Hi Everyone,

The focus for this week’s Literacy is apostrophes.

Please find attached a booklet full of activities linked to using apostrophes for possession. At the start of the booklet, you will find a parent/carers guide, which explains the different rules, when using apostrophes for possession.

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Writing Challenge: Choose one of your favourite cartoons. Write your own story based on this. In your story, try and use all of the SPaG features we have looked at so far e.g.

• Fronted adverbials
• Inverted commas
• Apostrophes for possession
• Expanded noun phrases

Reading: Reading Comprehension Skills Challenge Cards

Complete a reading challenge card each day this week. Once you have read the short text, have a go at answering the questions either verbally or by writing them down. You or an adult can then use the answer sheet to mark your answers.

Handwriting Practice: t2-e-1805-wind-on-the-hill-ks2-handwriting-poems_ver_1

Well done on continuing to work hard at home. We are very proud of you!

Miss Macfarlane & Mr Jackson

Hi Everyone,

At the start of May, I sent all parents in my class an email to their personal email accounts from the Y4 email address (newdale.year4team@taw.org.uk). If you did not receive one, that would have been due to me not having your email address (as it wasn’t on record in the school office); however, I did send those parents a message on Purple Mash to get back to me (thank you to those who did).

If you haven’t replied via email, it would be great to hear from you all and have an update on how your Y4 child is getting on. Mrs H and I are really missing not being in school and with our Y4 class!

Thank you to the parents who have already been in contact.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Miss Macfarlane and Mrs H

Apologies, but for some reason parents did not receive the email containing this week’s English work. Please click on the link in this post.

Miss Macfarlane

Just a quick reminder to parents about Oxford Owl’s FREE online reading service.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page

This service is amazing as it contains a variety of books aimed at your child’s reading level.

As part of your child’s home learning, please encourage them to read as regularly as they can.

Many thanks

The Y4 Team

This week, we’d like your child to complete this English activity booklet, which contains spelling, literacy and reading tasks. The writing tasks allow children to apply the Y4 SPaG features which we have looked at over the last few weeks e.g. fronted adverbials, inverted commas etc.

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Super Movers linked to Literacy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-english-inverted-commas-with-mr-smith/z62rhbk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-english-conjunctions-with-laura-bubble/zv4hd6f

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-english-verb-tenses-with-karim-hacker/zr7gt39

If you’d like to see how your child is getting on with their SPaG knowledge and application, then they can have a go at this Y4 SPaG test: Year 4 English Grammar and Punctuation Test 1

Handwriting Practice: Handwriting Practice

As always, there will also be tasks set on Purple Mash as well as maths and spelling work set by Mr Jackson.

This term, Y4 would have been learning about animals including humans as part of their Science unit.

We’d like children to create a piece of work, which demonstrates their knowledge of this unit. Children can choose how they’d like to present this information e.g. a poem, piece of artwork, a video report etc and upload it onto the Y4 homework blog.

Here is some information to help them: Y4 Science Animals including Humans

To help your child with their understanding of inverted commas this week, why not encourage them to dance to this Supermovers video:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-english-inverted-commas-with-mr-smith/z62rhbk

Parents can join in too!