Year 4 online homework to be handed in by Thursday 13th May

Science

Remember what we did in class? Now watch the video below and then complete the Purple Mash science task set.

English

1. Reading - have some good chunks of reading time this weekend to progress further towards your reading target.

2. Spellings. Please practise your spellings below on Purple Mash Paint program set:

   White group (words with s sound spelt sc)

   scientist, descent, ascent, fascinate, crescent, discipline, scent, scissors, scenery, scent

Green group (root words end in y)

early    earlier   tried   cried   trying  crying  hurried tidied  worried   happier

3. Purple Mash 2type spellings task set - Practise your typing and your spelling at the same time! Make sure you are using the right fingers. These are not the spellings above - but are KS2 spellings you need to know.

Maths

IXL M6 and M7 and also TTrockstars practise

Year 4 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 6th May (homework books)

Science - Rock Study

1. Think of at least 5 excellent questions about rocks and record them in your homework book.

2. Go to the beach. Find 6 rocks that are different from each other and bring them home.

3. Can you order them from a) roughest to smoothest

   b) smallest to largest

   c) dullest to shiniest?

4. Complete observational drawings of the rocks and annotate/label with words which describe them.

5. Can you have a go at identifying some of your rocks? This can be tricky so do not worry if you cannot. Use the internet to research them.

6. Begin to notice different types of rocks around you. What rocks are buildings made of? Walls? What else can you see made of rock? What type of rock do you think it is?

English - spelling/Handwriting

All children to complete sheet given out of homophones we learned in class - do your best handwriting. You may want to do your handwriting exercises first:

Spellings

White group - the homophones from the sheet - make sure you know their distinct meanings:

except, accept, affect, effect, who’s whose, aloud, allowed, whether, weather

Green group - said  again  beautiful  excitement  finally  surely  lovely  should  could  would

Maths

Please complete the sheet given out in homework books.

Don’t forget to keep going with TT Rockstars!

Year 4 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 29th April

Science

1. Have a go at completing the experiment below practically with fizzy drinks. The question we are investigating is: Does gas have weight? Feel free to carry out the experiment shown or do your own simpler version. You do not need to fill out the detailed sheet shown in presentation. How will you make it a fair test? I have set a blank document on Purple Mash for you to add photos and type what you found out. How did you prove or disprove the question?

2. Complete the 2nd Purple mash task explaining the characteristics of Solids, Liquids and Gases.

Maths

Complete IXL unit BB5 and carry on practising TT rockstars.

English

Keep collecting words in your reading to add to your journal and make sure you understand their meanings. What book are you reading to challenge yourselves? You are all such good readers now!

Spellings this week:

Watch the above spelling rap for a bit of fun! We love Blazer Fresh!

Green group

because  thought  quite  quiet  since   forest excited  were  across   field

White group

medal, meddle, seen, scene, witch, which, bored, board, mist, missed

Play hangman with these words - or make your own word search containing these words. Make sure you know what these words mean.

Year 4 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 22nd April

Homework this week to be completed in Homework book and handed in on Thursday 22nd April

Spellings

1. Please practise the spellings for your group using the ‘spelling scribble’ example below. Make it bright and colourful! If this is a bit to haphazard for you, feel free to make a different colourful picture to practise them.

2. Then write 5 good sentences including your spelling words in your book. Make sure the sentences are in your best handwriting and you choose interesting vocabulary to complete - be creative. (use this activity as handwriting practice too!)

(If you worked with Mrs Lyons on spelling this week, you are Green group. If you worked with Mrs Mather on spellings you are white group.)

Green spellings

ever every friend eye  laughed  really  what  where which    quick

White Spellings

awkwardly frantically curiously obediently carefully rapidly unexpectedly deliberately hurriedly reluctantly (do you know what they all mean?)

Reading

Enjoy at least half an hour each day of reading at home - especially at the weekend!

Collect any words from your reading you do not know the meaning of - look them up in a dictionary and keep a journal of these words so you are building your vocabulary. The more words you understand when reading and learning in your life, the easier everything will become!

