Year 4 Blog Friday 13th December 2024

Date: 13th Dec 2024 @ 2:52pm

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Discuss what you have read with an adult. Try and add expression to your reading and think about how the characters might be speaking to each other.

Spellings

There will be no spelling test next week, however, we have included a Sumdog Challenge based on some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s, 6’s and 9’s and back again using your times tables

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0    3   6  etc                            36   33    30  etc

Then have a go at counting in 0.3’s, 0.6’s and 0.9’s and back again using your times tables as a guide

0   0.3    0.6 etc                        3.6   3.3    3.0 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 some of the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Words
• A maths challenge based on using known and related facts to multiply and divide mentally

In English, we wrote a menu for a special guest – the Iron Man. We included alliteration in the titles of our dishes and a mouth watering description of the food.  We then published our menus. They are to be included in a book of menus which will be on the Year 4 bookshelf. We are all very proud of our writing this week! Brilliant work Year 4.

In Maths, we learnt how to divide using related facts. In addition, we learnt how to divide two-digit numbers by a single digit using the chunking method. Many of us found this tricky as we are not yet fluent with our tables. Knowing our tables off by heart will help us to succeed when we meet trickier learning and boost our confidence.   

In RE, we made links between the ancestry of Jesus and the Jesse Tree.

In Geography, we discovered that there are different courses to a river (the upper course, middle course and lower course) and we discussed the different land uses at each course. In addition, we learnt about different features of a river and learnt the words meander, tributary, confluence and ox-bow lake.

In Science, we identified whether a circuit was complete or incomplete and therefore whether it would work or not.

In the last session of My Happy Mind – the Meet Your Brain Unit – we identified what was good for our brains or body, or both!

In addition, on Monday afternoon, we were treated to a super panto – Beauty and the Beast.  We thoroughly enjoyed watching the performance.

Please remember to bring in a cardboard box and any decorations you need for your DT on Tuesday.

The Year 4 team