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YEAR 4 Home Learning – Week 12 (29.06.20)

Dear Dickens and Alswitha,

Wow! What a scorcher last week was! We hope that you managed to have some fun in the

sun. Perhaps you were able to complete some of your home learning outside?

This week, we’re having a mini space week after an intriguing (imaginary) visit from an alien

spaceship. You can see the video in the year 4 home learning section of the school website.

Remember to email any exciting work into the school office if you would like to share it.

Have a lovely week. Be kind to each other.

Mr Winter, Mrs Natt and Mr O’Connor

YEAR 4 – Week 11 (29.06.20) OVERVIEW

YEAR 4 Reading Spelling Writing Maths

Task 1 First person on

Mars likely to be a

woman.

Inverted Commas

– Direct Speech

An invasion!

Figurative

Writing

GEOMETRY

Describe position on a

grid.

Task 2 Aliens! Inverted Commas

– Direct Speech

Mysterious Voice

Direct speech

GEOMETRY

Draw points on a grid

1

Task 3 Meteors,

meteorites,

asteroids and

comets.

Present Perfect

Tense

The Alien Lands

(part 1)

GEOMETRY

Draw points a grid 2

Task 4 The Iron Man – Ted

Hughes

Proofreading The Alien Lands

Nouns and

pronouns

GEOMETRY

Move on a grid

Task 5 Read – enjoy some

quiet reading time

Spelling Test

Good luck!

The Chase

Short sentences

for effects.

Times Tables Rock

Stars

TOPIC & CREATIVE TASKS

Art To accompany our mini space week, why not create your own space

picture? What materials do you have that you could use? Perhaps

you could create your own spaceship. What about an alien planet?

Science

https://www.handimania.com/diy/3d-handprint.html With an adult, have a look at the website above to create your own

hand optical illusion! It takes time, so make sure to persevere. At

first it can seem like it isn’t working, but if you keep at you will begin

to notice it taking shape! Good luck!

PSHE This week, we are thinking about the British Value of Respect. You can show respect by showing

kindness to others, kindness brings huge benefits for everyone. We would like you this week to think

about some random acts of kindness that you might be able to do (social distancing of course). Maybe

you could write a letter to a friend and post it to them, bake a cake for someone in your family, say

nice things to people around you, ask you parents, “how can I help?”. We are sure you can think of

lots of other ways to show kindness – we look forward to hearing what you did!

Family Project Be sure to look at the family learning project on the school website.

https://www.handimania.com/diy/3d-handprint.html


Reading Tasks – SPACE

Task

Number

What to do…

Task

1

First person on Mars likely to be a

woman

Read all about how the first person on

Mars could be a woman. Also, learn a little

bit about strange space bubbles.

Answer the VIPERS questions below and

make sure you use evidence from the text

to support your answers.

Task

2

Aliens!

Enjoy this thrilling short story packed full

of adventure and mystery.




Task

3

Meteors, meteorites, asteroids and

comets.

Do you know the difference between

meteors, meteorites, asteroids and

comets? You will now!




Task

4

Another Planet

Read this extract from Ted Hughes’ book

‘The Iron Man’.




Task

5

Independent Reading

Enjoy your own reading book for 20

minutes!


TASK 1: Nasa: First person on Mars likely to be a woman

People have long talked about the possibility of men on Mars, but now

Nasa says the first person to walk on Mars is "likely to be a woman".

Nasa administrator - Jim Bridenstine - was a guest on a US science

and technology radio show Science Friday, when he made the

comment. The news comes ahead of the first ever all-female space

walk planned by the space agency at the end of this month. Nasa has been working hard to try and

develop the technology needed to send humans to Mars in the 2030s. Several robots already on the

Red Planet have been sending back data about what life is like on the planet's surface. The most

recent rover to be sent by Nasa is called InSight and has been sent to Mars to study marsquakes -

that is earthquakes, but on Mars! Research teams from several different countries have also been

doing experiments to work out how humans could survive on Mars.

