Year 4 Home Learning – Hazeldown Primary School

Year 4 Home Learning – Due 25th March 2020

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 28^thFebruary

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25^th March)

Any work that is on a computer, please email (admin@hazeldown.devon.sch.uk) the office and they will pass on the work to your teacher.

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 4 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 Points

TV advert

Create your own TV advert that promotes healthy eating?

Things to include:

· Props

· Slogan

· Facts and statistics

This advert needs to be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes. We will share any examples in class.

Digestive System

Build you own version of a labelled digestive system.

This could be a 3D model or drawn on plain white T-shirt that you could wear to explain what each part does.

10 Points

The journey of food

Write a story about the journey of a piece of food as it makes it way through the digestive system.

Humans Vs Cows

Explain the difference in digestive systems between humans and cows.

Think about how you might want to present your findings. You could draw and label diagrams, create a powerpoint presentation or write a few paragraphs about what you found.

Healthy Diet

Create a day’s worth of meals and snacks to help promote a healthy diet. (You just have to think about what you would have, not actually make it)

Under each meal or snack explain why you have chosen it and how it will help the body in everyday life.

5 Points

TT Rockstars or Numbots

1 hour (Split into at least three chunks) of TT or Numbots

Spellings

Choose 5 words from the 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings.

Brushing your teeth

Create a poster about brushing your teeth effectively. Make sure it is informative and colourful.

Book Review

As we are in World Book Day Month at school, write a review about your favourite book.

You may present this is in written form or perform it in front of a camera to share with your class.

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 31st January

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 12^thFebruary)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 Points

Letter Writing

Write a letter to your parents as if you were a Roman Soldier away with the Army. What were you doing at that time? What were you eating? Where were you?

Roman Towns

Using Google Earth, find as many Roman towns as you can in Britain. Can you then find the distances between them?

Write a reflection about what you found, as the Romans would have had to walk in between each town around the country.

10 Points

Gladiator School

Design a timetable for a gladiator school. What activities would you get the gladiators to do? How would they train?

Roman Numerals

Create an exciting poster about Roman Numerals and how different numbers are made. Make sure you include the numbers 1 -10, 50, 100, 500, 1000.

Battle Formations

Look at the battle formations the Roman Army used. Draw and label them with how well they worked and when they were used.

The formations we want you to investigate are a line, a phalanx, a tortoise and a wedge.

5 Points

TT Rockstars or Numbots

1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars or Numbots.

Spellings

Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).

Brave or Foolish

Write a paragraph on whether you think the gladiators in Roman times were brave or foolish.

Multiplication

Have a go at answer the following questions:

13 x 4 = 74 x 4 =

16 x 5 = 62 x 8 =

43 x 6 = 42 x 8 =

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 10^thJanuary

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 29^thJanuary)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen-point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 Points (Approx 3hr per activity)

Armour

Milites, ut parati! Roman soldiers wore a uniform and armour to protect them in battle. Make a ‘cassis’ or ‘galea’ to protect you from deadly blows to the head! Draw out your design, making sure it’s in keeping with the traditional designs!

This could be worn to the celebration event on 13^thFebruary

Poor or Rich?

Follow a recipe for the staple food of a poor Roman family. Make simple porridge or bread, following original recipes. Compare this fare with the foods of the rich – who would they rather be?

Take photos and write up how you felt after each meal.

10 Points (Approx 2 hrs per activity)

Gladiator Diary Entry

Write a diary entry of a full day of a Roman gladiator. Can you find out what that ate? What training they did? And understand how they might have felt going into battle?

Draw a Gladiator

Can you draw a Roman Gladiator and label the clothing and weapons they would carry as they went into the Colosseum?

Famous Gladiators

Find out about famous gladiators including Spartacus, Commodus, Crixus, Carpophorus, Marcus Attilius, Priscus and Flamma, Spiculus, Verus and Tetraites. Create a poster about their chosen character, advertising their powerful qualities to other gladiators.

5 points (Approx 1 hr per activity)

TT Rockstars or Numbots

1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars or Numbots.

Spellings

Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).

Roman Emperors

Create a time line of 10 Roman Emperors (there were roughly 70 in total).

Boudicca

Write a description about Boudicca. Who was she and why was she so important?

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 22^ndNovember

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11^thDecember)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 Points

Solid, Liquids and Gases

Make a presentation about solids, liquids and gases. Can you include answers to the following questions?

