Year 4 Home Learning Pack w/c 1/2/2021

These are ideas of things that you could have a go at completing each day:

· 20 minutes of reading you own book

· 20 minutes of times tables practice (Times Tables Rockstars or Hit the Button)

· 20 minutes of Spellings (Spelling Shed)

In addition, there are daily spellings to practise, 6 pieces of maths work, 3 pieces of writing work, 5 pieces of reading work and 5 pieces of topic work that you can complete during the week.

English Task 1 – Spelling:

Practise these words 5 times each on a piece of paper everyday: expansion, extension, tension, explosion, invasion, expression, discussion, confession, permission, admission

These are the challenging words for this week to practice as well: imagine, increase, important

English Task 2 – Creative Writing

Can you write a story based on this image? Can you use ambitious vocabulary to describe what you would see, hear, think or feel?

English Task 3 – Grammar - Pronouns:

Pronouns replace a noun in a sentence. For example:

Please hang your coat on your peg. Please hang it up on your peg.

Bob has a perfectly-groomed dog. He has a perfectly-groomed dog.

Here are some pronouns you can use:

he

she

it

they

them

her

him

his

ours

I

Challenge: Can you write some sentences of your own using pronouns?

English Task 4 – Writing a fact file

Can you turn these fragments into full sentences about the Anglo-Saxons to create your own fact file? Remember to include a title, subheadings and paragraphs!

Paragraph 1 –

Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

· Left homelands northern Germany, Denmark, The Netherlands

· Rowed across North sea in wooden boats

· Ships one sail many oars

· Attacked many parts of country over many years

· Jutes settled Kent

· Angles settled East Anglia

· Saxons settled Essex (East Saxons), Sussex (South Saxons), Middlesex (Middle Saxons), Wessex (West Saxons)

Paragraph 2 –

What were Anglo-Saxon houses like?

· Made of wood

· Huts with thatched roofs made of straw

· Most of Britain was covered in forests – Saxons had plenty of wood to use

· One room for eating, cooking, sleeping, entertaining

· Built facing the sun for heat and light

Paragraph 3 –

What did the Anglo-Saxons eat and drink?

· Loved eating and drinking

· Have feasts in a hall

· Food cooked over fire in middle of house

· Roasted meat

· Bread

· Drank ale and mead – type of beer

· Grew cereals, vegetables, fruit

· Caught fish in rivers and seas

Paragraph 4 –

What religion did the Anglo-Saxons follow?

· Were pagans

· Became Christians over time

· Pagans had lots of gods

· Each god controlled a part of everyday life

· 1400 years ago, the Pope in Rome wanted Anglo-Saxons to become Christians.

· Pope sent monk called Augustine to speak to King Ethelbert in Kent.

· They built a church in Canterbury.

Paragraph 5 –

Who invaded England after the Anglo-Saxons?

· Ninth century Vikings invaded from Norway and northern Denmark.

· 1066 Normans invaded

For example:

All About the Anglo-Saxons

Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

The Anglo-Saxons left their homelands in northern Germany, Denmark and The Netherlands. Bravely, they rowed across North Sea in wooden boats. These ships had one sail and many oars. The Anglo-Saxons attacked many parts of country over many years. The Jutes made their home in Kent and the Angles settled in East Anglia. The Saxons settled in many parts of England, such as Essex (East Saxons), Sussex (South Saxons), Middlesex (Middle Saxons) and Wessex (West Saxons).

Now I would continue to write paragraph 2, 3, 4 and 5, remembering a subheading for each.

Reading:

There are 5 different reading comprehension tasks for you to have a go at daily. Make sure you read the text first and then answer the questions on a piece of paper.

How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 6 p81-85

Meanwhile, deep in the ocean, but not so very far from the Isle of Berk, a real Sea Dragon such as Old Wrinkly had been describing lay sleeping on the sea-bed. He had been there so long that he almost seemed to be part of the ocean-floor itself, a great underwater mountain, covered in shells and barnacles, some of his limbs half-buried in the sand.

Generation after generation of little hermit crabs had born and died in this Dragon’s ears. Hundreds and hundreds of years he’d slept, because he’d had rather a large meal. He’d had the luck to catch a Roman Legion camping on a cliff-top – they were completely cut off and he has spent an enjoyable afternoon wolfing down the whole lot of them, from commanding officer to lowliest private. Horses, chariots, shield and spears, the entire lot went down the ravenous, reptilian gullet. And, while things such as golden chariot wheels are an additional source of fibre to a Dragon’s diet, they do take some time to digest.

