work you did last week on powerful verbs, adjectives and direct speech will all help you to make your writing exciting. Make sure your build up follows on smoothly from your opening.

When you have written your build up, make sure you read it through and check spelling, punctuation and see if you can make improvements to language choices and sentence structures.

Here is the marking ladder again for you to check you are including the features we are looking for.

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Targets Check when you edit

Have you described the main characters and given them names?

Have you used effective adjectives?

Have you used powerful verbs?

Have you used direct speech?

Have you use fronted adverbials?

Have you used a range of sentences and conjunctions?

Have you created suspense?

Does your story flow?

Punctuation Full stops Commas after a fronted adverbial

Spelling Have you checked your non-negotiables?

Handwriting Have you joined up your writing?

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Monday – Maths Task 1 1s, 10s, 100s and 1,000s

Starter (Arithmetic) 1937 + 3621 = 4238 + 354 = 259 + 3434 = 5283 + 1009 = Fluency

Watch a lesson video at :

https://vimeo.com/425562383

Don’t forget TT Rockstars!

Fox class won the last Year 4 battle.

There is a new Fox v Deer

battle set up this week –

which class will win?

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Problem-Solving

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Tuesday – Reading Task 2 – Summarising

Make a list of all the animals you can see at the Zoo:

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Tuesday – Writing Task 2 – Problem Starter – Improving sentences

There are lots of ways we can improve a sentence to make it more interesting. Watch this video of Mrs Henderson explaining how to do this and then have a go yourself with the sentence below. You tube https://youtu.be/c2K5ONbrRrs

1. Add adjectives to create expanded noun phrases to describe the house and the woods

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2. Next, rewrite the sentence from step 1, but add a fronted adverbial (don’t forget a comma too!)

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3. Finally, rewrite the sentence from step 2, but choose a subordinating conjunction from the list below, to add a subordinate clause

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Task 1 – Write the problem section for your mission story.

Use your boxing up and the work you did last week on powerful verbs, adjectives and direct speech. Look back at the marking ladder too.

When you have completed your writing, read it through. Can you improve any of your sentences using the techniques we practised earlier on?

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Tuesday – Maths Task 2

Add two 4 digit numbers Starter (Times tables)

Fluency

Problem Solving

Watch a lesson video at :

https://vimeo.com/425562628

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Problem Solving

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Wednesday – Reading Task 3 – Retrieval

1. Where do the animals at Sunrise Zoo come from?

Tick one

only from Yorkshire

from all over England

from all over the world

only from Africa and Australia

2. Look at the Remarkable reptiles section.

Find and copy one group of words that is used to describe the reptiles.

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3. Look at the page starting Our Mission.

The Zoo is involved in different projects to help animals. What are they? Write two projects.

1) ___________________________________________________________________________

2) ___________________________________________________________________________

4. Draw five lines to show the time of each activity

Chimpanzees eat lunch

Zoo opening time

Shuttle bus service starts

Penguins go for a walk

Shuttle bus service ends

2pm

10am

12:30pm

service starts

9:30pm

5:30pm

service ends

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Wednesday – Writing Task 3 – Resolution

Starter – Homophones

Task 1 – Write the resolution section for your mission story.

Use your boxing up and the work you did last week on powerful verbs, adjectives and direct speech. Look back at the marking ladder too.

Remember to read and edit and try to improve your work

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Wednesday – Maths Task 3

Add two 4 digit numbers with exchange Starter

Fluency

Watch a lesson video at :

https://vimeo.com/425562776

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Problem Solving

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Thursday – Reading Task 4 –Inference 1. Look at the Meet the red pandas section.

What does the word scampering tell you the pandas will be doing?

Tick one

scratching

playing games

moving quickly

making noise

2. Why is Sunrise Zoo pleased about the birth of the new red panda?

Explain as fully as you can

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3. Put ticks to show which statements are true and which are false.

true false

Red pandas come from Nepal.

Safari rides are included in the ticket price.

A range of talks is given at the zoo.

Visitors may be able to hold a reptile

Sunrise zoo is in Africa

The zoo is open every day of the year

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4. All of the following are important to Sunrise Zoo, but which one is the most important?

