DAILY HOMEWORK
Topic Words
READING
Do you know what these
Year 4 Curriculum Leaflet:
words mean and how to
Spring 2 —Vikings
Remember to read each day and
spell them?
get an adult to sign your reading
Viking, continents, ad-
record book.
vert, warrior, countries,
SPELLING
Don’t forget spelling will go home
Dear children and adults,
Our topic this half term is the Vikings We will
be basing our writing around the book
map skills, invade, inva-
‘’Beowulf’ by Michael Morpurgo. We will be focusing on writ-
sion, conquer, long-
ing from an historical perspective by writing job adverts for
house, long ship, Alfred
warriors and letters from the battle fields.
the Great, sew, tapestry,
HOMEWORK PROJECT: You have a scrap book to use to complete
on Friday for your test the following week!
design,
evaluate.
your homework project.
You have this half term to complete some of these activities.
YOU MUST COMPLETE AT LEAST ONE OF THE WRITING TASKS
Maths Rocket Homework
Write your own hero and villain story.
Write a diary entry as Grendel.
Remember to revise your weekly number
Label and describe King Hrothgar.
facts. Children will be tested each week on
NOW CHOOSE SOME OR ALL OF THESE
their number facts – they will be told which
Make a Viking long ship or shield.
ones to learn by their teacher. Certificates
Classify your toys eg electrical, plastic, metal ….
will be awarded in assembly to children
when they complete the whole stage.
Find the perimeter of 5 books in your house and show your
method.
Create a Viking design for a border for a manuscript.
Make a Viking settlement
DATE SET:
Wednesday 1st March
DATE DUE IN: Monday 27th March
PE Kit
Year 4 will be going swimming weekly—4C on Tuesdays and
4N on Thursdays. Please ensure your child brings their kit on
the correct day: swimming costume, hat and towel.
Learning leader: Rob Hyneman
Class teachers: Nicola and Charmaine
Support Staff: Dominic, Alison, Frewieni, Roy and
Karen
English
We will be reading Beowulf and writing a
job advert, a diary and a letter from the
characters in the Viking times.
Maths
We will be focussing on using our methods
to solve perimeter and area problems,
symmetry and data handling problems and
our times table facts.
Science
Outcomes
Our topic is ‘’Classification’’ this half term.
We will be looking at how to classify
*make a Viking long
animals and plants and will be looking at
boat
food chains.
Humanities
*an advert
We will be researching Viking raids and invasion
resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan,
first king of England and the further Viking
Art/DT
skills to work out where the Vikings came
Viking times?
We will be sewing a Viking collage and
long boat.
Trips
Would you have
liked to live in
designing, making and producing a Viking
Computing
view for a warrior
invasions and Danegeld. We will use map
from.
We are learning to program using scratch.
Horniman Museum for classification.
4N - Viking trip to the National Maritime
- 20th
March
4C- Viking trip to the National Maritime
March
- 23rd
and inter-
*class wall hanging