Year 4 Blog Friday 28th February 2025

Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:10am

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. Can you see any speech marks when you are reading – what do you notice about the punctuation?

Spellings

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

accident       accidentally           actual          actually        address

answer         appear                   arrive          believe        bicycle

breath         breathe                 build            busy            business

calendar       caught                   centre         century        certain

Counting

This week, please practise counting in negative numbers  

For example, start at -10 and count to 10 and back again

-10   -9   -8  etc                        10   9   8  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

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on tenths and hundredths

In English, we started our new novel – Wonka by Sibeal Pounder. We began by using evidence from the first few chapters to describe Wonka and Scrubitt’s characters – they are both very different! This week, we also revised the rules for dialogue.   

In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge of the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and decimal form. We now know that ¼ = 25/100 = 0.25 and ¾ = 75/100 = 0.75).  In addition, we learnt about numbers to two decimal places in the context of money. You can see us exploring money in our gallery.

In RE, we started our new topic – Desert to Garden. We read the parable of the Prodigal Son and then retold it to show our understanding. Have a look in our gallery for some examples of our work. 

In Geography, we explored an atlas to find out where rainforests are usually located around the world. We discovered that rainforests are usually found close to the equator.

In Music, we listened to a song about Dragons and then used YuStudio (on Charanga) to write our own music - our own music was based on the Dragons song we had listened to.

In Computing, we continued our photo editing topic by learning how to clone and retouch images. Following this, we planned an image we wanted to create, took a photograph, and then used the photo editing skills we’d learnt to attempt to create this image. Have a look at our finished projects in our gallery.

In Art, we started a new topic – Exploring still life. We began by looking at the art work of Paul Cezanne. Then we used the ‘Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise’. This involved using only 4 colours to help us appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills.

The Year 4 team