Year 4 Homework

Date set: 21.4.17

Date Due in: 28.4.17

Reading (every day)

Please write in your reading diary when you have read. You will have been allocated a Bug Club book to read at home, which will be different to the one that you are reading in school. Check with your teacher if you are not sure which one is which. Don’t forget to answer the ‘bugs’- look out for them on each page! Please don’t “close” the book until all the bugs have been answered.

Maths (20mins):

Our topic this week is data handling. 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 and associated division facts (e.g. 7x6=42, 6x7=42 42 ÷7=6, 42÷6=7)

Literacy (20 mins):

This week we have been reading A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare.

 

We have looked at some of Shakespeare’s language in class and discussed some of the words that he invented, such as honorificabilitudinitatibus.

For your homework this week, we would like you to invent three words of your own, with definitions.

 

For example:

• You could merge two or more existing words into a new word. For example the word chortle, came from chuckle and snort- a snorting laugh.
• If you know some words from another language you could combine them with English words to create a new word.
• If you have a younger brother or sister, you might want to listen to their babbling and see if you can create a word from the noises they make.
• You could create an onomatopoeia by listening to sounds around you.
• You could add prefixes or suffixes onto existing words. For example you could say zebrification-the process of becoming a zebra.
   

Write your words and definitions on your class blog. Have fun!

 

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

This week we are turning nouns into verbs by adding tion. Look to see how the root word changes when tion is added. Make sure you understand which word is the noun and which is the verb.

 

 

 

Group 1

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
limit
limitation
situate
situation
populate
population
invite
invitation
operate
operation

 

Group 2

	Copy and cover	Write and check	Write again
recommend
recommendation
accommodate
accommodation
communicate
communication
associate
association
concentrate
concentration
interpret
interpretation