Year 4 Homework to be handed in on Thursday 30th June

Online homework this week

Maths

Always keep up with TT rockstars 10 mins each day - keep improving your speed!

This week, you have learned abbour co-ordinates. Please complete IXL units V1 V2 V3 and V4

Reading task (linked to Science below)

Read the following text about ‘The top Ten animals with the best hearing,’ aloud to your parent - more than once. The purpose of this task is

a) to find out the meaning of words you do not understand (you could scan the text and highlight these before you start)

b) To practise your reading fluency - expression, accuracy and speed.

c) To identify the sorts of words you still find difficult to read

Science

I have set you a slideshow to complete in Purple Mash. You need to carry out the experiment and answer the questions to learn more about sound and hearing! We will share the results together next Thursday and look at each others’ slideshows.

Music

Practise your Skye Boat song and others in Charanga

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 7th April

Online/Book homework this week

Walk against Hunger

We are doing quite well in class - so far we have walked 612km. However, we need help to meet our target! Why not go on a walk this weekend with your family and measure the kilometres? You can include all family members’ kilometres. Tell us how far you went in total on Monday and we will add them to our total.

Maths

11x and 12x tables booklet to complete - the more work you put in, the more confident you will be.

This week TT Rockstars has been set to 11x and 12x tables

Assembly SONG and parts—The Garden of Gethsemane

The assembly is shaping up well! Please make sure you know your part and the song ready to perform on Wednesday. Remember 2 members of your family can come. It begins at 9:10am.

History

 Time for you to do a little research. You will already know quite a bit about Anglo-Saxons, but to finish off I would like you to read about aspects that interest you from the site below.

I have set you a task in Purple Mash to write an information book about Anglo-Saxons. Make sure it is in your own words—no copying and pasting!

You could have a different subheading on each page. See if you can now become experts! Please include images too.

Science

On Thursday 8th April, please can children bring in a small (sandwich bag size) of soil from their garden or local area. We will be studying the samples on a lesson about soil.

Spellings

We have been learning versions of the ‘ai’ sound.

Key words: often special suppose guide various perhaps

‘ai’ words: rein weigh neighbour obey sleigh freight

Music

Carry out the tasks set in Charanga by Mrs Maddocks

Reading

One week left to meet your reading target this half term. Many of you are very close. Some have met it twice over now! Keep trying.

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 9th September

Welcome to our Year 4 homework page! This week, you have 3 challenges:

RHE (Relationships and Health Education)

I have set you a 2do ‘All about Me,’ in Purple Mash which most of you have started completing in class. Please complete this at home so I get to know you and find out more about your personality, likes and hbbies. You can also include a section on what you did in the holidays!

Science

We are learning all about plants this half term. I would like you go in your garden or go for a walk and find a plant to observe and draw in your homework book. Please label the different parts too. Give 3 reasons why plants are important.

If you go on a walk, there are lots of plants that are dispersing their seeds at this time of year. Can you find any? You could even bring any seed heads in to school for a class collection eg conkers, acorns, poppy seed heads.

Getting organised 1.

It is fantastic in year 4 if you can start to get yourself organised for school each day, bringing in all the things you will need and packing your own bag. I have included a timetable for you to fill in and stick to your fridge or wall so that you can get your own things ready!

Here are some key things to include on it:

Monday: recorder lessons Wednesday - Outside PE Thursday - Homework handed in

Friday - Inside PE You could write on your planner, what days you will DO your homework.

You could also include things you need to pack in your bag each day - eg water bottle, snacks, reading book.

You do not need to hand this in - just keep it at home. If you want to do your own design - you can!

Getting organised 2.

Please back your homework book in the usual way - something that reflects your personality. It can be photos, wrapping paper, posters etc.

Let’s get ORGANISED!

Year 4 homework to be handed in by Thursday 30th June

Online homework this week.

Maths

IXL units U6 U11 and U12 - Data and Graphs. Also please continue to practise your TT Rockstars for 5 minutes daily.

English

Task 1

I have set 1 piece of homework on Purple Mash to answer questions about the story below - parts 1 and 2 Watch and enjoy the videos - then go on purple mash to answer the questions fully - in sentences.

Task 2

Create a magical object

Your mission is to invent a magical item. You can make it or draw it—and bring it on Tuesday.

It may belong to your character you have been given in class. Or it could belong to any of the Viking gods, goddesses, giants etc.

This could be anything as long as you are prepared to explain:

Who does it belong to?

What can it do?

Where is it found? Hidden?

How would you describe it?

Here are some ideas: feather, stone, cloak, apple, potion, bag, box, ring, necklace.

 

Spellings this week

purpose straight surprise therefore pressure peculiar heard important interest consider

My spelling group, don’t forget to practise the spellings from your sheet completed in class.

Music

Don’t forget to go on Charanga to do your recorder homework!

Year 4 Homework to be handed in by Thursday 17th June

Maths

Please complete these IXL units about angles - W10 and W11

English.

Purple mash - I have set you chapter 3 of the story we have been reading in class and a comprehension quiz. Please complete - if you did not finish chapter 2, do this first.

Spellings

10 Year 4 words for the whole class (test next Friday) - the ones we practised in class. Please practise then complete the purple mash quiz on these spellings:

possible probably special although strange strength surprise remember notice recent

My spelling group, also practise the sheet of spellings we have covered in class this week.

History

Choose three of these topics about Vikings below to do some research at home - bring your notes in for Monday. I have put a site below to get you started.

Who were the Vikings? Viking houses Viking Clothes Why did they come here?

French

For Tuesday. If possible, Madame Jefferson would like you to bring in a picture of a French footballer playing in the Euro team. Record his name, age and colour of kit.

YEAR 4 HOME LEARNING To be handed in by Thursday 20th May

Homework is to be completed in homework books this week

Maths

Please complete the sheet provided revising doubling and halving numbers - and how this is the same as multiplying/dividing by 2. Ask your grown up to give you some halves and doubles to do mentally in your head to practise this skill.

English

This week we have learned what a limerick is! I have included the powerpoint below which we used in class. Can you create your own limericks?

Do one about a member of your family and one about a character from our story, ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter.’ You can do more if you are having fun!

They must follow the rules of a limerick:

5 lines

lines 1,2 and 5 rhyme

lines 3 and 4 rhyme.

See what you can come up with!!!

Spelling

This week, we have been revising spelling words which end with the ‘l’ sound. It can be spelt as the following:

le - like in eagle

el - like in angel

al - like in petal

ol - like in petrol

il - like in fossil

Please take a page of your homework book and make 5 lists of the different ‘l’ words. You can use the internet, a dictionary or just collect with your family. Make sure they are spelt correctly though.

Reading

One more week to meet your target - you can DO it!

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.