Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

Homophones and other words that are often confused. You may be able to spell some of these words easily so the challenge is to write down the words that your spellings may be confused with and what the different meanings are. E.g. aloud (saying something out loud) whereas the word it may be confused with is allowed (permitted).

advise

device

license

practice

aisle

allowed

affect

alter

assent

cereal.

Science

This week we have been exploring life cycles. Play the attached game with friends or family to see how much you know.

Create your own game to test  knowledge of life cycles – consider different types:

Amphibian, mammal, bird, insect (incomplete metamorphosis), insect (complete metamorphosis).

Maths

We are recapping and extending our knowledge of measure next week. To get your brain thinking about measure again can you solve these word problems and remember how to convert measurements.

1. How many metres in 4600cm?

1. How many millimetres are in 3 centimetres?

1. A family sets off to drive 524km. after 2672m, how much further do they have to go?

1. Ellie and Sylvia check in at the airport. Ellie places her suitcase on the scale. The weight is 24.2 kg.

          Sylvia places her suitcase beside Ellie’s. The weight of both is 49.6 kg.     

          Work out the weight of Sylvia’s suitcase.

5.  I am 86cm tall. My brother is two and a half times taller than me. How tall is he in mm?

6. I am wrapping christmas presents. I have 2.7m of ribbon, and I need 33cm for each present. How many presents will I be able to wrap? How much ribbon will I have left over?

7. Tom went swimming at twenty to five. She finished at 6:10.

1. How many minutes did he swim for?
2. Tom then got changed which took fifteen minutes. He then went to the canteen and ate his dinner which took 35 minutes and then he went home. What time did he finish at?

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

The suffix ssion. It is used if the root word ends in ss or mit.

admission

aggression

discussion

expression

mission

possession

profession

progression

depression

Impression

Maths

Last week for homework we practised our time knowledge. Now can you solve these word time problems. A sheet with clocks is stuck in your homework book.

1. Simon went to watch a play at 2:15pm. The show last 30 minutes. What time did the show finish at?

1. Kira played golf. She went to the golf club at 17:30pm. She played for 45 minutes. What time did she finish playing?

1. Tim played football with his team. They got to the pitch at 11:15am. The match started 10 minutes later. The match was 50 minutes long with no break. What time did Tim finish playing at?

      4)  Sarah went to see her friend Simone at twenty to two in the afternoon. She played there for one hour. Then it took fifteen minutes to get home. What time did sarah get home at?

Here is the homework for Year 4 to complete during half term.

HomeworkHalfTermSummerDue8thJune

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Year 4 Teachers

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).

Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.

W:

wrist

playwrite

wrangle

wrack

wrapper

wreack

wreathe

wreckage

wretched

writhe

Literacy – Book review

Stuck in your homework book is a book review. Can you please write a book review about your favourite book you have read in year five. It can be a book from school or home.

Maths

We are recapping over the next few lessons our place value knowledge. Can you remember how to solve these questions.

1. Put these numbers in order from smallest to largest:

1. 14,678       790,345      3,875      907,987     1,084,764
2. 55,903       280,785     55,952      8,901          282,576

2. Can you find the missing number

1. 10,    5      _____       -5    ____     -15,    
2. 1,250     750      _______      ________     -750

3) a) Round 36,550 to the nearest hundred =

1. b) Round 478,098 to the nearest thousand =
2. c) Round 981,111 to the nearest ten thousand =
3. d) Round 678,902 to the nearest hundred thousand =

4) Roman numerals

1. 9 =
2. Thirty seven =
3. Four hundred and eighty two =
4. LXIV =
5. DCCCXCIV =

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week. The suffix sion. It is used in root words ending in d or se. Exceptions: attend-attention, intend-intention

expansion

extension

comprehension

tension

intentions

suspension

collision

ascension

precision

conclusion

Literacy – Book review

Stuck in your homework book is a book review. Can you please write a book review about your favourite book you have read in year five. It can be a book from school or home.

Maths

We are recapping over the next few lessons our place value knowledge. Can you remember how to solve these questions.

1. Can you write 1000 more than these numbers:

1. 3000 =
2. 4650 =
3. 8055 =
4. 2) Can you write a 1000 less than these numbers;

1. 2500 =
2. 4690 =
3. 7583 =

3) Is each of the numbers in bold a unit, ten, hundred and thousands?

1. 46 =
2. 678 =
3. 7805 =
4. 9801 =

4) Roman numerals

1. 7 =
2. VI =
3. 27 =
4. LXIII =
5. 100 =

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be predicted from the pronunciation of the word).

Some letters which are no longer sounded used to be sounded hundreds of years ago: e.g. in knight, there was a /k/ sound before the /n/.

u:

guess

baguette

biscuit

circuit

disguise

guillotine

silhouette

rogue

guitar

guile

Literacy:

This week we are learning about complex sentences. Using the forbidden forest can you write a 2 complex sentence for each type e.g.

Subordinate clause: will begin with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb.

Ex: After they had finished walking, Harry quickly stared into the mysterious trees.

Embedded clause: within a main clause, usually marked by commas. Information related to the sentence topic is put into the middle of the sentence to give the reader more information and enhance the sentence.

Ex: Harry, as loud as a lion, roared down the misty path.

Relative clause: clauses starting with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where, when.

Ex: The crooked trees, which swayed in the wind, whispered in the  night sky.

Maths:

Can you remember how to work out the percentage (%) of something? Here are some word problems, can you try and solve these?

1. Tom bought a t-shirt from a shop. It originally cost £42 but it had 33% off. Sarah says her t-shirt was cheaper, as hers originally cost £65 but had 62% off. Whose t-shirt was cheaper? Explain your reasoning.
2. Simon got 72% out of 85 questions right. Tom got 55% out of 125 questions right. Who got more questions right? Explain your reasoning.
3. Jessica saved 92% of her pocket money every week for 2 months. Her pocket money was £4.50 a week. How much did Jessica save after 2 months?
4. Tim raised 37% of his total charity money at a charity fun run. He raised £465 altogether through all his charity events. How much did he raise at the charity fun run?

Spellings

Please practise these spellings ready for your spelling test next week.

The suffix tion. It is used if the root words ends in t or te.

injection

intervention

action

hesitation

attraction

affection

option

education

construction

correction

Literacy:

This week we are learning about different sentence types. Using the forbidden forest can you write a complex and a compound sentence

Complex sentence using a relative clause: relative clauses are clauses starting with the relative pronouns who, that, which, whose, where, when.

Ex: The trees, which swayed in the wind, whispered in the night sky.

Compound sentence: uses a conjunction in the middle to join two simple sentences together. Can you use the conjunctions: although, therefore, before, while, after.

Ex: Harry could not bear to look although he knew what was ahead.

Maths:

We have been learning about fractions this week. Stuck in your homework book is a maths activity on improper fractions for you to try and solve.

This is the homework for this week.

Any problems or questions please ask your child to speak to their teacher on Monday.

Hope you have all been enjoying the sunny weekend.

The Year 4 Teachers

Homeworkdue11thMayYear4