Year 4 Homework

Date set: 12.5.17   

Date Due in: 19.5.17

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 decimal place value. 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 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

Biography research

Biography Research

Literacy:

This week we have been looking at biographies. This week we would like you read a biography of somebody that you are interested in. You could look online or visit the library to find some examples. Read the biography and write down five new facts that you have found out about your person onto the blog. 

Year 4 Homework

Date set: 28.4.17   

Date Due in: 5.5.17

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. 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 play scripts. We would like you to take one section of a film or television programme. While you watch it, make notes about a conversation between two or more characters (dialogue) and how they speak and move (stage directions). We would then like you to turn your notes into a short section of a play script. Please add your play script to the class blog.

For example, here is a script for a section of Toy Story.

 

The rubber shark pops up wearing Woody's cowboy hat.

SHARK: Look, I'm Woody. Howdy, howdy, howdy!

WOODY: (sarcastic) Ah-hah! Ah-hah-hah! (grabs the hat). Give me that! (Woody leaps out of the toy box)

BUZZ: Say there, Lizard and Stretchy Dog. Let me show you something. It looks as though I've been accepted into your culture.

(Woody looks up to see Buzz chatting with Rex and Slinky)

BUZZ: (continued) Your Chief, Andy, inscribed his name on me.

(Buzz puts his foot out so that Slinky and Rex can see the sole of his boot. The name "ANDY" is written on it in permanent marker).

SLINKY & REX: Wow!

 

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 turning nouns into verbs by adding tion. Look to see how the root word changes when tion is added. Make sure you understand which word is the noun and which is the verb.

 

 

Group 1

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
relation
relate
preparation
prepare
location
locate
donation
donate
decoration
decorate

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
classification
classify
application
apply
identification
identify
explanation
explain
conversation
converse
appreciation
appreciate

 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Friday, 21 April 2017

A Midsummer Night's Dream

This week we have been reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

We have looked at some of Shakespeare’s language in class and discussed some of the words that he invented, such as honorificabilitudinitatibus.

For your homework this week, we would like you to invent three words of your own, with definitions.

For example:

·         You could merge two or more existing words into a new word. For example the word chortle, came from chuckle and snort- a snorting laugh.

·         If you know some words from another language you could combine them with English words to create a new word.

·         If you have a younger brother or sister, you might want to listen to their babbling and see if you can create a word from the noises they make.

·         You could create an onomatopoeia by listening to sounds around you.

·         You could add prefixes or suffixes onto existing words. For example you could say zebrification-the process of becoming a zebra.

     Write your three words with their definitions below. I can't wait to see what you come up with!