Year 4 Blog Friday 20th September 2024

Date: 19th Sep 2024 @ 5:02pm

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. See if you can spot any nouns – do they have capital letters or not?

Spellings

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

minute         natural         naughty        notice          occasion(ally)

opposite      ordinary       particular    peculiar       perhaps

material       possible       medicine      potatoes      popular

often           pressure      position       probably      possess(ion)

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 2’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 24 and back again

0     2      4   etc                        24     22     20  etc

Now try counting from 25 to 41 and back again

25    27    29    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 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on ordering and comparing whole numbers

In English, we wrote reasons for and against sailing around the world. In addition, we collected words to describe Michael’s character. Information about Michael's character could have been written down in the novel, or inferred – that is, we could work it out from the evidence.

In Maths, we learnt more about place value. We learnt how to compare and order both whole and decimal numbers, and how to round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

In RE, we acted out the story of Abraham and Sarah. Following this, we retold the story in our own words ensuring we included some important vocabulary, eg covenant and trust.

In PE, we practised our chest pass, bounce pass, overhead pass and shooting skills and then applied these skills to a game of netball.

In Science, we grouped animals in a variety of different ways, for example as vertebrates or invertebrates / as fish, amphibians, retiles, birds or mammals.

In Art, we created our own scenes and then sketched them. We also gave them a title. Please have a look in our gallery.

Have a relaxing weekend

The Year 4 Team