Year 4 Homework
Date set: 16.06.2017
Reading:
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):
This week we have been
practising converting between different units of measure and solving word
problems involving measure and money. You have been set work on Mathletics to
help you to practise this.
Please also
practise your times tables and division facts up to 12x12.
Science:
In Science we have been
investigating habitats. For your homework this week we would like you to find
out about bees’ habitats and try to answer the questions. There is a link to a
website on your class blog to help you to get started. Read the information
carefully and do some further research of your own if you can, then answer the
questions below on the blog. Remember to answer in full sentences and read your
work carefully before you post.
What is happening to the
bees?
Why are they so
important?
How can we help them?
What could we put in our
garden to encourage more bees?
Spellings (20mins)
These 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
Over the next few weeks, we
will be revising words from the National Curriculum spelling list for Year 3 and
4. As these are words that you all need to know, there will only be one
spelling list.
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I. Bees are in trouble because they are endangered. Houses are being built in their habitats, (fields, meadows and woodlands) pesticide and fertiliser sprays (for keeping crops safe) are killing hundreds of thousands of bees, climate change is affecting the flower growth and viruses keep spreading through hives.
ReplyDeleteII. In the UK there are 250 species of bees made up of honey, solitary and bumble bees. Honey bees live in big colonies and are responsible for making honey. Solitary bees live alone and help with the pollination. Bumble bees live in groups smaller than the honey bee ones and help with pollination. Male bumble bees also can’t sting.
III. We can help bees by making nests out of wood for bees; especially solitary bees because they live alone. Compost heaps are good as well because bumble bees sometimes make nests there.
IV. Bees flap their wings 200 times each second when they are flying. Honey bees remember landmarks (so they can remember where their hives are) and they fly 500 miles in their lives. That’s like flying from Edinburgh to Paris! There are 20,000 different species of bee in the world. Some bees visit as many as 2000 flowers in a day.
V. When I tried a quiz to classify what kind of a bee am I, my results said that I was a Honey bee! I am friendly, I like being around people and I like being busy all the time.
1.the bees are dying. (sadly)
ReplyDelete2.bees help to provide a lot of the food that you eat - and not just talking about honey. the bees help you to grow fruit and vegetables by flying around and pollinating plants.
3.youcould grow new flowers to help bees make some baby bees.
4.we could put more flowers in our gardens
6 facts about bees
•Some bees might visit as many as 2,000 flowers every single day
•Honey bees can remember landmarks so they know where their hive is
•Bees flap their wings about 200 times every single second when they're flying
•Honey bees fly about 500 miles in their lives - that's like flying from Edinburgh to Paris!
•There are about 20,000 different species of bee in the world
•A worker bumble bee can carry pollen that weighs half as much as them!
Bees are dying because of climate changes, chemicals,viruses and their habitats are being destroyed.Bees are important because they provide a lot of food not just honey they help to provide a lot fruit and vegetables.we can encourage bees by putting a lot of flowers in our gardens we can help by making houses for bees.
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ReplyDeleteANSWERS and REASONS
answer
1. The bees are disappearing.
Reason
The bees are disappearing because of bad weather and because of some daisies in the flower or because of a bee having a bad disease that gets spread with the bees that the bee lives with.
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2.bees give us food.
reason
bees can give us food because when the bees suck the nectar from a flower the pollen of the flower gets stuck to the bees and the poor bees have to Carrie it.
Then when the bees go and suck the nectar of another flower the pollen of the first flower stays there that how it make seeds for the flower and that's how we get flowers,fruits and vegetables and it carries on and on.
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3. we can help them by not building any more buildings near the bees habitat and grow lots of flowers.
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we can grow trees and flowers in our garden to encourage more bees.
What is happening to the bees?
ReplyDeleteBees have the ultimate thankless job—all they do is give, and lately they just can’t catch a break. Their recent trouble is even more frustrating considering just how great they are. Along with sharks, bees are some of the oldest species. Scientists recently found an 100 million-year-old fossil. They are everywhere, totaling to 20,000 species worldwide. They give us honey and of course, they are among the best dressed of all animals. But things have been rough for these fragile fashionistas who are facing a litany of obstacles including colony collapse disorder, climate change, and cocktails of pesticides.
Why Bees Are Important?
Bees are pollinators, and work along with ants, bats, moths, birds, and butterflies to spread pollen of 80% of our crops day after day. Bees, however, are in a league of their own, both in importance and vulnerability. Scientists attribute one out of every three bites the average person eats to bees—entire food groups would not be possible without them, including apples and avocados (and that’s just the A‘s). Almonds, for one, are almost exclusively pollinated by bees, lots of them. Every acre of almonds requires approximately two hives, totaling to almost 2 million hives all said and done. They are so important, in fact, that bees are said to help pollinate crops close to a worth of 14 billion dollars annually.
Almost a decade ago, bees were named the world’s most invaluable species, and nothing has changed since. What has changed, however, is their rate of decline. Bees are among the oldest living organisms but recently have struggled to keep up with a quickly changing world. After their population falling 87% since the 1990’s, the rusty patched bumblebee was added to the endangered species list—and they just might be the beginning.
Interestingly enough, the same farmers who might be creating and using these pesticide cocktails might be the ones that would be harmed the most in the absence of bees. Roughly 90% of berries, fruits, and nuts are dependent on their pollination efforts. Understanding this symbiosis, farmers even take to transporting hives from farm to farm so that they can help with the germination process.
How can we help them?
We’re pulling for the bees, and even if it’s for selfish reasons, it’s important for us to keep on top of their situation. There are things that you can do to help honeybees. Try to curb some of your behaviors that contribute to climate change. Become a beekeeper, or simply buy local honey. Force companies to stop using neonicotinoids.
Need are really important.
ReplyDeleteSadly the number of bees in the world is getting smaller they are dying. Bees pollinate 75% of all the world's crops. With out bees we wouldn't have flowers ,honey and crops. Bees live in hives either made from themselves or manmade. To help bees we can plant flowers that have lots of nectar like lavender in our garden. Don't use chemicals in your garden.
By jake