The Dragon had crawled down into the depths of the ocean and gone into a Sleep Coma. Dragons can stay in this suspended state for eternity, half-dead, half-alive, buried under fathom after fathom of icy-cold seawater. Not a muscle of this particular dragon had moved for six or seven centuries.

But the previous week, a killer Whale who had chased some seals unexpectedly deep was surprised to notice a slight movement in the upper eyelid of the dragon’s right eye. An ancestral memory stirred in the whale’s brain and he swan away from there as fast as his fins could carry him. And, a week later, the sea around the Dragon Mountain – which had previously been teeming with crabs and lobsters and shoals and shoals of fish – was a great, underwater desert. Not a mollusc stirred, not a scallop shimmied. The only sign of life for miles and miles was the rapid jerking of both the Dragon’s eyelids, fluttering up and down as if the Dragon had suddenly gone into al lighter sleep and was dreaming, who knows what dark dreams.

Toothless woke up about three weeks later. Fishlegs and Hiccup were at Hiccup’s house. Everybody else was out, so Hiccup decided to take the opportunity to check on Toothless’s basket. He pulled it out from under the bed. A thin plume of bluey-grey smoke was drifting our from under the lid. Fishlegs whistled. ‘He’s awake all right,’ said Fishlegs. ‘Here we go.’

Hiccup opened the basket. The smoke billowed out and made Hiccup and Fishlegs cough. Hiccup fanned it away. Once his eyes stopped watering he could make out a very small, ordinary dragon looking up at him with enormous, innocent grass-green eyes. ‘Hello Toothless,’ said Hiccup, in what he hoped was a good accent in Dragonese.

‘What are you doing?’ asked Fishlegs curiously. Dragonese is punctuated by shrill shrieks and popping noises and sounds MOST extraordinary when spoken by a human.

‘Just talking to it,’ mumbled Hiccup, very embarrassed.

‘Just talking to it???’ gasped Fishlegs, in astonishment. ‘What do you mean, you’re talking to it? Your can’t talk to it, it’s an ANIMAL, for Thor’s sake!’

‘Oh shut up, Fishlegs,’ said Hiccup, impatiently, ‘you’re frightening it.’ Toothless huffed and puffed and blew out some smoke rings. He inflated his neck to make himself look bigger, which is something dragons do when they are scared or angry. Eventually he got up the courage to unfurl his wings and flap up on to Hiccup’s arm. He walked his way up on to Hiccup’s shoulder and Hiccup turned his face towards him.

Toothless pressed his forehead on to Hiccup’s forehead and gazed deeply and solemnly into Hiccup’s eyes. They stayed there, snout to nose, without moving, for about sixty seconds. Hiccup had to blink a lot because the gaze of a dragon is hypnotic and gives the unnerving feeling that it is sucking your soul away. Hiccup was just thinking. ‘Wow, this is amazing – I’m really making contact here!’ when Toothless bent down and bit him on the arm. Hiccup let out a yelp and threw Toothless off him.

1) How long was the Sea dragon sleeping on the Ocean bed?

2) Explain what the Sea dragon ate that made him sleep.

3) Explain Sleep Coma in your own words.

4) Why did the killer wave swim as fast as he could away from the dragon?

5) Where did Hiccup keep Toothless?

6) Why did Fishlegs gasp in astonishment?

7) Explain in your own words what Toothless did when he woke up.

8) Why did Hiccup blink a lot when the dragon gazed at him?

How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 7 p86 -89

‘F-f-fish,’ hissed Toothless, hovering in the air in front of Hiccup, ‘W-w-w-want fish now!’ I haven’t got any fish,’ said Hiccup in Dragonese, rubbing his arm. Luckily, Toothless didn’t have any teeth but dragons have powerful jaws so it was still painful. Toothless bit him on the other arm. ‘F-F-F-F-Fish!’ said Toothless again.

‘Are you O.K?’ asked Fishlegs. ‘I can’t believe I’m asking this, but what’s he saying?’

‘He wants to eat,’ replied Hiccup, grimly rubbing both arms. He tried to make his voice sound firm but pleasant; to dominate the creature by the sheer force of his personality, as Gobber had said. BUT WE HAVE NO FISH.’