In 2017 a group spent eight months living in an isolation dome close to a remote Hawaiian volcano to

mimic what it would be like to live there. Last year there was a similar stunt in the Oman desert in

the Middle East, with the team doing tests to see if they might be able to grow vegetables on Mars.

China's space agency CNSA also intends to open a Mars base to recreate the Martian environment,

and even has plans in the future to open it up to tourists. Last year SpaceX launched a

rocket carrying a car to orbit around Mars. Obviously we don't know for sure who the first person on

Mars will be, but whoever they are they're sure to secure a place in the history books!

Space news: The giant 'bubbles' found floating in space

The MeerKAT telescope was used to make the Milky Way discovery. An international team of space

scientists have discovered a pair of huge radio-emitting bubbles in space. The massive hour-glass like

structure was spotted by astronomers in the middle of our Milky Way. It is thought to stretch

across hundreds of light years and is considerably bigger than all the other structures which

currently exist in the centre of the galaxy.

The team of scientists who made the discovery believe the structure was created following an

energetic burst that erupted near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole millions of years ago. The

two bubbles can be seen above and below the centre of the Milky Way "The centre of our galaxy is

relatively calm when compared to other galaxies with very active central black holes," said Ian

Heywood from Oxford University. "Even so, the Milky Way's central black hole can from time to time

become active, flaring up as it devours massive clumps of dust and gas. It's possible that one such

feeding frenzy triggered powerful outbursts."

VIPERS questions:

1) In the first paragraph, find a word that has a similar meaning to ‘information’. It is a word we

used in our maths learning recently. (V)

2) Where did researchers grow vegetables as an experiment to see if they could grow them on

Mars? (R)

3) How do you think the researchers felt when they discovered the giant ‘bubble’? (I)

4) Find and copy the phrase that tells you the Milky Way’s black hole is not always active.

5) Is this text fiction or non-fiction? How do you know? (E)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47471576











TASK 2: Aliens!

The sun slipped behind the distant hills, painting the mountains red and

black. Shadows lengthened, deepening the darkness. Wind whispered

through the grass as if praying. Wearily, Tom and Jez picked up their

fishing gear. It was late and they knew that they would be in trouble. But

holidays only came once a year and they were just a mile from the cottage

where they were staying. “Come on,” mumbled Jez, picking up his rod and turning to go. At that moment,

the boys froze. From somewhere overhead they heard a low whirring sound. Half a mile away a glowing

light appeared. It streaked towards the forest and then hovered, casting beams of brilliant light down

into the dark trees. The boys turned to stare at each other. They were both thinking the same thing…

aliens! Tugging them deeper and deeper into the forest, the strange lights shone down like silvery

ropes. Without warning, there was a rush of roaring wind that tore at the trees. Then the lights began

to flicker in a mesmerising pattern.

Half stumbling, Tom and Jez staggered through the thicket, drawn towards the light. As they drew

closer, they could see that it was an enormous spaceship. Crouching behind a bush, hearts thumping,

they waited and watched. The ship was larger than a bus and circular. It hovered just above the ground.

Lights shimmered and a door opened. Out of the dark interior, a shadow began to move…

It was twenty-four hours later that Tom woke with a start, though at that point he didn’t realise how

much time had passed. He was cold and at first couldn’t remember where he was or what had

happened. Beside him, Jez lay curled up. Fast asleep with his thumb stuck in his mouth. Tom stared

around him. They were still in the forest and the bushes and grass had been flattened down. Trees

were scorched. Of course, the spaceship!

No one believed them and what was worse they couldn’t remember what had happened after the

ship’s door had opened. The doctor said that it was amnesia brought on by shock. They both knew

that the space ship had landed and an alien had begun to appear but after that, the next 24 hours

were a complete blank. In the end, the police went away muttering about time wasters - and left them

to get on with the rest of their holiday. It was only when he went to bed that night that Tom found

it. In his pocket there was a jet black pebble. It was shiny and comforting to hold. He rubbed the

smooth surface and as he did so, it began to warm and then it glowed. Weirdly, Jez had also found a

stone in his pocket. A present perhaps – a present from another world. But what were the stones for?

