Year 4 Homework

Date set: 30.06.2018

Reading:

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):

This week we have been looking at time and changing 12 hour into 24 hour times. You have been set work on Mathletics to help you to practise this.

Please also practise your times tables and division facts up to 12x12.

Literacy:

Next week you will be writing your own list poems based on the poem at the end of school assembly. Write a list poem of you own and post it on the blog. (See example below)

I write my shopping-list in rhyme.
It doesn’t take me too much time,
and always helps me to remember.
(I’ve been doing it since last September.)

Wholemeal bread
low-fat spread
strawberry jam
dry-cured ham
Cheddar cheese
frozen peas
free-range eggs
chicken legs
grape jelly
pork belly
lamb chops
lemon drops
fillet steak
chocolate cake
cookie mix
seafood sticks
tortilla chips
salsa dips
instant coffee
treacle toffee
dried sultanas
ripe bananas
runner beans
a bunch of greens
new potatoes
vine tomatoes
and (really urgent)
liquid detergent.

That’s my shopping-list in verse.
Not very good? Could have been worse!    

Paul Hansford            

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

Over the next few weeks, we will be revising words from the National Curriculum spelling list for Year 3 and 4. As these are words that you all need to know, there will only be one spelling list.

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remember
possible
medicine
surprise
separate
breath
breathe
believe
probably
length
interest
ordinary

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 22.06.2018

Reading:

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):

This week we have been practising finding the area and perimeter of compound shapes. You have been set work on Mathletics to help you to practise this.

Please also practise your times tables and division facts up to 12x12.

Literacy:

Our next literacy topic will be poetry for homework we would like you to find and learn a favourite poem that you can share with the class. You can put the poem on the blog and say what it is you like about the poem. Then try learning the poem off by heart so you can peform the poem in class.

Sick

By Shel Silverstein

“I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
“I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I’m going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I’ve counted sixteen chicken pox
And there’s one more--that’s seventeen,
And don’t you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I’m sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button’s caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle’s sprained,
My ‘pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow’s bent, my spine ain’t straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What’s that? What’s that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G’bye, I’m going out to play!”

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

Over the next few weeks, we will be revising words from the National Curriculum spelling list for Year 3 and 4. As these are words that you all need to know, there will only be one spelling list.

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
exercise
extreme
experiment
experience
though
through
although
thought
height
weight
quarter
question

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 15.06.2018

Date Due: 21.06.18

Reading:

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):

This week we  have been solving word problems involving measure and money. You have been set work on Mathletics to help you to practise this.

Please also practise your times tables and division facts up to 12x12.

Science:

In Science we have been investigating habitats. For your homework this week we would like you to find out about bees’ habitats and try to answer the questions. There is a link to a website on your class blog to help you to get started. Read the information carefully and do some further research of your own if you can, then answer the questions below on the blog. Remember to answer in full sentences and read your work carefully before you post.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zsvf8mn

What is happening to the bees?

Why are they so important? 

How can we help them?

What could we put in our garden to encourage more bees?

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

Over the next few weeks, we will be revising words from the National Curriculum spelling list for Year 3 and 4. As these are words that you all need to know, there will only be one spelling list.

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
accident
accidentally
address
appear
arrive
disappear
different
difficult
grammar
pressure
possess
possession

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 08.06.2018

Date Due:15.06.2018

Reading:

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):

You have been set some work on Mathletics to revise some of the topics that we have covered this term. The topics set will depend on what your teacher thinks you need to revise.

Please also practise your times tables and division facts up to 12x12.

Science:

As part of our science topic on habitats we visit Crane Park Nature Reserve to study the habitats there in some detail.

For homework we would like you to carry out some research about what life you would expect to find in a stream.

                           

On the blog write about the animals you may expect to find (or did find) and how they fit into a food chain within the habitat.

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 looking at the ious suffix.

Group 1

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famous
jealous
joyous
enormous
nervous
monstrous
generous
marvellous
numerous
fabulous

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
famous
mischievous
prosperous
ridiculous
ludicrous
disastrous
anonymous
adventurous
luminous
adventurous
frivolous
miraculous