Homework in Year 4

In Year Four the children will receive their homework on a Friday. They will copy the homework into the back of their green 'Homework Book'. Their homework will also be available on the school website. Homework should be completed in the front of their books and be handed in by the Wednesday.

Every week the children will need to read to an adult three times a week and this reading should be recorded and initialled by an adult in your child's reading record. 

Every week, on two occasions for a period of 10 minutes the children should play on 'TT Rockstars'. This is extremely important as the children will complete their 'Year 4 Times Tables Check' in the summer term. Your child's login is on the inside cover of their homework book and on their green login card.

Spellings will be stuck in homework books on a Friday and should be learnt for a test on the following Friday. Please use previously practised ideas e.g rainbow writing, pyramid writing, putting the spellings into a sentence, clapping out the syllables in each of the words, spelling them with magnetic letters, typing them out etc. Please also practise spellings through games on Spelling Shed (your log in is in your homework book).

Weekly Homework the children will receive at least one piece per week.

Friday 16th  October

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings stuck in your green book ready for a test on the following Friday. Complete the games on Ed Shed to help with the spelling of these words. 

English

Please write a short setting description of a scene at the Ancient Greek Olympic Games.  You could use the image below as inspiration:

Within this description you could write:

A simile or a metaphor;

Start a sentence with an adverb E.g Quickly, Loudly, Speedily, Calmly;

A fronted adverbial for where E.g In the centre of the stadium,  along the race track, up high in the stands;

An expanded noun phrase, this can be built with a determiner + adjective + adjective + noun + with/that + verb

Friday 9th  October

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings stuck in your green book ready for a test on the following Friday. Complete the games on Ed Shed to help with the spelling of these words. 

Black History Month 

For Black History Month in Year 4 we are looking at music by black musicians. For homework this week we would like your child to choose a black musician to research; have a listen to some music by them, maybe watch one of their music videos then create a profile of this person. 

The profile needs to include a picture of them, their full name, date of birth, what type of music they play,  an interesting fact about them and we'd like to know which songs you listened to or watched- which was your favourite and why? 

Example of musicians they could research: Bob Marley, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Prince, Nina Simone, Beyonce. 

Friday 2nd  October

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings stuck in your green book ready for a test on the following Friday. Complete the games on Ed Shed to help with the spelling of these words. 

Maths

Create a 4 digit number (this could be done by rolling a dice or using a spinner).

Write out the number.

Underline the thousands in red.

Underline the hundreds in blue.

Underline the tens in yellow.

Underline the ones in green.

Round the number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

Write the next 5 numbers to follow the number you made.

Write down the 5 numbers that come before your original number.

* Repeat this for 5 more numbers *  

Friday 25th September

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings stuck in your green book ready for a test on the following Friday. Complete the games on Ed Shed to help with the spelling of these words. 

Create a poster on the next page of your green homework book to promote good dental hygiene. 

It should include a bright, interesting title, pictures and sentences telling the reader how to look after their teeth. 

You may want to rewatch with your child the NHS video we ended our Science lesson with:

Friday 11th September

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings stuck in your green book ready for a test on the following Friday. 

Create a profile of a Greek God or Goddess. The profile should have a drawn picture of the God or Goddess and details including: their name, personality, physical appearance, special power and any additional information. 

You could use the following links to help with this:

Friday 18th September

This week we have not written this into the children's green books. They did such a wonderful job on their homework last week we want to use it in our History lesson on Monday. 

Reading: Read three times a week to an adult, record this reading in your reading record. 

Maths: Play on TT Rockstars for 10 minutes, twice every week. 

Spellings: Learn the spellings we have sent home ready for a test on the following Friday and complete the spelling activities on Ed Shed. 

If you have a Lexia login please complete 10 minutes on this this week.  

Login to Purple Mash and complete the activity listed in your 'To Do' list. There should be at least 5 sentence in this speech bubble and there must at least one expanded noun phrase- we have been writing these in English.