Year 4 Homework

Date set: 10.6.16

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

Our topic this week is Fractions. 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): In PSHE we will be talking about people that are important to us.  Please bring in a photo or drawing of someone special to you that you can stick in your book. -      Write a paragraph describing the person and why they are special to you.  Try to include:   o   Expanded noun phrases (eg When I go to her small house she gives me a great big loving hug.) o   Fronted adverbials (eg In the morning, he makes my breakfast) o   Conjunctions (eg When I am feeling down she tells me a joke so I forget my worries.)

• 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: your spellings are of compound words which have been made by joining two smaller words together.

Group 2: Your words all contain the prefixes micro and mini.

 

 

Group 1

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
Adventure
Suddenly
Quickly
Silently
Sneakily
Softly
Beneath
Through
Around
Underneath

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
Astonishingly
Adventurous
Amazingly
Stealthily
Sleepily
Suddenly
Fearlessly
Courageously
Beneath
Through
Underneath
Nearby