Extension & Enrichment Activities

Year 4 2019 - 2020

Mrs Tootell

Miss Wildig

What a fantastic week you've had, we have loved receiving your email updates and photographs of your work, feel free to keep sending them in to admin@vernonprimary.cheshire.sch.uk

Here you will find your weekly learning tasks for English and Maths. There are activities for each day of the week, this is your learning and your timetable so it's entirely up to you which order you complete them in or how long you spend on them. These will change every week so you always have a new challenge a try.

When you have completed your daily English and Maths, we have created a series of projects for Science and each foundation subject. These projects can be found in the "Files to Download" section below. The projects will be updated every two weeks to give you time to get through them all.

We hope that you enjoy your home learning and find the activities set fun and engaging!

Stay safe and healthy. We hope to see you very soon.

Ideas to support your Year 4 child:

Read every day. Ask questions about what might happen next
Write a book review
Practise timetables
Practise spellings
Encourage addition and subtraction using money. How much change?
Use everyday objects to practise fractions - how much pizza have you eaten? What fraction of the socks are blue? What fraction of the cars you can see are red?
Write an explanation text about your hobby

Week 2 Spellings (Monday 30^th March 2020):

Practise the Year 3/4 for Common Exception words: http://www.crosslee.manchester.sch.uk/serve_file/253974
Practise your spelling on Spelling Shed: https://www.spellingshed.com
Practise your spelling on Spelling Frame: https://spellingframe.co.uk
Choose 5 Common Exception words. Write a synonym, antonyms, the meaning and an example of how to use the word in a sentence. Can the word be modified?
Choose 5 Common Exception words and practise spelling them using green vowels. Write the word and every vowel complete in green, e.g. spelling.

Week 2 Reading Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) Monday 30^th March 2020):

Complete the following ‘Cracking Comprehension’ worksheets:

1. Oliver Twist’s Childhood

2. Knight Survival Guide: Are You Tough Enough?

Listen to your child read and let them discuss what they have read. Encourage them to read with expression and intonation.
Watch Newsround and discuss what is happening in the wider world: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround
Get your child to read a book on Oxford Owl, discuss what your child enjoyed about the book: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
With your child, look in magazines, newspapers and books for new vocabulary they are unfamiliar with. They could use a highlighter to highlight in magazines and newspapers
Every day at 11am, you can listen one of David Walliams’ World’s Worst Children stories, so sit down, take a break, and enjoy 20ish minutes of pure fun! Click on the link and then select the elevenses. https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/
Get comfortable and listen to a range of free stories which audible have allowed access to for free - https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Week 2 Writing Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) Monday 30^th March 2020):

Look at the picture below. Imagine that you have just walked into your kitchen to find this:

What’s happening here? Write a paragraph to describe what you can see – remember to use a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences.
What do you think might be in the background? Write a descriptive paragraph – remember to consider using adverbial phrases.
What is the larger mushroom reading? What kind of thing might you expect to find inside this book?
‘Enoki’ is the type of mushroom (it is the Japanese name for it, as it’s highly popular in Japan). Write a story that might belong in the book, ‘Enoki Tales’.
Research the enoki mushroom. Find recipes including this food. Find out how not to confuse it with the Galerina marginata mushroom, and why this is important.

If you can’t see the image – click on the following link:

https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/portfolio_page/enoki-tales/

Week 2 Maths Tasks (Aim to do 1 per day) (Monday 30^th March 2020):

Working on Times Table Rockstars - your child will have an individual login to access this (20 mins on SOUND CHECK).
Play on Hit the Button - focus on number bonds, halves, doubles and times tables.
Get a piece of paper and ask your child to show everything they know about Subtraction. This could be pictures, diagrams, explanations, methods etc. They can be as creative as they want to be.
Practise counting forwards and backwards from any given number in 10s.
Key Task: White Rose Maths have created a series of online Maths lessons and worksheets to accompany each lesson. Aim to complete one of these lessons a day: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/
Get your family together and take part in a quiz using Kahoot. Why not practise your times tables? It is completely free and easy to set up, but you will need to create a log in –please do this with an adult. https://kahoot.com/?_ga=2.159772669.1908503448.1584876763-1749257723.1568823552&deviceId=1f8ad84a-c996-4a24-8029-8df5503f7115R&s=&sessionId=1584876762365