Year 4 Homework

Date set: 20.5.16

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

Please practise your mental maths. 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 Imagine what it would be like to be a Sailor in Tudor times.  Write a diary entry about your experience.  Try to include: -How you felt. -What it smelt like. -What you heard. Remember to write in first person using adverbials of time to link your paragraphs.    Angus’s Diary of a Tudor Sailor It is 1578 aboard the Golden Hind. Today is the 17th October. It is night and we’re still sailing. It is strange, we don’t usually sail at night. I have noticed that Captain Drake seems slightly bothered lately. Maybe it’s because he suspects we’re being chased by the Spanish (spit spit spit). Life aboard ship is hard. I have no idea where we are although rumours say we just sailed round the tip of a place called Emerica. Earlier today I was firmly told by Captain Drake to go up to the crows nest. Then he told me in a hoarse whisper to watch out for the Spanish ships. I can’t believe how much you get rocked about up there. I felt quite sick after 10 minutes I came down the rigging and was bled arrgh that hurt. Later I was asked to help with an amputation. I do not like helping out with amputations. I was asked to hold down the unlucky person about to become an amputee!

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
Tudor
because
theatre
mast
sailor
ocean
continent
explore
conquer
battle

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
continent
exploration
ocean
colonising
discovery
galleons
scurvy
preserved
cured
manoeuvrable
vitamin
voyage