Tom wasn’t too sure if he wanted to know.

VIPERS questions:

1) Find and copy an example of personification from the first paragraph. Is this figurative

language used effectively? Why? (E)

2) Find a word used to describe how the boys walked towards the light? (V)

3) From the text, how do you know the police didn’t take Tom and Jez seriously? (I)

4) Using no more than 30 words, describe what you think happened during the 24 hours that Tom

and Jez were asleep. Use clues from the text to inform your ideas. (I)

5) What do you think the mysterious stones are for? (P)


TASK 3: Meteors, meteorites, asteroids and comets.

Ever looked at a shooting star and wondered what it was? Is it a meteor,

a comet or an asteroid? Every day the Earth is bombarded with more

than 100 tons of space dust and tiny objects no bigger than a grain of

sand. Around once a year, an asteroid the size of a small car enters the

Earth's atmosphere - creating an impressive fireball - and burns up

before reaching the surface. So, we thought we'd take a closer look at some of the objects streaking

through our skies at night, to find out a little bit more about them!

What is an Asteroid?

Asteroids are big chunks of rock which float though space and orbit the Sun. They are much smaller

than planets, and can vary in size. The biggest called Ceres is around 940 km wide - that's twice as

big as the Grand Canyon! - some of the smaller asteroids can be around six metres in size. There are

lots of asteroids in our solar system, and most of them are in the main asteroid belt, which floats

between Mars and Jupiter.

What is a Meteoroid?

Sometimes asteroids can bump into each other in space, and this can mean small pieces break off.

These smaller pieces of rock are called meteoroids. Meteoroids can be as small as a grain of sand or

as large as a metre across. Meteoroids can break off from asteroids.

What is a Meteor?

If a meteoroid gets close enough to the Earth that it enters our atmosphere, it begins to burn up and

fall to the ground. This burning trail is known as a meteor. They are usually bright in colour and leave

beautiful trails of light in the sky. Some people call them shooting stars, but they are aren't really

stars, just tiny chunks of rock burning up in the Earth's atmosphere! If a meteoroid rock doesn't

completely burn up as it falls to Earth - the rock that is left behind is called a meteorite. Although

meteors and comets both create bright trails through our night sky, they are very different.

What is a Comet?

Like asteroids, comets also float through space orbiting the Sun. However, comets are made up of ice

and dust, not rock - like a giant dirty snowball! Some comets take a few years to travel around the

Sun. However, some take much longer and others only ever appear once. As the comet moves towards

the sun, the heat begins to melt the ice and dust - turning it from a solid to a gas. This creates a

beautiful, bright tail. You can see a comet travelling through the sky when it is very far away from

the Earth, however you can only see a meteor when it burns up in our atmosphere. In 2014 the

Rosetta spacecraft made history by being the first to land on a moving comet.

VIPERS questions:

1) How often does an asteroid (big enough to create a fireball) enter the Earth’s atmosphere?

(R)

2) Between which two planets in our solar system does the main asteroid belt float? (R)

3) Which is bigger, an asteroid or meteoroid? Use the text to support your answer. (E)

4) Use a more powerful adjective than ‘beautiful’ in the sentence, ‘They are usually bright in

colour and leave beautiful trails of light in the sky.’ (V)

5) In no more than 20 words, explain the difference between comets and asteroids. (S)

6) How do you think the Rosetta team felt after landing their spacecraft? (I)


TASK 4: Another Planet (The Iron Man)

Bang! All the lights on the console exploded, creating sparks like a

supernova. The cockpit became silent and dark.

“What did you do?” asked Iron Man.

“I pressed that yellow button,” confessed Hogarth miserably, “the one

the Mayor told us not to.”

It had been a week since the Mayor of Little Hangleton had sent the Iron Man and Hogarth into

space on a rocket to fight the Space Beast. The Iron Man and Hogarth had successfully battled

other-worldly creatures and were on their way back home. Unfortunately, Hogarth had now pressed

the one button the mayor had warned them not to.

