Year 4 Home Learning – Spring Term 2016
Children should complete one activity each week; this is a 6 week half term. Children must complete at least one
activity from each section. It can be completed in your Home Learning books or on a separate sheet. We will
have a Home Learning gallery every Tuesday afternoon to share our work and give feedback.
Literacy Activities:
Numeracy Activities:
 Write a diary entry each day for a week that
explains what you did and how you felt. You could
write your diary in role choosing one of the below
options:
 The answer is 24. Show 10 different
Mild: As yourself write at least one paragraph
including 2 ambitious words each day.
calculations that give this answer.
Mild: All calculations must include both an addition
and subtraction sum.
Spicy: Include the four operations (addition,
Spicy: In role as a famous person each day including
ambitious use of adjectives and adverbs.
subtraction, multiplication and division) so you get
Hot: In role as an animal or toy each day including
literacy devices like similes and metaphors.
Hot: Include decimals or fractions in your sum.
 Write a Narrative Verse about you and your
family (include pets, grandparents – be as creative
and descriptive as you can!)
Mild: 2 verses including descriptive adjectives and
rhyme
Spicy: 3 verses including descriptive adjectives, rhyme
and alliteration
Hot: 4 or more verses including descriptive adjectives,
rhyme, alliteration and similes.
the answer 24.
 Create a tops trumps game using 3D shapes and
turn them into terrifying or humorous creatures
e.g the cube of doom.
Mild: Include how many faces and edges your 3D
shape/monster on the information part of your TT
card.
Spicy: Include how many faces, edges and vertices
your 3D shape/monster have.
Hot: Include how many faces, edges and vertices
 Make a list of 10 adjectives you use a lot and use
a thesaurus to find out a new word you could use
as an alternative for each, e.g. beautiful.
your 3D shapes have and generate a fear factor by
Reading Activities:
Topic, Arts and Crafts Activities:
 Read a new book and write a short review for other
 Make a Roman artefact, e.g. a legionnaire’s shield,
pupils which explains the story, your favourite
multiplying these numbers ( f x e x v for a cube = 6
x 8 x 12 ).
Roman jewellery, coins.
character and who you would recommend the book to,
if anyone! Make links with other books that author
has written.
 To be a Roman soldier you would need to be very
fit as they sometimes walked 30 miles in a day.
Imagine you’re a young roman man who wishes to
 Do some background reading on the topics we will be
covering this term: The Romans and electricity.
be accepted into the army. Write a training
schedule to include distances for running and
throwing, times taken, how your heart rate is
affected – this could be presented in a graph; you
could even include photos of you in action!
Science and Design Activities:
 Using your science knowledge of electricity, design a product that requires an electrical circuit to set off
an alarm or buzzer. You will need to think about what the alarm will be for. For example a burglar alarm
system for your bedroom.
 Find an example of a famous female scientist and explain why her discovery was so important. If you can
find a female scientist who made a contribution to the area of electricity even better!
Additional Home Learning Information
As well as the weekly activities from the menu, we suggest you also do some or all of
the following:

Read regularly at home – at least 15 minutes a day.
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Go over the maths topics we will be covering this half term to practise. The following
websites might be useful.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/maths/
http://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/maths/
http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/maths-owl/maths
http://nrich.maths.org/frontpage
This half term we will be focusing on how to:
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Read, write and convert times between analogue and digital 12 and 24 hour clocks
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Solve problems involving converting between different units of measure e.g. hour to
minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days
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Recognising 3D shapes in real life e.g. a Toblerone (triangular prism)
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Practise identifying fractions of a shape e.g. how much of a shape is shaded? And
fractions of number e.g. what is 1/3 of 9, what is 3/7 of 21? For more challenge,
adding and subtracting fractions with the same and different denominator.
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count up and down in tenths and hundredths; recognise that hundredths arise when
dividing an object by 100 and dividing tenths by 10
 Practise mental maths e.g. times tables, addition and subtraction (What 25 more than
62? What is 58 less than 85?)
 Practice our key literacy skill for the term which is to develop our writing by:
- Recognising prefixes and suffixes and understanding how to add them
- Following the rules of writing dialogue
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In Science we will be learning about Electricity. Use the websites below to go over and
support our work on this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/
http://inteleducationresources.intel.co.uk/primary_science.aspx
http:// resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/electricity.htm
http://powerup.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/powerup/en/
http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/gamesactivities/electricitycircuits.html
http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx?cat=72
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Within our topic of ‘The Romans’ this we will be looking at:
- The legacy of the Roman Empire in the local and surrounding area.
- The rise and fall of the Roman Empire
- Making comparisons between the Celtic and Roman ways of life
- Who was Julius Ceasar?
Here are some websites you might find useful:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwmpfg8
http://www.free-for-kids.com/printable-roman-activities-and-quizzes.shtml
http://www.historyonthenet.com/romans/childrens_games.htm