October 2014

For this half term we have set a few activities for you to complete which will help you with the Volkswagen project when you return after half term!

Your spellings for half term are:

guarantee

harass

hindrance

identity

immediate

individual

interfere

interrupt

Your 3 activities are:

1. Draw and label your first design for your new original Beetle. (Don’t stick it in your book and do not use felt tip as it will be stuck in your Project books)
2. Ask friends and family your questions and fill in your questionnaire. 
3.  Read the persuasive letter and write down a list of the features and magpie the persuasive language.

All the documents you need are provided in the link below. Your homework is due in on Wednesday 5th November. Your spelling test will be on Friday 7th October. We hope you have a lovely half term and look forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday 4th November!

Market Research Questionnaire:

Hi Year 4,

The year 4 spelling homework is below. It may be a puzzler but we believe that you can do it. You are becoming masters in the classroom at learning independently, especially if you have the tools of the internet, a dictionary and a thesaurus.

Derivations may seem tricky, it just means that it comes from the root word.

e.g. Tricycle derives from tri

Some of you have been doing amazingly well with your spellings, particularly those that have been practicing.

Mr Mortimer and Miss Roberts

Mrs Hern’s Maths Group have been given 2 mental maths tests do for homework. This is not due in until Friday 7th November.
It is our groups challenge to grow our mental maths so that our scores are 17 and over.

Test 8 Questions:

(5 seconds response time)
1. Round 28.43 to the nearest whole number
2. What is the square root of 64?
3. How many grams are equivalent to 2.8kg?
4. What is the sum of the angles within a triangle?
5. Write the number nine thousand and nine in figures.

(10 seconds response time)
6. Rulers cost 28p each. How much would two rulers cost?
7. Which number would you add to 650 to make 1000?
8. Which number multiplied by itself equals 49?
9. A bag or sweets costs 14p. How much would five bags cost?

10. A rectangle measures 12cm x 4cm. What is its area?

11. What is half of 7600?
12. What is the size of angle A marked on your answer sheet?
13. How many 11p sweets can you buy for £1?
14. Look at your answer sheet. What temperature is shown on the
thermometer?
15. What is 35 less than 100?
(15 seconds response time)
16. Look at the numbers in the box on your answer sheet. Which number
is a multiple of 7?
17. In a money box there are thirteen fifty pence pieces. Write down
the total amount in the money box
18. Put a ring around the largest quantity on your answer sheet
19. Look at the timetable on your answer sheet. A train leaves
Manchester at 11:15 and arrives in Eccles at 11:28. How long did the journey take?

20. Multiply 40 by 80

Test 9 

(5 seconds response time)
1. What is half of 90?
2. What is 37 more than 60?
3. Look at the rectangle on your answer sheet. Put a ring around the
fraction of the rectangle which is shaded.
4. Write the number nineteen thousand and fifty eight in figures
5. What is half of 8.2?

(10 seconds response time)
6. A melon costs 99p and an orange costs 18p. How much more does
the melon cost than the orange?
7. Two numbers have a difference of twenty. One of the numbers is 36.
What could the other number be?
8. What is 10% of £1.50?
9. How many days are there in 8 weeks?
10. What is the product of 8 and 12?
11. What is the perimeter of a rectangle which measures 16cm long
and 4cm wide?
12. Put a ring around the nearest length to two and a half metres
13. Apples cost 16p. How much would four cost?
14. On your answer sheet is a scale. What is the number shown by the
arrow?
15. What is 40 multiplied by 50?
(15 seconds response time)
16. A school has exactly twice as many boys as girls. There are 124
girls. How many boys are there?
17. A train travels at 110 miles per hour. How far will it travel in three
hours?
18. Put a ring around the smallest of the five numbers on your answer
sheet.
19. A television programme starts at 11:20 and ends at 11:45. How long
was the programme?
20. Which number would I add to 730 to make 1000?

For further maths,go on Sumdog. Even though you are not registered in a completion you can still use the free games.