Author: Holly Crowfoot

Year 4
Home Learning
Thursday

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.

Life is a little bit different at the moment. One way to help us cope is by using the ‘Coping Toolbox’. Find a box, a bag or anything you can put items in.
Now fill your box, bag, space etc. with items that make you feel happy or safe. Items that make you feel better.
This could be photographs, toys, dvds, books, special jewellery, trinkets, a list of activities you enjoy etc.

Open up your toolbox whenever you need to and remember all those things that make you happy and feel safe. Share your toolbox with your family in your household or through video messaging to other friends and family.

Practise your spellings everyday and have a spelling test on Friday. Could you challenge yourself and write each word in a sentence?

This week, we will be focusing on our ’long’ letters using cursive handwriting. You do not have to print this sheet off but you can practise on lined paper or plain paper with lines drawn on.. Remember to use your ‘flicks’ into each letter and to not take your pencil off until you have completed the set of letters or word.

Today we will be working on our vocabulary reading skills. In order to be a skilled reader, we need understand the words we are reading. This can be an individual word or a phrase.

This week, we will be focusing on all the times tables including the inverse. Everyday you will have a different test to complete. For the first 4 questions, ask an adult or sibling to give you random calculations to solve. Set yourself a challenge by timing yourself and see if you can you beat your time the following day! Good luck!

Circuits
In your garden or around the house, set up 5 stations. This could be marked with a jumper, a shoe or any item around your house. At each station you are going to have an exercise to complete. You will have 5 minutes at each station. See how many actions you can do at each one.

Station 1

Station 3

Station 2

Station 4

Station 5

What you will need?
Pencil, rubber, crayons or felt tip pens and a piece of paper.

What is Graffiti?
Graffiti is regarded by most as a form of criminal damage and can be defined as ‘any inscription, marking, writing, painting or drawing, illicitly scratched, scribbled, drawn, cut, carved, posted, pasted sprayed or painted on any surface.
If someone is caught applying graffiti without the permission of the owner of the canvas, they can be arrested and charged under the Criminal Damage Act and if found guilty they can be fined or imprisoned or both. Although, some say that Graffiti is a from of art and many people have become famous for there street art.
Today, you are going to have a go at creating your own form of graffiti on a piece of paper. This could be your name, a word or a slogan.
This can be done in bubble writing, 3d blocks, slanted etc. Please use the links to help you.
Bubble writing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHg714uHJQ
Block writing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aR6aat4-Ik
Slanted writing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXm8LqHP5zw