Year 4 Blog Friday 31st January 2025

Date: 30th Jan 2025 @ 10:01am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  If you are unsure about the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary and write out the meaning in your reading diary.

Spellings

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

their           there           they’re        because       does

doesn’t         too              to                two              its

it’s               off              of                where          were

when            went            with             our              are

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s  

For example, start at 12 and count to 144 and back again

0    7    14  etc                          84    77    70  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 3D shapes

In English, we learnt more about adverbs and how they can be used in different places in a sentence. We now know that adverbs can go at the beginning of a sentence, but need a comma after them. For example – Quickly, the boy finished his dinner. We put into practise what we had learnt by retelling some of the class novel.

In Maths, we continued with our 3D shape topic by identifying and naming different pyramids according to their properties. In addition, we consolidated our ability to identify and describe the properties of lots of different 3D shapes (eg a cone, a sphere, a cylinder and a prism).

In RE, we familiarised ourselves with Matthew 11 1-15 (Jesus’ speech to John the Baptist) when John’s disciples asked Jesus if he was the Messiah.  In addition, we listened to the story of Jesus walking on water and considered why Jesus might have worked miracles.

In Science, we recapped the properties of solids, liquids and gases. Following this, we discussed some common household materials, sorting them into solids and liquids according to their properties. Some we found quite tricky to classify.

In History, we learnt about some of the things that the Roman’s brought to Britain, for example, cats, cement and bricks, coins, and new ways of reading and counting. Following this, we started to make a PowerPoint which gave more information about some of the legacies the Romans left behind.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, we learnt how we can grow our strengths and how neuroplasticity can help us.  

In Art, we continued with our topic ‘the art of display’. We continued making our ‘plinths’ and took pictures of ourselves in different poses.

The Year 4 team