Mr Wood’s Class – Week beginning 04/05/2020

YEAR 4Practise makes permanent! You still need to keep your key maths, reading and writing skills heading in the right direction so keep going with all the other Regular Tasks as well as doing the new CGP book activities. Keep going on Times Table Rockstars if you can, but remember any times tables practise will be valuable.

CGP Maths Tasks CGP Grammar, Punctuation & SpellingTasks

Maths this week is Time and Statistics. Do use your neatest work when completing all of the activities.Using your new CGP Year 4 Targeted Question Book you should work through these pages. A page or pair of pages each day for four days would be recommended.

1. Pages 50 & 51. Clocks and Time Problems. Do use the Measurement Knowledge Organiser to help you with these pages.

2. Page 61. Bar Charts. Do use a ruler to complete the charts neatly and accurately.

3. Pages 62. Time Charts. These are not Bar Charts! Use crosses joined by straight lines to complete any graphs.

4. Pages 63. Time Charts. These are not Bar Charts! Use crosses joined by straight lines to complete any graphs.

The answers are in the back of the book but do be honest with yourself when you mark the pages!For additional practise on TIME do check for Abacus activities in My Stuff. Aim to complete each activity at all 3 levels – Bronze, Silver and Gold.

Search BBC Bitesize for recap videos if you need them.

Using your new CGP Year 4 Targeted Question Book you should work through these pages. Do use your neatest joined handwriting when completing all of the activities.

Gramma r – Section 1 & Section 4. This has a lot of revision of things we’ve done in class. A pair of pages each day for three days would be recommended.

1. Pages 12 & 13. Articles and Determiners.2. Pages 22 & 23. Conjunctions.3. Pages 24 & 25. Prepositions.

Punctuation – Section 9 Apostrophes. This has a lot of revision of things we’ve done in class. A pair of pages each day for four days would be recommended.

1. Pages 50 & 51. Missing Letters.2. Page 52 & 53. Single Possession.3. Page 54 & 55. Plural Possession.4. Pages 56 & 57. Its and It’s.

Spelling – This week’s focus will be words ending ‘-sure’ and ‘-ture’

1. Page 82 & 83. Word Endings – ‘sure’ and ‘ture’

Also use Spelling Frame to practise words ending ‘-sure’ and ‘-ture’ (Spelling Rule 9 – select ‘play’ to ‘practise’, play Snowball Smash and test yourself using the word lists)

The answers are in the back of the book but do be honest with yourself when you mark the pages!

Regular Maths Tasks Regular Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling Tasks

● Work on Times Tables – Keep going with TT Rockstars but also work in your book, on other websites, with other people. Use the guidance in your maths homework book.

● Play on Hit the Button (this links to the Top Marks Website) - focus on times tables, division facts and squared numbers.

● Daily arithmetic (this links to the Top Marks Website) for different areas of maths. You should aim to work on level 4, 5 and 6 activities.

● Keep using the Classroom Secrets Home Learning Packs. These are now in Gallery Items on the class page, in Home Learning Archive 2. Select another area of maths to practise (the answers are there too so you can help out your adults!)

● Log on to Grammar & Spelling Bug and select a spelling pattern. Complete the activities – repeat them if necessary to get a ‘green’ score.

● If you have a Nessy login, use this for further practising for your individual targets.

● Select spellings from previous spelling lists in your homework book and the National Curriculum word lists and do mini tests.

● Choose 5 of the words from the National Curriculum word lists and try and write a synonym, antonym, the meaning and an example of how to use the word in a sentence.

Mr Wood’s Class – Week beginning 04/05/2020

YEAR 4CGP Reading Tasks Regular Reading Tasks

Using your new CGP Year 4 Targeted Question Book you should work through these pages. Do use your neatest joined handwriting when completing all of the activities.Try and do three texts during the week – remember they will count as part of your regular reading time too!This week have a go at:

1. An Interview with Jacqueline Wilson (Non-fiction) 2. Harry Drinkwater’s Diary (Non-fiction) Mr. Wood

note – Harry Drinkwater kept his diary throughout the First World War and he survived.

3. Hamish and the Worldstoppers (Fiction) Mr. Wood note – Read the introduction on page 12 first.

The answers to the questions for these three texts are on a page below here, but do be honest with yourself when you mark the pages!

● Keep in line with the school’s homework policy – Year 4 for a minimum of 10 minutes. Whenever possible aim to increase the amount of reading so these times are done at least twice a day.

● Read out loud to someone at least once a day. Aim to add plenty of expression to your reading so you are becoming a storyteller. Go to worldstorytellingcafe.com to watch storytellers in action and perhaps pick up some storytelling tips.

● Continue to use the word collector bookmarks and note down new words and find their meaning. Write a sentence using any new word you find.

● Log on to Bug Club and select a new book to read. Make sure to complete the ‘hotspot’ activities too.

Projects

Do continue with any projects from previous weeks that you have started or would still like to try. All previous weeks’ projects are in the ‘Archives’ in Gallery Items. Here are some new ones too.

● English – Creative Writing - Poetry Writing Task: On the sheet below are the instructions for writing an alliterative poem. Make it as entertaining and amusing as you can. Remember you can always continue any of the writing tasks from previous weeks too.

● Science – How do other plants reproduce? – Continuing with this term’s Biology we are continuing to look at plants. In the Files to Download section you will find the information, links and activities for this week’s focus.