Maths

TT Rockstars practice - build up your speed.

Science

We have started our new Science topic - The Three States of matter.

Can you work with a grown up to make water into three states - solid, liquid and gas?

What did you do? Record in homework book.

YEAR 4 HOME LEARNING To be handed in by Thursday 1st April

Read, read, read!

It is the last week to meet your reading target! Come on - go for it! We have 8 children in class who have done it. I am sure we can get more!

Maths

This week you have:

1. a double - sided fraction sheet to complete

2. IXL units Y20 and Y21

English - Spelling

1. Mark the teacher Homophone sheet

2. 2 Purple mash homophone quizzes. Practise any you get wrong in your books.

Year 4 Homework to be submitted by Thursday 25th March

All online homework this week.

English

1. Purple Mash - Jane’s Monster task all about Apostrophes for possession

2. We are going to invent a Brer Rabbit character in lessons next week. In preparation I want you to research North American animals and then decide on one that you research further. Find out its characteristics, can it swim, climb trees? Does it have claws, sharp teeth? Is it a herbivore or carnivore?

   Maths

   TT Rockstars - let’s pick up our speed. Mrs Lyons is now having competitions with members of the class on this game! Ten minutes a day will turn you into a pro!

   IXL Year 4 units Y7 AA1 AA2 and AA3

Geography

We have learned all about the movement of tectonic plates and what this causes this week.

Why not use an orange and an Oreo (or any biscuit with cream in the centre) and demonstrate to your parents our analogy.

You can use this vocabulary when explaining: tectonic plates, crust, slabs, movement, collide, earthquakes, convergent, divergent, transform, volcanoes, magma, lava

Year 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 18th March

English - Spelling.

We are having a little block of spelling lessons all about homophones. These are words which sound the same but have a different spelling - eg main/mane here/hear

This week, children have:

1) A sheet labelled ‘Mark the teacher’ where they need to correct the ones that are wrong.

2) They then need to write a paragraph in their homework books, using the homophones on the sheet that we have focused on this week.

3) Finally, they need to complete the 2 spelling quizzes set on Purple Mash. These are Year 2 quizzes to revise our knowledge.

Maths - Fractions

We have worked really hard at recognising fractions this week.

1) Please compete YEAR 3 IXL units W5 W7 and W15. If you wish to do more from the W section of Year 3 please do! It is good for you!

2) Also we are trying hard to pick up our speed on TTRockstars. Please practise the tables I have set for you this week. Aim to do as many short sessions on it as you can.

Homework books are due in next Thursday. Please write down that you have completed the units set on computer/i-pad.

Year 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 17th December

Just 2 subjects this weekend.

IXL - Maths

We have been learning all about Perimeter this week. Please complete IXL units X1 X2 X3 X4.

Although the calculations are not overly tricky, you will need to make jottings for some of them as they are hard to ‘hold in your head.’

Purple Mash - King Alfred the Great

I have set you a 2do to make King Alfred a certificate to give some of the reason he was so ‘great.’ Here is a video and a website to help you. We have learned about this in class too.

Optional Science - if you want to investigate

We have been investigating how to change pitch in Science. Children have brought home two plastic straws. Why not have a go at making this instrument and then changing the pitch?

Year 4 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 10th December

We Three Kings

Practise the words for the 1st verse, last verse and chorus - then the one for your king - Gold, Frankincense or Myrrh to know by Monday please - ready for our recording. If you have speaking lines, please learn by Monday

Recorder

Please practise We will Rock You and Silent Night ready for our online concert - to be recorded on Monday!

Spellings

2do set in Purple Mash - Words with s sound spelt sc

RHE

We spent some time this week discussing what makes a good friend. In our novel, Charlotte’s Web, Wilbur just wants a friend to be with. How can you be a good friend?

In your homework books, write and draw ‘A Recipe for a Good Friend.’

What does a good friend do? How do they treat others? Talk together about how you can be a better friend. Thank God for all your friends.

