Year 4 Blog - Friday 11th October 2024

Date: 11th Oct 2024 @ 9:49am

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. Write down the meaning of any words you don’t know.

Spellings

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

young           touch           double          trouble        country

courage        colour          couple          southern      encourage

cousins         enough         nourish        countries     rough

cousin          doubling       touched       youngster    troubling

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s  

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0    4     8      etc                       48    44    40  etc

Now try counting in 10’s from 146 to 326 and back again

146   156    166    etc                326    316    306  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 concentrating on the 2, 5, 10, 3 and 4 times tables only

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A maths challenge based on perimeter

In English, we read about Michael’s first encounter with Kensuke on the island. We then planned and wrote a diary account from Kensuke’s point of view. We tried to ensure we included lots of thoughts and feelings and made it entertaining for the reader.

In Maths, we measured lengths in centimetres and millimetres, writing lengths to one decimal place eg 4cm 7mm = 4.7cm. In addition, we learnt that perimeter is the measure of length or distance around the boundary of a shape. We then applied our understanding to help us calculate the perimeter of rectilinear shapes.

In RE, we listened to the story of Joseph who was given a wonderful coat by his father. His older brothers were jealous and sold him to passing merchants on their way to Egypt. We then discussed how Joseph’s decisions were informed by his faith, hope and love in God.

In P.S.H.E, we discussed how in different situations we may have different feelings, and described the physical states our bodies may experience. Have a look in our gallery at our pictures.

In Art, we continued with our retelling of the story of ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ through sketching.  Have a look at some examples in our gallery.

In History, we learnt where the Romans came from, when Rome was founded (753BCE) and when the Roman Empire began and ended (27BCE – 476CE).

Have a wonderful weekend

The Year 4 team