St Mary’s CE Primary School

Junior Home Learning Guidance for

Year Four Week Commencing Monday 1st June

A few reminders…

1) Home learning will appear on a weekly basis, with a day-by-day slide outlining suggested learning

activities.

2) Remember: all logins, passwords and usernames are in your child’s GREEN READING RECORD

3) Your child has brought home a new exercise book for any recording they may need to complete.

4) We urge you and your child to try and complete work that is set in order to minimise disruption to your child’s education at this difficult time.

5) Please regularly visit https://www.stmaryscecrompton.oldham.sch.uk/ and look at the TWITTER link

for updates. Your child’s class pages can be found under the drop-down from the ‘learning’ tab. Updates and Powerpoints will appear there for reference.

6) All spelling lists are on the class pages for reference and use.

7) Children should aim to produce best quality work for each task, focusing on their spelling, punctuation, grammar and presentation, as if they were in school.

8) MYMATHS – the online lesson needs to be completed before completing the homework section as this will teach them how to complete the task. My maths homework should be repeated until your

child achieves 75% or higher in their score.

Our Science topics this term are:

Where do I fit in?

Who should I be afraid of?

• See the following slide for our Knowledge Mat

• Can you remember and explain the key vocabulary ?

• Can you talk about your sticky knowledge ?

Year Four MONDAY 1st JUNE

1) Read for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Be sure to record it in your reading record, with any new or interesting words. 2) Literacy – Visit the Oak National Academy and complete the lesson - Persuasion: Reading Comprehension – Fact Retrieval https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/persuasion-reading-comprehension-fact-retrieval-year-4-wk4-1

3) Begin to learn spellings for the week – summer term group 4 4) Mathematics - L.C: Can I interpret pictograms and bar charts? Watch the power point on the class page called ‘Solve problems in charts and tables’ and answer the questions on it. Complete the sheet on the following slide and look closely at the questions, scales, keys and information, to help you to interpret the pictogram and bar chart. Either print off the sheet or write the answers in your additional learning book. 5) Spend 15 mins today on Time Tables Rockstars – aim to improve on your last score! 6) Science topic task to complete over the week. This week we are looking at how and why animals adapt to their environment.

Look at the information on the class page ‘Animal habitats’ and ‘Animal adaptation’. Read the information on BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/zxg7y4j and complete the online activities. Make notes in your additional learning book to explain what a habitat is, list examples of different habitats and explain what adaptation is and why animals need to do it.

Interpreting Pictograms and Bar Charts

Year Four TUESDAY 2ND JUNE

1) Read for a minimum of 30 minutes. Be sure to record it in your reading record, plus any new or interesting words.

2) Literacy – Visit the Oak National Academy and complete the lesson - Persuasion: Reading Comprehension – Summary https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/persuasion-reading-comprehension-summary-year-4-wk4-2 3) Mathematics - L.C: Can I interpret tables and bar charts? Watch the power point on the class page called ‘Reading and Interpreting Data’ and answer the questions on it. Complete the sheet on the slide after the animal fact slides. Look closely at the information in the headings and axis labels and the questions, to help you to interpret the table and bar chart. Either print off the sheet or write the answers in your additional learning book. 4) Spend 15 mins today on Time Tables Rockstars – aim to improve on your last score!

5) Science task – Over the next two days you are going to research two animals from different habitats . You are going to create a fact file for each animal describing the habitat they live in and how the animal is adapted to its habitat. There are examples to help you on the next slide.

Year Four WEDNESDAY 3RD JUNE

1) Read for a minimum of 30 minutes. Be sure to record it in your reading record, plus any new or interesting words.

2) Spelling task: without looking back, list all your 15 group 1 spellings. Now write them in compound or complex sentences in your additional learning book. Check them with the list and self-mark / correct or ask an adult.

3) Literacy – Visit the Oak National Academy and complete the lesson - Persuasion: Identifying the features of a text https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/persuasion-identifying-the-features-of-a-text-year-4-wk4-3

4) Maths - Multiply a 3-digit number by a 1-digit number Watch the videos on BBC Bitesize. Download the worksheet and complete. If you can’t print it please copy the questions into your additional learning book

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjy2xyc 5) Spend 15 mins today on Time Tables Rockstars – aim to improve on your last score!

6) Science – Complete animal adaptation fact files.

Year Four THURSDAY 4th JUNE

1) Read for a minimum of 30 minutes. Be sure to record it in your reading record, plus any new or interesting words.

2) Literacy – Visit the Oak National Academy and complete the lesson - Persuasion: SPaG focus – Imperative and Modal verbs https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/persuasion-spag-focus-imperative-and-modal-verbs-year-4-wk4-4

3) Maths - Divide a 4-digit number by a 1-digit number

Watch the videos on BBC Bitesize. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmcpscw

If you aren’t able to play the games there is a worksheet on the class page for you to complete in your additional learning book.

4) Spend 15 mins today on Time Tables Rockstars – aim to improve on your last score!

5) Spanish - Please visit the Oak National Academy

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/foundation/saying-your-birthday-in-spanish-year-4-wk3-2

Watch the videos and complete the activities online to help you revise the alphabet and numbers and learn how say the date of your birthday in Spanish.

Year Four FRIDAY 5TH JUNE

1) Read for a minimum of 30 minutes. Be sure to record it in your reading record, plus any new or interesting words.

2) Test yourself on the group 1 spellings set earlier this week. No cheating!

3) Spend 15 mins today on Time Tables Rockstars – aim to improve on your last score! 4) Literacy – Visit the Oak National Academy and complete the lesson - Persuasion: Write a persuasive rap https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/persuasion-write-a-persuasive-rap-year-4-wk4-5

5) Maths – Arithmetic test – Download the arithmetic test on the class page. If you can’t print it please copy the questions into your additional learning book. The answers are included so you can mark with an adult. 6) Enjoy some exercise and relaxation by taking part in a Pokemon themed Cosmic Kids Yoga session. Ask an adult to help you find the video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCjkPlsaes 7) Look at the information on the class page about ‘Rangoli patterns’. If you have a printer you could print and decorate one of the Rangoli patterns on the class page or have a look at the rangoli patterns design template and try to create your own rangoli pattern.

We hope you and your families are keeping well. Fingers crossed we get to see you all very soon, Take care and stay safe, Mrs Burke and Mrs Booth