Year: Year 4Week beginning: 22.6.20

Work to be undertaken at home over the course of this week. Each day will consist of one English activity, one Maths activity and other tasks that should be completed during the week. Fantastic Year 4, I hope that you and your families are keeping well. As usual, you have been stars and keeping me updated on the progress of your work. Well done!

Did you enjoy learning about Tutankhamun? What do you think is the most possible cause of his death? What did you think about Beth’s plan to save them from being eaten by the vicious crocodiles from the Nile?

This week we will focus on: tenths and hundredths in Maths, revising the spellings of more words with suffixes, completing reading comprehension, planning, writing, and editing instructions in English, reflecting on our parish community, exploring more Ancient Egyptian gods, and finally studying different types of animals and their diets.

Remember to use Purple Mash, Education City and First News ihub to support your learning and to play various educational games, especially for times tables and spellings.

As usual, I linked all the Resources to One Drive documents. If you have One Drive installed on your device, you only need to CTRL+ CLICK on the underlined link and the attachment will open.

Like previously, you can also access TenTen resources where you will find daily prayers for you to pray at home and the Sunday Liturgy that you can lead at home too. We have now finished all the mysteries of the Rosary, however you are invited to continue to pray on the Rosary with your family.

Have you stared reading ‘The Ickabog’ by J.K. Rowling? You can access it online for free, you just have to click here to read the story!

Look after yourselves and your families!Remember to keep in touch!

Good luck and stay safe!Miss Stojek

Monday Maths Read and complete ‘Monday Textbook’.Complete ‘Monday Worksheet’. Please write down the answers in your exercise book. For more explanation about tenths, watch this BBC Bitesize clip.

English Read ‘Beth and the Nile, Chapter 6’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Monday’ in your exercise book.Check the answers from the previous dictation, using ‘Statutory Words Dictation Answers’. Look at the ‘Adding Suffixes Table’. Do you understand all the words? If not, find the definition of each word in a dictionary. Click here to use online dictionary. Copy and fill in the table, practising your spellings. Make a wordsearch or crossword, using the spellings from the activity sheet. Once you confident enough, you can ask your adult/older sibling to carry out the dictation for you, using ‘Adding Suffixes Dictation’. This can be completed any day this week. Take your time and make sure you know your spellings well.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Tuesday Maths Read and complete ‘Tuesday Textbook’.Complete ‘Tuesday Worksheet’.Challenge: Complete ‘Tuesday Challenge’. Please write down the answers in your exercise book. For more explanation about dividing by 10, watch this BBC Bitesize clip.

English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile, Chapter 6’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Tuesday’ in your exercise book.Read page 14 from ‘The Story of Tutankhamun p. 14-17’. Have you heard of the process of mummification before? Now, read pages 15-17. On Thursday, you will write instructions on how to carry out mummification process, therefore it is important to read carefully about all the stages today. What are the steps of mummification? Can you make a flow chart of all 10 stages? Look at this flowchart:

Do not copy all the information in each of 10 boxes, but only include the most important facts and the most accurate vocabulary. What makes it easier to know the order

of the steps? (Sequencing adverbs: to begin with, next, then, finally) Look at the verbs in the text: e.g. To begin with, the body was taken… You need to change it into imperative verb- take, The body was washed – wash. Change all verbs to imperative. You will need it on Thursday.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Wednesday Maths This week, we start with a little test. Complete the ‘Times Tables Test’. If you are happy with your score and you are hungry for more, try the ‘Times Tables Test Challenge’. Remember to use mental maths only. Read and complete ‘Wednesday Textbook’.Complete ‘Wednesday Worksheet’.

