Year 4 Homework

Autumn 2

Date set: 23^rd September 2016

Date Due in: 30^th September 2016

-Reading (every day): Please make sure you fill in your reading diary when you have read at home and ask an adult to sign for you.

-Maths (20mins): Our topic this week is mental multiplication and division.  Maths homework will be posted on the mathletics website. Please ask your teacher for a paper copy if you need one or if you have trouble logging on.

-Literacy (20mins): Next week we will be starting our poetry unit. For your homework this week, we would like you to read some poems (you could use poetry books from home or from the library, or look on the internet: poemsforchildren.org is a good place to start). We would like you to prepare one your favourite poems to perform to the class next week. Please try to learn as much as possible of the poem (at least one verse) off by heart. Think about what makes a good poetry performance (more on this on the blog).

-Spellings (20mins) should be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences. Spelling checks will take place on Wednesday or Thursday of the following week.

 

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

• cover, write and check again

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group 1	Copy	Cover, write check	Copy	Cover, write check	Copy	Cover, write check
attic
bubble
wobble
rattle
chatter
follow
better
balloon
swallow
kitten
Group 2	Copy	Cover, write check	Copy	Cover, write check	Copy	Cover, write check
excellent
attacking
labelled
bubbling
swallowed
attendance
shattered
following
parallel
syllable
hundred
thousand

 

 

 

 Next week we will be starting our poetry unit.

 

For your homework this week, you have been asked to read some poems (you could use poetry books from home or from the library, or look on the internet: poemsforchildren.org is a good place to start). We would like you to prepare one your favourite poems to perform to the class next week. Please try to learn as much as possible of the poem (at least one verse) off by heart.

 

 

Think about what makes a good poetry performance. The link below will take you to a performance of one of my favourite poems, Macavity The Mystery Cat by T.S. Eliot, performed by Michael Rosen. If you get chance, watch the performance. What makes it a good performance? How can you incorporate some of this into your poetry performance next week?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/offbyheart/video/michael_rosen_macavity.shtml

 

There are also links to other poetry performances on the side of the BBC page. Watch some of them if you get chance.