Year 4 – A Roman Experience

By f gilders14th October 2016

Year 4 have had a busy week this week as we begin our new project – The Romans! It was great to see everyone dressed up and in character for our Roman Ignite.

We created Roman helmets and laurel wreaths which we bought with the Roman money we created. We also made some extremely tasty Roman pizza with feta cheese, honey and oil on top – yum! We had some grape juice which we crushed with our hands (which got a little messy). In the afternoon, we visited a Roman Forum to buy our goods and we were drilled outside by General Kerinus as Roman soldiers!

In Literacy, we continued with our Invent character descriptions. We are almost ready for our Hot Task next week and are looking forward to seeing the improvements in our writing following the last teaching sequence!

Now we have all become more confident with addition and subtraction, we are ready to move on to multiplication and division. Can you think of any way you might use multiplication over the weekend?

Our homework this week includes spellings and a diary entry or recount of the ignite day.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Bliss, Miss Cooper, Miss Courtney, Mr Kerin & Miss Gilders

 

 

Year 4 Homework 6.10.16

By admin6th October 2016

 

Year 4 Homework Please return your homework by Thursday 13th October
A reminder it is Roman day for the start of our project next week, where children can dress up as a Roman. 4D (Mr Kerin) and 4C (Miss Bliss) have their Ignite days on Tuesday and 4A (Miss Gilders) and 4B (Miss Cooper) will have theirs on Wednesday. Both days are on Countess Way.

Literacy
*IMPORTANT* You only need to complete 1 challenge and should spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task

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Challenge 1:

Can you fill in the correct punctuation for these character descriptions. Remember: full stops, capital letters, commas, exclamation marks and question marks. Extra step – Include speech marks.

  • the elephant roared quietly down the road
  • he whispered quietly why are you so mean

3) she yelled at her prey stay away ferociously
4) the tiger had dark yellow burning eyes

Challenge 2

This activity is stuck in their homework book on adverbial

Spellings

Please practise your spellings using look, cover, write and check. There is a sheet attached for you to practise every day!

Remember the rule: words ending in ‘tion’ and ‘sion’  suffixes,

Spellings 1st Try 2nd Try 3rd Try
invention
injection
action
rejection
hesitation
completion
expression
discussion
impression
confession

Maths

*IMPORTANT* You only need to complete 1 challenge and should spend a maximum of 20 minutes on this task

This week we have been looking at one and two step word problems for addition and subtraction.

For example:

1 step (1 operation is used): John has 4753 books and gives 1325 to charity. How many books is John left with?
2 step (2 operations to be used): 1542 men attend a party. 989 ladies are attending as well. 14 guests can no longer go. What’s the total number of guests attending.
SC: Remember the question must make sense.

     It must have addition and/or subtraction in it.

     It must have a maximum of 4 digit plus/subtract 4 digits.

     You need to work it out using the correct method and answer the question in a full sentence.

Challenge 1:

Create 2 of your own 1 step addition and subtraction word problems. Find out what the answer is so you can test a partner at school in maths next week.
Challenge 2:

Create 2 of your own 2 step addition and subtraction word problems. Find out what the answer is so you can test a partner at school in maths next week.

4D Countess way Homework 30.9.16

By admin30th September 2016

 

Year 4 Homework Please return your homework by Thursday 6th October

Literacy

In GPS (grammar punctuation and spelling) this week we have focused on sentence types and in literacy we have been writing a character description of an elephant.

SC: Simple sentence = a verb and a noun. E.g. The elephant (noun) roared (verb).
Compound sentence = Two simple sentences joined by a conjunction. E.g. The elephant roared after he heard a gunshot fire.
Complex sentence = Contains one simple sentence (main clause or independent clause) and one or more dependent clause ( embedded, relative or subordinate clause (part of a sentence that wouldn’t make sense by itself), where commas are used to separate the different clauses.

E.g. Slowly creeping down the lake, the elephant roared loudly.
Challenge 1: Write 3 simple sentences about an elephant.

Challenge 2: Write 3 simple and 3 compound sentences about an elephant.

Challenge 3: Write 3 compound and complex sentences about an elephant.

 

Maths

We have been collecting knowledge on addition and subtraction, linking it to the inverse and estimating in maths.

Task:

Below are completed calculations using the methods we have been practicing in class.

Can you use your understanding to check whether they are correct? (*Remember you can use the inverse operation to check an answer*)

Success criteria:

  • Copy the sums out in your book.
  • Use an appropriate method to work out if they are correct.
  • Show your working out.
  • If they are incorrect, can you explain their mistake?

*IMPORTANT: You only need to complete 1 challenge and should spend 20 minutes on this task*

Challenge 1:

  1. 46 + 53 = 89

        4 6

     + 5 3   

        8 9

                  
  1. 56 + 33 = 88

            5 6

         + 3 3

           8 8
  1. 35 – 12 = 27

            3 5

          – 1 2

            2 7

Challenge 2:

a)   147 + 135 = 272

     1 4 7

  + 1 3 5  

      2 7 2

 b)   158 + 139 = 288

           1 5 8

        + 1 3 9

           2 8 8

             1

 c)   199 – 148 = 161

      1  9  9

   –  1  4  8

       1  6  1

Challenge 3:

a)   381 + 97 = 1351

           3 8 1

          +  9 7  

        1 3 5 1

               1

 b)   343 + 97.5 = 718

         3 4 3

        +  9 7.5

         1 3 1.8

                     1

 c)  5793 – 4827 = 1974       

          5 7 9 3

      –  4 8 2 7

          1 9 7 4

 

Year 4 Project homework

By 22nd September 2016

Hello,

Here is the Year 4 Project homework for this week – due to us needing it in our lessons next week, please could all items be in school by Tuesday?

Due to the business of this week, spellings and a paper copy of the homework will be given out tomorrow instead of today and the spellings will be due in next Thursday, as normal.

Please also continue to read and practice your times tables at home this week!

Thank you

Year 4 Homework changes

By 12th September 2016

Due to a Homework club being set up on Fen Street on a Wednesday after school,Year 4 homework is now due in on Thursdays. This will give children the opportunity to go to Homework club to complete their homework on Wednesdays, the day before it is due in. Homework will still be given out on a Thursday as well – this will give children a whole week to complete it.

This also means that spelling tests will be on Thursdays so children have a whole week to learn their spellings as well.

Thank you

Year 4 teachers

Year 4 Homework

By 9th September 2016

This year, Year 4 homework will be given out on a Thursday to be handed in on a Wednesday.

Spellings will also be given out on a Thursday for children to practice for their weekly spelling test every Wednesday (the following Wednesday)

Homework will be marked on Wednesdays as well.

If your child is struggling with their homework, please encourage them to speak to their teacher, who will arrange a time in the school day to go through it with them.

Thanks

Year 4 team

Year 4 summer holiday homework

By 22nd July 2016

Here is the Year 4 summer holiday homework – there is some Reading homework linked to our new Year 4 Key Author, Michael Morpurgo, and some Project homework, linked to our aspiration and inspiration transition project. We have also sent a copy of the Year 3 and 4 spelling list home so that you can see the words that children are expected to know how to spell by the end of Year 4.

Aspiration and Inspiration homework – Lower Key Stage 2
Key Author homework
Copy of year-3-4-spellings.pdf
We hope you all have amazing summer holidays and look forward to seeing you all again in September!

 

The Year 4 teachers