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Term 2, Week 1

Home Learning Plan – Year 4

Dear Parents/Carers,

On the following pages you will find a table outlining daily activities for your child to complete. Please complete all written work in homework books.

Suitable book standards should still be maintained for example: only using lead pencil unless otherwise stated, underlining headings in red pen or

pencil, dating work and no textas in books please. This work will be marked upon returning to school.

Some relevant websites to access over this period include:

www.mathletics.com www.readingeggs.com

http://www.pobble365.com https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Typing Sites: https://www.typingclub.com/ http://www.keybr.com/ www.typing.com http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

Physical Exercise

Children should do 30 minutes of physical activity daily. Ideas for getting moving might be kick a ball, bounce on the trampoline, make up a dance and

perform it for a partner or pet, shoot some hoops.

NOTE: Please remember to limit screen time sessions to 30 minutes at a time. After 30 minutes please take a screen break and do another

activity or some physical exercise.

http://www.readingeggs.com/

http://www.pobble365.com/

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

https://www.typingclub.com/

http://www.keybr.com/

https://www.typing.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr

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Home Learning Plan – Year 4 – Term 2 – Week 1

The English activities below are based on students working with an appropriate novel or a picture book of at least 10 pages. Please visit

the following website for texts if you do not have any suitable books at home.


Monday 27/4/20 Tuesday 28/4/20 Wednesday 29/4/20 Thursday 30/4/20 Friday 1/5/20

Morning English

Choose a new book or story that you would like to read. Look at the name of the book and what it is about.

Read a chapter of your novel or the first 2 pages of your story.

Writing

This term we are looking at Persuasive Texts.

Answer the following questions in full sentences about persuasive texts.

1. What does persuade mean? Write the

Indonesian

Complete the online activities for the day.

English

Read the next chapter of your novel or the next two pages of your picture book.

Writing

Click on the link below to watch the clip on persuasive writing (ask a parent to assist you in finding the clip).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2IVKruQSw

Music


English


Writing

Click the link below to watch the Behind The News clip on drones. You might like to take some notes as you watch it – you will need to watch it a couple of times.

English


Writing

Go to the Pobble 365 site. Find ‘The Golden Key’ 14th February 2020. (Use the pick-a-day icon in the top right-hand corner to find the date)

Complete the following questions

1. Do you think the crow is the hero or the villain of the story?

2. Write down 3 reasons

Library


English

Reading

Log on to

Reading Eggspress

Complete 20 minutes of ‘MY LESSONS’

Writing

Write a letter to your teacher about your week. What was your favourite part? What are you disliking? How are




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definition.

2. Why do we have persuasive texts?

3. What is a type of text that you know is a persuasive text? Eg book review or blurb

4. How many types of persuasive texts can you name?

Spelling

The rule for spelling this week is:

When adding ‘all’ to the beginning of a word, one ‘l’ is dropped.

Eg all+ways = always

See spelling list at the bottom of these pages.

WORD OF THE WEEK

Appreciate

1. Write the definition of appreciate.

2. Put the word appreciate into a sentence. Make it

Now watch the clip again and write down the 7 tips for persuading people – they are on the girl’s computer screen. You can pause the clip at each tip to copy it down.

Spelling

Start working on the spelling activities at the bottom of these pages (remember to write the subheadings and underline in red)

Work on the activities for 20 minutes.

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/drone-debate/10529798

In your book write a for and against chart about why we should have drones

FOR AGAINST

Spelling

Continue working on the spelling activities at the bottom of these pages (remember to write the subheadings and underline in red)

Work on the activities for 20 minutes.

to persuade me to agree with you.

Spelling

Complete the spelling activities from Tuesday and Wednesday.

you keeping active?

This can be sent to your teacher when you are done. It can be done on Google Classroom or emailed to your teacher as an attachment if you save it as word document. You may need help from an adult. You can also get an adult to take a photo of your work and email it if that is easier.

Spelling

Ask someone to give you a spelling test using your spelling words.

