Year 4 Blog Friday 27th September 2024

Date: 27th Sep 2024 @ 3:36pm

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. Look up any words you are unsure of in a dictionary.

Spellings

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

kindly           slowly           loudly           comically      crossly

quietly         angrily         happily         sleepily        hesitantly

gently          simply          humbly         nobly            sarcastically

basically       quickly         dramatically           frantically             worryingly

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 60 and back again

0     5     10      etc                    60     55     50  etc

Now try counting in 50’s from 50 to 600 and back again

50   100    150    etc                  600   550    500

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 – please log on and have a go!

Why not challenge someone else in Year 4 to a ‘Rock Slam’. This is a competition and you can set a score for them to beat. You don’t need to be online at the same time.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on adding and subtraction 1, 10, 100 and 1000

In English, we analysed the features of an informal letter. We then planned and wrote our own letter from Michael to his best friend Eddie which outlined the countries he had visited and the adventures he had had during his sailing trip around the world.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. In addition, we practised adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000 to different numbers. We then used what we had learnt to add multiples of 10 to 3 digit numbers eg 342 + 250. See the pictures in our gallery which demonstrate how we answered these using place value counters.

In RE, we talked about how Abraham is a model of prayer and how we can use prayer in our everyday lives. We also discussed and wrote definitions of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love.   

In P.S.H.E, we described appropriate ways to say no to a friend and discussed how we can be assertive. We then acted a scenario out with our partner.

In Science, we worked in our groups to create a poster about an animal's features and any extra information about their habitat, nutritional group, or animal type. Have a look at our gallery.  

In Geography, we learnt about the ‘water cycle’. We learnt some new words which describe what happens to water during this cycle eg. evaporation,  condensation, precipitation and ground water.

This week, we also planted some bulbs in the nature area. We are looking forward to seeing them blossom in spring. You can see some pictures of us planting them in our gallery.

Have a super weekend

The Year 4 team