‘Ok then,’ said Toothless. ‘Eat e-e eat.’

He made a lunge for Fiddlesticks, who streaked up the nearest wall with a yowl of terror. Hiccup just managed to grab toothless by the tail as he flew off in pursuit. The dragon struggled wildly shouting ‘WANT F-F-FISH NOW! WANT FOOD NOW! CATS ARE YUMMY WANT FOOD NOW!’

‘We don’t HAVE any fish,’ repeated Hiccup, from between gritted teeth, feeling all his calmness deserting him, ‘and you can’t eat the cat – I like him.’ Fiddlestick mewed indignantly from a beam high up in the roof. They put toothless in Stoick’s bedroom, where there was a mouse problem. For a while, he was happy swooping after the desperately squeaking mice, but then he got bored and started attacking the mattress.

Toothless launched himself at Stoick the Vast’s beard which he mistook for a chicken. ‘Get him off!’ said Stoick.

‘He doesn’t do what I say,’ said Hiccup.

‘YELL VERY LOUDLY at him,’ Stoick shouted, VERY LOUDLY.

Hiccup yelled as loudly as he could. ‘Please will you stop eating my father’s beard?’ As Hiccup has suspected, Toothless took absolutely no notice whatsoever. I KNEW I’d be useless at yelling, thought Hiccup gloomily.

‘DROP TO THE FLOOR YOU HORRIBLE LITTLE REPTILE!’ yelled Stoick. Toothless dropped to the floor.

‘You see?’ said Stoick. ‘That’s how to deal with dragons,’

Newtsbreath and Hookfang, Stoick’s hunting dragons, came padding into the room. Toothless stiffened as they paced around him, their yellow eyes glinting evilly. Each was about the size of a leopard, and they were as delighted by his arrival as a couple of giant cats might be by that of cute little kitten.

‘Greetings. Fellow firebreather,’ hissed Newtsbreath, as he gave the wriggling newcomer a sniff. ‘We must wait,’ purred Hookfang menacingly, ‘until we are alone and then we can give you a proper welcome.’ He gave a vicious swipe at Toothless with one paw. A claw like a kitchen knife just nicked Toothless on the rump and the little dragon howled and jumped into Hiccup’s tunic, until only his tail was poking out of the neck.

‘HOOKFANG!’ bellowed Stoick.

‘GEDD OUT OF HERE BEFORE IM MAKE YOU INTO HANDBAGS!” yelled Stoick, and Newtsbreath and Hookfang slunk out, muttering obscene dragon curses under their breaths.

‘As I was saying,’ said Stoick the Vast, ‘THAT’S how to deal with dragons.’

1) What did Toothless ask Hiccup?

2) Write down what you feel about Toothless from what you have read.

3) Why did Hiccup wanted to sound firm but pleasant?

4) What did Toothless do when Hiccup said he didn’t have any fish?

5) Where did Toothless launch himself?

6) What did Stoick ask Hiccup to do to get him off?

7) How did Stoick get rid of Toothless from him?

8) Name the two hunting dragons of Stoick.

9) What does Hookfang mean by proper welcome?

10) What did Stoick threaten he will do to the dragons if he didn’t leave?

How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 7 p90-94

Stoick was looking at Toothless with uncharacteristic anxiety. ‘Son,’ said Stoick, hoping their might be some sort of mistake, ‘is this dragon your dragon?’ ‘It’s very ……. Well ……it’s very …….SMALL, isn’t it?’ said Stoick slowly. Stoick was not an observant person but even he could not fail to notice that this dragon really was remarkably small. ‘……….and it hasn’t got any teeth.’ There was an awkward silence. Fishlegs came to Hiccup’s rescue.

‘That’s because it’s an unusual breed,’ said Fishlegs. ‘A unique and …..er,…violent species called the Toothless Daydream, distant relations of Monstrous Nightmare, but far more ruthless and so rare they are practically extinct.

‘Really?’ Stoick surveyed the Toothless Daydream doubtfully. ‘It looks just like a Common or garden to me.’

‘Ahhh, but with respect, Chief,’ said Fishlegs, ‘that’s where you’re WRONG. To the amateur eye and, indeed, to its prey, it looks exactly like a Common or Garden. But if you look a little closer the characteristic Daydream marking’ – Fishlegs pointed to a wart on the end of Toothless’s nose – ‘marks it out from the more ordinary breed.’

