Year 4 Home Based Learning Passport

Phase 3 - Week 4 – 11.5.20

The aims of this Home Based Learning Passport is to enable children to continue with their learning

whilst there is a period of school closure. All activities are optional, but are designed to provide

structure and focus for each day. Activities are planned by teachers, based on the National

Curriculum expectations for their year group. If the school is closed for a number of weeks, a new

Home Based Learning Passport will be uploaded to the school website each Sunday by 6.00pm.

Please do not worry if your child becomes stuck and you cannot explain it to them. All children find

elements of learning challenging at times. An exercise book has been sent home with your child for

them to complete any activities and this can be returned to school after the period of closure.

Daily tasks

Do all of

these tasks

every day

1. Make sure you are reading your reading book. You could also read other texts such

as recipes, the weather forecast, comics and so on.

If you have access to the internet, you could read some of the BBC Radio 2 500

Words stories – visit the ‘Stories’ section on

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1

2. Spend some time on Times Tables Rock Stars.

This week’s Battle of the Bands tournament theme is girls versus boys in your own year

groups. Each year group has two battles so there is the chance for revenge if you do

not win the first battle!

Mon: Year 2 Girls v Boys Year 3 Girls v Boys

Tue: Year 4 Girls v Boys Year 5 Girls v Boys

Wed: Year 6 Girls v Boys Year 2 Girls v Boys

Thu: Year 3 Girls v Boys Year 4 Girls v Boys

Fri: Year 5 Girls v Boys Year 6 Girls v Boys

All battles take place between 11:00-11:30am

3. Visit the Spellotron section of our school website - http://www.stamford-

green.surrey.sch.uk/learning-zone/internal-resources/ .

(Please note this needs flash player). Make sure an adult is with you when you are

using the internet. (Select Year 4 and then one of the high frequency word tests

within the Literacy section. Test yourself on some of the Year 4 words and see how

many you get correct. You could always re-test yourself to see if you have improved.

4. Complete one of the speedy maths activities included at the back of the passport.

You have 5 minutes for each activity. If you have a count up timer you can record

your time as well as your score.

Maths

Parents/carers: Please note that answers for tasks 1, 3, 4 and 5 are at the end of this

week’s passport.

1. The Deca Tree

In the forest there is a Deca Tree. A Deca Tree has 10 trunks,

and on each trunk there are 10 branches,

and on each branch there are 10 twigs,

and on each twig there are 10 leaves:

One day, a woodcutter came along and cut down one trunk from the tree. Then,

he cut off one branch from another trunk of the tree. Then, he cut off one twig from

another branch. Finally, he pulled one leaf from another twig.

How many leaves were left on the tree?

2.

3. The Year 4 teachers have completed these calculations.

Can you spot their mistakes and explain how to calculate the correct answers?

Can you work out the value of the digits that have been removed?

4.

5. Click on the link below (remember to ask an adult before you use the internet) to

practise converting between mm and cm. If you feel confident doing this then you

can move on to the next lesson. https://www.thenational.academy/year-

4/maths/measures-converting-between-mm-and-cm-year-4-wk3-2 Listen carefully to

the instructions and remember to pause the video if you need time to think.

If you do not have access to the internet, try the challenges below. Remember

when converting units of length from cm to mm we multiply by 10. When converting

mm to cm we divide by 10. 1cm = 10 mm.

a)

b)

c)

d)

English

1. Click on this link to listen to Mrs Smith reading chapter 4 of Varjak Paw by S.F. Said https://youtu.be/NlgkXdo5Zhw Please make sure an adult is with you when you use the internet.

Your task is to use the description on pages 34 and 35 of the text to draw a picture of

the Contessa’s garden. Mrs Smith will re-read parts of these pages at the end of her

reading video to help you. You may want to pause at key phrases and make notes.

Think about what can be seen in and around the garden e.g. ‘gnarled old trees’ or

‘a thin white whisker of moon’.

