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Home Learning – Year 4Updates : Please ensure you regularly check the school’s website .uk and the school’s Facebook page for updates.Reading : Please read with your child for at least 30 minutes a day. Your child can read their school reading books, as well as any other books you have at home, magazines, children’s websites, etc. Please make comments in their reading records.Questions to engage your child at home:Useful websites:See attached sheet of prompt reading questions.How do you think the character feels?How were any problems resolved?What picture do you get when reading?What questions do you have?What do you think will happen next?Would you have preferred a different ending?How is the author trying to engage the reader?Can you find any examples of imagery?Find the meaning of any new words. Remember, when reading aloud, children can work on their fluency and expression, so reading a text/part of a text more than once is great practise. You can model this to them too when you read them stories.Book Review Templates (See Pack)Guided Reading: Armed Forces (See Website)Reading and QuestionsVE Day Veteran Writing (See Website)What is the difference between VE Day and Armed Forces day? Using the information from the reading, design a medal for VE Day. What colours or designs might you use and why? How are you able to justify what you have done?Using the information from both the Armed Forces and VE Day readings, create an acrostic poem using the word ‘SOLDIER’Twinkl: twinkl.co.uk/offer A range of readingactivities availableFree online reading books and resources - A large range of e-books and audio books. Login using the school code and selecting the child’s name.GetEpic assigned books, use school code: jwx4317Writing focus : Features of this text type:SPAG CGP Book: Complete 2 pages of your choosingListen to Faith read Tar Beach to explain: Cassie can be described as powerful, brave, courageous, independent, free, uninhibited, determined, unconfined and empowered. Create sentences using these words and use conjunctions to explain why. For example: Cassie is brave because she flies above the clouds. People think she is independent because she goes alone. (Read the fifth double page spread if you have access to the book)Contractions: See Website for booklet activitiesPlan your own version of Tar Beach: Where is your Tar Beach? What skyline and bridge can you see? Who will be there with you? Family? Friends? Pets? Where did your mum or dad work? What would you fly over if you could? Who will you take with you on your next flight?Writing your own version of Tar Beach: Use fronted adverbials to state when, where or how something happened. Use ambitious adjectives to create interesting noun phrases for setting and character description. Writing your own version of Tar Beach: Continue your story making sure to reread your work and make changes/improvements. Continue to use fronted adverbials and noun phrases. Can you use brackets to add in additional information? What extra information might you want to add in? Please refer to the school website for the following spellings:KS2 200 High frequency wordsY3/4 spelling wordsY5/6 spelling wordsMake sure you know the spelling, meaning and how to use them in sentences.Tips/Guidance for Creative Writing: needed for this term:Tar Beach – Faith RinggoldThe Selfish Giant – Oscar WildeFor daily writing challenges – see Pobble 365 each day. Answer the questions about the image and complete the sentence activities. Then continue with your own story/piece of writing.Maths Learning : Please ensure your child practises their timestables and division facts every dayActivities for your child at home:Useful websites:Mathletics: Complete the assigned tasks. This week’s focus: SymmetryCGP Book: 56-57WhiteRose Activities: (See Website) This week’s focus on 4 times tables:Keep using TimesTables RockstarsSearch 4 Times Table Song (Learning is Fun The Todd & Ziggy Way!) (Pupil login available) (Pupil login available) - White Rose MathsPlease focus on the following (in order of priority):Practise of four operations and written methods (multiplication, addition, subtraction and divisionTimes tablesCreative Learning around IPC ProjectTopic: DIGITAL GAMERS!Presentation: Last week you researched information for a specific theme or topic of your choosing. What are the different ways you can present this information? Can you use technology to present your information? Your task is to create some sort of presentation for your research project. It can be a poster (if you do not have access to technology), a powerpoint, a video, a song, an animation, a fake news broadcast. Be as creative as you can!Dance Party Coding: As a digital gamer you MUST know how to go a game in order to make it work, check out this super fun dance party game! If you do not have access to the internet DON’T STRESS! Why not design your character for a dance party style game and label it with dance moves you would like it to do, directions it needs to go in and the songs it needs to dance to.Design a digital game: Time to put your thinking hats on and design your own game! Grab a piece of paper and brainstorm all of your ideas. Think about the storyline, the setting, the characters, what is the aim of the game, who can play the game, PETITION:Thank You NHS Project:Say thank you to the NHS by taking part in our competitionWatch the video about the NHS and our exciting competition @ stepintothenhs.nhs.uk/primary-schools Get creative... Produce a piece of artwork or performance art, for example: a painting, drawing, video, collage or temporary street art OR a poem, story, song or danceThere are some fantastic prizes available for winning students*:Overall national winner(s) will receive Amazon vouchers worth ?50Ten regional winners will each receive an Amazon voucher worth ?25Highly commended certificates will also be awardedApril 2020 update: The specifics of the national winner’s prize beyond vouchers will be discussed with the winning school, to ensure something appropriate can be awarded should the previously listed class trip to a local science venue not be appropriate at this time. *Whether you enter individually or as a pair, each of you will receive a prize if your entry is chosen.Rules:You can work on your own or in pairsOnline entries accepted only (individual files should not exceed 50MB)The closing date for entries is 19th June 2020To submit entries visit: your entry to school as well!! admin@.uk RE: Year 4 NHS Competition Submission / Miss StirlingKeeping active inside and outside: These are a really fun way to be active indoors and great for breaksWork out with Joe Wicks: Joe Wicks is running daily children’s exercise sessions on his youtube channel at 9am Monday to Friday during the school closure periodDisney Workouts: Try this Moana inspired workout Lots of fun learning through dancing and singing. 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