● History – Building a Nation: Alfred the Great Continuing our Summer Term topic, ‘Building a Nation’, we are moving onto King Alfred and why he became known as Alfred the Great. In the Files to Download you will find the information, links and activities for this week’s focus.

● ICT – Scratch Coding Challenge – Visit scratch.mit.edu (or just google scratch). Click on ‘Create’ in the top toolbar and watch the tutorial on Getting Started to recap how to code in Scratch. Once you’ve experimented a bit, select the tutorial on Pong Game to create Mr. Wood’s favourite video game of all time!!!!!! Remember that there are plenty more tutorials and challenges too.

● Art & Design + Science – Make a Thaumatrope – Visit Eureka – The National Children’s Museum and select ‘E! At Home’ (https://www.eureka.org.uk/eureka-at-home/ ) Select ‘Professor Pumpernickel’s Laboratory, week 1’ for a combination of science and optical illusions (like Op Art). Follow the instructions to make your own Thaumatrope. (If you are on this website check out Ian Douglas the Storyteller or the Singalong with Gacko too)

● Music – Found Sounds – Mrs. Tennant has set another challenge for the class. The details and links are on the sheets below.

Login to purplemash.com for a wide range of games, activities and projects. Select by subject and by age range to make sure you challenge yourself.

Poetry Writing TaskThe Active Alliterative Alphabet

Here’s how to write a poem called The Active Alliterative Alphabet.1.List 5 letters of the alphabet in order in a list. Example: BCDEF

These are the characters in the poem. They are going to get ‘Active’ by doing things!

2.Write a VERB, ending with ‘ing’, starting with each of the letterExample: B boilingC creepingD divingE eatingF floating

3.Write a PLACE starting with each of the letter – remember capital letters for Proper Nouns!

Example: B boiling……………………….. BollingtonC creeping…………………….. CambridgeD diving ……………………….. downstairsE eating ……………………….. everywhereF floating ………………………. France

4.Fill in the gaps to create a poem. Make it as ridiculous as possible. You will need to add nouns and prepositions and possibly adjectives, adverbs and determiners too. Use as much ALLITERATION as you wish.

Example: B boiling blue socks in Bollington,C creeping carefully through quiet Cambridge,D diving deeply through treacle on his way downstairs,E eating eels and eggs with eyes in absolutely everywhere,F floating freely as he flies through France.

CHALLENGE:Extend your poem by including more of the alphabet – can you include all 26

characters from A asking Arthur the way to Australia, all the way to Z zipping and zigzagging along the road to Zanzibar ?

CGP Year 4. Reading Comprehension. Week beginning 04.05.20

Answers.

An Interview with Jacqueline Wilson (Non-fiction)

1. 22 2. E.g. She wasn’t writing in the way that teachers wanted her to write. 3. E.g. It turned out how she had hoped it would, which doesn’t happen often when

she writes books. 4. E.g. In the same way that you don’t know where your dreams come from or what

they’re going to be, she doesn’t know where her ideas are going to come from or what they’re going to be.

5. E.g. She was looking at all the things in her bathroom, and when she looked at a beaker, it gave her the idea for the surname.

6. E.g. It’s been a success, and it’s been written just the way she would have written it.

7. Any appropriate answer. E.g. Exciting, because you’re popular and successful. It might also be a challenge because it must be difficult having to come up with lots of good ideas for books and write them.

Harry Drinkwater’s Diary (Non-fiction)

1. E.g. Because of the rain. 2. E.g. Because muddy water drips from the roof onto the sack containing their food. 3. E.g. Frantic; frenzied; very fast. They worked as fast as they could to try to get the

job done. 4. E.g. He’s so tired because they’re working hard with very little sleep. 5. E.g. Because the food transports got lost and didn’t arrive. 6. E.g. He was very tired and needed help from others to stand up. He tried to keep

moving, but he collapsed with exhaustion. 7. E.g. Because it must have been unpleasant being underground and having to work

in stuffy conditions. It would have been dark and cramped, and the work would have been dangerous, tiring and difficult.

Hamish and the Worldstoppers (Fiction)

1. E.g. They are opened wide because he’s surprised and shocked by what’s happening.

2. E.g. It emphasises the narrator’s confusion and the fact that he wants to know what is going on.

3. E.g. “scariest” and “coolest” 4. ‘Incredibly’ and ‘weird’. E.g. It means that something is extraordinarily strange. 5. E.g. ‘Blather’ means to talk for a long time without saying anything meaningful, and

‘Long’ emphasises this. The author wants to show that the teacher is boring and talks endlessly.

6. E.g. Everything in the world, except for Hamish, has stopped. 7. Any appropriate answer. E.g. Yes, because you know that something strange has

happened, but the last paragraph doesn’t explain it, so it makes me want to keep reading to find out what has happened.

Music Resources Year 4 and 5 Found Sounds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/bring-the-noise/found-sounds/z7k847h

For the next few sessions you are going to create some instruments out of objects that you can find around your house. You will need a bit of help from a grown up for some parts of this. It will be good if you are creative and even make your own designs for the instruments. First of all you need to watch the first video where YolanDa Brown shows you how to make sounds out of anything around the home, including bicycles.

When you have watched the first video, have a go at looking round the house to see what rumbling, tinkling, ringing, booming, banging and scraping noises you can make.

Look at the instructions on the next page, or use the webpage above to follow the links to show you how to make it.

Now it is time to create your own drum following the instructions below.