Year 4 Home Learning

Date: Thursday 19th January 2017

TALK, SHARE, ENCOURAGE! Due in: Tuesday 24th January 2017

As we are about to begin our Readathon, we would like you to talk Maths
about reading. Is there a certain place or time that you enjoy reading? Please continue to practise the
What is your favourite genre and author? Why? Do you have a favourite targets on your maths passport.
book that you have read more than once? You need to be confident and
quick when recalling facts such as
English Task: times tables.
This week in English, we have been using connectives in our
rainforest stories! A connective (or conjunction) is used to join Each week, your Maths set
to 2 parts of a sentence together. Fill in the missing teacher will give homework either
conjunctions on the next slide to join the clauses in the on paper or via Myimaths. There
passage. You can either choose conjunctions from the box or are strategies on the following
add your own. Want more practice? Try Survive a shower on pages to help you at home.
Education City:
https://ec1.educationcity.com/content/index/177/6/1/1 Please also see the list of useful
websites on the following pages.

Notices
Year 4 Sports Day is on Monday 6th February from 8am to Maths Problem of the Week
10am. Children must come to school in their P.E kits and bring
their hats and water bottles with them. Please see the Maths problem on
the following slide.
 Are you
up for the
challenge?

We are starting a Primary Readathon!

This means that every time you read for at least 20 minutes or choose an
activity from your ‘Reading Menu’ you will earn 1 reading point!

An adult must write the book title/activity in your reading record book and
sign it for it to count!
 Spellings:
Words that contain the letters ‘sc’
Group 1: Group 2: Group 3:

scent scent scent

scene scene scene
descend descend descend
ascent ascent ascent
crescent crescent crescent
science science science
discipline discipline
scissors scissors
fascinate
oscillate

These words all contain the letters ‘sc’. Some of the words came from Latin, an old
language spoken by the Romans. They probably pronounced ‘sc’ differently but we now
say it as ‘s’ in these words.
 3D Project
Creating Rainforest Animals and
Plants
How
imaginative
can you be?

Due date: Thursday 2nd March

 Maths
Problem
of the
week!
Maths Strategies
Rounding to the nearest 100
Mathematical Strategies
Rounding to the nearest 1000
Mathematical Strategies
Multiplying by the long
expanded method
Mathematical Strategies
Multiplying by the grid method
Mathematical Strategies
Distributive law
 Useful websites
www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/ - Useful website for KS2
pupils to practice some key skills in maths

www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy.html - Free online maths games

resources for KS2 pupils

http://www.primarygames.co.uk/ - a range of numeracy games to

reinforce concepts covered in KS2

www.nrich.maths.org.uk – A website aimed at extending more able

mathematicians with puzzles, problems and investigations.

While we have made every effort to ensure that these websites are
relevant and appropriate, we would strongly advise that children
are supervised at all times when accessing the internet. Should you
have any problems with the sites listed or find a new site that could
be added to the list, please inform a member of staff.
 Year 4 Science
This half term we are…
focusing on Habitats. We will:
• Identify that animals are found in different
habitats.
• Identify what an organism is and the
common feature that all living things have.
• Explain why certain organisms live in
different habitats.
• Understand that organisms adapt to survive
in their habitat and give examples of this.
• Use a key to sort and identify organisms.
• Understand that environmental changes
can have an effect on habitats.
• Explain what a food chain is and what
happens when a food chain is broken.
• Investigate the perfect environment for an
endangered organism.
• Identify vertebrates and invertebrates.
Key Vocabulary:
• Organisms – any living thing such as plants and animals.
• Habitat - the place or environment where a plant or
animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
• Carnivore – a living organism that eats meat.
• Herbivore – a living organism that only eats plants.
• Omnivore – a living organism that eats both meat and
plants.
• Adaptation - the process by which living creatures
(animals and plants) adapt or evolve to survive in their
environment and to live amongst a specific group of
other living things.
• Food Chain - is a diagram that shows us how animals are
linked by what they eat.
• Invertebrate - Animals who don't have a bony skeleton;
insects, spiders and crabs are invertebrates.
• Vertebrate - animals with backbones / skeletons and
include amphibians, birds, fish, mammals and reptiles.
National Curriculum Link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment
_data/file/286349/Primary_science_curriculum_to_July_2015_RS.pdf
 Year 4 Science
This week we have…
learned how animals adapt to survive
in their habitat. We then focused on
the different ways in which a camel
and cactus have adapted to live in the
desert.
Find out how camels and other animals
are adapted to their habitats by clicking
on the following link:
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk
/adaptations/camels.htm
Key vocabulary for this week to discuss at
home:
• Adaptation – a feature or a behavior that helps a
living thing survive and function better in its
environment.
• Habitat - the place or environment where a plant
or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.
• Carnivore – a living organism that eats meat.
Herbivore – a living organism that only eats
plants.
• Omnivore – a living organism that eats both
meat and plants.
• Precipitation – water that falls to the ground as
rain, snow, sleet or hail.
Useful Websites/Apps/Experiments:
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/age
s/8_9/habitats.shtml
• http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2science.html
 In French this week…
Year 4 have learned how to give opinions about different toys
and learned a song to help remember the opinions.
Can you practise the song and try the activity on the next slide?

Une Chanson
(Sing to the tune of When the Saints go marching in)

C’est magnifique!
C’est fantastique!
C’est génial!
C’est hyper-cool!
Mrs Deacon, KS1/2 French Teacher
C’est super! n.deacon_wso@gemsedu.com
Mrs Tolan, KS1/2 French Teacher
Et c'est nul! n.poulton_wso@gemsedu.com
That's how to give opinions in French! Ms Merrick, KS2 French Teacher
k.merrick_wso@gemsedu.com
Mrs Ihaddaden, KS2 French Teacher
e.Ihaddaden_wso@gemsedu.com
Use the song words on the previous slide to give an opinion
about each toy:

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 In Arabic B this week students have been learning
Beginners: student completed the names of foods and wrote simple
sentences.

Intermediate: The students completed the names of foods and

(( green salad)) and wrote sentences using some food .

Advanced: The students completed the names of foods and will

learn some different kinds of salad and wrote sentences.

In Arabic B next week students will…

Beginners: *student will learn four fruits juice and names of
same sweets, write simple sentences.
Intermediate:*The students will learn different kinds of juices,
sweets and drinks they can find in the restaurant , write sentences .
.
Advanced:*The students will learn different kind of juices learn some
and write sentences using adjective.
.
 Empty plastic water bottles needed for our
recycled greenhouse

Dear Parents and Teachers,

Our Y5 & 6 ODA enrichment will be making a

Green house using recycled plastic water bottles.

Please can you send in empty water bottles

Size - 1.5 liters

Contact:
Mr Brown : s.brown1_wso@gemsedu.com
Ms Mathews: v.mathews_wso@gemsedu.com

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