‘By Thor, you’re right!’ said Stoick.

‘And it’s not just your average Toothless Daydream either,’ Fishlegs was getting carried away now. ‘This particular dragon is of ROYAL BLOOD.’

‘No!’ said Staick, very impressed. Stoick was a terrific snob.

‘Yes,’ said Fishlegs solemnly. ‘Your son has only gone and burgled the offspring of King Daggerfangs himself, the reptilian ruler of Wild Dragon Cliff. The Royal Daydreams tend to start out small but they grow into creatures of IMPRESSIVE – even GRANANTUAN – size.

‘Just like you, eh, Hiccup,’ said Stoick, giving a great laugh and ruffling his son’s hair. Stoick’s tummy gave out a plaintive rumble like a distant underground explosion. ‘Time for a little supper, I think. Clear up this mess, will you, boys?’

Stoick strode off, relieved to have had his faith in his son restored. ‘Thanks, Fishlegs,’ said Hiccup. ‘You were inspired.’

‘Not at all,’ said Fishlegs. ‘I owed you one after setting you up for that fight with Snotlout.’

Father’s going to find out at some point anyway though,’ said Hiccup gloomily.

‘Not necessarily,’ said Fishlegs. ‘Look at all that talking you were doing with the Toothless daydream here. That was INCREDIBLE. UNBELIEVABLE. I’ve never seen anything like it. You’ll be training him in next to no time,’

‘I was talking to him, all right,’ said Hiccup, ‘but he didn’t’ listen to a word I said.’

Hiccup took Toothless to his bed. In fact, he snored loudly the entire night but Hiccup didn’t care.

1) Why did Stoick look at Toothless with uncharacteristic anxiety?

2) Write down in your own words how Fishlegs described the dragon to Stoick the Vast.

3) What does Fishlegs point to on Toothless to prove to Stoick that he is a special breed?

4) According to Fishlegs, who is Toothless related to?

5) What word is used in the text to describe the size of Royal Daydreams?

6) Do you think Stoick believed Toothless was a Royal Breed? How do you know?

7) Why is Fishlegs confident in Hiccup’s ability to train the dragon?

How To Train Your Dragon Chapter 8 p-95-98

P.1 Hiccup was still pretty certain, knowing dragons as he did, that yelling was the easiest method of training them. So over the next couple of weeks, he tried yelling at Toothless to see if he could make it work. He tried yelling loudly, firmly, strictly. He looked as cross as he could. But Toothless wouldn’t take him seriously. Hiccup finally gave up on the yelling when Toothless stole a kipper off his plate one morning at breakfast. Hiccup let out his most fierce and frightening yell and Toothless just gave him a wicked look and knocked everything else on to the floor with one swipe of his tail. That was it with the yelling, as far as Hiccup was concerned.

P. 2 ‘OK, then,’ said Hiccup, ‘I’ll try going to the other extreme.’ So he was as nice to Toothless as he possibly could be. He gave Toothless the comfiest bit of the bed and then lay dangerously balanced on the edge of it himself. He fed him as much kipper and lobster as he wanted. He only did this once, thought as the little dragon just went on eating until he had made himself thoroughly sick. He played games with him for hours and hours. He told him jokes, he brought him mice to eat, he scratched the bit that Toothless couldn’t quite reach in between the spokes on his back. He made that dragon’s life as close to Dragon Heaven as he possibly could.

P. 3 By mid February, the winter was coming to an end on Berk, and the snowy season had turned into the rainy season. The ground all around the Village had turned into Knee-deep mud. ‘What, in Woden’s name, are you doing?’ asked Fishlegs, when he came across Hiccup digging a large hole just outside the house.

‘Building a mud-wallow for Toothless,’ panted Hiccup.

‘You spoil that dragon, you really do,’ said Fishlegs, shaking his head.

It’s psychology, you see,’ said Hiccup, ‘It’s clever and it’s subtle, not like that caveman yelling you’re doing with Horrorcow.’

P.4 Fishlegs had named his dragon Horrorcow. The ‘horror’ bit was to make the poor creature at least sound a bit frightening. The ‘cow’ bit was because for a dragon she really was remarkably like a cow. She was a large, peaceful, brown creature, with an easy-going nature. Fishlegs suspected she might even be vegetarian. ‘I’m always catching her nibbling woodwork,’ he complained. ‘BLOOD, Horrowcow, BLOOD – that’s what you should want!’

