Homework

GRADE 4 HOMEWORK                    Due Friday, 18th October, 2013

LITERACY

We are learning about adjectives to describe using the senses.

Find five adjectives of your own that could go in each category.  Also, come up with one more category of your own (ie: shape, size, amount) and find five adjectives for that category.

Adjectives to describe  something bad	Adjectives to describe something good	Your choice

UOI

Design an experiment you would like to try with a seed or plant.  Try your experiment out and home and write and draw pictures to explain what happened.

 

SPELLING

Learn to spell these words.  

• running *useful
• swimming *create
• sleeping *product
• eating *because
• walking *experiment

Jun/ Dong Ha/ Minh Anh Sebastian/ Thien Cam

NUMERACY

We are learning how to keep a ‘running total’ in our heads to keep track of addition problems. Teach someone at your house to play the game Aiming High.  The papers will go home with students today.

GRADE 4 HOMEWORK                    Due Friday, 11th October, 2013

LITERACY

We are learning about adjectives to describe using the senses.

Please sort the following list of adjectives into the correct categories.

sweet, soft, hard, bumpy, blue, striped, square, beautiful, sour, salty, smooth, colorful

Texture (how it feels)	Appearance (how it looks)	Taste

UOI

Draw pictures to show the lifecycle of a plant from seed to adult plant.

 

SPELLING

Learn to spell these words.  

• sun *verb
• water *adjective
• dirt *blossom
• read *character
• write *action
  
  

Jun/ Dong Ha/ Minh Anh Sebastian/ Thien Cam

NUMERACY

We are learning to solve problems by knowing how many ones make a ten, and how many tens make 100. Please show your steps.

Example: 567 + _____   

= 800

567 + 3 = 570

570 + 30 = 600

           600 + 200 = 800                         = 233

1. 888 + ______ = 1,000

2. ______ + 195 = 700

3. _____ + 555 = 800

4. 2, 268 + _____ = 3,000

5. 7,866 + _____ = 8,000

GRADE 4 HOMEWORK                    Due Friday, 4th October, 2013

LITERACY

We are learning about action verbs and thinking verbs.

Please sort the following list of verbs into the two categories.

run, jump, think, dream, eat, sleep, wonder, dance, play, imagine

Action Verbs	Thinking Verbs

UOI

Draw a picture of a plant or flower at your house.  Label all the parts of a plant that you know.

 

SPELLING

Learn to spell these words.  Write them 5x in your book in different colors.

• help *pollinate
• need *seed coat  
• soil *stamen
• pot *recount
• sunlight *veins

Jun/ Dong Ha/ Minh Anh Sebastian/ Thien Cam

NUMERACY

We are learning how many tens there are in numbers less than 1,000.

Complete the following chart:

Number	How many tens? (10’s)	How many left?
230
441
596
992

We are learning how many hundreds there are in numbers up to 10,000.

Complete the following chart:

Number	How many hundreds? (100’s)	How many left?
1,000
2,200
3,450
10,000

GRADE 4 HOMEWORK                    Due Friday, 27 September 2013

Literacy

Draw a picture of the main character of the book you are currently reading at home.  Make a character map to describe him or her.  Use adjectives and verbs.  Example: kind, funny, makes jokes, runs a lot, loud, tall.

Writing – Recounts

Write a recount that tells me about an adventure you had. Use time connective words like first, secondly, next, later, after that, etc.

 

Spelling

Learn to spell these words.  We will have a test on Friday.

This week we will all use the same words, which are connected to our unit of inquiry.

• plant
• seed
• stem
• leaf
• grow

NUMERACY

Figure out which number is missing in the following equations.  Show me with a picture or number line how you solved it.

68 +       = 75 54 +  = 63

77 +        = 83 56 + = 65

Complete the equations using the strategy of splitting numbers (add to a tidy number, then add what’s left). Please draw a number line to show me how you ‘jumped’ to the tidy number:

75 + 8  =  
7 + 46 =  
33 + 9  =  
9 + 89 =

GRADE 4 HOMEWORK                    Due Friday, 20 September 2013

Literacy

Retell a part of your favorite story in your own words. Draw a picture to help show what it’s about.

Writing – Recounts

Write a recount that tells me about the best holiday you have been on.

 

Spelling

Learn to spell these words.  We will have a test on Friday.

Thien Cam and Sebastian Jun and Minh Anh Dong Ha

• secondly *first -cat

• eventually *later -can
• recount   *next -car
• explain *then -cake
• conclusion *last -cap

NUMERACY

Complete the equations using the making tidy numbers strategy:

2 + 5 + 8 + 7 + 3 = 30 + 90 + 70 + 10 = 120 + 80 + 10 =

95+ 5 + 75 + 25 =           9 - 4 - 5 + 7 = 8 - 5 - 3 + 2 =

Complete the equations using the strategy of splitting numbers (subtract to a tidy number, then subtract what’s left):

24 - 5 =  38 - 9 = 16 - 8 = 93 - 5 =