Year 4 – Autumn 2 Project Homework Grid You should complete

Year 4 – Autumn 2 Project Homework Grid
You should complete one topic homework of your choice each week as well as the science and maths task. You will also have a weekly perfect paragraph to practise. Please take time over your homework; research it carefully and present it neatly. Each half term we will have a homework party to celebrate good homework. Each homework is worth five points.
This half term, you will need at least 140 points to earn your invitation. Remember, homework club is every Tuesday lunchtime. Drop in for help with homework and access to the Internet.
Topic – African Art and Pattern (choose at least one activity)
Science
Maths
Week 1
(Grammar)
Due: 9/11/15
Week 2
Due: 16/11/15
Week 3
Due: 23/11/15
Make and write a postcard for your teacher. Decorate one side and write an interesting message using full stops, capital letters, an exclamation mark and a question mark.
Write an interesting letter to your teacher to let them know what you did over the half term break. Use correct letter layout (including commas).
Choose three different pieces of punctuation:
‘, “”, !, ?, ()... Find and write the definition. Use each one in a sentence.
In topic this week, we were looking at African pattern. Design your own repeating pattern. Use any shapes and colours you like.
Ashanti symbols are used in Ghanaian prints to show thoughts or feelings. Design your own Ashanti Symbol. Give it a name and describe its meaning.
Research patterns used in other cultures. E.g. rangoli or Islamic patterns. Copy some examples of what you find into your book.
Double these numbers:
Add the heading: gases Tricky: 8 9 7 10 20 to your table from last 60
week. Search your Difficult: 34 23 67 home for items to 34 28
complete your table.
Challenge: 214 345 Hint – in what different 275 469
places do you find air?
Discuss how you did it.
Design a symbol that represents Duncombe. What would you want to show about Duncombe? E.g. kindness, sharing, cooperation.
Design a pattern that could be used to make a wall hanging in Duncombe. Think carefully about the shapes, symbols and colours. What will it tell people about our school?
Draw “before and after” pictures showing what happens when three different things melt. E.g. chocolate, a candle, an ice­cube.
Look for symbols that are used in everyday life. Choose three examples and copy them into your book with their meaning.
E.g . means recycle.
Week 4 Make an African mask.
Due: 30/11/15
Week 5 Use scraps of paper from a magazine to create a picture of an Draw the view from a Visit window in your home. http://www.activityvillage.
Imagine the view from a co.uk/african­crafts Draw a table with the headings: solids and liquids. Search your home for items to complete your table. E.g. orange juice is a liquid…
Write 10 addition problems and solve them using a method of your choice. (Don’t forget to show your working out!) Challenge yourself by adding four­
digit numbers.
Halve these numbers:
Tricky: 8 6 10 20 60 70
Difficult: 64 28 74 96 128
Challenge: 634 254 174 378
Discuss how you did it.
Where is the best place in the house to dry washing? Carry out an experiment at home to find out. Record your findings in your book.
Write 10 subtraction problems and solve them using a method you are confident with. Challenge yourself by subtracting three­digit numbers.
Water can be a solid (ice), liquid or gas (vapor/steam). Design a Find a quarter of these numbers:
Tricky: 4 8 12 20 Due: 7/12/15
Week 6 Due: 14/12/15
African landscape. Will you choose mountain, desert or jungle?
Cooking and Food
What is your favourite meal? Draw a picture of it and label it.
window in an African choose one of the home. Write three things activities to do at home.
that you would not be able to see in London.
poster show how water changes. Include these key words: melt, freeze, evaporate.
Cooking and Food
Write a shopping list for the ingredients you would need to buy to cook your favourite meal.
Draw a diagram of the water cycle. Include these key words: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, river, sea, sun.
Cooking and Food
Cook something together at home. Write the recipe and attach a photo if you can!
60 100
Difficult: 100 32 28 88 128
Challenge: 484 260 300 372
Explain the rule in your own words.
What times table are you aiming for in Mad Minutes? Practise it at home.
Draw 5 clock faces and Our next unit will be: write the time Living Things and their Holiday underneath.
Habitats. Choose a We have finished our Africa topic now. Design a poster showing what you Homework Challenge: Write the habitat to draw or have learned. time in digital and create and include the Look back at your homework and think about what you learned in school: analogue time.
animals that live there.
continents, geography of Africa, ancient Benin, the Oba, Ancient Benin Town, E.g. Quarter past 6 and Due: Challenge: Write a short brass plaques, African pattern, Adinkra cloth, Ashanti patterns, African food.
06:15
Tuesday description of how one Continue practising 5/1/16
animal has adapted to telling the time over the live in that habitat. holidays.