🧮 Year 4 Homework: Even or Odd in Real Life (10-Minute Task)
🔗 Practise on IXL: https://uk.ixl.com/maths/year-4/even-or-odd
🏠 1. Home Hunt (4 mins)
Find these items in your home. Count how many there are and decide if the number is even or odd.
Write your answers clearly in your book.
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Socks (not pairs)
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Pens or pencils
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Books on a shelf
🛒 2. Mini Shopping Game (4 mins)
Pretend you're in a shop. Choose four items and decide how many of each you want to buy.
In your book, write each item, the number you chose, and whether it’s even or odd.
Example:
Apples – 3 – Odd
💡 3. Quick Thinker (2 mins)
Read this sentence:
“All numbers that end in 2, 4, 6, 8 or 0 are even.”
Write Yes or No in your book.
Give one example to support your answer.
✏️ Year 4 English Homework: Long or Short Vowel? (10-Minute Word Sort Challenge)
🔗 Practise this skill on IXL: https://uk.ixl.com/english/year-4/use-spelling-patterns-to-sort-long-and-short-vowel-words
🔤 Skill Focus:
Use spelling patterns to help sort words by long or short vowel sounds.
📘 1. What’s the Sound? (5 mins)
Say each of the words below out loud. In your book, write the word and whether it has a long vowel sound (says its name) or a short vowel sound.
Words:
cake, tap, pine, hop, cube, pen, rope, cat, tube, slip
🧠 2. Sort the Words (3 mins)
In your book, create two lists:
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Short vowel words
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Long vowel words
Check the spelling patterns. Look out for things like silent 'e' (magic e) and vowel teams (like 'oa' or 'ee').
💡 3. Word Pattern Detective! (2 mins)
Think about the words in your long vowel list.
Write one sentence explaining any patterns you notice in their spelling.
(Hint: What do they have in common?)
Example:
Long vowel words often end with a silent e.
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