You might want to use the key words and phrases from the text to label your

drawing.

Are you going to include Varjak and the Elder Paw in your picture?

2. If you have access to the internet, complete this lesson on inverted commas:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-4/english/news-report-spag-focus-inverted-

commas-year-4-wk3-4 You can also watch these videos to help remind you of the rules needed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/ztcp97h

If you do not have access to the internet, or want to challenge yourself further, use

these foggy freeze frames as inspiration to write some direct speech for each

character in the picture. Remember to follow all the rules.

a) Use inverted commas at the beginning and the end of the words being spoken.

“Lower please!” I mumbled.

b) Start a new line whenever someone new speaks.

“How are you doing today?” asked Henry.

“I’m great!” yelled Ashton.

c) Begin the direct speech with a capital letter.

“What an amazing day!” he announced.

d) Make sure your speech is correctly punctuated. This includes a piece of punctuation

before closing the inverted commas.

“There are times, I feel that you are a little too noisy,” I muttered with

embarrassment.

e) After the speech itself, a reporting clause gives a little bit of information about who is

speaking and how it was said.

“What’s the matter, Dina?” whispered Sid.

3. "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes" - Andy Warhol

Discuss this quote with someone in your family. What does it mean to be famous?

Would you like to be famous? What would you like to be famous for?

Choose whether you would like to write an account of what you will be famous for,

and give details reason why. Or write a diary entry as if you are already famous in

the future. How are you feeling? What things do you have to do? How did you

become famous?

4. Watch the short clip about a lighthouse. Please make sure an adult is with you when

using the computer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo

Can you write the story from where the lamp smashes and the ship approaches until

the end? Here are some picture from the film to help you.

Remember to make your writing as exciting as possible. Some things you might want

to include….

5. Spellings. A mnemonic is a device, procedure, or operation that is used to improve

memory. An acronym, is a type of mnemonic. It is a word that is made up by taking

the first letter from each word that you want to remember and making a new word

from all those letters. The BFG stands for the Big Friendly Giant, of course. We

sometimes use acronyms to help us with tricky spellings.

Think of 6 spellings that you find tricky or 6 new ambitious words that you would like

to learn how to spell and create acronyms for them. You could include a picture to

help your hippocampus remember the acronym more easily.

Other areas

of the

curriculum

Parents/carers: Please note that answers for task 1 are at the end of this week’s

passport.

1. Try this science experiment to find out what happens if you add salt to the freezing

point of water. Write it up like a science experiment using these headings:

prediction, fair test, results, conclusion (you may need to use books or the internet to

help explain what you found out. If you use the interent make sure an adult is with

you).

Method:

1. Pour the same amount of warm water

into three plastic cups/ice cube trays.

2. Add a small amount of salt to one of the

containers and a larger amount to another

one. Stir it around until it is almost dissolved.

3. Put the containers in the freezer and

leave them for an hour.

4. Check the containers and see if they are

frozen.

5. Leave the containers for another hour

and check if they are both frozen again.

6. Which ice cube has frozen the quickest?

To challenge yourself further you could extend this investigation and explore the

freezing points of other liquids such as milk, washing up liquid, vinegar, hot water etc.

What will you find out? We would love to see the results of your experiments on

twitter.

2. Courage is our value of the month. What does it mean to have courage? How can

we show it? Design a poster that encourages people to be brave.

• Try to make it bright and colourful

• Try to include key words or catchy phrases (brave, smile, fear)

3. In the world, there are so many amazing things to find out about! For example you

may know that some lizards can change colour to camouflage themselves. But did

you know that an experiment found that when they are blindfolded, they can still

match their skin to their surroundings, even though they can’t see with their eyes!

Amazing! Did you know that a shrimp's heart is in its head or that the mayfly, Dolania

Americana, has the shortest lifespan of any living creature. The adult females of the

species live for less than five minutes!

