Year 4 Blog Friday 10th May 2024

Date: 10th May 2024 @ 8:54am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  If you find any new words you don’t know the meaning of, either look them up in a dictionary or ask an adult.  

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

quarter        purpose       enough         bicycle         experience

exercise      knowledge    special         appear         breadth

busy            calendar       favourite     opposite      particular   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in ½ ’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 10 and back again

½    1     1 ½    etc                       10     9 ½     9 etc

Now try counting in 1/3’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 7 and back again

1/3   2/3   1    etc                     7    6 2/3   6 1/3 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.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• An times tables competition – Girls v Boys

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘garage’ session

In English, we have been busy writing parts and learning them for our Parent Assembly next week.  In addition, we have been listening to the class novel.

In Maths, we learnt how to find quantities of amounts. We used bar models/ pictorial representations, counters and base 10 to help us with this learning. To begin with, many of us found this tricky, however, with a little more practise, we showed a good understanding. In addition, we used bar models to help us add and subtract fractions with the same denominator, when the total crossed a ones boundary.  

In RE, we learnt about some of the places Paul travelled to in order to spread the Good News and how he put his life in danger by undertaking such hazardous journeys. We also went to mass on Thursday to celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. 

In Science, learnt about the different types of teeth found in humans and their functions. We also discussed ways to look after our teeth and ensure our mouths and gums are healthy.

In Art, we created some beautiful artwork for our Parent Assembly.

We look forward to seeing you at our Parent Assembly on Thursday 16^th May 2024 at 2.40pm.

Have a sunny weekend

The Year 4 team