· Where can you find them at home?

· What do they look like?

What are they made from?

Quiz Making

Make a 10 question quiz with multiple choice answers all about Solids, liquids and gases.

This quiz could be produced on a computer or hand written.

10 Points

Christmas Songs

To be ready for the fantastic Carol Concert, practice the songs that can be found on the school website. In the music section on Help your children learn.

Potion Christmas Shopping

At Christmas, the wizards and witches need to look in the Spellgos Catalogue to buy their friends some presents.

Can you create a page from this catalogue? Think about what wizards and witches might buy …… it could be a broomstick 9000, or a complete set of potion bottles.

Labels

Collect 5 labels from empty bottles around your house. Can you write down the imperative verbs, powerful words and draw the symbols that can be found on them.

5 Points

TT Rockstars

1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars.

Spellings

Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).

Potion Bottle

Design and draw your own potion bottle. Think about what makes your bottle so brilliant and what your potion is called.

Numbots

As part if TT Rockstars, Numbots brings in all other areas of maths. The children have experienced it for the first time this week and have seen how it works. Starting at the bottom, the children have to work through challenges to earn coins.

Please note the levels get harder the more they complete. Every child starts at level 1.

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 1st November

All to be handed in on Wednesday 20th November

Reading – Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling – Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn!

Home Learning Menu – Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points –

Make your own lava lamp – http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/easylavalamp.html
Write a short paragraph about how you made it and what you saw.
Write a story that includes a potion. This story can be about anything you want, but it must be at least 1 side of A4.
You could make your story into a book with pictures!

10 Points

Solids, Liquids and Gases – Can you find three examples of each around your house? Present as a poster ready for your SOLE book.
Make an advert – Create an advert to sell George’s Marvellous Medicine. This could be an advert for the newspaper, TV or radio. Remember to include some of the ingredients and what it does. Any radio or TV adverts can be forwarded to the office, so we can share in class.
Design your own potion – Write a blurb to describe your potion and what it is for, list the ingredients and produce a method on how to make it. Remember to come up with an exciting name for your creation.

5 Points

1 hour TT Rockstars (split into at least three chunks)
Spellings – Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice them
Spell Writing – Create a spell of your choice, why not make it rhyme!
Multiplication grid – https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/arithmetic/latest/arithmetic_en.html

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 4^thOctober

(10 and 5 point home learning to be handed in Wednesday 16^thOctober)

Food for the party to be brought in on Friday 18^thOctober

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points

For Friday 18^th October

The children have been learning about the USA, from iconic people to the different states. On Friday 18^th the children will be bringing the topic to a close with an American Party.

For the party, we would like the children to produce a dish they can bring to share with their class. They will need to:

*Research an American dish

*Create a shopping list (they could practice their adding skills)

*Get the ingredients from the shop

*Prepare and make the food

For their SOLE books, we ask the children to create a collage of the different stages – they could draw the stages or take photos.

Examples of the foods the children could create are:

*Chicken Pot Pie

*Minnesota hot dish

*Nebraska handheld meat pies

*Natchitoches meat pie from Louisiana

*Hot dogs

*Key lime Pie

There are more ideas at: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/american

REMEMBER – We are a nut free school, so please check the ingredients before making

10 Points

1.Write a short biography about 1 of the Presidents of the United States.

2.Write a speech for a tribal chief to say to his tribe. It could be about a fight against another tribe or an event within their own tribe.

3.We have now been around the United States, can you plan a trip visiting 5 countries in South America?

5 points

1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars.

Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble writing.)

Make a playlist of different American songs from a range of genres such as blues, jazz, country, rock, hip hop and rock and roll. These may be played at the American party!

Produce a flag, hat or place mat with an American theme for the party on Friday 18^thOctober.

Year 4 Home Learning – Friday 13^thSeptember

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2^ndOctober)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do the fifteen point activity or you could do a ten point and a five point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points
Design and make a Totem Pole that is associated with a Native American Tribe (Maximum height 30cm)

Produce a holiday brochure on why you should visit the USA. Can you include: Top 5 attractions Some facts relating to the history of America

10 points
Create a fact file about one of the following cities: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami.
Design your own ‘Road Trip USA’ titles for your SOLE book and icons to use in your book.

Draw the journey of Christopher Columbus to America.

5 points

1 hour (split into at least three chunks) of TT Rockstars.

Choose 5 words from the year 3/4 spelling list and practice in the style of personalised spellings (rainbow write, pyramid write or bubble write).