English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile Chapter 6’ and answer questions from ‘Reading Comprehension Wednesday’ in your exercise book.Click on this BBC Bitesize video and revise how to use brackets in your writing. Complete the activity on the website. If you want to challenge yourself and practise more using punctuation, go on the Education City and check the task that I set up for you.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Thursday Maths Read and complete ‘Thursday Textbook’.Complete ‘Thursday Worksheet’.Challenge: Complete ‘Thursday Challenge’. Please write down the answers in your exercise book. For more explanation about tenths and hundredths, go on this BBC Bitesize page .

English Read a book of your choice and complete one of the Reading Journal Activities in your exercise book.Look at your sentences from Tuesday. Today, using the information collected on Tuesday, you will create instructions for ‘How to Mummify an Ancient Egyptian?’ Remember to use sequencing adverbs (First, To begin with, To commence, Next, Then, Following, Afterwards, After, Since, While, Finally, Eventually, To finish) to help order your instructions, as well as a range of imperative verbs from those collected on Tuesday.Moreover, include the following: noun phrases, exciting verbs

(place, remove, stuff, embalm), -ing, -ed and adverbs (check the green

table below) as sentence openers. DO NOT use passive voice: The body was stuffed, use imperative verbs only- Stuff the body- as you are giving instructions, not describing the process.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

Friday Maths Complete ‘Parking Charges Investigation’ in your exercise book.English Re-read ‘Beth and the Nile Chapter 6’ and answer questions from

‘Reading Comprehension Friday’ in your exercise book.Edit your instructions from previous session. Have you included all features? Is you spelling and punctuation correct? Maybe you can design a booklet in a shape of a sarcophagus (Ancient Egyptian coffin) and publish your instructions inside. Look at the ‘Sarcophagus Template’ to check the shape for your booklet.

Physical Activity Choose and complete two activities from ‘Joe Wicks 8-Minute Workout’. Complete breathing exercise - ‘Pharaoh’- to cool down.

RE: Read ‘The Church’. What do you know about our parish? Go on our parish’s website and investigate. In what ways our school help you to belong to the Church- What do we study in RE? What do you learn from you studies? What are our school ethos? How do they make you behave? Design a webpage or a newsletter to let people know about our parish. Remember to include: our parish priest’s name, what he does, what happens in the parish. Finally, write a prayer and thank God for our lovely parish.

Foundation Subjects:Ancient Egypt

Reflect: First, read ‘How the Year Changed’ story. Next, look at ‘Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Tree’. Which another new god did you meet in the story? Finally, read ‘Isis and Osiris’ and ‘Isis and the Cobra’. Can you make notes of any differences between the two stories? Understand: The Ancient Egyptians used these myths (the creation one as well as the stories read today) to try to explain the world around them – they did not have the understanding we have today of how the Earth began, the nature of the sky, why the Sun appears to move across the sky each day, etc. They felt that magic must be involved because they could not explain things in any other way.Challenge: Read the instructions from ‘Egyptian God Puppets’. Can you make your own Egyptian god puppet? Use the family tree from ‘Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt Tree’ for inspiration. Once you made your god puppet, maybe you can act out one of the stories that you read today. If you want to find out more about the group of Nine (main 9 Egyptian gods) click here to go on The British Museum website. You can also complete the gods and goddesses challenge, just click here.

Animals Including Humans

Reflect: What different types of diet do you know? What does carnivore, herbivore and omnivore mean? I will remind you again: Carnivore is a meat and fish-eating animal. Herbivore is an animal that feeds on plants (including plant products such as nuts, berries, grains and cereals). Omnivore is an animal that feeds on both plants and animals. Last week you found out that animals have slight adaptations to parts of their digestive system depending on their diet (different animals have different types of teeth)Challenge: Today, you will be researching the diets of different animals using the National Geographic website. Choose different animals and skim and scan the information to find out what it tells you about the animal’s diet. You should choose an omnivore, a carnivore and an herbivore and make notes in your book using the following headings: Animal Name, Type (mammal, reptile, etc.), Habitat (Where are they found?), Diet (carnivore, herbivore or omnivore), Diet facts (What do they eat?).