“You fool! The Mayor told you not to do that. Now what are we going to do?” bawled Iron Man

furiously.

“I don’t know,” sobbed Hogarth. “Nothing’s working anymore. How are we going to get home?”

“We can’t go home. Not without the fuel and definitely not now you’ve broken the engine!” Iron Man

spat.

“What’s that?” interrupted Hogarth, peering out of the cockpit window. “I’ve never seen a BLUE

planet before.

“What are you on about now? There are no blue planets!” replied Iron Man, exasperated. He looked

out at the small revolving sphere with just one single small moon slowly orbiting it and gasped, “Where

are we? This isn’t our Solar system! You must have made us travel through time as well as space!”

The landing module bumped heavily. The little boy and his giant metal companion quickly jumped out of

the landing module onto the grassy surface of the unknown planet and looked around them. What was

this place? Why was it so eye catching? Curling around thick spiralling branches were constricting

vines, which braced and creaked. Dangling down from the layer of moss, vast, bold leaves flickered

like church candle flames in a breeze. Sweet scented pollen drifted through the archways created by

the curving branches which created halos of light above and below. Behind them, the rocket quietly

imploded, leaving not a trace. They were stranded! They looked at each other and shrugged, knowing

any attempt at saving the vessel was futile.

VIPERS questions:

1) From the first paragraph, find and copy a word that suggests Hogarth felt bad for pressing

the button. (V)

2) Find and copy a phrase that suggests Iron Man and Hogarth have travelled to the

past/future? (I)

3) Find and copy the simile used to describe the flickering leaves. (R)

4) Paragraph three is full of figurative language. Choose an example - Is it effective? Why? Do

you like it? (E)

5) Which planet do you think they have landed on? Why do you think this? (P)

6) Write a summary of the story so far without any speech! Use no more than 25 words. (S)


Spelling Tasks (to be completed in order)

Task

Number

What to do… An example

Task 1 Inverted commas – Direct Speech

Help to mark the work by adding in any

missing punctuation.

Father Christmas joyfully shouted,

“Merry Christmas one and all!”

Task 2 Inverted commas – Direct Speech

Help to cheer up Garfield by writing a

conversation between him and Jon.

Task 3 Present Perfect Tense

Think carefully about the difference

between the simple past and the present

perfect tense.

has/have + past tense

verb

Task 4 Proofreading

Examine the text and think carefully to

proof read and correct any spelling and

grammar mistakes. The answers are

given so that you can check afterwards.

Task 5 YEAR 3/4 word list!

Spend your spelling time practising some of

the words from the year 3/4 word list that

you find tricky. You can find the word list in

your reading diaries.


Spelling Task 1 – Using inverted commas (and other punctuation) to correctly punctuate direct

speech

Refresh your knowledge of how to use correctly punctuate direct speech by following the link.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zr6bxyc/articles/zhqh92p

After, correct this paragraph by adding in any missing inverted commas or punctuation. Remember, no

two speakers can share the same line. You could write // to show that this person should have

started a new line.

What was that noise asked Molly as she looked cautiously over her

shoulder. I don’t know, but I heard it too whispered Arthur as his

eyes darted along the horizon. The two cats took tentative steps

forwards, making sure that their feet made as little sound as possible

on the leaves. look! Over there! There’s something moving in the

shadows Molly warned. Taking cover behind a tree, Arthur replied do

you think he saw us?” At that moment, a colossal figure emerged from

darkness. Who’s there the beast howled. It’s nobody, nobody is here!

Arthur murmured. Talking quickly, Molly snapped you can’t say nobody

is here! That means that somebody is here!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zr6bxyc/articles/zhqh92p


Spelling Task 2 – Using inverted commas (and other punctuation) to correctly punctuate direct

speech

Poor Garfield is feeling a little grumpy! Correctly punctuate the speech in the comic strip

above and use it as a short story starter. Think of a conversation between Garfield and Jon

as Jon tries to cheer Garfield up! What will he suggest? How will Garfield react?


