Year 4 Homework

Date set: 18.5.18   

Date Due in: 25.5.18

Reading (every day)

Please write in your reading diary when you have read. You will have been allocated a Bug Club book to read at home, which will be different to the one that you are reading in school. Check with your teacher if you are not sure which one is which. Don’t forget to answer the ‘bugs’- look out for them on each page! Please don’t “close” the book until all the bugs have been answered.

Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is fractions. Maths work will be posted on Mathletics. If you have any problems accessing this work, please speak to the teacher for a paper copy.

Please also practise your times tables and associated division facts (e.g. 7x6=42, 6x7=42 42 ÷7=6, 42÷6=7)

Blog:

We are now looking at biographies as our literacy focus and will be looking at the features of biographies and writing biographies of famous people. Before writing a biography you need to collect information about the person you will be writing about. Try to find some information about Sir Francis Drake (This will be used in class).

Spellings (20mins):

In grammar we have been finding out where to place the apostrophe with possessive plurals. If the word is a regular plural, e.g. boy-boys, we add an apostrophe after the s. For example: The boys’ coats were hanging in the cloakroom.

With some words we do not add an s to make it plural. For example child-children. If the word is an irregular plural we add an apostrophe before the s. For example: The children’s coats were in the cloakroom.

Your spellings this week focus on irregular plurals, where the spelling of the singular word changes to make it plural.  You have been given singular words. We would like you to find out and learn the spelling for each plural. For example if you are given the singular word mouse, you would need to learn the word mice.

You need to:

 • look at each word

• say the word

• copy the word in first space

• cover the words and try to write it from memory

• check to see if they are right

Group 1

Singular	Plural
woman
man
person
goose
ox
tooth
louse
cactus
shrimp
bison

Group 2

Singular	Plural
appendix
antenna
fungus
phenomenon
offspring
formula
vertebra
grapefruit
criterion

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 11.5.18   

Date Due in: 18.5.18

Reading (every day)

Please write in your reading diary when you have read. You will have been allocated a Bug Club book to read at home, which will be different to the one that you are reading in school. Check with your teacher if you are not sure which one is which. Don’t forget to answer the ‘bugs’- look out for them on each page! Please don’t “close” the book until all the bugs have been answered.

Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is Shape and angles. Maths work will be posted on Mathletics. If you have any problems accessing this work, please speak to the teacher for a paper copy. Please also practise your times tables and associated division facts (e.g. 7x6=42, 6x7=42 42 ÷7=6, 42÷6=7)

Literacy:

Next week we will be finding out about Sir Francis Drake and his exploration of the world. For your homework this week, we would like you to imagine that you are Sir Francis Drake. Write a diary entry for September 26, 1580. Include your thoughts and feelings about the journey that you have just come back from and the events of the day. Write a minimum of 150 words.

Remember:

·         Write in full sentences

·         Use capital letters for proper nouns

·         Write in the first person

·         Write in the past tense

·         Check spellings carefully before you post.

Spellings (20mins):

These should be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences.

You need to:

 • look at each word

• say the word

• copy the word in first space

• cover the words and try to write it from memory

• check to see if they are right

This week we are learning homophones. These are words which sound the same but have different meanings. It is important that you learn the meaning of each word when you are learning your spellings this week.  

Group 1

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
there
their
they’re
your
you’re
plain
plane
fair
fare
heel
heal
he’ll

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
there
their
they’re
your
you’re
medal
meddle
whose
who’s
allowed
aloud
patience
patients

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 04.5.18   

Date Due in: 11.5.18

Reading (every day)

Please write in your reading diary when you have read. You will have been allocated a Bug Club book to read at home, which will be different to the one that you are reading in school. Check with your teacher if you are not sure which one is which. Don’t forget to answer the ‘bugs’- look out for them on each page! Please don’t “close” the book until all the bugs have been answered.

Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is naming and measuring angles. Maths work will be posted on Mathletics. If you have any problems accessing this work, please speak to the teacher for a paper copy. Please also practise your times tables and associated division facts (e.g. 7x6=42, 6x7=42 42 ÷7=6, 42÷6=7)

Literacy:

This week we have been looking at playscripts. This week we would like you to look at the start of a playscript below and finish it off on the blog.

Spellings (20mins):

These should be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences.

You need to:

 • look at each word

• say the word

• copy the word in first space

• cover the words and try to write it from memory

• check to see if they are right

Group 1	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
main
mane,
mist
missed
male
mail
hear
here
bawl
ball

Group 2	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
peace
piece
scene
seen
accept
except
affect
effect
rain
reign
rein
weather
whether