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Home Learning

Year 4

Day 1 – Monday 13.07.20

Writing

Watch this clip, Playmate -

https://www.literacyshed.com/playmate.html

Task: Retell the story using the third person. Include speech in

your story.

Pages 3-4

Maths

As a school, we follow the White Rose scheme. The

activities below follow on from topics you have

covered in class.

Summer Term Week 7 - Lesson 1: Compare and order angles.

1. There is no video to watch today.

2. Complete the activity. Page 5 and 6

3. Check your answers and if you have got any incorrect,

try again. Pages 7- 8

Reading

Log on to Myon and read every day. Don’t forget to

quiz after each text! Can you score 100% five times in

a row?

https://www.myon.co.uk/login/

Complete reading comprehension: All About

Elephants

Pages 9-14

Topic

History

Life as a Tudor child depended very much on whether you were

a rich Tudor or a poor Tudor, and even if you were a boy or a

girl. Read about life as a Tudor child.

How many differences can you think of between children in

Tudor times and children today? List as many as you can in the

chart. Pages 18-21

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Spelling

Review Week

Your task this week is:

1. To learn the meaning of the words

2. Put the words into a sentence (orally or written)

3. Learn how to spell them.

4. Get someone at home to test you on Friday and see how

many you remembered. Good luck!

Poisonous

Serious

Obediently

Herbivorous

Perilous

Perhaps

Mysterious

Rapidly

Glorious

Hurriedly

Grammar

Apostrophes

Apostrophes can be used for contractions. For example, in the

word ‘don’t’, do and not have been joined together with the

removal of ‘o’ in ‘not’. That removal is called a contraction and is

replaced with an apostrophe.

Apostrophes can also be used to show possession. For example,

Ellis’s favourite game was Tig. Here the apostrophe is used

to show the game belongs to Ellis.

Complete the worksheet on when you should not use an

apostrophe.

Pages 15-17

Challenge:

Write some rules about when you should not use an apostrophe.

Don’t forget to send an email of your fantastic work you have been doing to homelearning@lyonpark.brent.sch.uk.

We look forward to seeing them!

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Task: Retell the story using the third person. You will need to give the character’s

names. Include speech in your story.

Third-person is writing from another person’s point of view or as an outsider looking in.

Third person uses pronouns such as: ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘it’ or ‘they’.

One year later, the boy is fed up of his toy.

Until his scary dream…

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When should you not use an apostrophe

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Answers

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History What do you think the biggest differences between growing up in Tudor times and growing up in modern times would have been? _________________________________________________

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Life as a Tudor child depended very much on whether you were a rich Tudor or a poor Tudor, and even if you were a boy or a girl. Men and women had very specific roles in Tudor times - the men worked and provided for the family while the women looked after the home. Poor Tudor Children If you were a poor Tudor boy, you would go out to work for your family from the age of about six. Lots of boys became apprentices. This means that they worked for someone (such as a baker, blacksmith or tailor) for free. In return, they would receive food, shelter and would be taught the trade. Once they were about ten, they would start to be paid for their work. Girls from poor Tudor families would work as maids and servants until they were old enough to get married and look after their own households. It would then be their responsibility to take care of the children and the house while their husbands went to work. Neither boys nor girls from poorer families went to school as school was expensive. It was more beneficial for them to learn how to earn money so they could survive. Sometimes, they would attend dame schools which would be held in the teacher’s home. The teacher, usually a woman, would teach the children their letters and how to read.

When they weren’t working, poor Tudor children enjoyed playing with toys such as balls (made from a pig’s bladder) or hoops. They didn’t have many toys but would use what they had around them to amuse themselves. They would spend most of their time playing outside as their houses were usually small and cramped.

Rich Tudor Children

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Rich children didn’t have to go out at a young age and work to support their families. This meant they were able to go to school, although only if you were a boy. Girls were taught at home. They were taught to read and write as well as practical things like sewing, embroidery and learning how to manage a household. Boys were taught Latin and Greek, maths and religion. They copied the alphabet and the Lord’s Prayer from a hornbook. This was a slate covered with a layer of clear horn. Teachers were very strict. Any mistakes were punished. Rich children wouldn’t have many toys but the toys they would have would be of a high quality. This picture shows a little girl with her doll. The doll was probably carved from wood and would have had moveable legs and arms. She would have had several different outfits to dress her doll in too. Rich boys would have had wooden boats or horses. They would also be taught to ride and hunt from a young age. When the weather was bad, they would play cards, marbles or dice inside. Children’s Health in Tudor Times Whether you were rich or poor, there was much more chance of dying as a child than there is today. Out of all the babies that were born in Tudor times, up to 60% (six out of every ten children) would die at birth. 20% (two out of every ten children) would die before they reached the age of fifteen. Why do you think this is? What reasons can you come up with? Check your answers on page 21. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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• Tudors didn’t have as much medical knowledge as we do today. They didn’t have medicines or vaccinations to prevent or cure diseases.

• There were lots of illnesses like the plague which killed a lot of people and

• for which there was no cure.

• Women had children at home instead of at the hospital. This meant that if anything went wrong, there was little that could be done.

• Poor Tudors often lived in cramped conditions which contributed to the spread of diseases.

• The Tudor diet wasn’t as healthy as our diet today. They didn’t know about vitamins or how to eat a balanced diet.