Subject

Time allocated

Instructions

Times Tables

15 minutes

• Practise times table on Times Table Rock Stars: https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/42133

Mental Maths

15 minutes

• Please see attached the mental maths questions. The PowerPoint includes questions for the entire week. Please choose two 5 second questions and 2 10 second questions each day. The answers are on the last two slides so that you can mark your answers.

Main Maths Lesson

30 minutes

• LO I can round decimal numbers.
• For Maths this week, we will be using the White Rose resources again which can be found at this website:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

• We will be starting with Summer 1 Week 2: Lesson :1: Round decimals
•  There is a video, worksheet and answers to go with each lesson. The video will teach the children the skills they require to answer the questions. They should answer the questions in their home learning books.
• I will also attach the questions and answers to the blog as well.

Reading

15 minutes

• Quiet reading your own book.

Spellings

15 minutes

• Practise your spellings on Spelling Shed.

https://www.edshed.com

English

30 minutes

• LO I can research a historical person.
• For our English this week, you are going to choose one person who was significant in history who you find interesting.
• It could be someone linking to Ancient Egypt, or it could be someone from a different historical period.
• Today, you need to research that person and take some notes, recording as much about their life as possible as you are going to do a number of pieces of writing about them throughout the week.
• You can present your notes about the person in whichever way you like, e.g. a mindmap, bullet points or a table.
• Key characters you might like to research include the names below. If you click on their names you should be able to open a hyperlink with information about the person:

• Elizabeth I
• Henry VIII 
• Queen Victoria 
• Winston Churchill
• Thomas Cromwell
• Anne Boleyn
• William Shakespeare
• Jane Austen
• Mary, Queen of Scots
• Martin Luther King

Browse more articles about key historical figures here

Art

1 hour

• LO I can draw a portrait.
• Focusing on your historical person that you chose for English, draw a portrait of that person using pictures from the internet.
• This video gives instructions of how to draw a portrait of yourself, so should help you with how to draw a portrait of someone else:
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/how-to-draw-a-portrait/zk28qp3