St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Blog Friday 24th March 2023
Date: 24th Mar 2023 @ 3:54pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 24th March 2023
Welcome to your Friday blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week:
In English, we published our adventure stories choosing either to hand write them or use a word processor. We also designed a sleeve (the front and back cover) and wrote the blurb to tempt others to read our story. We are looking forward to sharing our stories with Year 6 next week.
In Maths, we learnt how to accurately double a number with ones and tenths and also solved grid multiplication problems - this required identifying missing numbers in a calculation. Many of us found this tricky as we are still not confident with our times tables. We also started our new topic - division. We began by halving numbers with all even digits followed by halving numbers with some odd digits!
In French this week, we learnt that feminine nouns usually end with the letter e. This helped us decide whether we need un or une as a determiner. Then we recapped the shape words and began to look at the work of Matisse, a French artist, and tried to spot the shapes he used.
In Science, we began the topic of Sound by thinking about what we already knew. then we did a carousel of activities designed to make vibrations visible. By the end of the lesson, we had learnt that sound is caused by vibrations.
In Art, we explored different fonts of the first letter of our names on the ipads. We then copied some that we liked into our Art Books. We will be using all the ideas we have explored to design our own illuminated letter next week.
In RE, we finished our ‘Giving and receiving’ topic with a beautiful class Collective Worship.
In Geography, we looked at a map of the UK and located our local coastline (Lancashire and Merseyside). We then gave a title to the map and used colour to indicate where our local coastline is.
During our swimming lesson, we practised swimming lengths in different strokes. We have all made lots of progress with our swimming over the past 9 weeks. Our last swimming lesson will be next Wednesday.
We have also added a guide on how to promote kindness when online. Have a look below.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening. Try retelling what you have read to someone else. Remember to focus on fluency and understanding, and add some expression to your reading too.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 100's
For example, start at 600 and count back to 2400 and back again
600 700 800 etc 2400 2300 2200 etc
Times tables
You should know your individual tables target. These will be tested next Wednesday (29th March 2023).
Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please practise your tables each night as this will help you in lots of different aspects of maths and many of you are finding them tricky to apply in different contexts.
Spellings
Here are next week’s spellings. You will be tested on these next Friday (31st March 2023).
quarter purpose enough bicycle experience
exercise knowledge special appear breadth
busy calendar favourite opposite particular
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above.
- A times tables challenge based on the 2, 4, 6 and 8 times tables
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Little and often is the key to success!
As there are only 2 Sumdog challenges this week, please take a little time to practise doubling and halving number as we have been learning about this in class. You can practise this on Hit the Button. Click on ‘play game’ then select either halves or doubles. Good luck!
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.
Have a relaxing weekend
The Year 4 Team