Week 4 Session 1

Week 4 Session 1

Read the text and record your answers in your Home Learning books.

Reading Tasks

1. How many pet cats live in Britain?

2. In 4000BC cats began to enter towns to be near humans. Why did they do this?

3. Find and copy the reason that the Egyptians welcomed cats into their homes.

4. Match the feelings to the correct body language.

5. Throughout history cats have been very useful. Using the text write down 2 ways cats have helped humans.

6. Find and copy two ways in which a cat uses body language to show he is very scared.

Writing Task- Stretch out your sentences! We have been practising how to improve our sentences in Year 4 by adding in something new each

time. We have practised this method in class. Read each step below.

Simple sentence The cat purred.

1. Add two adjectives The lazy, sleepy cat purred

2. Add an adverb The lazy, sleepy cat purred noisily.

3. Add a fronted adverbial and (use a comma) In front of the fireplace, the lazy, sleepy cat purred

noisily.

4. Add a conjunction In front of the fireplace, the lazy sleepy cat purred noisily because she was worn out

from her morning walk.

Use this method to improve these 4 simple sentences below.

1) The cat ran 2) The dog barked 3) The door creaked. 4) The girl shouted.

Week 4 Session 2

Week 4 Session 2

Read the text and record your answers in your Home Learning books.

Reading Tasks

1. Which breed of cat is welcoming to visitors?

2. Which breed of cat might join you in the shower?

3. Which breed of cat might you choose if you can’t have a dog?

4. What might a Bengal cat do to get your attention?

5. Why do you need to take your cat to the vets?

6. What is a microchip and why are they important?

Writing Task

1) Grammar focus: Make 3 sentence from the blue and orange tiles. Your sentences

must make sense.

2)Create a missing Cat Poster. You must include a drawing of the cat

based on the photo provided and include detailed description of its

physical appearance and personality. Use the template on in your home

learning section on the school website or write it in your home learning

books. Think about size, colour, personality and distinctive features.

Prepositional phrases are useful to stretch your sentences out.

Around its neck it has.. in the middle of his/her face is a..

….all over his/her body. At the end of its body,

Week 4 Session 3

Read the text and record your answers in your Home Learning books.

Reading Tasks

1. Is the poem about a man or a woman?

2. Find and copy two things that he took off before ‘he’d

begun it’ (line 11)

3. Find and copy the words which show what he did ‘as he

tackled the thing’

4. What word is repeated in verse 3

5. What is the name of the poet who wrote the poem?

Writing Task

The man in the poem is not put off by the person saying he can’t do it.

He does the thing immediately and quickly. He is confident and proud of

his own abilities, a fact which enables his success.

The poem finishes making it clear that anytime someone doubts “you,”

that is a perfect opportunity to prove them wrong. One should “buckle

in” and do the thing they say “you” cannot.

Can you write a short story which includes a confident

character who succeeds in doing something even though

he/she may have people (even friends) who doubt him/her

and try and get in their way?

You can present it as a comic strip/a story board or short

piece of writing.

Week 4 Session 4

Week 4 Session 4

Read the text and record your answers in your Home Learning books.

Reading Tasks

1. What type of cat was Snowball?

a) a street cat b) a wild cat c) a show cat d) a tabby cat

2. What type of cat was Ebony?

a) A white cat b) a well-fed cat c) a pampered cat d) a hungry street cat

3. Find and copy the phrase that tell us how Snowball’s meals were served.

4. How did Snowball feel when the other cats attacked her. Use evidence from the text.

5. How had Ebony’s life changed by the end of the story?

Writing Tasks- write a paragraph to describe the setting of the living room where Ebony and Snowball live together. Use the picture to help you.

Prepositional phrases- In the corner of the room,…Above the fireplace, Next to…, Across the walls…

Expanded noun phrases- warm, crackling fire, small, bronze ornaments, large, brown sitting chairs,

large, wool rug

Conjunctions- And, so, for, but because, whilst, even though

In the middle of the room, the warm fire crackled whilst the two cats purred themselves

asleep. Inside the room there were lots of…__________________________________________________________

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Week 4 Session 5 Reading Task

1. What is the purpose of the rap?

2. Why are there words in the text that are bold and red?

3. What do you have to do first?

4. What age group do you think this rap is aimed at? Explain

your choice.

5. Do you think this is a good way to teach children how to

cross a road safely? Explain your answer.

Writing Task

Can you write your own Super Cat rap about being safe online

1) Clap the rhythm from Super Cat’s Safety rap and follow

this in your own version. Write out the number of

syllables for each line

2) Collect rhyming pairs for lines 1 & 2 and 3 & 4 . Use the

link below

https://www.rhymedesk.com/kids

You may want to look words that rhyme with tell, block, source,

trouble, smart, online,

Super Cat’s Here to say meow

Want to go online? I’ll tell you how

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