Spelling Task 3 – Present Perfect tense

FINISHED? Write some of your own sentences using the present perfect tense.


Spelling Task 4 – Proof reading


Spelling Task 4 Answer


Writing Tasks (to be completed in order)

Task

Number


Task

1

SAVE ST BEDE – AN INVASION!

IMAGINE…It’s just another Monday at school. The

days are hot and hazy and you feel yourself yawning as

your teacher stands at the board to talk about maths.

Suddenly, the room starts to vibrate. There’s a low

rumble and, finally, your teacher stops the lesson. A

dark shadow is cast over the room. Running to the

window, your mouth falls to the floor as you see a

colossal spacecraft hovering above the school.

Write a diary entry to describe your morning at

school and seeing the spacecraft. In particular,

focus on a vivid description of the ship!

FOCUS: Similes/personification/alliteration

Your teacher managed to record

a video of the spaceship

hovering above the school. Head

to the Year 4 home learning

section of the school website to

check it out!

The malevolent ship hovered like

a haunting spirit.

Task

2

SAVE ST BEDE – THE MYSTERIOUS VOICE

At first, the people in your class are curious. Some are

even excited about potentially meeting an alien! They

talk to each other and stare in disbelief. Then a

booming voice echoes from the ship to tell everyone

that they will be landing! There’s commotion in the

classroom. It’s your job to find out what the aliens want

and to make a plan to greet them. Are they here for

good? For bad?

Write this section of the St Bede story. You should

write in 3rd person (he/she/they) and in the past

tense.

FOCUS: Correctly punctuated direct speech.

FOCUS: Conjunctions to move the story along.

Remember! Said is dead!

“What on Earth could it be?”

asked Arthur as he moved closer

to the window. “Well, that’s just

it. I don’t think it IS from this

Earth,” replied Molly when she

took a closer look at the

mysterious, spinning object.

Feeling nervous, Sophie called,

“I’m sure that there’s nothing to

worry abou-…” At that moment,

a mechanical voice rang out

across the school. Like a siren it

warned, “Prepare for landing!”

Task

3

SAVE ST BEDE – THE ALIEN LANDS (Part 1)

Suddenly, there’s movement from the looming ship

above. A smaller space capsule leaves the ship and

drifts slowly down to the school. Landing silently, a

large door opens and, stepping out from the smoke, the

alien leader appeared.

Draw and label a picture of the alien leader that has

visited Earth so that you can write a character

description tomorrow. Are they good or is it

something more sinister?

FOCUS: Label with vivid vocabulary ideas for tomorrow.


Task

4

SAVE ST BEDE – THE ALIEN LANDS (Part 2)

Your job today is to write a character description of

the alien leader who arrived at St Bede. Think about all

of the features that you could describe and make sure

to use the vivid vocabulary choices that you thought of

yesterday. You could describe it walking off of the ship.

For example: ‘bad’ and ‘nice’ are boring words. Improve

it!

FOCUS: Vary nouns and pronouns to avoid repetition.

If it were a sinister alien…

Slowly placing one horrifying

tentacle infront of the other,

the hideous being marched

off of the ship. It’s blinding

blue skin glowed like cursed

fireflies dancing a demonic

tango. Quickly, the menacing

creature scanned its

prisoners with its ink black

eyes.

Task

5

SAVE ST BEDE – THE CHASE

With the alien leader approaching the school. You seize

your opportunity to take his smaller shuttle and race to

the larger spacecraft. If you can get inside the large

ship, maybe you can find out a way to stop all of this!

Write a series of paragraphs (in the 1st person) to

describe sneaking towards the small shuttle and then

racing up to land on the larger craft. Will they try

to stop you or do they welcome you with open arms?

You should include 2 moments where you’re nearly

caught but aren’t. Perhaps the leader nearly spots

you taking his shuttle? Perhaps your shuttle takes

enemy fire and you nearly lose control? Perhaps the

leader helps you and teaches you something new and

exciting?