RE

We have learned this prayer, when we did a lesson all about angels this week. Please copy it in your book and you can say it at night! Please illustrate with a drawing of what you imagine an angel looks like:

Angel of God, my guardian dear,

To whom God’s love commits me here.

Ever this night be at my side,

To light, to guard, to rule and to guide,

Amen

Year 4 Home learning to be completed by Thursday 3rd December

Maths

Task 1: Please complete the following IXL Maths units:

F7 (multiply by 6)

P6 (using rounding to estimate sums)

W1 (identifying shapes - ready for our perimeter work next week)

Task 2:Please practise TTRockstars for a little bit each day.

1. English

   Task 1: Two spelling 2do’s set on Purple Mash for words ending in ‘ous’

   Task 2.

   Year 1/2 spellings for test: here where there who why what

   Year 3/4 spellings for test: promise arrive angel Jesus Christmas favourite

   RE

   Please watch the Video below about the story of the three kings and then listen to/watch the song. We will be doing something special in school with this story and song!

   When you have watched these, I have set you two Purple Mash 2do’s.

   One is a Christmas card quiz - sorting images into Secular (not Christian) and Christian Christmas images.

   The other is to make a Christian image for the front of a Christmas card showing the three kings. They could be on their journey or visiting baby Jesus with their gifts of Gold, Frankincense or Myrrh.

Recorder

Jingle Bells, We will Rock you and Silent Night practise on Charanga

Year 4 Home Learning to be completed by Thursday 12th November

Maths

This week, I have set the 8x tables on TT RockStars for you to play at home. You must put lots of practice in at home this week as I will be giving you an 8x tables test next Friday. We then need to move on to another x table. I know a lot of you have been practising as you were brilliant this week!

Also for maths this week I want you to show your parents how we complete column addition at our school by completing the sums below on the squared paper I have given you. If you forget, there is a help video on our ‘How to Help your Child’ section of the Year 4 page. India, Jack and Isabella have done a super, walk through demonstration!

a) 3426 + 4256 = b) 2809 + 4817 =

c) 5692 + 1430 = d) 2711 + 2718 =

e) 5692 + 143 = f) 271 + 2718 =

g) 2318 + 3218 + 1232 = h) 7894 + 903 + 342 =

i) 1239 + 1245 + 2809 = j) 1889 + 797 + 4786 =

Recorder

Mrs Maddocks wants you to practise Hot Cross Buns on Charanga. See if you can now master playing B, A, G.

Spellings

Year1/2 spellings to revise: father, brother, , mother, other, walk, talk

Year 3/4 spellings learn, heart , famous, different, through, group

English

Sheet in book - forming adverbs with adjectives. We have practiced these spellings in class this week. Make sure you also do your 5 sentences - don’t forget best handwriting and punctuation.

Year 4 homework to be completed over the half term

Mainly online homework this week

Holy Communion

This week please share and complete together p21-p39 of Called to His supper Book. Next week we will have our final session so please complete all the rest of the book to the end, over the holidays.

Maths

Please complete IXL: A11 F5 J4 which practise negative numbers AND the 4xtable

Also 8 x table. We have been practising it in class. The best way to learn tables is as follows:

1. Learn how to count in 4’s. Do whilst marching, clapping, do slowly, build up and get faster. Write out all the multiples of 8

2. Learn the key facts which are 1 x 8, 2 x 8, 5 x 8 and 10 x 8. All other facts can be worked out from those. eg 9 x 8 is 10 x 8 - 8. Also write out the 4xtable and compare. It is DOUBLE the fours! The more patterns we can see - the better!

3. Begin to recite your 8 x table and learn your Percy Parker song!

PERCY PARKER'S 8 X TABLE SONG

TT ROCKSTARS LOGIN

Also complete IXL F9 and J8 over the hols which practise the 8X table.

Recorder

Go on Charanga and practise Abi’s Blues and the new song below it. Begin to feel confident at blowing a B and an A note.

Don’t forget to sterilise your recorder and bring it in for Monday.

