YEAR 4 HOMEWORK Thank you once more for your wonderful efforts in last term’s homework project. This term’s homework is outlined below: READING - EVERY night for a minimum of 20 minutes. Children should have their reading journal in school every day and are encouraged to use the comprehension section at the front of the journals to think further about their reading. SPELLING – each Friday there will be a spelling test using the weekly spellings below. MATHS - The children have their own login details for My Maths Online. There are currently 6 tasks set up, which are based on last half term’s work.
HOMEWORK PROJECT – See below for the 5 activities that make up this half term’s homework project. They need to be completed and handed in on or before Friday 15th February 2019. These activities can be done in any order and will be shared in class after the deadline. Write a prayer to God asking for help in the things you would like to achieve in 2019 both in and out of school.
Research and make a fact file on an animal that lives in the rainforest Find a jungle or rainforest setting (picture) and describe what you might find there. Think about all five of your senses (N.B. Describe the setting, do not write a story) Design a poster explaining the dangers of deforestation on the environmet. Research and Write a few lines on each of the 4 layers of the rainforest (emergent layer,canopy, understorey, forest floor.) Include what each one looks like and what animals might live there.
Spring 1 Spellings Focus
Autumn 2
N/C Spelling Statutory Spelling Y3/Y4
Words with the sound “gu“
Words with endings “ture“
homophones
Words with the prefix “anti-“
Words with the prefix “inter”
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Tested on
Tested on
Tested on
Tested on
Tested on
18/01/19
25/01/19
01/02/19
08/02/19
15/02/19
Guide
Adventure
Seen
Anticlockwise
Interact
Guest
Mixture
Scene
Antibiotic
Interfere
Guitar
Capture
Antifreeze
Intercity
Guard
Feature
Male
Antidote
International
guess
nature
ball
antisocial
internet
Knowledge
Medicine
bawl
Peculiar
Possible
Learn
Mention
Often
Perhaps
Potatoes
Length
Minute
Opposite
Popular
Pressure
Library
Natural
Ordinary
Position
Probably
material
notice
Particular
possess
Promise