Year 4 Blog Friday 10th January 2025

Date: 9th Jan 2025 @ 8:21am

Welcome to your Friday blog

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New Year

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult. Can you find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

famous         various         jealous         serious        obvious

poisonous     dangerous    enormous     glamorous     vigorous

outrageous   curious         hideous        humorous     mountainous

courageous            spontaneous           tremendous

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 11’s  

For example, start at 11 and count to 132 and back again

0    11   22  etc                          132    121  etc

Then have a go at counting up in 11’s from a different number, for example 54 or 79

54   65    76 etc        

79    90    101  etc                         

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Please also practise your number facts. 

You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on doubling, halving and related facts (times tables)

In English, we started our new novel – The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips. We began by thinking of the similarities between this novel and Kensuke’s Kingdom, also written by Michael Morpurgo. In addition, we were introduced to the main character (Lily) and we thought of lots of words to describe her personality.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about chunking. Many of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our tables or number facts. Knowing these off by heart would be beneficial in lots of maths areas. We also learnt how to divide by 10, and described the effect of dividing a 2digit number by 10. Have a look at our gallery.

In RE, we started our new topic – Galilee to Jerusalem. We began the topic by listening to Matthew 16: 13-26 - Peter’s profession of faith. Following this, we retold the story using speech bubbles.

In Science, we continued learning about electricity by making our own switches. We had to make sure we used appropriate materials and made a complete circuit.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we started the ‘Celebrate’ module. We discussed the 5 main character strength groups

• love and kindness
• bravery and honesty
• learning and exploring
• friendship and teamwork
• loving life and our world

In Music, we were introduced to brass instruments and were lucky enough to try out lots of different instruments. We were also visited by the ‘Music Bus’ (mobile music vehicle) in which we played the ‘drums’ on an ipad. Have a look in our gallery.

In Geography, we discussed the causes of flooding, the impact and how it can be prevented. This was quite topical given the recent weather and rainfall.

We started our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing. We learnt how to rotate and crop pictures using the BeFunky app.

The Year 4 team