P.5 Nonetheless, maybe Fishlegs was a better yeller that Hiccup, or maybe Horrowcow was a lazier and more obliging character that Toothless, but Horrowcow was proving very easy to train by the yelling method.

P.6 ‘OK, Toothless, it’s ready,’ said Hiccup. ‘Get yourself a good wallow. ’Toothless stopped trying to catch voles and leapt into the mud. He rolled over and over in the oozy gunge, spreading out his wings and squirming happily. I’m bonding with him,’ said Hiccup, ‘so he’ll want to do what I say.’

P.7 ‘Hiccup,’ said Fishlegs, as Toothless sucked up a good mouthful of the mud and spat it out straight into Hiccup’s face, ‘I may not know much about dragons, but I do know that they are the most selfish creatures on earth. No dragon is ever going to do what you want out of gratitude. Dragons do not know what gratitude is. Give up. This will NEVER WORK.’

1) Why did Hiccup give up on yelling? Give an example. (Paragraph 1)

2) List four things that Hiccup did to make Toothless’s life a Dragon’s Heaven. (Paragraph 2)

3) Why did Fishlegs think that Hiccup was spoiling his dragon? ( Paragraph 2 and 3)

4) Why did Fishlegs name his dragon Horrorcow? (Paragraph 4)

5) Why did Fishlegs think his dragon might be vegetarian? (Paragraph 4)

6) What was Hiccup trying to do to get Toothless listen to him? (Paragraph 6)

7) Why was Fishlegs not impressed with the method that Hiccup was using to train his dragon? (Paragraph 7)

1) What year was the Gunpowder plot bombing suppose to take place?

2) Why did Catholics did not like King James I of England?

3) Who had the idea for the Gunpowder plot?

4) Where did Thomas Wintour go to ask for help?

5) Name one thing that made Fawkes a good choice for helping the plotters.

6) Where did the plotters meet to discuss the plan?

7) What did Thomas Percy rent the plot for?

8) What word mean the Lord Monteagle did not know who sent him the letter?

9) What was Guy Fawkes found with when he was arrested?

10) What information did the soldiers want when they arrested him?

Maths Tasks

There are 5 different sets of questions for you to have a go at daily. There are also some times tables for you to have a go at too.

Times tables:

Afternoon task 1 – German from Mrs Lees

Today we are thinking of the popular That's not my .... book series.   . 

Look at this sentence builder: 

Task 1: Using the sentence builder above, write at least 5 pairs of sentences. Remember capital letters for nouns, ist for is and sind for are. 

Example 1: Das ist nicht mein Hund. Der Schwanz ist zu kurz. (= That's not my dog. The tail is too short.) 

Example 2: Das ist nicht meine Katze. Die Augen sind zu groß. (= That's not my cat. The eyes are too big.)

Task 2: Draw a picture to show what each pair of sentences mean. (In Example 1, you'd draw a dog with a tail that is too short).

Afternoon task 2 – Geography – 4 figure grid references

On a map, there will be many horizontal and vertical lines, creating a grid. Using this grid, we can located the features on a map. Eastings numbers run from left to right. Northings Numbers run from south to north (bottom to top). Using the 2 digits of the easting and the 2 digits of the northing creates a four-figure grid reference.

For example, Bean’s Covert would be in Eastings 33 and Northings 43. The four figure grid reference would be 3343.

Can you use the map on the next page to tell me the four figure grid references for the following places?

REMEMBER! Always start with the eastings first.

1) Police House

2) Spital Farm

3) Mill Farm

4) Bridge Farm Bungalow

5) Mellish Park Lodge

6) School

Afternoon task 3 – Science

A classification key is one way to classify (sort) and name living things, including plants! When using a classification key to identify living things, we use yes/no questions. Can you complete the following classification keys by starting at the top and working your way down each branch? You can write the name in the blank boxes.

Afternoon task 4 – Computing

Debugging is a term used to spot mistakes in an algorithm (a set of instructions written in order) and correct them.

Here is an algorithm for drawing a house using 2D shapes:

The picture on the left is what the house should look like. Read the instructions. Will the picture be the same if we follow this algorithm?

1. Can you spot the mistakes? Circle or underline them.

2. Can you correct them? Change the instructions so they match the picture.

Afternoon task 5 - PSHE