Year 4 Blog Friday 17th March 2023

Date: 17th Mar 2023 @ 12:57pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 17^th March 2023

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

In English, we wrote our own adventure story about Lily from the novel.  We concentrated on quality rather than quantity, proof-reading carefully, editing, and making improvements to our writing.  We are very proud of our stories and will be publishing and reading them to Year 6 next week.  

In Maths, we learnt more about multiplication.  We found factor pairs of numbers using our times tables and consolidated our learning about the grid method. Many of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our times tables!

In French this week, we learnt how to change masculine adjectives into their feminine form, then we used these feminine adjectives to write a card for a special lady to tell her how amazing she is! I hope the children can read and translate for you.

In Science, we used our understanding of changing state to design a machine to speed up evaporation. There were some great ideas and good scientific understanding - well done year 4

In Art, we sketched different gerberas in a variety of pencil grades. We chose different parts of the flower to sketch and then experimented with shades and tints – choosing one colour and investigating how to make it lighter.  We put all our ideas together and hope you enjoy seeing the finished product this weekend.

In RE, we made links between parts of the Mass (for example The Lord’s Prayer and the Sign of Peace) and the religious symbols and steps involved in religious actions and worship.

We were also lucky to have an extra PE session with Freddie Fit this week. As well as keeping us active, Freddie also told us the importance of exercise, water intake and eating healthily.

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 decimal tenths

For example, start at 0.7 and count up to 2.1 and back again

0.7   0.8   0.9  etc                 2.1   2.0   1.9    etc

Then have a go at counting in fractional tenths

For example, start at 7/10 and count upto 2 1/10 and back again

7/10   8/10  9/10  etc           2 1/10   2 0/10   1 9/10   etc

Times tables

You should know your individual tables target.  These will be tested next Wednesday (20^th March 2023). 

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

Please practise your tables each night as this will help you in lots of different aspects of maths.

Spellings

Here are next week’s spellings. You will be tested on these next Friday (24^th March 2023).

invention           action          digestion     creation       calculation

direction           completion   expression   confession    admission

progression       discussion    possession   procession   permission  

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 7 8 9 10 11 and 12 times tables
• A recognising and using factor pairs challenge

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 super weekend

The Year 4 Team