Alongside the recommended resources and links, these are the key skills your child would benefit from practising at home on a regular basis. The activities below are completely optional and the timings are only a guide as we do not want to add extra pressure at home during an already challenging time. 

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(Daily) Reading

Try to read a range of books

(fiction/non-fiction – novels / comics/ magazines /websites /newspapers)

Weekly Activities you could try

• Write a description of the main character or setting
• Summarise the story or chapter into one paragraph
• Try to infer how a character might have been feeling at different parts of the story
• Try to predict what the story might be about based on the cover. Can you predict the ending? 
• Write a book review or recommendation
• Create a fact file from the information
• For further ideas, see the home reading diaries. 

 

(Daily) Learn the statutory spellings

• Look, cover, write, check
• Speed write a word repeatedly and see how many times you can write it in 60 seconds
• Have a test
• Create a word search or cross word using the spellings.
• Learn what the words mean
• Explore spelling rules.

 

(Daily) Practise your times tables

Y3  learn the 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 8s, 10s

Y4 learn all of the times tables up to 12 x 12

• Online games
• Write them out in order
• Jumble them up
• Test yourself
• Learn the related division facts
• Roll a dice or pick two playing cards and multiply the numbers together
• Play rock paper scissors with a partner by holding up an amount of fingers. Race to multiply your own and partners numbers together

You may wish to open the document below which will show you which topic your child was about to study and it gives related ideas and activities to try at home. 

	Year 3 and 4 Learning Activities	[pdf 353KB]
	My Activity Book Age 7 11	[pdf 22MB]