Year 4 Homework

Date set: 15.4.16

Date Due in: 22.4.16

• Reading every day. Please write in your reading diary when you have read.
• Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is 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 up to 12 x 12.

 

-      Literacy (20mins): Recounts. In Literacy we are learning about recounts.  For your homework we would like you to think about the best day or best trip you can remember.  Write all about the day.  Remember to: - Write in past tense - Add detailed descriptions using expanded noun phrases (how did it smell, feel, sound?) - Use adverbs of time (eg. Next, after, finally) - Use adverbial phrases (eg. Later that day; As I walked down the hill) - Write in chronological order -Use prepositional phrases (Eg. Under the table, over the hill, next to the bridge)

• Spellings (20mins) 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
predator
prey
consumer
however
consequently
therefore
because
habitat
ecosystem
detritus

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
biodiversity
ecosystem
photosynthesis
environment
consumer
predator
detritus
absorb
producer
variation
biome
classification