Tick one

Attracting visitors

Looking after animals in the zoo

Looking after animals in the wild

Using the information in the leaflet, explain your answer _________________________________________________________________________________

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Thursday – Writing Task 4 - Ending

Starter – Spellings

Task 1 – Complete your story by writing your ending.

When you have finished, reread your work and edit for spelling, punctuation and effective language.

Now read your whole story – does it all flow and make sense.

Check you have you included all the features on the marking ladder.

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Thursday – Maths session 4

Add two 4 digit numbers with more than one exchange

Starter (Times tables)

Fluency

Watch a lesson video at :

https://vimeo.com/425563010

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Problem Solving

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Friday – Reading Task 5 – Write a postcard to a friend telling them about your visit to Sunrise Zoo.

What did you see? What was your favourite bit of the day?

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Friday – Writing Task 5 – Well done!

Your adventure mission story is ready now to be heard by either members of your family, your teacher or even your friends. You can share it with all these people by recording yourself reading it, writing it in your neatest handwriting, or make it more interesting by adding illustrations to support your text.

Todays’ task it to choose one of these methods to help you share your writing with the world, so that everyone can appreciate your hard work and creativity.

Mrs Henderson and Miss Thomas would love to read or hear your stories

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Friday – Maths Task 5 - Friday Challenge Starter -Can I still tell the time using analogue and digital clocks and the 24 hour clock?

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Challenge – Can you record your day using analogue and digital clocks and using the 24 hour clock? For extra challenge try to be precise to the exact minute.

Activity Analogue time Digital time

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Español – Año 4 - la semana de quince de junio

Ejercicio uno – un poco repaso

Use a ruler to join the family words to the correct picture.

Use the family tree in 1/6/2020 lesson if you are stuck.

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Ejercicio dos

This week we are going to look at the Spanish alphabet so that we can spell out our names

and those of our family members.

Watch and listen to the YouTube video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmy7TGu9gUI

This grid might also help you to remember how to pronounce the letters in Spanish. I will

be very helpful to you in the future if you could use this opportunity to learn the Spanish

alphabet really well.

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Ejercicio dos

Now Lisa Simpson is spelling out her family members’ names.

Can you spell Homer’s name out loud in Spanish?

Now spell these other names out loud in Spanish.

How do you write Homer?

(Literally, how does Homer write itself.)

It is written …..

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Ejercicio tres

Ask your parents if you can send a short video of you telling me how your name is spelt in

Spanish. Send this to Jwhitton2@melbourn.cambs.sch.uk

Tell me what you name is – Me llamo ………..

It is written - Se escribe …………….

Practise a few times before filming.

Ejercicio cuatro

Play a game; El Juego de las Siete Familias (The Game of Seven Families or Happy Families,

as we know it.)

How to play

Print and cut out the seven sets of cards. Laminating will make them last longer. Shuffle the cards. For 3 or more players (ideally 4 as there are 28 cards)

The dealer gives each player the same number of cards. The remainder are put into the pool. The player to dealer's left begins. He/she asks another player for a specific card in Spanish and must already hold at least one card of the same family. If the player asked has the card it must be handed over and the asker continues by asking the same or another player for another card. If there is a pool, the player can take a card from there instead of asking another player. The turn then passes to the player on their left. If the asked player does not have the wanted card the turn passes to them. The player asking for a card must say "please", and a player receiving a card must say "thank you". Anyone who forgets to do this must give back the requested card (if it has been handed over) and the turn passes to the player they were asking. Completed families are placed in front of the owner. The player with the most completed families wins.

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Below are some useful phrases. Language: ¿tienes? do you have ? no tengo I don’t have por favor please gracias thank you te toca it’s your turn me toca it’s my turn ¿a quién le toca? whose turn is it ? ¡he ganado! I’ve won ! Remember to use Spanish at all times while playing this game.

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Don’t forget to send Mrs Whitton

your completed Spanish work.

You can send a photo or scan to

jwhitton2@melbourn.cambs.sch.

uk if you would like to have your

work marked. A copy of any

completed tasks will be filed in

your Spanish folder

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Topic Activities – This is a summary of activities for the next 2 weeks. All resources and details are on the following pages. History

Learn about the famous Ancient Greek buildings at the Acropolis including the Parthenon.

https://kids.kiddle.co/Parthenon Take a virtual tour here: http://www.yougoculture.com/virtual-tour/athens/myth/acropolis

History – Daily life in Ancient Greece Fin out about food, education, clothes and toys.

