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Home Learning Guidelines:

Use the grid below to help structure your child’s home learning. We would encourage children to complete at least 2 activities from each column and record their learning experience in their challenge book. This could be done in a variety of ways. For example, writing a few sentences about what they learnt, drawing a picture, sticking in a photograph, completing a thought bubble etc.

To support your child at home with reading we ask that your child reads at least 4 times a week. Remember there are lots of resources to support reading on our website.

There is no expectation that your child completes the home learning challenges if they are unwell or if circumstances at home are such that the completion of the tasks cause unnecessary stress and anxiety to the household.

Year 4 Week 8 - Home Learning Grid – Week Commencing 1st June 2020Weekly theme: WaterReading English Expressive Arts

Using words, poetry, drawing, painting and other mediums to describe our inner and outer responses to the word around us.

STEMScience, technology, engineering and mathematics.

People & Communities Personal and social development, well-being and religious education. Understanding the world in which we live.

A story map is where you pick out the main parts of a story and draw it (see the story map for Goldilocks below). Try and draw a story map for a book that you have read, or a scene from it. Try to think about the main parts before you draw it:

Characters Setting, Beginning, Middle End

Include arrows to show exactly which picture comes next. Write a sentence below some pictures to explain what is happening.

Water is vital for survival for every human being in the world. Watch this video Water Aid and then create a leaflet with 2 sections:

1. The importance of clean water.Include a few facts about what happens when we don’t have clean water

2. Improving the situation.Some things Water Aid has done to improve the situation.

The Great Wave is a famous picture painted by the Japanese artist Hokusai. The image shows a large wave threatening three boats while Mount Fuji rises in the background. Can you recreate a similar picture using different patterns for and different shades of blue for the waves – see example below.

Water has many scientific properties. One of them is a property called capillary action. This means that all the particles of water hold on to each other like a chain. Carry out this experiment to see this in action (details below or watch the video). You will need:

Grow a Rainbow

Fruit and vegetables are made mainly of water with lots of nutritious vitamins in them. Try creating some fruit bugs and serve them up for lunch or dinner.

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Rivers ComprehensionRead the information below on rivers and then complete the questions using full sentences.

Try some spellings by going to the site Year 3 and 4 Spelling Games

Go to the Oak National Academy and if you have already completed Lesson 1 and Lesson 2, click on the ‘Sing a Major Scale’ box. If you didn’t complete lesson 1 or 2 you can choose these instead. Enjoy!

Complete the word problems below using knowledge of your times tables. Pick between easier, medium and challenge, or do all three!

When you next go out for a walk, take some photos of water; think puddles, clouds, rivers etc. Stick them in your home learning books and write some adjectives to describe them e.g bubbly, still, murky.

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Have a look at a glass of water and find some good adjectives to describe it E.g. sparkling, clear, murky. Extra challenge: add some similes or create a noun phrase e.g The sparkling still water.

Use this picture to think and write 5 sentences. Each sentence should contain the following:Sentence 1. Must contain the verb ‘surf’Sentence 2. Must begin with a fronted adverbial.Sentence 3. Needs to include an adjective.Sentence 4. Must contain a word beginning with the prefix un-.Sentence 5. Needs to contain the subordinating conjunction ‘before’. Extra challenge: See if you can join them up to make a story.

Make your own plate aquarium. Watch the videoMaking a plate aquariumand see if you can make your own. If you don’t have any sand, use sand coloured paint or pulses like lentils/butter beans to colour the bottom of the plate.

Try some online maths activities using the site Oxford Owl LearningPick the age group 7-9 years and choose some activities you like.

Watching water can be very calming. Create your own ocean sensory bottle. You will need: Sand An empty bottle Small ocean animal toys or

shells/pebbles/glass beads Water Blue food coloring (optional)

Fill the bottle with approx. 2 inches of sand.Fill bottle with water.Add a drop of blue food colouring to the water.Add your shells/pebbles/beads/toys then close the lid tightly.Watch your sensory bottle and relax!

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Read the first part of chapter 1 (below) taken from the book ‘Sky Hawk’ by Gill Lewis. See if you can draw

and colour a picture of this first scene.

Find some information on the Lake District. Design a colourful fact sheet about the area using these subheadings:

1. Location2. Some of the lakes3. Places to stay4. Interesting places to visit

Add a picture to complete it.

A Kenning is a type of poem that uses 2 words on each line as clues to describe something. Can you guess what this is?

Use a web browser (such as Google) to search Hour of code Course 3. Click on the link Course 3 – Studio code.orgClick on lesson 11: Artist: Nested Loops, puzzle 1. Do puzzle 1.Watch the video called ‘Nested Loops with the artist in Course 4’.Complete puzzles 2 to 12.Remember to read the

Continuing with our miracles topic, the first miracle that Jesus performed was at a Wedding at Cana (John 2:1). During the wedding the wine ran out. Jesus was able to turn the water into wine. Watch this video to see the full story Jesus turns water into WineUsing 1 paper plate, draw a smaller circle in the centre of the plate. Colour this circle

You can use this site to gather information if you want to:Visit England The Lake District

(Of course it is a dog!)

Pick an ocean/river animal and see if you can create one for it. See if someone in your household can guess what it is.

instructions at the beginning of each puzzle.

half red, half blue. Cut out a circle of card the same size. Draw a large wine glass and cut out its shape. Decorate the rest of it. Attach the card to the plate using a split pin. Rotate the card to make

your water turn to wine.

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Physical DevelopmentMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Go to Joe Wicks’ website and join in his daily workout activities.Joe Wicks

Football Skills:In an outdoor space place a number of items around the garden e.g cones, water bottles, saucepans, plant pots, cereal boxes.

Try and dribble a ball around the objects and time yourself.

Repeat again and see what your best time is. Challenge someone to a competition, who can get round in the quickest time.

Create a golf course around your home or outside (one hole per room if inside).For the holes you could use saucepans, mugs, bowls on their side or make somethingBall: a small ball, plastic golf ball, marble, scrunched up tin foil or a rolled-up sock. Club: If you don’t have a golf club try using a tennis racket, plastic cricket bat, umbrella.Allocate a ‘par’ (the number of hits you should take to get the ball in the hole) Hole one: – Par 3Hole two: – Par 4Hole three: – Par 6Play each hole and record your score. Total up your score at the end. How many points were you above or

below par? Try and beat your score everyday.

Practise your throwing and catching skills. You can follow this poster or watch the video below.

Video:Throwing and catching skills

Dancing – Try out this ‘Just Dance’ video. See if you can copy the moves.Cake by the Ocean

Can you make up a dance using movements that represent an ocean animal?

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Story Mapping – Goldilocks and the Three Bears Excerpt from Skyhawk by Gill Lewis

Comprehension

The Great Wave Example Capillary Action

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