Write 5 facts about the Iroquois Tribe that could be found in the State of New York.

Have a go at the Basketball Place Value game.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball

Year 3 and 4 Home Learning – Friday 17^th May (All learning to be handed in Wednesday 21^st May.)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Maths and Literacy
In maths we have been learning how to measure a range of things – time, length, capacity and mass (weight).This week can you apply this new learning by following a recipe which involves measuring something. If you can, take a picture of what you have made (you can email it to us if you wish, admin@hazeldown.devon.sch.uk and mark for the attention of the class teacher) and write a reflection explaining what you needed to measure, how you did it and any problems you encountered.

Year 4 spellings

W/b: 4.02.2019

Tested: 11.02.2019

Focus: Word ending -ly

happily
sadly
beautifully
hopefully
angrily
slowly
calmly

women
increase
naughty

Year 4 spellings

W/b: 21.01.2019

Tested: 28.01.2019

Focus: -ous endings

enormous
obvious
dangerous
ferocious
various
disastrous
ridiculous

breath
ordinary

popular

Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you!

Please click on the following link to view: Home learning 11.1.19

Over the Christmas holidays, please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise to those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words on Monday 14^thJanuary. Please concentrate mainly on the year 3/4 words.

Group Specific Words			Year 3/4 Words
value	scissors	paw	busy
queue	loose	water	serious
statue	universe	board	whether
usual	heard	explore	remember
future	great	weight	regular
cube	meal	wait	disappear
nephew	steal	not	difficult
often	learn	knot	possible
watch	steak	meat	heard
wallet	break	meet	describe
squad	played	you’re	often
squash	disappointed	permission	therefore
swap	limited	mission	country
wasp	preferred	confession	usually
treasure	pretended	concussion	disagree
measure	undecided	solution	breath
vision	detailed	conclusion	breathe
decision	famous	discussion	submarine
confusion	courageous	suddenly	imagine
discussion	vicious	happily	curious
television	anonymous	usually	peculiar
central	dangerous	occasionally	weight
spice	hazardous	memory	actually
lesson	bought	angry	history
whistle	author		picture
science	important		ordinary
			perhaps
			actually

Year 3 and 4 Home Learning- Friday 21^st December 2018

Reading and Spelling

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes over the holidays as reading is a key priority this year. Remember, you can practise spellings using Spellodrome and times tables by using TTRockstars and/or Hit The Button on line.

Please note, there will be no homework set during the Christmas holidays, as outlined in the school’s Home Learning Policy. The only expectation is to revise the spellings covered during the Autumn term, ready to be tested on the second Monday of the new term. See attached review list.

We thought you would like to know that next term, we will be starting an exciting new learning journey called “Exploring China.”

Have a happy, healthy and safe Christmas from all the staff in Team 2

Year 3 and 4 Home Learning- Friday 21^st December 2018

Reading and Spelling

We thought you would like to know that next term, we will be starting an exciting new learning journey called “Exploring China.”

Have a happy, healthy and safe Christmas from all the staff in Team 2

w/b 10/12/2018

Tested: 17/12/2018

Focus: -ee endings

suddenly
happily
usually
suddenly
occasionally
memory
angry

imagine
finally
peculiar

“It happened one night.”

Scene 4 YEAR 4 “Animal Farm.”

Now we’ve heard of the people who came to the town –

Of Mary and Joseph, whose details went down

On the Emperor’s list, so his tax they could pay,

And the shepherds who heard all the angels did say;

We’ve heard of those wise men who saw a bright star

And arrived there much later, they’d come from so far.

But they weren’t the only ones who knew of that night –

At least, if our carols and cards got it right.

It seems that an ox and a donkey came too,

Though the Bible quite simply doesn’t mention those two.

But I think they were there, around Jesus’s bed,

For the manger was where they would go to get fed.

So even the animals gave to the Lord

Something to honour him, what they could afford.

For while he was lying in their feeding box,

They had to go hungry, the donkey and the ox.

What will we give him, who accepted the loss

Of his life freely given when he died on the cross?

Will we let him be King of lives, every day?

‘Cause that’s why he came here to lie in the hay!

w/b 3/12/2018

Tested: 10/12/2018

Focus: -ed endings

played
disappointed
limited
preferred
pretended
undecided
detailed

breath
breathe
submarine

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 12^thDecember.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling and Maths

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Continue with Timestables Rock Stars

SOLE Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/activities that equate to 15 points. That might mean just completing the 15 point activity, one 10 and a 5 point activity or 3 5 point activities. It is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points

10 points

5 points

– Design and make (evaluate optional) a traditional Viking boat.