History/DT – Make your own pull along toy in the style of Ancient Greek toys.

History/Art – make your own Greek temple

PE – Mini Olympics Have a go at 5 physical challenges that you would have tried at the mini Olympics event.

Burwell outdoor activities Try some outdoor activities from Burwell house.

Look inside a typical Greek house (click on the “Challenge” link) http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/home_set.html

History/DT - Bake some traditional Greek pitta bread. See the recipe on the following page. Try with some other Greek foods such as olives, hummus and feta cheese. You could even wash it all down with some grape juice! Don’t forget to send in some photos

RE – How does religion help us? There are many international and local charities that have religious links eg Christian Aid, Salvation Army, Islamic Aid, Muslim Global Relief, World Jewish Relief, Sewa UK. Choose a religious charity and create a poster about their work and how this links to their beliefs. You will find a list of many charities here: https://www.charitychoice.co.uk/charities/religious

Science – circuits Watch some more clips about how circuits work. If you have a circuit set please work with a grown up and try to make a circuit. Can you make a bulb light up?

Geography Mark UK cities and rivers on a map. Can you see a relation ship between the location of cities and rivers?

ICT Use Purple mash “2animate” to create your own simple animation Email your teacher if you have forgotten your log in.

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Daily Life in Ancient Greece

Take a look at these websites to find out about daily life.

http://www.ancientgreece.co.uk/dailylife/home_set.html

try the “story” link on this page.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z87tn39/articles/zc8yb9q

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Imagine you were a child in Ancient Greece. Use the information above to fill in the information for a child of your age and gender

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Design and make a pull along toy.

Arcaeologists have found evidence of Ancient Greek toys with wheels which could be pulled along. Have a look at the pictures above. Now have a go at making your own.

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Pitta bread

Don’t’ forget to photograph your finished bread!

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Make your own Ancient Greek temple - Have a go at creating your own version of the Parthenon.

You could use this tutorial to build a 3D cardboard model:

http://www.stormthecastle.com/paper-castle/parthenon/the-parthenon-version3.pdf

Use watercolour paints or wavy strips of different coloured paper to create a background and then use white paper or card or art straws to create a silhouette of the Parthenon.

You could build the Parthenon out of Lego!

Or how about building it in Minecraft?

Find an image of a close-up section of the Parthenon, print out the image and use the tracing and shading techniques we used at school to draw Stonehenge.

Junk modelling – can you recycle cardboard boxes and tubes to create the Parthenon?

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Year 4 Mini Olympics

We are so disappointed that we cannot take you to complete against other schools in this county event this year.

However, why not have a go at these physical challenges at home in a virtual Mini Olympics?

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Outdoor activities from Burwell House

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Science – Electricity and circuits

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/live-lessons/get-scientific-live-lesson-additional-clips/zvdhvk7

watch the clips on this BBC website for fun explanations about:

• circuits and symbols • conductors and insulators – what materials can electricity flow through and

which materials do not let electricity pass through. • How does electrical charge move around a circuit? – another clip for this is

found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnnpLaKsqGU&feature=youtu.be

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Geography – cities and rivers

Using an atlas or online map, label the main cities in the UK. Then, drawn the main rivers on the map. What do you notice about the location of cities and rivers?

Cities: London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Cambridge, York, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Swansea, Derry, Bangor, Inverness, Liverpool

Rivers: Thames, Severn, Trent, Tay, Bann, Tyne, Clyde, Dee, Mersey, Avon

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ICT animation – Using Purple Mash 2animate

What is you favourite animation or cartoon? Why?

Think about different styles of animation – some cartoons look like simple pictures; some animations are very lifelike and detailed. Compare Peppa Pig and Frozen for example!

Animations are created using a series of pictures. You might have 24 picture per second of film! Our brain holds onto an image for a fraction of a second after the image has passed. When our eyes see a series of images very quickly one after the other, because our eyes cannot cope with fast-moving images, they are tricked into thinking that the images are moving.

