Y4 Home-learning 1.05.2020

English

LO To use direct speech.

Today we would like you to practise using direct speech and write a conversation between two characters. The characters are ‘winter’ and ‘spring’ Use the image below to help you think of a conversation the two seasons might have. What could they talk about? Think about the changes in the weather. What types of events are celebrated in the two seasons?

Success Criteria

1. Use inverted commas at the beginning and end of the speech
2. Capital letter to start your speech.
3. The speech is punctuated before it is closed.
4. If the reporting clause is at the start of your sentence, don’t forget your comma!
5. New line = New Speaker
6. Up-level the verb ‘said.

WAGOLL:

Winter questioned in a gravelly voice, “Do you not get hot with all the flowers blooming on you?”

“Of course I don’t, I love the way the flowers brighten my appearance and instantly make me feel happy,” replied spring joyfully.

Science

LO: To identify producers, predators and prey within a food chain.

A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature. Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals.

 A simple food chain could start with grass (producer), which is eaten by a rabbit (consumer/prey), which is eaten by a fox (consumer/predator).

We would like you to visit the website below and work your way through the different challenges making food chains along the way.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zbnnb9q

Make sure you click on the ‘How to play’ button and read the instructions before playing the game. There are some really interesting videos that you can watch!

Steps to Success

First, find a producer – a plant that makes its own food from sunlight.

Next, find a consumer that eats the producer.

Then, find another consumer that eats meat.

Top Tips:

• A herbivore is an animal that only eats plants
• An omnivore eats plants and animals
• A carnivore only eats animals
• An insectivore eats some animals such as insects and worms

Extra challenge

I have uploaded a document called ‘Food chain sorting cards’ onto this blog, print the cards out and make your own food chains.

Label the parts of your food chain with vocab such as:

• Producers
• Prey
• Predator
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Carnivore
• Insectivore

We would love to see any of your own food chains that you have created so make sure you send them in. J