Home Learning – Year 4

English Maths Monday

Powerful Verbs This week’s book is called ‘The Pebble in my Pocket’ by Meredith Hooper and can be found on YouTube in three parts with the first part here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmyY3PQ6J0 Watch each of the parts to the story. As you are reading (or listening) to the story of the pebble, make a list of all of the powerful verbs that you find/hear in the book. Remember a verb is a word used to describe an action or something that is occurring. Examples of these that can be found in the story are: melting, flowing, hisses. See how many you can find!

Monday Using Doubling and Halving Choose an appropriate challenge. If you’re feeling confident, complete multiple challenges.

Tuesday

Diary Entry This week’s book is called ‘The Pebble in my Pocket’ by Meredith Hooper and can be found on YouTube in three parts with the first part here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmyY3PQ6J0 Watch each of the parts to the story. Imagine that you are the pebble that has been travelling through time. Write a diary entry, in role as the pebble, describing all of the amazing things that you have seen. Don’t forget to use the powerful verbs In your writing! For example: Beneath me, I can hear molten rock shifting and melting. A huge volcano towers above me, shooting and spitting fragments of rock and ash into the air. I feel terrified that I might get swept up and melted!

Tuesday Multiplication Facts (6) Choose an appropriate challenge. If you’re feeling confident, complete multiple challenges.

Wednesday Kenilworth’s Virtual Sports Day Today, is Kenilworth’s Virtual Sports Day! The Year 6’s have set up activities and challenges for you to complete to take part within this day. Information on how to join in with this day can be found below. Good luck!

Thursday Postcards home Write 5 postcards home, in role as the pebble, from five of your favourite scenes from the book. Use some conjunctions in your sentences, like those in the book:

• When • If • So • Although • Even though • While

For example: When the weather is warm, I sink to the river-bed with the hippos. I sink into the soft mud, while the creatures walk above me.

Thursday Multiplication Facts (7) Choose an appropriate challenge. If you’re feeling confident, complete multiple challenges.

Friday Timeline of a Pebble Create a timeline of the history of a pebble. Use all the facts and dates that are in the story to record where pebbles came from and how long ago. Remember: timelines should be in chronological order so start from the furthest time ago to the most recent. You might want to include images on your timeline.

Friday Multiplication Facts (8) Choose an appropriate challenge. If you’re feeling confident, complete multiple challenges.

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