Year 4 summer holiday work

Frank Einstein

Main focus: To retrieve and record key information

Link to resource

Mon

Video Lessons:

Video Lesson 1

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Then write your two sentence summary of the part of the book you read. 

Then answer questions 1-4. 

Questions 

1. What was the distance of the first lightning of the chapter? 
2. Where is Frank’s laboratory based? 
3. What prize is Frank hoping to win? 
4. What did he use as a head for his SmartBot?

Tue

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Video Lesson 2

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Then write your two sentence summary of the part of the book you read.

Then answer questions 1-4.

Questions

1.    Did the SmartBot work at first? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

2.    What tells you that the storm has stopped?

3.    Name 3 parts that make the SmartBot.

4.    What does the author compares the computer circuit to?

Wed

Video Lessons:

Video Lesson 3

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read. 

Then answer questions 1-4. 

Questions 

1. What is new on Frank’s workbench? 
2. What does the alarm clock tell the reader about Franks personality? 
3. What will Frank and his grandfather have for breakfast? 
4. Why do you think Frank Likes to stay with his grandpa so much? What suggests their common interest in the text? 

Thur

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Video Lesson 4

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read.

Then answer questions 1-4.

Questions

1.   What made Grandpa start thinking like a scientist?

2.   What type of robot is Frank working on?

3.   Why can’t all robots learn by themselves?

4.   What is the Dimetrodon in the corner of the kitchen?

Fri

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Video Lesson 5

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read.

Then answer questions 1-4.

Questions

1.   Why does Frank ask grandpa if his dad was really his kid?

2.   What would normal grandpas say about the use of the toaster?

3.   What part of the toaster is Frank looking for in the workshop?

4.   What does the electronic voice tell the reader about what is happening?

Frank Einstein

Main focus: To retrieve and record key information

Link to resource

Mon

Video Lessons:

Video Lesson 1

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read. 

Then answer questions 1-4. 

Questions 

1. What are the robots called? 
2. Which part did the robot replace from Frank’s original plan? 
3. Does Klink know what sarcastic means? 
4. Is Klink being sarcastic? 

Tue

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Video Lesson 2

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read. 

Then answer questions 1-4. 

Questions 

1.What is Klank’s brain made of? 

2. What plans does Frank have with the robots? 

3. Does Klink find the joke funny? Explain your answer with evidence from the text. 

4. Why Frank thinks this is going to be amazing and weird? 

Wed

Video Lessons:

Video Lesson 3

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read. 

Then answer questions 1-4. 

Questions 

1. What is Grampa Al looking for? 
2. What tells you that Grampa Al didn’t realise Klink in the kitchen at first? 
3. Klink thinks Grampa All is someone else. Who does he think he is? 
4. After all, what type of robot is Klink? 

Thur

Video Lessons:

Video Lesson 4

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Then write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read.

Then answer questions 1-4.

Questions

1.   How is the toaster repaired?

2.   What are the two uses of science Grampa Al tells Frank about?

3.   Why does he think Frank ought to be careful?

4.   What is the danger of releasing tiny neutrons and splitting atoms?

Fri

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Video Lesson 5

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Write your one sentence summary of the part of the book you read.

Then answer questions 1-4.

Questions

1.   Why can’t Frank enter the robots in the science competition?

2.   Do you think Watson is going to be surprised by the robots? Why?

3.   What is Klank working on?

4.   What tells you that the robots might not be so smart?