Can you find out 10 amazing facts and share them with your friends, family? You

could share your amazing facts with us on Twitter by asking an adult to tweet

#stamfordgreenpics. What will get you thinking? See what else you can discover!

4. Set yourself a fitness challenge to complete every day e.g. how many star jumps you

can do in a minute, run for 5 minutes without stopping or build yourself an obstacle

course to complete. Note down what you can achieve at the start of the week and

then again on Friday. Have you improved? If you can, we would love to see your

images on twitter - #stamfordgreenpics

MindUp

Wellbeing

1. Gratitude - G-R-A-T-I-T-U-D-E

Look at each letter in the word ‘Gratitude’. What does this word mean? Think about

different things that you're grateful, or thankful, for that starts with each letter in the

Makepeace Island, Australia

The satanic leaf-tailed gecko is a species

of gecko that is found on the island of

Madagascar. Their tail is flattened and

appears to look like a leaf, helping the

animal blend in within the environment.

word. For example, for G you might be grateful for 'Grandparents’ or ‘Games’.

Choose your own for each of the letters in the word. You could write them down in a

list or draw pictures. Try to see how many you can come up with for each letter.

2. Mindful Action - Jokes Challenge

Write down as many jokes as you know, then share them with someone in your

family. It’s a great feeling when you and others around you are laughing!

3. Mindful Seeing - Mindful Drawing

Create a mindful drawing that includes intricate details such as the ones in the

examples below.

4. Mindful Movement - Dance

Play some music and dance to your favourite songs with your family.

5. Perspective - Story Stones

Round up some rocks or pebbles and give each one a facial feature. You can also

draw them on paper if you cannot find any pebbles. Paint or draw on eyes, a nose

and a mouth – each one with a different expression. Discuss the emotions you have

created and explain how you feel and act when you are feeling that way. Can the

same facial expressions be used but to convey different emotions? For example, the

difference between being surprised and scared. You can be surprised in a scared

way, but you can also be surprised and be happy.

Family

Challenge

Everyone at Stamford Green is really missing you lots! We would all love to hear

about the different things you have been up to during lockdown. Have you learnt

any new skills? What have you enjoyed doing? Your Class Teachers have written you

a letter telling you about what they have been up to. You will find their letters when

you login to Google Classroom. The guidance on how to access Google Classroom

has been emailed to your parents and is also on the school website under ‘School

Closure’.

Your task is write a reply to your teacher as they would love to hear from you. You

should handwrite a letter and then ask an adult to photograph your letter and then

help you to upload it to your teacher on Google Classroom. Your teacher will be

able to read your letter and give you feedback about what you have written.

Answers:

Maths

1. There are 10 leaves per twig

There are 10 twigs per branch

10 leaves x 10 twigs = 100 leaves per branch

There are 10 branches per trunk

100 leaves x 10 branches = 1000 leaves per trunk

There are 10 trunks per tree

1000 leaves x 10 trunks = 10 000 leaves on the tree

Cut off one trunk: 10 000 - 1000 = 9000 leaves left

Cut off one branch: 9000 - 100 = 8900 leaves left

Cut off one twig: 8900 - 10 = 8890 leaves left

Pull off one leaf: 8890 - 1 = 8889 leaves left

There are 8889 leaves left on the tree.

3.

4.

Green robot: Always. There are lots of equivalent fractions. Provided you multiply (or

divide) the numerator and the denominator by the same number, the fraction remains

the same.

Orange robot: Always. Before you can add or subtract fractions with different

denominators, you must first find equivalent fractions with the same denominator.

Pink robot: Sometimes. You can have a fraction bigger than 1. Fractions greater than 1

are known as improper fractions. Improper fractions are fractions in which numerator

is greater than the denominator.

Blue robot: Sometimes. If the denominator are the same then you can simply compare

the numerators to see which fraction is bigger. However if the denominators are different

then you cannot just use the numerators. Each fraction must be over the same

numerator to compare them easily.

