Home Practice Friday 25th September 2020

Date: 24th Sep 2020 @ 5:23pm

Year 4

Home Practice 25th September 2020

Another busy week in Year 4 – we’ve nearly worked our socks off!

In English we read ‘How the Tortoise became’ and created our own blurb and book cover for the story. In Maths we have been rounding numbers to 10, 100 and 1000 and using symbols to compare numbers.  In French, we read and wrote classroom instructions and learnt more about the Tour de France - we know the winner this year was Pogacar.  Friday was European Sports Day and we learnt how to play handball!  Well done Year 4.

This week's Home Practice can be found below.  The purpose of Home Practice is to ensure the basic skills of reading, spelling and number are practised on a regular basis at home - the tasks consolidate classroom learning.  Practising these skills little and often will ensure firm foundations for learning throughout the year.  

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next Thursday (1^st October 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Spellings

The spellings this week explore different letter patterns for the same ‘ei’ sound. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (1^st October 2020).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

prey            wait             bait             afraid          grey

eight           weight         sleigh          neighbour    freight

paint            eighteen      eighty          reign           vein

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A multiplication challenge (Related facts for x3 x4 and x8)
• A maths challenge (Rounding and place value to 10 000)
• A spelling challenge (based on the sound ‘ei’ spelt different ways)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!