Purple Mash

I have set you a 2do to complete either this week or over the holidays. It is linked to our Geography focusing on extreme environments. Choose ONE postcard 2do out of the ones I sent.

Year 4 Home Learning to be completed by Thursday 15th October

Mainly online homework this week

Spelling

I have set you a game 2do on Purple Mash - a quiz on our spelling patterns this week - ‘ture’ and ‘sure’ Make sure you do your very best on this.

also

The 6 Year 1/2 spellings to learn are:

cold, old, told, both, only, most

The 6 Year 3/4 spellings to learn are:

peculiar, strange, surprise, earth, early, heard

Holy Communion

On Tuesday, we will be making our Reconciliation. Have another run through of this and practise your prayer.

However, to be ready, we have also started our Holy Communion sessions this week. Children have brought home a book, “Called to his Supper.” Over the next few weeks, they will complete sections of this at home. This week please share and complete together p1-p20. Bring in for next Thursday.

Maths

This week, it is all about learning the 4 x table. We have been practising it in class. The best way to learn tables is as follows:

1. Learn how to count in 4’s. Do whilst marching, clapping, do slowly, build up and get faster. Write out all the multiples of 4 -eg 4,8,12,16 etc up to 12x4

2. Learn the key facts which are 1 x 4, 2 x 4, 5 x 4 and 10 x 4. All other facts can be worked out from those. eg 9 x 4 is 10 x 4 - 4. Also write out the 2xtable and compare. It is DOUBLE the twos! The more patterns we can see - the better!

3. Begin to recite your 4 x table - one four is four, two fours are 8, three fours are etc. The following song is lots of fun and really works if you learn it off by heart:

4. Practise as much as you can! The school have now bought into a great platform which is lots of fun - Times tables rock stars! Children all have a username and log in stuck into their little green reading book logs. Click the link below, add the school name or postcode and aim to practise little and often - eg 10-15 mins per day. Really use this program to your advantage to become a times tables ROCK STAR! The more you practise - the better you get!

Recorder

Go on Charanga and practise Abi’s Blues - including the little section where you need to improvise. Can you now confidently play B and A? Don’t forget to sterilise your recorder and bring it in for Monday.

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 8th October

Maths

Please complete IXL A12 A13 and A14which practise skills learned in class.

Reconciliation

On Tuesday 13th October, Father Peter is coming into school to do children’s first Confessions individually. I have sent home a help sheet with your child so you can practise together and they can try to learn the prayer off by heart - The Act of Sorrow. Father Peter will guide them through a lot of it, so do not worry too much about the order of things - but just to put their minds at rest. You could help them think about the things they are sorry for too and have some reflection on this.

English - Word investigation sheet

We have learned the prefixes mis, in, dis and un - which all mean the opposite, or not eg misheard. Follow the instructions on the sheet to complete this word investigation.

12 spellings for a test each Friday

Year 1/2 spellings to revise:

prove, improve, move, love, above, child

Year 3/4 new spellings:

children, perhaps, therefore, woman, women, son

Any spellings you are finding tricky, try and write these in a sentence - using your best handwriting.

Recorder

This week, children have been given a log in for a site called ‘Charanga.’ It is stuck to the back of their name labels on their recorders. This is where they do their recorder homework. Mrs Maddocks has put two songs for them to play along to this week on the site. Have a go at logging in and trying it this weekend.

Year 4 homework to be completed by Thursday 1st October

Online homework this week.

Maths

IXL: B1 B2 B4 B5 B7 - these are all things you have practised in class. Some are really easy!

 Geography

We have been finding out about Plants all around the world. It has been helping us brush up on our knowledge of where countries and continents are.

I have set you two purple mash tasks to complete about countries in Europe and continents. Before you do them, have a look at an atlas, globe and/or Google Earth with an adult and locate the continents. Play a game where you name a country and try to locate it. Eg Thailand, Italy, USA

Spellings

after  again  any anyone    beautiful   because      behind    both    bought    break some    every

If you know you need lots of practise with your spellings in general, there are lots and lots of games on purple mash, if you do a search on there for spellings.

