Home Learning Week beginning 30th November 2020 for children shielding or self isolating.

English

We are continuing to write our Fantasy Portal Stories focusing on setting descriptions.

Use ‘2Create a Story’ on Purple Mash to write a story with a Beginning, Build Up, Problem, Resolution and Ending.

Watch The Alchemist’s Letter

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-alchemists-letter.html

Re-write the story as if you are the man in the story. Describe the cottage from the outside and from the inside. Remember to use adjectives, metaphors, similes and personification.

Maths

Subtraction

LO To be able to subtract two 4 digit numbers with more than one exchange.

https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO7-Subtract-two-4-digit-numbers-more-than-one-exchange-2019.pdf

LO To use efficient methods of subtraction

https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO8-Efficient-subtraction-2019.pdf

LO To be able to estimate answers

https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO9-Estimate-answers-2019.pdf

Checking Strategies

https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Y4-Autumn-Block-2-WO10-Checking-strategies-2019.pdf

One Maths lesson a week is dedicated to Times Tables. Don’t forget to practise your times tables at home. Use TT Rockstarz, Purple Mash or Mathletics to practise the times table you are working on.

Science

LO: To understand that some materials can change state when heated.

Research the temperature that different materials melt at and create a poster demonstrating the different melting points.

Try researching materials such as…

Glass

Aluminium

Chocolate

Iron

Olive Oil

Mercury

Gold

Candle Wax

Sugar

Ice