Year 4 Blog Friday 18th October 2024

Date: 18th Oct 2024 @ 12:45pm

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. Can you predict what will happen next?

Spellings

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

information            preparation           adoration     sensation               floatation

admiration             exaggeration         hibernation  propagation           imagination

concentration        moderation            education     differentiation      taxation

hesitation              litigation               isolation       invitation

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 8’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 96 and back again

0    8    16   etc                         96   88   80  etc

Now try counting in 100’s from 253 to 1753 and back again

253    353    453    etc              1753    1653    1553  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 ‘studio’ session

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A times tables competition

In English, we wrote a letter to our parents in preparation for parents evening. This week, we also researched the meaning of words using both a physical and online dictionary, and then attempted to use them in a sentence of our own. In addition, we enjoyed using description from the novel to draw our own sketch of the island Kensuke and Michael are living on. Have a look at some of our drawings in the gallery.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about perimeter. We used what we had learnt to calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes when some lengths were missing. Additionally, we derived and used addition and subtraction facts for 1 and 10 with decimal numbers (for example 0.1 + 0.9 = 1 and 4.8 + 5.2 = 10).

In RE, we listened again to the story of Joseph and then ‘hot seated’ his character. Following this, we wrote a prayer which helped us to reflect on how the virtues of faith, hope and love help us to be a good neighbour.

In P.S.H.E, we discussed who or where pressure may come from and performed this in role play.

In Science, we created a classification key using post-it notes. Have a look at some examples in our gallery.

In History, we were archaeologists! We looked at some Roman artefacts and then considered what they were, what material they were made from, who might have used them and what it told us about Romans / Roman life.

In Art, we used oil pastels to add some colour to our Very Hungry Caterpillar sketches. Have a look in our gallery to see how this has enhanced the story.

The Year 4 team