Year 4 Homework

Date set: 6.1.17

Date Due in: 13.1.17

 

Reading (every day):

Please write in your reading diary when you have read.

 

Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is negative numbers and place value. 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.

Please also practise your times tables. I need to practise my ____ x table.

 

Literacy (20mins): Brave Rowland

Our new literacy topic is ‘Stories with mythical creatures or events’. This week we have been learning the story of Brave Rowland. We have practised the tradition of oral story telling in class.

For your homework this week, we would like you practise orally retelling the story to somebody at home. Ideally, your story should take 5-10 minutes to tell, and you practise telling it 2 or 3 times until you are able to retell the story confidently, without long pauses.

Remember the basics of the story are:

• Chapter 1 – Opening – introduce characters. A character (Lady Ellen) goes missing.
• Chapter 2 – Build up – Ask character (Warlock) for help. Princes ride off and never return. Main character (Brave Rowland) sets off to find missing character (Lady Ellen).
• Chapter 3 – Problem – Main character (Brave Rowland) cannot find the Villain and must fulfil tasks along his journey. Finds missing character (Lady Ellen) and meets Villain (King Elf). 
• Chapter 4 – Resolution – Main character (Brave Rowland) defeats the Villain (Elf King). Forces him to release trapped characters (Lady Ellen and Princes).
• Chapter 5 – Ending – Main character (Brave Rowland) returns home and all is well.
   

You will need to embellish this and add in your own details.

 

When you have completed your homework, ask whoever you were retelling the story to to complete the slip so that you can return it to school.

 

Spellings (20mins):

These should be practised for a short time each day, using the words given in sentences. This week we are looking at root words and prefixes. Make sure you understand what each prefix means (group one re, dis and mis, group two, sub, anti and auto) and make sure you understand how the root word changes when you add a prefix.

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
redo
retell
rebuild
reappear
disappoint
disagree
disobey
misbehave
mislead
misspell

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
subdivide
subheading
submarine
submerge
interact
intercity
international
antiseptic
anti-clockwise
antisocial
autobiography
autograph