FOCUS: Short sentences for effect.

FOCUS: Fronted adverbials.

If you were writing about a

sinister alien…

With my heart pounding like a

drum in my chest, I peered to

see if I had a clear path to the

shuttle. The coast was clear!

Ducking low, I sprinted towards

the metal craft. At that

moment, the alien leader’s head

swivelled towards me. I fell to

the ground. Terrorified. Had he

seen me? Thankfully, I seemed

to have narrowly escaped and

remained unnoticed. With all my

strength, I pressed on to reach

the shuttle.


This week, you will need to check your answers with an adult

Maths Tasks (To be completed in order. We have attached all questions below.)

Task

Number


Task

1

GEOMETRY – POSITION AND DIRECTION

Describe position on a grid

Watch the video, then start on challenge 1 and

then work your way through each of the

challenges. Push yourself as much as you can. If

you don’t get through them all, be proud of what

you did achieve today

Task

2


Draw on a grid 1

Start on YELLOW, if this is too hard, move to

ORANGE. After YELLOW, try GREEN.

Be careful with how you draw your grids!

Task

3


Draw on a grid 2

Let’s have some fun! We have uploaded some

blank grids with some instructions to the year 4

home learning section of the school website.

Carefully plot them to discover which emojis you

have drawn!

Task

4


Move on a grid 2

Watch the video, then practise translating the

shapes. Start on YELLOW. Too hard? Move to

ORANGE. You should complete all of yellow

before trying GREEN. .

Task

5

Times Table Rockstars

This is very important. Keep practising those

times tables! Spend time in the garage and the

studio before playing some sound check games.

We will keep an eye on your brilliant scores.


Maths Task 1 (Describe position on a grid)

Challenge 1

1.) What are the coordinates for each of the vowels?

2.) Half of this coordinate is missing, but which letters

could it be describing? (__,4)

3.) …what about this one? (7,_)

4.) Mr Winter thought that the coordinates for P were

(1,4), what mistake has he made?

5.) Write out the coordinates to spell name.

6.) Write out the coordinates for a message to someone

you know.

Challenge 2

Challenge 3

Working systematically,

find the missing

coordinates using the ones

that you have already..


Maths Task 2 (Draw on a grid) –

ORANGE YELLOW

Draw a grid in your book/on your paper:

X-axis up to 15 and Y-axis up to 12.

Carefully plot these polygons on the same grid

Polygon 1: (2,1) (3,3) (4,1)

Polygon 2: (1,5) (1,7) (3,7) (3,5)

Polygon 3: (6,1) (9,1) (9,3) (6,3)

Polygon 4: (3,10) (1,10) (3,8)

Polygon 5: (7,9) (5,7) (6,5) (8,5) (9,7)

Draw a grid in your book:



Polygon 1: (14,8) (11,8) (14,5)

Polygon 2: (10,1) (12,1) (14,3) (12,5)

(10,5) (8,3)

Polygon 3: (4,1) (2,1) (1,3) (3,5) (5,3)

Polygon 4: (9,8) (7,11) (11,11)

Polygon 5: (2,6) (0,8) (0,10) (2,12) (4,12)

(6,10) (6,8) (4,6)

GREEN CHALLENGE

Draw a grid in your book:



Polygon 1: (9,7) (9,10) (12,10) (?,?)

Polygon 2: (10,1) (12,1) (14,3) (12,5)

(10,5) (?,?)

Polygon 3: (4,1) (2,1) (1,3) (3,5) (?,?)

Polygon 4: (2,6) (0,8) (0,10) (2,12) (4,12)

(6,10) (6,8) (?,?)

Here is a rectangle.

The coordinate (2,3) has been fixed and

therefore cannot change.

What coordinates can you plot to create a

different rectangle including the coordinate

(2,3)?

Plot 5 different rectangles including the

coordinate (2,3)? You might need to draw your

own version of the grid to help you.


ORANGE


YELLOW


GREEN

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