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Year 4 worksheets
Free worksheets: Science, KS2, Y4
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Understanding light reflection: Build your own periscope
Mirrors change the direction of light and reflect it. We can demonstrate this practically by making a periscope. Light is reflected from one object into a mirror and then onto the other mirror before reaching your eyes. Collect your materials and find out for yourself!
What is evaporation?
In this investigation you are going to see if water can move – or does it just change?
Food webs
When we look at habitats we often look at food chains to see the feeding relationships within them. Sometimes, though, more than one animal feeds off others. This is when we make food webs. Look at these cards. Can you cut them out and arrange them on the table with the arrows to show which animals feed off each other?
I hear with my little ear
Sit in a quiet place and close your eyes and listen really carefully. What can you hear inside the room? What can you hear inside yourself? Record the sounds you hear.
Spelling patterns: the prefix inter-
The prefix inter- means ‘between’ or ‘among’. Can you complete these sentences with the correct words from the box?
Mental multiplication problems: Y3, Y4, Y5
A teacher-made maths worksheet on mental multiplication problems for Year 3, Year 4 and Year 5 children with a football theme.
By the time they enter Year 5 children should be very confident in all times tables. They should also know their division facts for each times table (if 6 x 3 = 18 then 18 ÷ 6 = 3). Use these mental maths questions to test your child.
By the time they enter Year 5 children should be very confident in all times tables. They should also know their division facts for each times table (if 6 x 3 = 18 then 18 ÷ 6 = 3). Use these mental maths questions to test your child.
Fronted adverbials: examples and meaning
A teacher-created, fronted adverbial worksheet that provides an explanation of what a fronted adverbial is, with examples and a football-themed activity. Cut out these parts of sentences. Can you match the fronted adverbial to the correct sentence ending?
Choosing connectives
Look at these sentences. Can you find appropriate connectives in the word bank below to go in the gaps?
Calculating area and perimeter
Can you work out the perimeters of these football pitches and then work out the area of each goal?
Optional SATs papers: Y4 English set B
Exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, this Year 4 English practice optional SATs paper has been written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the old optional SATs papers used in schools up to 2015 to assess pupils' progress at the end of the KS2 school year.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 English set A
Exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, this Year 4 English practice optional SATs paper has been written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the old optional SATs papers used in schools prior to 2016 to assess pupils' progress at the end of the KS2 school year.
Chart of equivalent fractions
Help your child visualise which fractions are equivalent to 1, and how fractions are related to each other with an equivalency wall, free to download.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 maths set B
If you'd like your child to sit a Year 4 end-of-summer-term test to check their understanding of Year 4 maths, download our subscriber-only mock optional SATs paper, written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the topics typically covered in the old-style Year 4 maths optional SATs tests.
Optional SATs papers: Y4 maths set A
This Y4 maths practice optional SATs paper, exclusively available to TheSchoolRun subscribers, has been written by a primary-school teacher to mirror the old-style optional SATs papers used in schools before 2016 to assess pupils' progress at the end of the KS2 school year.
Blank hundred chart or hundred square
Use a blank hundred square to explain decimals to KS2 children, as well as showing the equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.
WordMaths: synonyms
The words in this puzzle all correspond to a number. Take the letters in the grid and do the maths to decipher the new word. The two words will be synonyms (they have the same meaning). If the letter in the new word is the same as the letter in the first word, there will be no maths to do.
Word split: compound words
A mix and match puzzle created by teachers, using compound words, to support primary school literacy and demonstrate examples of compound words.
Word speed challenge
Print off a copy of the challenge sheet for every person. Who can fill the grid with nouns, verbs and adjectives the fastest?
Word colouring: nouns and pronouns
Colour the squares with nouns in green. Colour the squares with pronouns in brown. Leave the blank squares empty, then work out what the picture is.
Times tables trail
A KS2 times tables game created by an experienced educator to support primary school numeracy at home.
Shape sequences
Can you draw the next shape in each sequence?
Prepositions x-words
Prepositions are linking words in a sentence, used to explain where things are in time or space. Can you place the words in the rows so that the green letters going diagonally spell a preposition from top to bottom?