Can you make a simple animation using a note pad or post-it note pad?

Before digital images were used, all the animations would be drawn by hand – a very time-consuming activity. Most of the images for animations today are created using computers.

Using “2 animate” on Purple mash to create a simple animation.

Use the mouse or touchpad to draw in the large white square. Start by animating a simple face. When you have drawn your first frame, drag the image to copy it into frame 2 and then add to it so you don’t have to start from scratch. Then drag frame 2 into frame 3 and add more.

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Click on the plus sign to add a frame if you need an additional one and the minus sign to delete one of the frames if you are not happy with the image.

Click on the green for ‘go’ arrow key at the top of the page to animate the frames. Use the icons at the top of the page to speed up and slow down the animation or to pause and stop it and return to the previous screen.

To make my character “wave”, repeated frame 7 and frame 8 by dragging them and copying them.

Experiment and create your own animations. It could be something growing or moving across the screen.

We would love to see what you create!

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Resources to support transition back to school or continuation of home learning

Our children have all been through an incredible amount over the past few weeks and our experiences of lockdown – both the highs and the lows - will have varied greatly. Advice from professionals is that communication and preparation are key for supporting children at this time. With this in mind, we have found and developed some resources to support children and families with transition – whenever that may be.

1) My Lockdown Experience – sheet included in all learning packs w/c 1st June and available from the school website. Please use this as a discussion tool with your children when it is their moment to begin thinking about coming back to school. The themes of this sheet will form some circle-time discussion with the children on their return.

2) Social story – ‘What is happening?’ – available on the school website – for all children explaining schools partially re-opening for some children.

3) Social story – ‘Coming Back to School’ – available soon on the school website – for all children who are returning – please select the version which matches your child’s allocated ‘bubble’.

4) Assemblies by Mrs Wilcox – one for children returning and one for children continuing to learn at home – available after half term on the school website.

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Squared Paper

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Answers Maths

Monday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

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Friday

Reading Answers

Wednesday – Retrieval

1) Where do the animals at Sunrise Zoo come from? Tick one only from Yorkshire

from all over England

from all over the world

only from Africa and Australia

2) Look at the Remarkable reptiles section. Find and copy one group of words that is used to describe the reptiles.

Scaly residents

3) Look at the page starting Our Mission. The Zoo is involved in different projects to help animals. What are they? Write two projects.

1) Elephant reserves in India

2) Protecting gorillas in Rwanda

3) Red panda conservation programme

5. Draw five lines to show the time of each activity

Chimpanzees eat lunch

Zoo opening time

Shuttle bus service starts

Penguins go for a walk

Shuttle bus service ends

2pm

10am

12:30pm

service starts

9:30pm

5:30pm

service ends

✓

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Thursday - Inference

1. Look at the Meet the red pandas section. What does the word scampering tell you the pandas will be doing?

Tick one

scratching

playing games

moving quickly

making noise

2. Why is Sunrise Zoo pleased about the birth of the new red panda?

Explain as fully as you can

Red pandas are very rare so the zoo is trying to protect them. This is the third cub

that has been bred at the zoo and shows they are being successful. This new panda will

help to attract more visitors.

3. Put ticks to show which statements are true and which are false.

true false

Red pandas come from Nepal.

Safari rides are included in the ticket price.

A range of talks is given at the zoo.

Visitors may be able to hold a reptile

Sunrise zoo is in Africa

The zoo is open every day of the year

4. All of the following are important to Sunrise Zoo, but which one is the most important?

Tick one

Attracting visitors

Looking after animals in the zoo

Looking after animals in the wild

Using the information in the leaflet, explain your answer

Attracting visitors: There is a big range of attractions at the zoo for visitors. The

language used in the leaflet entices people to visit. There are lots of places visitors can

get information eg leaflet and website.

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

✓

It is acceptable to tick any of these

as long as you have justified your

answer below.

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Looking after animals in the zoo: the zoo has a big focus on helping endangered

animals. They run may conservation projects.

Looking after animals in the wild: The zoo does a lot of fundraising for animals in the

wild and runs lots of different projects. There is lots of information in the leaflet for

visitors about conservation.