Author: Holly Crowfoot

Year 4
Home Learning
Monday
Week 3

Hello Year 4,
We hope you are well and staying as safe as possible. The Year 4 teachers have been working hard sorting and organising your home learning booklets. We have decided to break them up day by day, just so it is easier for you to follow. Remember these booklets are optional and please feel free to use as much or as little as you like. The Year 4 teachers have together created a daily week day booklet that will include a spelling, grammar, handwriting, reading, times tables and Maths. tasks. Here is a bit more detail on each task:
A challenge to help with your physical or mental wellbeing.
Spellings – Practise these everyday and have a spelling test on a Friday. They cover the words that you should know how to spell by the end of Year 4.
Grammar – We will focus on an area of Year 4 grammar daily. You will also have a grammar hammer quiz on a Monday to complete.
English - You may be set a writing task. This can be written however you like. Think about the features you have learnt in Year 4 and how you can improve your writing.
Handwriting – We will focus on our cursive handwriting and each week will include a certain letter formation.
Reading – This is a task where you will read and answer questions about the piece of text.
Times tables – Each week, we will focus on two different times tables and their inverse (division). If you would like to, you could do a times table test at the end of the week.
Maths – Every week day, you will get a set of questions that covers a range of Year 4 Maths. We have also included on a Wednesday an assertive mentoring test.
Remember, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at ARHYear4@aldermanrichardhallam.leicester.sch.uk.
We would just like to say that all the Year 4 team are incredibly proud of you and we can’t wait see all the wonderful work you have done at home.
Kind regards,
The Year 4 team

Each week, your Year 4 teachers would like to set you a challenge. This may be related to your mental or physical health. The challenges could include being active, spending time with your family, learning a new skill or being creative. It is up to you to decide how you are going to complete this challenge! It would be wonderful if we could see how you have completed them. If you’d like to show us, you can email us at ARHYear4@aldermanrichardhallam.leicester.sch.uk.

Your challenge is: Investigate the change in season.
We’d like you to take some time to look at the world around you. It is changing in many ways. -Can you see anything new?
-Are the flowers changing?
-Is the sky different to before?
-Can you see more animals around or new animals coming back?
You could do this by going for a walk with an adult (remember to keep your distance from others), exploring your garden or looking outside your window.
Use your creativity to show us what you have noticed! This could be by sketching, writing a poem or simply describing what you have seen!

This week, we are focusing on your ascenders and descenders. Today, we will be looking at
ascenders. Your ascender letters should only extend one line above your other letters.
As you can see, the ‘b’ in business only ascends up one line.

Practise your spellings everyday and have a spelling test on Friday.

Expanded Noun Phrases
Rewrite the sentences below by expanding the noun phrases underlined.
E.g. The shark swam below the waves.
The shark swam below the crashing waves.
The shark swam below the crashing waves.
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2. In the distance, an octopus meandered through the reef looking for prey.
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3. The colours on the octopus’s body undulated in the shimmering water.
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4. On the bottom of the ocean, the seaweed gently drifted in the warm currents.
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5. Covering the ocean floor, lots of coral glittered in the sun’s rays.
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6. Unaware of the shark, two clownfish drifted by.
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7. Dappled light broke through the surface of the sea.
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8. A seahorse hovered above the reef catching plankton as it passed. ______________________________________________________

This week your challenge will be to write a story about the picture below. You can be as creative as you like, you could also include some of the grammar features you have been practising in your story.
Task 1– Can you draw a mind map about this picture, what do you notice in the picture?

Today we will be focusing on our x9 times table.
You can practise these times tables out loud or you can answer them on a piece of paper. Make sure you check them after to see how many you got right. Good luck!

This week, we are going to be recapping our column addition and subtraction.

Try these (remember to use your place value columns):
7684 + 1213=
6163 + 1826 =
3927 + 6072 =
5783 + 4215 =
1243 + 3456 =
6731 + 2264 =
3343 + 512 =
2736 + 262 =

These are your answers. How many did you get correct?
7684 + 1213= 8897
6163 + 1826 = 7989
3927 + 6072 = 9999
5783 + 4215 = 9998
1243 + 3456 = 4699
6731 + 2154 = 8885
3343 + 512 = 3855
2736 + 232 = 2968