P4 - Wed 2 Oct 2013

Primary 4D and 4H Homework due 8.10.13

Remember all homework is given out on a Wednesday and due in on the following Tuesday.

Reading

Please see your reading record for the pages you are being asked to read this week.

Your task this week is 'Visualiser'. You should visualise an important scene from the book. Make a detailed drawing of the event and write a sentence explaining what is happening.

You have been provided with a sheet to do your drawing on.

 

Spelling

You have a list of  words to learn this week.  - 
To practise your words you can either use the various activities on spelling city or if you do not have access to this website write out your words 3 times each day and add the challenge of improving your accuracy and speed by achieving a personal best each day.

Group Z can find their 'ir' letter pattern words at - Click-here
Group Y can find their 'y' ending letter pattern words at - Click-here
Group X can find their 'str' starting letter pattern words at - Click-here
Personal Spelling words - Click-here - also you should find two other interesting words which are prefixed by 'dis'
 
Maths

'Round and About' activity. Write the numbers 300, 400 and 500 in the centre of a piece of paper. Using magazines, newspapers, leaflets etc you should cut out numbers and prices that you should round to the nearest 100 and stick them on your sheet.
If you are finding it difficult to find numbers which round to 300, 400 and 500 you could always extend your one hundred digit numbers to include: 100 and 200. - 600, 700 etc

Remember your prices could be in pence or pounds. For example 264p and £313 would both be rounded to 300.

Numbers are all around us - think of weight - 165kg, 400grams, distance - 306 mm, 456 kilometres etc.

Topic

You should research 3 animals and find out 5 facts about each of them. You should present this information neatly on either an A4 sheet or A3 - they will be displayed for others to see.
 You should select animals which are in different vertebrate groups, either a mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian or fish.
You should be ready to present your facts to the class.