Year 4 Blog Friday 23rd June 2023

Date: 23rd Jun 2023 @ 1:25pm

Welcome to your Friday blog.  

In English, we planned and wrote a letter from Ashley (the main character) to his father, following Ashley’s departure from the village.  Following this, we proof read and edited our work in pairs. We enjoyed doing this outside - you can see some pictures here. 

In Maths, we learnt how to accurately measure and draw lengths, converting between cm and mm. We then extended this learning to measure and draw lengths which included numbers up to 2 decimal places (converting between metres and centimetres). You can see some pictures of us measuring accurately outside here.

In RE, we wrote prayers to the Holy Spirit asking for help when we feel we have broken a bridge of friendship. We also read part of Paul’s letter to the Colossians and explained how his words can help us to build bridges in our everyday lives.

In French, we learnt how to say 6 ice cream flavours and give our opinion of them - either I love, I like, I don't like or I hate.... We looked at the phonic sounds in 'vanille' and 'menthe' and added actions to help us remember how to pronounce these words. Then we revised the position of adjectives relative to the noun and how to make them match their noun eg blue eyes = les yeux bleus.  We're ready to have a go at describing an alien next week!

In Science, we looked at the results of the investigation we set up last week – eggs had been left to soak in different liquids. We carefully examined any damage which had been done to the egg and then described how the egg shell had changed.  We then decided which liquid had done the most damage to the egg shell and which had done the least!  We were shocked by the results!

In PSHE, we finished our living in the wider world topic by writing a pledge which outlined a change we could make in our everyday lives, and demonstrated how we care and have concern for others.

In Outdoor Learning, we built our very own dens. You can see how creative we were here!

This week we also took part in our 3^rd Yoga session on Monday morning and Tough Kidder on Friday afternoon.  In addition, we had a fantastic sports day on Wednesday afternoon - many thanks to everyone who came and supported us!

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Discuss what you have read with someone at home.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Friday (30^th June 2023).

happily         prettily       easily           sleepily        greedily

clumsily        angrily         lazily            gently          simply

humbly         nobly            basically       frantically    dramatically

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s  

Start at 5 and count up to 150 and back again

5   10   15    etc                       150   145   140  etc

Start at 29 and count 134 and back again

29   34   39                               134   129   124   etc

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (28^th June 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A challenge to revise place value in 4 digit numbers
• A times tables challenge based on all the times tables

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

The Year 4 Team