Year 4 Blog Friday 17th January 2025

Date: 17th Jan 2025 @ 8:22am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Can you summarise what has already happened and predict what you think will happen next?

Spellings

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

quarter        question       recent         though         regular

reign           remember    thought       sentence      separate

special         through       straight       strange        strength

various         suppose       woman          women          therefore

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 12’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    12   24  etc                         144    132    120  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 ‘Battle of the Bands’ tournament – Boys v Girls

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based reading, writing and converting time

In English, we wrote a formal letter to Mr Tregenza (grandfather in the novel) to persuade him to leave his home in Slapton Sands. We tried our best to use vocabulary which was both formal and persuasive, and enjoyed using our ‘posh’ voice to rehearse our sentences as we were writing as Lord Somethingorother!

In Maths, we learnt how to read the time and write it to the nearest minute. We also learnt how to tell, write and match analogue and digital times. Please try and practise telling the time at home with an adult as this is an invaluable life skill.

In RE, we continued with our Galilee to Jerusalem topic and learnt about the Christian belief of incarnation. We discussed ‘God like’ and ‘human’ traits and then produced a piece of work to show our understanding that Jesus was fully God and fully Human.

In Science, we consolidated our electricity learning with a Kahoot quiz.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we discussed character strengths and how we can recognise these in others, and in different situations.

In History, we learnt why the Roman Army was so powerful and successful, and produced a poster to try and drum up some new recruits! You can see some photos in our gallery.

The Year 4 team