Year 4 Home Learning Pack for Monday 4th January 2021

English Task 1 – Spelling:

Practise these words 5 times each on a piece of paper: scheme, chorus, chemist, echo, character, stomach, monarch, school, anchor, chaos

These are the challenging words for this week to practice as well: favourite, February, forward(s)

English Task 2 – Creative Writing:

Can you write a story based on this image? Can you use ambitious vocabulary to describe what you would see, hear, think or feel?

English Task 3 – Reading Comprehension

Read the text first, then answer the questions on a piece of paper.

1. What are people saying goodbye to at the start of the New Year?

2. Who changed the dates of the calendar?

3. Which country welcomes the New Year first?

4. Why is a coin or charm baked inside Mexican sweetbread?

5. Which country calls New Year ‘Hogmanay’?

6. Which two items may someone bring to a friend’s house for Hogmanay?

7. Why do you think people choose to make New Year’s Resolutions?

Maths Task 1 – Times tables

Maths task 2 – Column addition and subtraction:

Afternoon task 1 - German:

Today you will be making a pairs game to practise numbers up to 100 in 5s.

You will need: 2 pieces of A4 card, a pencil, vocabulary: 

5 fünf    10 zehn    15 fünfzehn   20 zwanzig   25 fünfundzwanzig   30 dreißig   35 fünfunddreißig   40 vierzig   45 fünfundvierzig    50 fünfzig   55 fünfundfünfzig    60 sechzig

65 fünfundsechzig    70 siebzig     75 fünfundsiebzig    80 achtzig     85 fünfundachtzig    90 neunzig    95 fünfundneunzig    100 hundert

1. Using a pencil and ruler, divide each sheet of A4 card into 20 equally sized parts, either by measuring or folding. You may need an adult to help you with this. 

1. Cut out the rectangles so you have 40 cards, all the same size.

1. Taking 2 cards at a time, on one write the German word for a number (eg, vierzig) and on the other card or write it in digits (eg, 40) 

1. Continue until you have made 20 sets of pairs. 

1. With a family member play the game - put all the cards face down (mixed up) and take it in turns to pick up 2 cards. If they match, you keep them and have another go. If they don't match, put the cards back and the other person has a go. The person with the most pairs wins.

1. We look forward to seeing your photos of your games on Seesaw. 

Afternoon task 2 – Science – Sound