Afternoon ideas this week:

• Oxford Owl has lots of books you can read for free online
• https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=Age+9-11&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=#
• Who can make the most streamlined paper aeroplane?
• Enjoy drawing or painting
• Play in the garden
• Play a board game or a game of cards
• Play games
• Talk to your parents/siblings
• Learn how to cook with your parents
• Learn how to clean
• Make your bed
• Who can make the best den?
• Play https://nineletterword.tompaton.com/igueginlb/ - this will give you 9 letters to make words with.
• Get creative with art
• Joe Wicks has a daily PE lesson on Youtube. Search ‘The Body Coach TV – daily PE lesson. He goes live at 9am every day, but will upload them to his channel, so don’t worry if you miss it!

Friday 27^th March 2020

Spelling

Which suffix can match to each root word?

Challenge – can you match a root word with two suffixes?

Use the word in a sentence.

Reading

Complete ‘The Word Party’ on pages 2-3 of your Comprehension book.

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Complete pages 14-15 of the booklet on determiners and clauses.

After you have finished, write your own sentences using subordinate clauses. Remember – if the subordinate clause comes first, use a comma before the main clause.

Maths

Complete pages 10 and 11 on rounding and Roman numerals.

Rounding – 0-4 hit the floor, 5-9 climb the vine

White Rose Problem of the Day

Writing

If you want to complete your short story on 2write on PurpleMash, Mr Brown and Miss Beeden will be able to see them. Alternatively, if you want to share, you could upload your writing to the class blog! Or, write on paper and we'll read them next time we see you! It is up to you!

Thursday 26th March

Spelling:

Which suffix could match to each root word?

Challenge - Could you combine a root word with two suffixes?

Reading:

Your challenge this morning is to write a post in the class blog on PurpleMash about the book you are currently (or have just finished!) reading. Think of these things to help you:

1) Summarise the plot so far

2) Who are the characters?

3) What do you think will happen next?

4) Is there anybody in the class you would recommended it to? Why?

Maths:

Complete page 9 in your maths workbook. The focus is on Counting in powers of 10.

Powers of 10 include: 10 ... 100 ... 1000 ... 10,000.

Look carefully at each digits place value and think about the one that will change and which will stay the same.

For example:

Counting in steps of 100

2263... 2363... 2463... 2563... 2663...

Problem of the day:

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Complete pages 12 and 13 on pronouns and relative pronouns. Use the definitions at the top of the pages to help you.

Writing

Story Starter Toby poked his large, shaggy head out of his front door and sniffed. He loved the smell of the forest, especially first thing in the morning. He could almost taste the fresh, leafy goodness on his slobbering tongue as he dangled it out of his yawning mouth. He could hear a rustling noise coming from nearby; one of the others was awake. You see, Toby wasn’t the only dog that lived in the forest…   Can you continue the story? Perhaps introduce a new character!

Challenge: Can you use relative clauses in your sentences? From behind the trees, an ominous figure, who was moving closer, approached Toby.

If you want to complete your short story on 2write on PurpleMash, Mr Brown and Miss Beeden will be able to see them. Alternatively, if you want to share, you could upload your writing to the class blog! Or, write on paper and we'll read them next time we see you! It is up to you!

Wednesday 25th March

Spelling:

Which suffix could match to each root word?

Challenge - Could you combine a root word with two suffixes?

Reading:

Your challenge this morning is to write a post in the class blog on PurpleMash about the book you are currently (or have just finished!) reading. Think of these things to help you:

1) Summarise the plot so far

2) Who are the characters?

3) What do you think will happen next?

4) Is there anybody in the class you would recommended it to? Why?

Maths:

Complete pages 6,7,8 in your maths booklet. The focus is place value. Look carefully at the value of each digit. Draw a place value grid to help if you need it.

Vocabulary to help:

Partitioning --> Splitting a number by the value of each digit

eg. 82,372 = 80,000 + 2,000 + 300 + 70 + 2

Ascending --> Increasing in size (Getting bigger)

Descending --> Decreasing in size (Getting smaller)

Problem of the day:

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Complete pages 8,9,10,11 on adjectives and adverbs. Use the definitions at the top of pages 8 and 9 to help you.

Writing

Story Starter She gritted her teeth and began the climb. With her vulnerable young perched precariously on her back as she ascended the branch, the extra weight caused her paws to tremble, and her sensitive whiskers to twitch at the strain. Now that their nest had gone, and storm clouds gathering overhead, she was desperate to find a new location to begin building again. It was their only chance… Can you continue the story of the possums as they strive to find a new home?

Challenge: Can you use adjectives and adverbs effectively in your short story? eg. Cautiously, the exhausted possum clambered up the branch.

If you want to complete your short story on 2write on PurpleMash, Mr Brown and Miss Beeden will be able to see them. Alternatively, if you want to share, you could upload your writing to the class blog! Or, write on paper and we'll read them next time we see you! It is up to you!

Tuesday 24 March 2020

Reading

Please complete ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ and the questions that accompany it (page 4-5 of the Reading Comprehension booklet). Circle any vocabulary you do not know, can you find the definitions (annotate your work like you would in Shared Reading). If you don’t have a dictionary, google to definitions!

1. Summarise what happened to the astronaut.
2. How does the astronaut feel in paragraph 2. Use evidence from the text to justify your answer.
3. Who is Chris Hadfield?

Please continue to read your reading books, writing in your diary about what you have read.

