Author: Holly Crowfoot

Year 4
Home Learning
Wednesday
Week 3

The Year 4 teachers have been working hard sorting and organising your home learning booklets. We have decided to break them up day by day, just so it is easier for you to follow. Remember these booklets are optional and please feel free to use as much or as little as you like. The Year 4 teachers have together created a daily week day booklet that will include a spelling, grammar, handwriting, reading, times tables and Maths. tasks. Here is a bit more detail on each task:
A challenge to help with your mental or physical wellbeing.
Spellings – Practise these everyday and have a spelling test on a Friday. They cover the words that you should know how to spell by the end of Year 4.
English - You may be set a writing task. This can be written however you like. Think about the features you have learnt in Year 4 and how you can improve your writing.
Grammar – We will focus on an area of Year 4 grammar daily. You will also have a grammar hammer quiz on a Monday to complete.
Handwriting – We will focus on our cursive handwriting and each week will include a certain letter formation.
Reading – This is a task where you will read and answer questions about the piece of text.
Times tables – Each week, we will focus on two different times tables and their inverse (division). If you would like to, you could do a times table test at the end of the week.
Maths – Every week day, you will get a set of questions that covers a range of Year 4 Maths. We have also included on a Wednesday an assertive mentoring test.
Remember, if you have any questions or concerns, please email us at ARHYear4@aldermanrichardhallam.leicester.sch.uk.

Each week, your Year 4 teachers would like to set you a challenge. This may be related to your mental or physical health. The challenges could include being active, spending time with your family, learning a new skill or being creative. It is up to you to decide how you are going to complete this challenge! It would be wonderful if we could see how you have completed them. If you’d like to show us, you can email us at ARHYear4@aldermanrichardhallam.leicester.sch.uk

Your challenge is: Investigate the change in season.
We’d like you to take some time to look at the world around you. It is changing in many ways. -Can you see anything new?
-Are the flowers changing?
-Is the sky different to before?
-Can you see more animals around or new animals coming back?
You could do this by going for a walk with an adult (remember to keep your distance from others), exploring your garden or looking outside your window.
Use your creativity to show us what you have noticed! This could be by sketching, writing a poem or simply describing what you have seen!

Now you have practised your ascenders and descenders, we’re going to practise some words which include them. These words are also words you should be able to spell by the end of Year 4.

Practise your spellings everyday and have a spelling test on Friday. Could you challenge yourself and write each word in a sentence?

Allow your child to answer these questions independently. Then go through the answers together. Any questions they get wrong, go through and model how these questions should haven been answered.

Today we are going to focus on our 8x times table.
You can practise these times tables out loud or you can answer them on a piece of paper. Make sure you check them after to see how many you got right. Good luck!

Adjectives are words that describe a noun. They can describe the colour, size, appearance, and other qualities of nouns. Adjectives could be used in our expanded noun phrases.
Can you think of a noun for each adjective below? You can choose anything you want (as long as it makes sense!) DO AS MANY AS YOU CAN: don’t worry if you can’t finish them all.
It starts easy, and gets harder! If you don’t know what one of the adjectives means - ask a parent/carer or look in a dictionary.

1. a beautiful ___________
2. a clever _____________
3. a big _______________
4. an angry _____________
5. an old _______________
6. a tiny _______________
7. a delicious ___________
8. a red ________________
9 a lovely ______________
10. a fast ______________
11. a dirty ______________
12.a kind ______________
13. an orange ___________
14. a happy _____________
15. a quiet _____________
16. a tall _______________
17. a short _____________
18. a cute ______________
19. a fast ______________
20. a slow ______________

21. a young _____________
22. a rich ______________
23. a colourful __________
24. a hot ______________
25.a pink ______________
26. a cold ______________
27. an easy _____________
28. a lazy ______________
29. a loud ______________
30. a huge _____________
31. a young _____________
32. a brave _____________
33. a fast ______________
34. a soft ______________
35. a funny _____________
36. a heavy _____________
37. a difficult ___________
38. a boring ____________
39. an unkind ___________
40. a spicy _____________
41. a sweet _____________

42. a muscly______________
43. a gentle ______________
44. a metal_______________
45. a scary ______________
46. a rude _______________
47. a polite ______________
48. a nasty ______________
50. a plastic _____________
49. an exciting ___________
50. an intelligent __________
51. an interesting __________
52. an impossible __________
53. a useful _____________
54. a wonderful ___________
55. a dangerous ___________
56. a powerful ____________
57. a thoughtful __________
58. an excellent __________
59. an expensive __________
60. an enormous __________
61. a comfortable__________

Challenge: Can you list as many adjectives you can think of about the picture for our story writing this week?

This week your challenge will be to write a story about the picture below. You can be as creative as you like, you could also include some of the grammar features you have been practising in your story.
Task 3– Can you write the build up and problem of your story? What is the problem in your story going to be?