YEAR 4 HOME LEARNINGW/C 6.7.20

It was so great to see some of your work last week, thank you for the e-mails. Keep them coming! We appreciate your efforts to help your children with home learning and we know that many of you have your own work pressures, so as previously; the message is to do what you can, when you can.We would love to be able to give a little more feedback so we would encourage you to send pictures or documents of writing and foundation subject work to Claire.Donoghue@schools.sunderland.gov.uk in our school office who will then be pass it on to the year group leaders for feedback.

We will be hosting another end of week catch up this week and we are hoping to enable your child’s own class teacher to be able to host the chat, however, bear with us as our IT firewall needs to be adjusted to allow teachers to make these video calls from school and this could take some time. If it is not up and running in school by the end of the week then the teachers working from home will continue to host the chats. The chat time, date and link will be sent via Marvellous Me. To able to access these virtual chats you will need a Google Account (free). Please ensure that the username is the child’s name to enable us to take a register. You simply click on the link (or copy and paste it into Google) at the correct time and wait for the teacher to let you in the meeting. Meetings will take place on Thursdays or Fridays to give people a chance to have completed work and have something ready to share. The teacher might even test a few of the spellings you’ve been learning! There will also be a midweek ‘drop in’ session for each year group to allow you to ask any questions you may have about the week’s learning before the end of week session.

This timetable shows the home learning tasks to be completed over the course of the week.Answers to the SPaG tasks will be sent on Friday.

Below are the tasks to be completed by the end of the week (Friday 10th):

READING

Please read Chapters 9 & 10 of JK Rowling’s ‘The Ickabog’. Visit https://www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/Reading task – VIPERS: once you have read the Ickabog, answer the VIPERS questions.CGP book – Reign of the Sea Dragons page 22 & 23*Please continue to listen to your child read regularly*

WRITING

The writing tasks for the week will be linked to ‘The Ickabog’.For more information see below.You can complete these as it works best for you over the course of the week. All tasks should be completed by Friday.CGP book – page 28 & 29 Verb Agreement

HANDWRITINGYou have been given a poem, ‘The Rainbow’ (see below), which you should write up in your very best handwriting in your exercise book.Remember to join your writing neatly and take your time. You may use pen if you wish.Your teacher may ask to see this at the end of the week on your class virtual call.

SPELLINGYou have ten spellings and linked spelling task that you must complete and learn.This week we are looking at words ending ‘-ly’. Your ten words are: Merry, merrily, jingle, jingly, magic, magically, simple, simply, lazy, lazily.

MATHS My Maths: Five tasks (one per day or you can do them as you wish over the week. Please complete the lesson first and then do the homework task).Tasks allocated on My Maths and will be available from Monday.Teachers are providing feedback for you on MyMaths tasks so please ensure you check this later in the week.

Maths Reasoning: (see below) Maisie the MouseMaths Challenge (OPTIONAL): Cake Time (see below)Times Tables Rockstars – play your part by regularly playing TTR over the course of the week and look out for battles &/or sessions.

FOUNDATION This week’s theme is Money Matters.See below

English- Reading, Writing and Art

This week’s reading: VIPERS ‘The Ickabog’

Read the chapters 9 and 10 of ‘The Ickabog’. There are some VIPERS questions for you to answer below which will help you to meet these objectives:

Retrieve information from a text Infer characters’ feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, justifying inferences with evidence.

V (Vocabulary) 1. “Their expressions sour”. What do you think this means in your own words?I (Inference) 2. What made Flapoon feel queasy?P (Prediction) 3. Once you have finished the chapters, read the last line again. What do you think this line suggests about what might happen in the story?E (Explain) 4. Explain why Lady Eslanda would never marry the king.R (Retrieve) 5. What is a ‘marshteazle’?S (Summarise) 6. Summarise the story of the shepherd’s encounter with the Ickabog.

Have a go at an illustration for one of these chapters- use the descriptions in the text to draw either the Ickabog, the shepherd or the king in his ‘battledress’.

This week’s writing: ‘The Ickabog’

Your writing task is to ‘write a non-chronological report’

This means that you should write an information text about the Ickabog. You should write about the Ickabog that you imagine, it could be very different from other people’s ideas. You can use the details from the text as facts but also use your own imagination and your own research about beasts to make up new facts. Examples of non-chronological reports can be found in fact books, encyclopaedias, on information web pages etc. They usually provide information and facts about features such as: Appearance, habitat, behaviour, diet, dangers etc. You can present it anyway you like. You can include diagrams and pictures, fact boxes, sub-titles and bullet point lists.To be really successful you should research some other mythical beasts and make notes so that you can use these ideas for your Ickabog.These are the objectives you’ll be successful with if you do this task well:

Make notes from several sources Include facts and precise vocabulary Write in appropriate style choosing layout features to suit the genre. Use joined handwriting throughout independent writing Proof read for spelling and punctuation errors, making changes to improve writing

This week’s poem for handwriting:  

The Rainbow Christiana Rossetti

Boats sail on the rivers,  And ships sail on the seas;

But clouds that sail across the sky  Are prettier far than these.

There are bridges on the rivers,  As pretty as you please;

But the bow that bridges heaven,  And overtops the trees,

And builds a road from earth to sky,  Is prettier far than these.

This week’s spellings:

6th July ‘-ly’ ending with root words 1.Merry 1.

ending in ‘-y’, ‘-le’, ‘-ic’.

If the root word ends with a ‘y’, add ‘ily’, if the root word ends with ‘ic’ add ‘ally’, if the root word ends with a ‘le’, take off the ‘e’ and add ‘ly’.

2.Merrily3.Jingle4.Jingly5.Magic6.Magically7.Simple8.Simply9.Lazy10.Lazily

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This week’s maths reasoning & optional challenge:

Week 6

This week’s foundation learning: Home Learning Task – Year 4Money Matters Week 1

Monday 6th July – Why do we need money?

Tuesday 7th July – How do we pay for goods/services?

Wednesday 8th July – Where does our money come from?

Day 1 Possible Tasks -

Find out about two ways to pay for things apart from cash.

Discuss how we might we pay for things in the future – will ‘money’ still exist?

Design a new currency we might use. Label how it will work.

Day 2 Task

Produce a brief guide about one of the payment methods above:

– Draw a picture of it e.g. some coins or a card

– Explain the advantages and disadvantages of paying in this way

– Identify some items you might buy using this method of payment

DAY 3 Task – Draw a Piggy bank

• Write as many ideas as you can for where money comes from in the piggy bank. You can use words/illustrations. Think about -

• Where you get your money from?

• Where do adults get their money from?

• What about adults who can’t work? What if they are ill? Or retired?

Thursday 9th July – Why should we save? Friday 10th July – How to make a budget

Day 4 Task Day 5 Task

Help your parents plan and budget for the next food shop