Year 4 Blog - Friday 9th June 2023

Date: 9th Jun 2023 @ 8:58am

Year 4 Blog

Friday 9^th June 2023

Welcome to your Friday blog.  We have had a fantastic first week back and it has been lovely to enjoy the sunny weather outside.

In English, we started our new class novel, King of the Cloud Forest by Michael Morpurgo. We looked carefully at different covers of the book and then made predictions about what we thought the book would be about. We also wrote questions about a chapter for our partner to answer.    

In Maths, we played ‘Times Tables Masters’ – you can see us in actions here. We also consolidated our knowledge of 2D shape and learnt about diagonals.  In addition, we learnt how to describe and plot coordinates, complete a polygon on a coordinate grid, and describe movements on a coordinate grid as translations.

Translation is simply moving a point – it does not change its appearance in any other way.

In RE, we started our new topic – building bridges. We considered how friendship is like a bridge between people – it needs to be strengthened, maintained or repaired.

In French, we practised listening for certain words within a dialogue. Then we looked at some faces painted by Picasso and had a go at drawing a Picasso-style face. Next week, we will describe it in French.

In PE, we practised our athletic skills in preparation for sports day!

In Art, we painted our illuminated letters. We are very proud of them. 

As the weather has been so beautiful this week, we also went outdoors and designed our own obstacle courses. We showed great teamwork and used lots of natural items to create some very ingenious courses.  You can see some pictures here.

This week, we have also been lucky enough to try out yoga and boxercise.

Home Practice

Reading

Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening.  Discuss what you have read with someone at home.

Spellings

Here are this week’s spellings. You will be tested on these words next Friday (16^th June 2023).

unfortunate           unlikely        unbelievable          disagree       disappear

dishonest              independent           inaccurate    inactive       recreate

revisit                   redo            submerge              submarine    subway

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s  

Start at 150 and count up to 310 and back again

150   160    170    etc                       310   300   290  etc

Start at 53 and count upto 233 and back again

53   63   73                               233   223   213   etc

Times tables

You will be tested on your tables target next Wednesday (14^th June 2023). Please practise every day. Remember you can practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A challenge based on describing positions on a coordinate grid
• A times tables challenge based on the 6 and 12 times tables

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

Another app for practising tables and number facts is One Minute Maths from White Rose.  It is free to download from the AppStore and PlayStore. There are lots of excellent games you can play which will help you brush up your mental maths skills.  Please do your best to access this fabulous free resource!  Knowing your tables and number facts off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.

Have a brilliant sunny weekend - make sure you go outside and do something you enjoy.

The Year 4 Team