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Brockenhurst C of E Primary School
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Year 4 Home Learning

Daily Update - 13/5/20

Hello,

Please see the timetable and resources attached for Wednesday 13th May. 

Thanks,

Miss Martin

Subject

Time allocated

Instructions

Times Tables

15 minutes

 

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 two 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 understand pounds and pence
  • 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 :3: Pounds and pence
  •  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 write a piece about a historical person.
  • Yesterday, you wrote a postcard in role as your historical person.
  • For the next three days, you are going to produce a piece of writing of your choice about your historical figure.
  • You could:
  • Write a script for a TV programme about the person.
  • Write an information page.
  • Create a poster with lots of information.
  • Write a biography telling the story of the person’s life.
  • OR something else that you can think of.

 

  • Your steps to success are:
  • At least 4 good quality paragraphs (I would suggest writing two today and two tomorrow)
  • Subheadings
  • Use the conjunction ‘because’ to explain something

 

  • You will do the writing today and tomorrow, and then type up your work on Friday.

Science

1 hour

  • I understand the life cycle of a plant
  • Watch the video following this link:
  • https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z3wsbk7
  • Then, write some short notes to explain the life cycle of a plant.
  • You could write bullet points or a short paragraph.
  • We will come back to this next week.