5. a) b)

c) gggd)

Other

areas of

the

curriculu

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1. What is the science?

Water can be a solid, liquid or a gas. A liquid turns into a solid (freezes) when its

temperature drops below its freezing point. Different liquids have different freezing

points.

For pure water the freezing point is at zero degrees Celsius. Ice melts when its

temperature rises above its freezing point. Ice melts faster when salt is added as the

salt makes the freezing point of the ice lower. While pure water freezes at 0°C (32°F),

salt water needs to be colder before it freezes and so it usually takes longer to freeze.

The more salt in the water, the lower the freezing point. When freshwater freezes,

water molecules of hydrogen and oxygen have bonded together into a crystalline

structure of ice. The presence of salt makes it harder for water molecules to bond to

the ice structure, because ice naturally repels salt molecules. So in a sense, the salt

gets in the way of water molecules, blocking them from joining the ice. When salt

molecules displace water molecules, the freezing rate slows down. This is why salt is

often used on icy roads to slow down freezing and make them safer to travel upon.

Did you know? Fresh ice feels sticky because it immediately freezes the moisture in

your skin, making it feel sticky to touch.

Y4Su2

Date: Time: Score:

22 ÷ 11 = 30 + = 100 + 37=100 100 – 35 = 100 – 72 =

11 ÷ 11 = 34+ = 100 + 33=100 100 – 61 = 100 – 88 =

99 ÷ 11 = 18 + = 100 + 77=100 100 – 32 = 100 – 35 =

110 ÷ 11 = 77 + = 100 + 25=100 100 – 27 = 100 – 26 =

44 ÷ 11 = 92 + = 100 + 84=100 100 – 86 = 100 – 28 =

88 ÷ 11 = 58 + = 100 + 11=100 100 – 38 = 100 – 87 =

66 ÷ 11 = 12 + = 100 + 5=100 100 – 0 = 100 – 55 =

121 ÷ 11 = 17 + = 100 + 67=100 100 – 42 = 100 – 1 =

132 ÷ 11 = 99 + = 100 + 53=100 100 – 62 = 100 – 75 =

55 ÷ 11 = 26 + = 100 + 29=100 100 – 28 = 100 – 3 =

WALT: know division facts for 11x table at speed; know pairs of numbers to 100 at speed.

Y4Su2

Date:

Can you beat

yesterday’s time?

Time: Score:

22 ÷ 11 = 30 + = 100 + 37=100 100 – 35 = 100 – 72 =

11 ÷ 11 = 34+ = 100 + 33=100 100 – 61 = 100 – 88 =

99 ÷ 11 = 18 + = 100 + 77=100 100 – 32 = 100 – 35 =

110 ÷ 11 = 77 + = 100 + 25=100 100 – 27 = 100 – 26 =

44 ÷ 11 = 92 + = 100 + 84=100 100 – 86 = 100 – 28 =

88 ÷ 11 = 58 + = 100 + 11=100 100 – 38 = 100 – 87 =

66 ÷ 11 = 12 + = 100 + 5=100 100 – 0 = 100 – 55 =

121 ÷ 11 = 17 + = 100 + 67=100 100 – 42 = 100 – 1 =

132 ÷ 11 = 99 + = 100 + 53=100 100 – 62 = 100 – 75 =

55 ÷ 11 = 26 + = 100 + 29=100 100 – 28 = 100 – 3 =

WALT: know division facts for 11x table at speed; know pairs of numbers to 100 at speed.

