Year 4 Blog Friday 3rd March 2023

Date: 3rd Mar 2023 @ 3:35pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 3^rd March 2023

Welcome to your Friday blog.  Here’s what we have been learning this week:

In English, we concentrated on identifying adverbial phrases in sentences.  We then made ‘human sentences’ and moved them around so that the adverbial phrase was at the beginning of the sentence.

In Maths, we learnt more about decimal and fraction equivalents.  In addition, we also investigated numbers to 2 decimal places in the context of money, and compared and ordered numbers to 2 decimal places.  We have found this tricky, but have worked really hard this week to understand these concepts.

In RE, we watched a video of the Penitential Act which helps prepare people to hear God’s Word.  We read together the ‘I confess’ prayer and then considered how we can say sorry in our daily lives.

In French this week, we recapped how to put days, numbers and months together to write the date in French.  We feel really confident with this now.

In Science, we learnt about evaporation and condensation by finding out about the water cycle. We made a model of the water cycle in a bowl to demonstrate the different processes. We then tried to use the new scientific vocabulary to explain how it works. You can see some of our models here.

In History, we made our names with sticks outside – we realised that some of the letters were tricky to make, especially if they were circular – you can see some of our names made in sticks here.  Following this, we looked at the Anglo-Saxon rune alphabet and identified any similar letters to our own alphabet.

In Computing, we practised cloning and retouching photographs, and the impact of changing a picture.

In our swimming lesson, we practised personal survival and how to help someone who was in the water and who couldn’t swim. This was an invaluable lesson and we completed it whilst wearing our pyjamas in the pool! NEXT WEEK - you will need to remember to bring shorts and a tshirt as well as your usual swim wear!

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Focus on fluency and understanding. Try and add some expression to your reading too.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in hundredths  

For example, start at 0.01 and count up to 0.15 and back again

0.01    0.02   0.03  etc                    0.15   0.14   0.13    etc

Times tables

You should know your individual tables target.  These will be tested next Wednesday (8^th March 2023). 

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

Spellings

Here are next week’s spellings. You will be tested on these next Friday (10^th March 2023).

address   decide         answer         describe      believe

perhaps   disappear     continue       suppose       though

height     different     important    February     thought      

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above.
• A times tables challenge based on the 4 and 8 times tables
• A decimal equivalents (tenths and hundredths) challenge

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

Please keep practising your times tables as much as you can.  Knowing your tables off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

Using Hit the Button can also help you practise your number bonds.  Please have a go at brushing up your number bond skills, so that you can recall them quickly and accurately.

Have a great weekend

The Year 4 Team