Year 4 Blog Friday 3rd May 2024

Date: 3rd May 2024 @ 8:45am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

science        scene           abscess       ascend         descend

scissors       scented       crescent      scientist      muscle        

scenery        disciple        discipline     fascinated   adolescent

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 9’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 108 and back again

0    9      18   etc                       108    99     90 etc

Now try counting from 22 to 130 in 9’s. (add 10 then subtract 1)

22     31     40    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.

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• An adding and subtracting fractions challenge

TT Rockstars challenge

• A ‘studio’ session

In English, we revised instructional writing and labelled up a set of instructions. We then planned and wrote our own set of instructions to make a firework. We challenged ourselves to include interesting ingredients, time conjunctions and bossy (imperative) verbs. We have been very creative are incredibly proud of our instructions.

In Maths, we learnt how to add and subtract using different methods. First, we used a number line and ensured we bridged though a multiple of 10 efficiently. Then, we used a mental compensating strategy when the number we were adding or subtracting had a 9 in the ones place. In addition, we have been practising our tables in preparation for our Multiplication Tables Check at the beginning of June.

In RE, we learnt about Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus. We watched a video which told his story and then wrote about Paul’s character both before and after this event.

In Geography, we learnt about the 4 different layers of the rainforest – the forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent layer - and the vegetation / animals found in each. We then drew / coloured in the different layers and wrote our findings up.

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend

The Year 4 team