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Complete pages 6-7 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling booklet on modal verbs. Remember modal verbs indicate degrees of possibility.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/zps4pbk

Maths

Complete the Year Four Objectives Test (page 4-5) – the answers are in the back but please complete the questions before checking the answers.

Tips to help

• To find equivalent fractions, think about what you multiply/divide by. Whatever you do to the numerator, you must do to the denominator (and vice versa).
• To find a fraction of an amount, divide by the denominator, multiply by the numerator
• Don’t forget to calculate the missing sides

Arithmetic Questions – the answers will be at the bottom of this update. Again, please have a go at working them out before checking

1.           0.298 x 100

2.           0.71 ÷ 100

3.           24 x 50

4.           9² + 7²  (remember ² means squared – multiply the number by itself!)

5.           10³ + 11²

6.           3641 x 27

7.           953 x 32

White Rose Problem of the Day – answers at the bottom of this post (have a go first)

Arithmetic answers

1. 29.8
2. 0.0071
3. 1,200
4. 81 + 49 = 130
5. 1000 + 121 = 1,121
6. 98,307
7. 30,496

White Rose answers

1. 25, 47, 24     added together = 96
2. Triangle = 9, square = 21, star = 31

Writing

Magic

Story starter!

He held them with his mind. He controlled them.

The chairs swirled around him, dancing as if held by invisible strings. He practised on chairs, however his powers allowed him to manipulate things far more complex than that…

Can you write a story about the man who can perform magic?

Sentence challenge!

Which ending would make this word an adverb?

smart

smarter smartie smartest smartly smartier

Can you use adverbs in your writing today?

Perhaps you could use adverbs to show the possibility of something happening e.g. perhaps, surely, possibly, maybe.

Perhaps she would find other people soon.

Question time!

Why do you think the man practices his magic using chairs?

What other magic do you think the man possesses?

Why do you think he is in a field?

What do you think his home is like?

If you could perform magic, what power/ability would you most like to have?

9 Letter Puzzle

9 letter clue: a time of day

Monday 23 March 2020

Good morning and welcome to Monday’s online learning. We hope you had a lovely weekend, and enjoyed Mothering Sunday. There are some links at the very bottom of this page that may help you throughout this period of closure. There are tasks for reading, maths, SPaG and writing, as well as some ideas for your afternoons (the afternoon activities are not compulsory). Have a wonderful day!

Reading

Please complete ‘An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth’ and the questions that accompany it (page 4-5 of the Reading Comprehension booklet). Circle any vocabulary you do not know, can you find the definitions? (annotate your work like you would in Shared Reading). If you don’t have a dictionary, google to definitions!

Please continue to read your reading books, writing in your diary about what you have read.

Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

Complete pages 4-5 of the Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling booklet.

At the top of the pages you will see the definitions you will need.

Maths

Complete the Year Four Objectives Test (page2-3)  – the answers are in the back but please complete the questions before checking the answers.

Tips to help

• Rounding – 0-4 HIT THE FLOOR, 5-9 CLIMB THE VINE
• Area = length x width
• There are 60 minutes in an hour
• The line in the middle of the fraction means out of or divided by (so to find a decimal equivalent of 2/10 you can divide 2 by 10, use a place value grid to do this).
• Roman Numerals – I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1,000
• There are 1,000 metres in a kilometre
• You can count backwards into negative numbers or draw a number line to help you

Arithmetic Questions – the answers will be at the bottom of this update. Again, please have a go at working them out before checking

1.           0.52 x 100

2.           7.1 ÷ 100

3.           24 x 30   (x30 = x 3 x 10)

4.           7² + 3²  (remember ² means squared – multiply the number by itself!)

5.           4³ + 8²

6.           4673 x 26     (don't forget the place holder!)

7.           945 x 52

White Rose Problem of the Day – answers at the bottom of this post (have a go first)

Answers

Arithmetic

1. 52
2. 0.071
3. 720
4. 7² = 49, 3² = 9       49+9=58
5. 4³ = 64 + 8² = 64     64+64=128
6. 121,498
7. 49,140

White Rose Problem of the Day Answers

1. There are 15 red apples
2. 14 litres of juice in 7 cartons

1. 3/8 = 72 so 1/8 = 24  (72 ÷ 3 = 24). To calculate 5/8, multiply 24 by 5. There are 120 fiction books.
2. 1 litre = 1000 ml. 1000ml + 750ml = 1750ml. 1750 ÷ 6 (as I have 6 glasses) = 291r4 = 291 4/6 = 291 2/3

Writing

Do you think the children in the picture find the journey to school difficult?

What do you think their school is like? How might it be similar/different to yours?

Who are the adults in the picture? What do you think they are carrying?

Where in the world do you think the children are from?

How do you think these children would react to spending a day at your school? How would you react to spending a day at theirs?

Story starter!

6AM: I left the house on my own, wrapped up in my warmest coat (which I wear every day) to make the 3km trip. I met up with other children from my village, and we huddled together beneath the mountain to keep warm, waiting for the last couple of stragglers to arrive. As soon as we were all together, two of the dads put their sledges and emergency packs on their backs, and we set off for school…

Can you write a diary entry for one of these children, describing their journey to school?

Perfect picture!

Can you draw a picture of what you think their school might look like? Think about how it might be different to yours.

9 Letter Word

Clue for 9 letter word: describing word

There are no 8 letter words.

7 letter word clue: 1. To go off from a plan

2.To get kicked out