{"id":1419,"date":"2020-03-20T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2020-03-20T15:03:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T15:03:57","slug":"home-learning-20-03-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/2020\/03\/20\/home-learning-20-03-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Home learning :\u00a0 20.03.2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Reading comprehension<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please see attached the non- fiction report on Earthquakes. Answer the questions at the bottom of the sheet.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If it feels tricky, try the * sheet<\/li>\n<li>If you feel confident, try the ** sheet<\/li>\n<li>If you feel ready for a challenge, try the *** sheet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/t2-e-2222-earthquakes-ks2-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_1.pdf\">t2-e-2222-earthquakes-ks2-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, please continue to read 20-30 minutes daily. Try and read a range of texts too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Writing activity <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to a picture of a habitat that is in danger. As we have been writing passionately to Greta Thunberg about climate change recently, can you now apply those skills at home? Write a letter to persuade humans to treat animals with more respect. Please include: rhetorical questions, deforestation facts, causal conjunctions and time words.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pobble365.com\/save-our-habitat\">http:\/\/www.pobble365.com\/save-our-habitat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Spelling <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This week, we would like you to practise the following Y3\/4 spelling words from our list:<\/p>\n<p><strong>through\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 thought\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 favourite\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 ought\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 although\u00a0\u00a0 enough<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pick one of the following strategies, to practise your words: rainbow write, pyramid or spelling staircase. Can you highlight the digraphs?<\/p>\n<p><u>Please note<\/u>: for those working on Y2 common exception words, use the following online word search instead (play using \u2018single player\u2019 mode).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spellzone.com\/word_lists\/games-32308.htm\">https:\/\/www.spellzone.com\/word_lists\/games-32308.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Maths <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we have started our learning on multiplication, below is a link to a fun combination game. Think systematically to be effective and use the grid at the bottom of the webpage to draw out the \u2018sets\u2019 of coloured cups and saucers. If you are finding this tricky- change the problem to only white, red and blue cups then complete on a grid of 12 boxes. If you would like a challenge, add one extra colour and another row to your grid!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/32\">https:\/\/nrich.maths.org\/32<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember that Sumdog and Times tables rockstars have also been updated with activities.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Science <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have been learning about teeth! Here\u2019s a science project to reinforce the importance of tooth brushing: place an egg in vinegar for a couple of days, the vinegar will eat off the shell (tooth enamel). Can you record what you observe each day?<\/p>\n<p>Pick one of the following tasks, the details of which can be found on the website below\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smiles collage (challenge: label each type of tooth you made)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Good food for my teeth\u2019 poster (challenge: add a calcium fact)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.childfun.com\/themes\/people\/dental\/#Dental_Arts_and_Crafts\">https:\/\/www.childfun.com\/themes\/people\/dental\/#Dental_Arts_and_Crafts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Topic<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following on from our learning on volcanoes, please take a look on the following website and use the information to create your own Health and Safety poster, to warn people about the dangers of living near a volcano.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/volcanoes\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/natural-disasters\/volcanoes\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading comprehension Please see attached the non- fiction report on Earthquakes. Answer the questions at the bottom of the sheet. If it feels tricky, try the * sheet If you feel confident, try the ** sheet If you feel ready for a challenge, try the *** sheet t2-e-2222-earthquakes-ks2-differentiated-reading-comprehension-activity_ver_1 In addition, please continue to read 20-30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1421,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions\/1421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stpeterswaterlooville.co.uk\/year4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}