St Augustine’s CE Primary School Weekly Home Learning Tasks Year Group: 4 Week beginning: 22.6.20

Hello Year 4, I hope you are all staying safe and well. I hope you managed to get

outside and enjoy the weather, hopefully the sun will be back soon!

I have attached some work for you to do, you have to scroll down to find the extra

Maths and English sheets.

Have a lovely week!

Miss Bowden

Maths English Curriculum

Daily Activities:

15 Mins daily.

Complete one of the Primary 5-a-day

challenges every day.

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/5-a-day/

There are five learning sessions for this week. This

week’s Maths is to practice column addition

which we looked at earlier in the year.

Scroll down to find the questions.

Make sure that you show your working out and

use the correct methods that we have looked

at.

Once you have had a go at them, look at the

answers and correct any that you need to,

figuring out where the mistake was. Have fun!

Weekly Spellings:

calendar appear

believe grammar

increase interest

opposite straight

strength women

This week we are going to be looking at instruction

writing.

Mon:

What can you remember about writing a set of

instructions?

Can you create a mindmap or poster of the

features?

Only use the checklist sheet when you have

finished.

Watch the clip to check your ideas.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-

video/english-ks1-ks2-how-to-write-

instructions/zrvtscw

Tues: Instruction Hunt

What do we need instructions for? Write a list of

activities that need instructions.

E.g. playing a game of monopoly

Can you find 5 or more activities that need written

instructions?

Weds: Follow Instructions

Find a set of instructions that you can follow at

home. How clear are they? Can you identify the

features? Try something new -

https://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/150-science-

experiments/kitchen-chemistry-experiments/pen-

chromatography/

IPC:

Your task this week is to research the plate tectonics.

Write up your findings, focusing on the questions below:

What are the plate tectonics?

What is Continental Drift?

Include an explanation of how the plates move

and what can happen because of this

What happens at a Convergent Boundary?

What happens at a Divergent Boundary?

What happens at a Transform Boundary?

Any interesting facts?

Science:

Over the next few weeks we will be looking at

different people who had a significant impact on

our understanding of electricity today.

Make a factfile on the following: focusing on how

they contributed to the science behind electricity

Joseph Swan

Thomas Edison

Nikola Tesla

Art:

Draw pictures of the different tectonic plates and

the different movements that happen there

Write a short paragraph to evaluate the instructions

you use.

Thurs: Writing Instructions

Write a set of instructions for somebody in your

house or your teacher to follow.

For example -

Playing a game

Using a piece of equipment

Building a Lego model

A recipe

Send a photo to the blog of your instructions or

somebody following them.

Friday: Writing Instructions

Write a set of instructions as a ‘Survival guide’ e.g.

How to survive . . .

on an island

living without technology

life in the arctic

living in space

Can you create a little book with your instructions?

Reading:

Listen to Beware of Boys by Tony Brundell on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OlYfSr1tHQ

How do the recipes in this story differ from

real recipes?

How does the boy really feel when he is

captured? How do you think the wolf felt at

the beginning of the story?

How does this change at the end?

Do you think the wolf will ever forget the salt

after this?

Could you try out some recipes of your

own?

For Example…

Divergent Boundary

DT:

Design an Earthquake-Proof Building

Scroll down and look at the resource sheets

for this activity.

PE:

:https://www.youthsporttrust.org/pe-home-learning https://www.youthsporttrust.org/60-second-physical-activity-challenges

Extra Challenge! It is really important that we are looking after our wellbeing at this time.

Have a look at this link and pick a few activities to have a go at…

https://www.5minutefun.com/wellbeing-activities-for-kids-stuck-indoors/

Practice the song of the fortnight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpqV3dzYOgk

Resource Sheets

Maths-Monday

Have a go at using column addition to solve these. If you’re stuck you may want to look at this video to help you:

https://youtu.be/9q5Weuomxjs

Tuesday

Then have a go at these: You could view this video again to help you:

https://youtu.be/9q5Weuomxjs

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

DT-Design your own Earthquake-proof building