Class 4 Homework (for 6
th
Challenge
February 2015)
Wordy Problems
You will need…
- a pencil
- a ruler
Have a go at the word problems below. Do your working out on the sheet…

I have 2.5 litres of petrol, I use 800ml, how much petrol do I have left?

A jug holds half a litre of water, I drink 300ml of the water. How much is left in the jug?

Jim is carrying a bag of books which weighs 2kg. He takes out two books, one weighs 300g and the other
weighs 250g. How much does the bag weigh now?

A cake weighs half a kg. I decorate the cake with icing which weighs 100g and candles which weigh 250g.
How much does the fully decorated cake now weigh?
In addition you may also wish to…
Convert between units of length (evaluation copy but works)
http://tinyurl.com/wpclass4-12
*NEW* SPAG (Spelling,
Punctuation and Grammar) Task
Read a scale in Cm and mm (you need to spell Cm correctly in order to get it right)
http://tinyurl.com/wpclass4-14
Try finding the missing
punctuation from the passage on
the additional sheet. (The
children have done these regularly
during our SPAG sessions last
term, so they will know what to
do).
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Spellings (for February 6th 15)
This week we are looking at the suffixes ful, ly, ive, tion, ic, and ist
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Rules
- ful, ly and tion can normally be added to words with no alteration, except words ending in y which change to an i
- words ending in t, drop the t before adding tion.
- before adding ive, ic or ist, drop the final e or y before adding suffix
List 1
quickly
beautiful
terrific
normally
correction
hopeful
massive
careful
expensive
horrific
List 2
quickly
beautiful
creation
specialist
correction
relative
jokingly
scientific
expensive
wonderful
List 3
speedily
decorative
secretively
specialist
curiously
relative
jokingly
scientific
energetic
wonderful
Challenge List (soft c)
celebrate
cylinder
circumstance discipline
accident
ceremony
century
bicycle
recite
incident
Homework and spellings is available on the Class 4 page of the school website. I will post the homework every Thursday evening
and send home paper copies on a Friday. Should you need any of the homework explaining, e-mail [email protected]