Year 4 Blog - Friday 4th October 2024

Date: 3rd Oct 2024 @ 1:19pm

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 spot any co-ordinating conjunctions in sentences?

Spellings

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

crystal         gym             hymn            mystery       myth

pyramid       symbol         syrup           typical         Egypt

bicycle         cymbals        cylinder       gymnast       gymnastics

oxygen         crypt           lyrics

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0    3    6      etc                        36    33     30  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 268 to 428 and back again

268     278    288    etc             428    418    408  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 ‘Battle of the Bands’ competition against Year 5 – please log on and have a go!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on the 3 times table which we have been revisiting this week

In English, we learnt the acronym FANBOYS to help us remember the 7 co-ordinating conjunctions. The conjunctions are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So. We then practised using these conjunctions in sentences. We hope to try and use more compound sentences in our independent writing.

In Maths, we used partitioning and number lines to help us add and subtract numbers when we needed to bridge 10 and 100. This was quite tricky, but with a bit more practise we hope it will become a little easier. In addition, we learnt how to measure and draw lengths as properties of 2D shapes, as well as how to measure in centimetres and millimetres.

In RE, we consolidated our learning of the words - virtue, faith, hope and love. We then read St John Henry Newman’s ‘Mission of my Life’, underlined our favourite line, and explained why we chose it. We also explained how we could relate it to our everyday lives. 

In P.S.H.E, we discussed good and not so good feelings and how they can affect our physical state. We ordered sets of feelings based on their intensity.

In Art, we began to retell the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ through sketching.  

This week, we also attended the Harvest Celebration in church on Friday afternoon. Thank you for your harvest gifts – these will be donated to a local food bank.

Have a relaxing weekend

The Year 4 team