– Design, make and evaluate a traditional Viking shield.

When you evaluate, think what you would do differently next time and what you think went really well!

– Make a traditional Viking shield.

– Make a traditional Viking helmet.

– Write your name in ancient runes.

– Draw/sketch a Viking longboat using a Shoe Rayner video.

– Write a description of a dragon (remember to use strong adjectives and use a thesaurus!).

– Draw/sketch a dragon using a Shoe Rayner video.

Year 4 spellings – Miss Souter’s group

w/b 19/11/2018

Tested: 26/11/2018

Focus: -ssion endings

permission
mission
confession
concussion
solution
conclusion
discussion

ordinary
perhaps
actually

Handed out on Monday 19^thNovember; Tested on Monday 26^thNovember

mission
passion
session
admission
obsession
expression
confession
ordinary
perhaps
actually

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s focus; spellings 8-10 are from the Year 3 & 4 word list.

Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 16^thNovember

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

SOLE

This week we say ‘goodbye’ to Bears and ‘hello’ to The Vikings! This weekend we would like you to find out 3 interesting facts about these interesting invaders! You could use the internet to research (remember to use ‘facts about Vikings for kids’ in your search for the best results). Think about presentation – this could go into your SOLE book.

Maths

This week in maths we have been using the grid method to multiply two numbers together. Try these using the same method:

1) 73 x 6 =

2) 59 x 9 =

3) 38 x 7 =

You can also continue with Times Table Rock Stars.

Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 16^thNovember

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

SOLE

Maths

This week in maths we have been using the grid method to multiply two numbers together. Try these using the same method:

1) 73 x 6 =

2) 59 x 9 =

3) 38 x 7 =

You can also continue with Times Table Rock Stars.

Mrs Tierney’s Spelling Group B Week 7

Handed out on Monday 5^thNovember 2018

race
face
mice
slice
fancy
city
cell
pencil
because
child

Note: Spellings 1 to 7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8 to 10 are from the Year 3 word list.

Miss Souter’s Spellings

w/b 29/10/2018

Tested: 5/11/2018

Focus: Words ending ‘ous’

famous
courageous
vicious
anonymous
dangerous
hazardous
dangerous

imagine
breath
curious

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Miss Wolf’s Spellings

w/b 29/10/2018

Tested: 5/11/2018

Focus: Words ending ‘ous’

ridiculous
famous
jealous
enormous
various
serious
obvious

imagine
breath
curious

Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 12^th October

(To be handed in Wednesday 17^th October.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Maths

Next week, we are going to be learning all about angles. In preparation for this, find out the difference between acute, obtuse and reflex angles. Then, login to interactive resources (details below) and explore the ‘acute, obtuse and reflex angles’ game.

www.interactive-resources.co.uk

username: hazeldownps1 password: hazeldownps1

Challenge: Have a go at drawing the different types of angles.

where
when
wheel
white
whisper
whistle
whale
country
usually
disagree Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on our spelling rules for this week and words 8-10 are on the Year 3/4 word list.

Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 21^st September

(To be handed in Wednesday 26^th September.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Literacy/SOLE

As part of our ‘Compass for Life’ learning journey, we have been talking about our values which help us to have a Growth Mindset and reach our goals. Create an Acrostic Poem, using your name as the key word, with each line including our school values and Growth Mindset ideas.

Think about how you will display your poem and decorate it ready to go in your SOLE book.

Seeks a challenge!

Aspires to do her best!

Resourceful at all times! Acrostic poem

Appreciates collaboration!

Has a ‘can do’ attitude!

dolphin

elephant

photo

orphan

phrase

phonics

alphabet

disappear

regular

remember

Year 4 Home Learning- Friday 14^th September

(To be handed in Wednesday 19^th September.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

SOLE

Continue to design and make a motivational bookmark for your ‘My compass for life’ learning journey. This will be to put in your SOLE books. Here are some ideas again if you haven’t made a start! You have 1 more week to complete this task.

Literacy/SOLE

Research the difference between a growth and fixed mindset. What mindset do you have and why? This will help you with ideas for your growth mindset posters.

Growth mindset

Fixed mindset

_____________________________

“I have a ____________ mindset because….”