Year 4 Blog Friday 17th May 2024

Date: 16th May 2024 @ 8:14am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  See if you can spot any dialogue / speech when you are reading. Look carefully at the punctuation and any words used instead of ‘said’.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

corrode        corrosion     intrude        intrusion      conclude       conclusion

suspend       suspension   decide         decision       erode           erosion

expand         expansion      comprehend       comprehension      

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s  

For example, start at 4 and count to 48 and back again

4   8   12    etc                          48   44   40 etc

Now try counting in 8’s

For example, start at 8 and count to 96 and back again

8   16   24    etc                         96   88   80  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
• A maths challenge to identify acute and obtuse angles, and compare and order angles according to size

TTRockstars challenge

• A ‘soundcheck’ session

In English, we perfected our speaking parts for our Parent Assembly.  We also wrote an article about a job we would like to do when we are older. We told the reader what the job was and why we liked it, explained what the job involved, and mentioned any problems or disadvantages we could think of.

In Maths, we identified and learnt the difference between acute and obtuse angles. In addition, we compared and ordered angles where one of the lines was either vertical or horizontal.  This week, we have also identified vertical and horizontal lines of symmetry in a variety of shapes. We found this tricky, but showed great resilence!    

In RE, we read ‘Paul’s happiness’ based on 2 Corinthians 6:3-10. We talked about how Paul felt and what kept him going.  We then chose our favourite line from the passage and explained how we can relate this to our daily lives.  

In Science, learnt about the structure of a tooth. In addition, we learnt how plaque is formed and tooth decay is caused. We then consolidated our learning about how to keep our teeth and gums healthy.   

In PSHE, we continued our topic about ‘plastic pollution’ and considered who is more or less responsible for polluting our oceans. It was an interesting discussion and we decided that it is everybody’s responsibility to be environmentally aware and make thoughtful choices.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team