Year 4 Blog - Friday 30th September 2022

Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 3:56pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 30^th September 2022

Year 4 have worked hard this week with many children getting on triple and quadruple gold! What a super achievement!

Here’s what we have been learning:

In English, we used our senses to complete a piece of writing which contained descriptive and expressive language. We found this tricky as we were explaining what we could see, hear, smell etc, without using the words I could see…. I could hear… I could smell…. etc. However, we were extremely proud with our finished pieces of writing and some of the descriptive language we used. We also wrote some super poems called What’s the difference between … eg dogs and deckchairs? There were some great ideas and some were very amusing!

In Maths, we continued using numberlines to add and subtract numbers.   We also practised measuring and drawing lengths as properties of 2D shapes. In addition, we put our measuring skills into practise as we collected leaves and then tried to accurately measure them in cm and mm!

In RE, we listened to the story of Ruth and then hot-seated her. We also learnt about the wisdom of Solomon and how the Book of Proverbs in the Bible is attributed to him.

In History, we learnt where the Romans came from, when Rome was founded, how the Roman Empire grew, and listened to the story of Romulus and Remus.

In Science, we learnt how to use a classification key to identify living things.  We then played Guess Who to practise asking yes / no questions ready to create our own classification key next week.

In French, we had a taste of Polish and German as well as French this week. We talked about similarities and differences between the sound of the languages and how the skills acquired when learning one language can really help learn another.

Many thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Open Morning’ on Tuesday - we hope you enjoyed seeing the school in action.  

We would also like to thank Mrs Nowak and Mr Hawryluk who read stories in Polish to us on European Languages Day.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 1000’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 12 000 and back again 

0   1000    2000   etc                      12 000   11 000    10 000   etc

For example, start at 452 and down up to 10 452 and back again

452   1452   2452  etc                    10 452    9452    8452  etc

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Thursday (6^th October 2022).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?

Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Measuring

If you can, please draw some lines on a piece of paper and practise measuring them with a ruler like we have done in class.  You may also want to use your ruler to measure things around your home, for example, a book, an envelope, a CD cover.  You could even go outside and collect leaves or other items to measure like you did in school. Think carefully about the measurements in cm and mm and try and be as accurate as you can.

Spellings

Your spellings next week are all from the Year 3 / 4 Statutory Spelling list.  You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week.  Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Friday 7^th October 2022.

appear         continue       grammar      material       possible

suppose       breadth       different     group           medicine

accident       century        February     pressure      surprise

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 3 times tables

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

Have a great weekend

The Year 4 Team