Grammar

Question marks ?? Write down 5 questions you would ask a dinosaur.

Speech marks

Now write what the dinosaur said when he answered you. Remember to use






interesting. speech marks. HINT – All punctuation is inside the speech marks!

Eg “My name is Rex.”

Break Break Break Break Break Break

Middle Mathematics

Warm Up Write out your 4 times tables or recite them to someone.

Fractions Watch the following video (ask a parent to open the video for you)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw8azUV_vW8

Write what fraction of your family are female. Write what fraction of your family are family are male. Write what fraction of your family like chocolate cake.

Mathematics

Warm Up Write out your 4 times tables or recite them to someone.

Fractions

Draw different pictures to show fractions with these denominators 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. You should have 15 fractions at the end.

Eg 2/4

Mathematics

Warm Up

Write out your 4 times tables or recite them to someone.

Fractions Colour the fraction wall (see the resource below). Ensure each row is a different colour. Cut out your fraction wall. Place 2 of the quarters next to each other. Using your fraction bars how many fractions can you make that are the same as 2/4.

Write what fraction is equivalent (the same as) ⅔?

Mathematics

Warm Up


Fractions

Watch the following videos (ask a parent to open the video for you) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FH6YiLWIuE

Write the following fractions as decimals

12/100 89/100

35/100 27/100

Mathematics Warm Up


Complete the assigned Mathletics tasks. PDHPE Add to your gratitude journal




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FH6YiLWIuE%20



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Write what fraction of your family enjoy math

Write what fraction of your family enjoy fishing. Write what fraction of your family are adults. Now that you written some fractions, circle the denominator and put a triangle around the numerator for each fraction. Design a poster that explains the terms numerator and denominator.

Remember fractions are equal part of a whole.

PDHPE

Start a gratitude journal. Each day write 3 things you are grateful for. For example

1. I am happy that I slept well last night.

2. I’m happy that I get to do sport today.

3. I’m happy that I got to talk to my friend.

Write what fraction is equivalent to ⅙ ?

Make and write as many equivalent fractions as you can.

Complete the assigned Mathletics activities.

PE

Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today.

66/100 72/100

7/100 52/100

1/100 19/100

3/10 7/10

6/10 10/10

Write the following decimals as fractions

0.34 0.44

0.01 0.08

0.45 0.99

0.75 0.52

0.78 0.87

1.24 7.43

Break Break Break Break Break Break



Afternoon Visual Arts

We are looking at China this term in our Geography. Below are some pictures of Chinese Opera Masks.

Click the link below to watch the magic of the Chinese Mask Changing theatre in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNHEN_9DfU

Using the resource page at the bottom of these pages create your own Chinese Opera Mask.

Science and Technology

This term in Science our unit is called Smooth Moves. We will be investigating and describing forces and motion. We will be looking at things such as pushes, pulls, friction and gravity.

Push is force moving away from you.

Pull is force moving towards you.

Lesson 1 Games Galore

1. Play a game (eg,

board game,

cricket, ping

pong) and

observe any

pushes and pulls

happening while

you play.

2. Using a full page

in your book

Geography

Earth’s Environment

In this unit, students will learn about;

*climate

*natural vegetation

*native animals

*Australia and China

*why vegetation is important for animals and people

Activity 1

Write the heading ‘environment’ and brainstorm everything you know about environments. Write your knowledge underneath the heading.

What do you know about Australia's Environment, Natural Vegetation and Native Animals?

Write down everything you know.

What do you know about

PDHPE

Add to your gratitude journal

Technology

Create a PowerPoint explaining what you have learnt about fractions this week.

PE


PE

Complete an activity from the PE folder Stage 2 (This is found on the Jerrabomberra website where the Indonesian, Library, Music and Year 4 folders are located)




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PE

Do 30 minutes of physical activity if you have not already completed this today

draw a picture of

your game being

played and write

about where you

noticed pushes

and pulls

happening.

PE


China's Environment, Natural Vegetation and Native Animals?

Write down everything you know.

PDHPE

Add to gratitude journal.

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