Y4Su2

Date: Time: Score:

55 ÷ 11 = £1 – 50p = £1 – 0p = £1 – 91p = £1 – 86p =

88 ÷ 11 = £1 – 13p = £1 – 27p = £1 – 34p = £1 – 64p =

0 ÷ 11 = £1 – 55p = £1 – 76p = £1 – 27p = £1 – 38p =

33 ÷ 11 = £1 – 53p = £1 – 95p = £1 – 65p = £1 – 21p =

77 ÷ 11 = £1 – 76p = £1 – 46p = £1 – 44p = £1 – 70p =

99 ÷ 11 = £1 – 37p = £1 – 57p = £1 – 81p = £1 – 23p =

22 ÷ 11 = £1 – 97p = £1 – 64p = £1 – 42p = £1 – 53p =

66 ÷ 11 = £1 – 32p = £1 – 83p = £1 – 56p = £1 – 65p =

132 ÷ 11 = £1 – 38p = £1 – 9p = £1 – 78p = £1 – 38p =

11 ÷ 11 = £1 – 1p = £1 – 28p = £1 – 38p = £1 – 74p =

WALT: know division facts for 11x table at speed; give change from £1 at speed.

Y4Su2

Date:

Can you beat

yesterday’s time?

Time: Score:

55 ÷ 11 = £1 – 50p = £1 – 0p = £1 – 91p = £1 – 86p =

88 ÷ 11 = £1 – 13p = £1 – 27p = £1 – 34p = £1 – 64p =

0 ÷ 11 = £1 – 55p = £1 – 76p = £1 – 27p = £1 – 38p =

33 ÷ 11 = £1 – 53p = £1 – 95p = £1 – 65p = £1 – 21p =

77 ÷ 11 = £1 – 76p = £1 – 46p = £1 – 44p = £1 – 70p =

99 ÷ 11 = £1 – 37p = £1 – 57p = £1 – 81p = £1 – 23p =

22 ÷ 11 = £1 – 97p = £1 – 64p = £1 – 42p = £1 – 53p =

66 ÷ 11 = £1 – 32p = £1 – 83p = £1 – 56p = £1 – 65p =

132 ÷ 11 = £1 – 38p = £1 – 9p = £1 – 78p = £1 – 38p =

11 ÷ 11 = £1 – 1p = £1 – 28p = £1 – 38p = £1 – 74p =

WALT: know division facts for 11x table at speed; give change from £1 at speed.

Y4Su2

Date: Time: Score:

55 ÷ 11 = 180 – 40 = 40 + = 180 3 + 3 + 2 = 2 + 6 + 4 =

88 ÷ 11 = 180 – 110 = 70 + = 180 4 + 4 + 3 = 3 + 4 + 1 =

0 ÷ 11 = 180 – 60 = 20 + = 180 6 + 6 + 3 = 4 + 4 + 3 =

33 ÷ 11 = 180 – 30 = 10 + = 180 3 + 8 + 5 = 5 + 7 + 8 =

77 ÷ 11 = 180 – 160 = 110 + = 180 5 + 4 + 3 = 5 + 8 + 6 =

99 ÷ 11 = 180 – 120- = 160 + = 180 8 + 6 + 5 = 7 + 2 + 4 =

22 ÷ 11 = 180 – 170 = 120 + = 180 8 + 8 + 8 = 4 + 4 + 6 =

66 ÷ 11 = 180 – 100 = 80 + = 180 5 + 2 + 8 = 7 + 7 + 6 =

132 ÷ 11 = 180 – 50 = 0 + = 180 9 + 2 + 8 = 5 + 6 + 9 =

11 ÷ 11 = 180 – 90 = 140 + = 180 1 + 2 + 6 = 5 + 6 + 2 =

WALT: know division facts for 11x table at speed; know pairs of tens to 180; add three 1-digit numbers at speed.

Week 2 Self Assessment:

I am confident to:

o Know division facts for 11x table at speed.

o Know pairs of numbers to 100.

o Give change from £1 at speed

o Know pairs of tens to 180

o Add three 1-digit numbers at speed.

I need more practice to:

o Know division facts for 11x table at speed.

o Know pairs of numbers to 100.

o Give change from £1 at speed

o Know pairs of tens to 180

o Add three 1-digit numbers at speed.