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Week 1 - 2 Year 4 Home Learning Pack

Contents

1. English & Writing Activities

14. Reading Activities

24. Numeracy Activities

46. Project Grid

47. Creative Ideas

48. Physical Ideas

49. Well-Being

56. Resources, ideas & useful links

Year 4 English and Writing Activities:

Activity 1:

Describe your perfect day

on this cruise ship.

Activity 2:

Edit your description from

yesterday. Use the editing

stations and English

passport

Activity 3:

SPAG mat 1

Activity 4:

Your first stop is this

beach. Use the 5 W’s and

a how to start planning

your story.

Activity 5:

Write your story ‘The

Beach’

Activity 6:

Edit your story from

passport

Activity 7:

SPAG mat 2

Activity 8:

Your next excursion

involves scuba diving. Plan

a diary entry.

Activity 9:

Write the diary entry.

Activity 10:

Edit your diary entry from

passport.

Read it to your family.

Would they like to go

scuba diving?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

__________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________

EDITING STATION 1: PUNCTUATION PARTY!

Have a look for:

● Capital Letters- beginning of sentences and proper nouns

● Full stops to finish sentences

● Question marks or exclamation marks if needed

● Commas in a list or to separate clauses

● Parenthesis for extra information (dashes, commas and brackets)

EDITING STATION 2: ADVERBIAL PHRASES

Have a look for:

● Adverbs in your sentences (-ly words and adverbs without –ly such as fast, well etc.)

● Phrases that tell the reader when, where, how and why

● Prepositional Phrases (Under, between, above, on, in)

EDITING STATION 3: DETERMINERS

Have a look for

● The

● An

● Are these at the beginning of your sentences and in the middle?

● Rule: a + vowel = an (an elephant, an apple)

EDITING STATION 4: SPELLING

Have a look for:

● Spellings that don’t look right

● Use 5 B’s to help you check the spelling

● Use your whiteboard to write different versions

● Spelling word list- use ¾ and 5/6 word list if you need too

● ONLY use a dictionary once you have used all the above ☺

EDITING STATION 5: IMAGERY

Have you used:

● Similes- like/as

● Metaphor- It is like a…

● Personification- giving objects human qualities (Flowers danced, sun smiled…)

● Alliteration

● Assonance – (Ignite light in the night)

EDITING STATION 6: VOCABULARY PARTY!

Have a look for:

● Dull adjectives- can you change these? Use your blue vocabulary books to get ideas and the working wall.

● Noun phrases

● Boring verbs - can you make the verbs exciting and choose verbs you may not usually use? (The troll walked around the school- The

troll lumbered around the school)

EDITING STATION 7: CHARACTER & SETTING

Have you created a clear image of the character or setting?

Have a look for:

● Exciting adjectives to describe your character

● Fabulous verbs to describe character action

● Senses to develop setting

● I can smell…I can see… -CHANGE if you have used these sentences!

EDITING STATION 8: COHESION

Have a look for:

● Cohesive devices at the beginning of sentences

● Have you repeated a cohesive device? Can you change it?

● Use cohesive devices list on the working wall

Reading Activities:

Activity 1:

Caesar’s Calendar

Conundrum

comprehension

Activity 2:

Summarise a non-fiction

article

Activity 3:

Live like an Emperor!

comprehension

Activity 4:

Complete reading grid

Activity 5:

The Haunted House

inference question

Activity 6:

“Where does our food

come from?”

Vocabulary

Activity 7:

come from?”

True or false

Activity 8:

come from?”

Comprehension questions

Activity 9:

Character interview

Activity 10:

Sequencing

Activity 1: Read the extract and answer the questions

Activity 2:

Read a non-fiction book or a non-fiction article on the internet (BBC bitesize has lots of great non-fiction articles) and summarise the article in 5

main points.

Create a poster or a quiz about what you have learnt.

Activity 3: Read the extract and complete the questions

Activity 4:

Complete the below grid about the book you are currently reading (this could be your Oxford Reading book or a book of your choice). Aim to write at least two points in each box.

What I like about this book? What I dislike about this book?

Questions I have about this book?

(These could be questions about things that puzzle you, questions you would like to ask the characters in the book or questions you’d like to ask the author of the book)

Does your book remind you of anything?

(This could be another book you have read, a TV programme or film you have watched or even a computer game you have played? Your book may even remind you of something that has happened in your life!)

Activity 5: Read the extract and answer the questions

Extension – can you predict what will happen next? You could even try writing the next paragraph!

Activity 6

Activity 6 (continued):

Read the above article “Where does our food come from?” Underline any words you do not understand and use a dictionary to find out what they mean. Write their definitions below.

Vocabulary:

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Activity 7: Reread the article “Where does our food come from?” and answer the True of False questions below.

Activity 8:

Answer the below questions about the text “Where does our food come from?”

Activity 9:

Imagine you are interviewing a character from a book - this could be a character from a book you are currently reading or from a favourite book.

Create a set of questions and then write the answers you think your character would give!

You could ask them facts about themselves, what their favourite things are, who their best friends are, what their plans for the future are or even what they had for lunch!

You can write your questions and answers below (and continue of a new page if you need more space!)