Year 4 Blog Friday 1st July 2022

Date: 1st Jul 2022 @ 4:52pm

Year 4

Home Practice 1^st July 2022

Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week ….

In English, we started our new novel – Bill’s New Frock by Anne Fine. We looked at the front cover and made predictions about the story. Then we read the blurb on the back and wrote a paragraph to explain whether our prediction had changed and reasons why.

In Maths, we learnt how to compare and order decimal numbers. In addition, we revised rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Following this, we rounded decimals to the nearest whole number.

In French, we described a monster together, remembering to put the colour adjectives after the nouns and make them agree. Then we read a story about a monster. Next week, we will design our own monster and describe it.

During our PSHE lesson we discussed whose responsibility it is to protect the world around us. We then reminded ourselves of simple changes we can all make to help reduce plastic pollution. We then enjoyed making a clips video on the ipads to explain what we have learnt and suggest changes that people can make to help the environment and reduce plastic pollution.

In Computing, we made our final animations. We thoroughly enjoyed making these and are really proud of our end results.  Over the past few weeks, we have learnt a lot about making an animation, and now understand that the ipad and background need to be secure, and the characters should only move a small amount each time.

In Geography, we started to write a double page spread about climate change. We wrote the title, a definition of climate change and the impact of climate change on the world, such as: drought, more frequent and powerful storms, and rising sea levels which can lead to flooding. We will be adding more information to our work next week.

We also enjoyed wild weaving outside. We found twigs of a similar size and bound the ends together to make a rectangular shape. We then wrapped wool or string around it to make a loom. Following this, we threaded natural materials into the loom – these looked beautiful, well done Year 4.

This week’s Home Practice ….

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Times tables

Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables and division facts, especially those that you find tricky. Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/

Please continue to practise your tables as they will prove invaluable in Year 5 and 6!

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 25’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 25’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 275 and back again  

0   25   50   etc                      275   250   225  etc

For example, start at 1125 and down up to 925 and back again

1125   1100   1075        etc              925   950   975   etc

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the prefix ‘in’ or ‘ir’.  A prefix is a group of letters that are added to the beginning of a word and change the meaning or make a new word.  ‘In’ and ‘ir’ both mean not.  Therefore, when they are added to the beginning of a word, they form words with the opposite meaning.  For example inaccurate means not accurate and irrelevant means not relevant.  The spellings are on Sumdog this week.

inaccurate    incomplete   inactive       incorrect     inconvenient

inexpensive  inefficient   inedible       irregular      irresponsible

irrelevant    irreversible irresistible  irrational     irreplaceable

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A maths challenge based on the 6, 7, 8 and 9 times tables
• A maths challenge – rounding to the nearest whole number, 10, 100 and 1000

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc.  Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button

The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:

8 + 6               you could partition this into         8 + 2 + 4 = 14

This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on Number bonds

On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’

Click on Addition within 20

See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.