Here are some more ideas to practise:

Music

Please practise the first not you have learned on your recorder - B. ( Left hand. Index finger on first hole, thumb on back hole. Prop up with other thumb at back of recorder) Also, Mrs Maddocks wanted you to practise some rhythms of your name on your recorder. Eg Miss - is Ly - ons

Reading

Lets really go for these reading targets now. Have a big read at the weekend.

Nessy children - every night please.

Year 4 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 24th September

Thank you so much children for your amazing work on the brain - you did some truly excellent work and used your super brains to do it!

Maths

There is a double-sized maths sheet in your book which practises some of the things covered this week and also has a fun game on the back to play with a parent.

English

We have been learning how to start sentences in a more interesting way this week - with fronted adverbials for TIME and place.

Go into your garden, park or beach. Observe the wildlife and write some sentences with fronted adverbials - as we practised in class. Here are some examples:

PLACE

Underneath a leaf, lay a ruby red ladybird.

Over my roof, flew a delicate butterfly.

TIME

All of a sudden, my sneaky cat dashed across the lawn.

At midday, I spotted a hairy caterpillar.

Handwriting must be neat - make it your best work like you do in class.

RHE Managing my Feelings. My Anger Plan.

This week we have talked about managing our angry feelings. We compared the build up of anger to a firework and we thought of good ways to douse the flames and calm down. We need to get back into our ‘thinking brain’ instead of letting our ‘animal brain’ take over.

Come up with a plan at home of what you can do if you feel like you are losing control.

1. How will you calm down and get back in your thinking brain?

2. When calm, what is the best way to sort problems out?

   3. Practise these strategies so that you can be in control of your own feelings.

   Reading and Nessy.

   We are reading really grown up books now! What a super class of readers! Keep it up! Nessy children - keep it up every day.

Year 4 homework to be handed in on Thursday 17th September

This week homework is internet based.

Maths

Children have been working very hard learning to round numbers. Please complete YEAR 3 IXL units M2 and M3 which practise the year 4 skills.

Then you can play this game:

Science

This week children have been learning all about seeds and how they germinate. They have a purple mash 2do ‘All about Germination’ to complete - they started it in class.

RHE

We have been learning all about our amazing brain! Please go on the internet and find out all about your amazing brain and Growth mindset. Make a poster or power point explaining your amazing brain and how it can always grow!

Reading and Nessy

Please keep up with that wonderful reading at home!

Nessy

If you do Nessy - please do for 20 minutes EVERY day at home to become a firm reader and speller

Year 4 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 10th September

Homework will be set on Friday and handed in on Thursday. I will be sending the homework books home on alternate weeks and then setting the next week online to complete on Purple Mash or another digital platform.

This week I have sent their new homework book home and below are this weeks tasks:

1. Homework book: Please back your homework book in a style that represents you. This can be with photos, wrapping paper, pictures of favourite films, sport, characters etc. Please make sure your name is clearly marked on the front.

2. Maths: We have dived straight into maths this week There is a Roman Numerals sheet to complete and stick into your homework book. There is also an IXL unit to complete - A10. Don’t forget, when you get to the ‘challenge zone,’ the Roman numeral D = 500 and M =1000

3. Timetable: Now you are in Year 4 its time to get organised! Print out this timetable or make your own. Plan out what you need to bring in each day and what uniform you need to wear (see Friday blog for correct PE days) You could schedule in your daily home reading time and your homework time too! Start how you mean to go on! Keep it on your wall or fridge and use it each day.

4. Reading: You now have your new ZPD levels, reading targets and reading time which I have added in a little book for you. Reading is a joy! Make it your aim to become an avid reader this year. Travel to new worlds, meet new characters and be entertained!

   (Children in Year 4 can now middle interest level Blue books. If any questions or issues about this, please email me!

   Also, please could you write in your child’s homework book when they have completed things such as IXL and the timetable if not sticking it in)