Year 4 Home Practice Friday 4th February 2022

Date: 4th Feb 2022 @ 1:24pm

Year 4

Home Practice 4th February 2022

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

We started a new class novel this week called Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. It is a story of adventure and excitement. Everyone created some fantastic character descriptions, wrote an amazing diary entry and looked at how to write a captain's log. We have worked hard with our handwriting this week - well done Year 4.

In Maths, we have learned how to solve complex division problems by using repeated subtraction and chunking. This was new and tricky, but everyone showed great resilience. We practised writing down what we already know as a 'cheat sheet' - this helped us to solve the calculations.

In PE, we learned some new orienteering skills and took part in a whole school competition. Everyone enjoyed this and hardly anyone got lost! We also practised our hockey skills with Mrs Cookson. She was very impressed with our team work and effort.

In Music, we learnt the song ‘Each and Every Day’ for Children’s Mental Health Week.  Then, we played a rhythm game called ‘Give me One’ and started to read music with 4 beats.  Finally, we learnt a new chord, G, on the ukuleles, and played along to ‘Lean on Me’ with the chords C, F and G. A fantastic music lesson with lots of new learning – well done Year 4!

This week in Science, we started a new topic - Solids, Liquids and Gases. We met some new vocabulary and looked at some features of the different states of matter. Some of the new words we learnt were:

solid, liquid, gas, particle, volume

This week’s Home Practice ….

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Times tables

Although you haven’t been given any tables targets this week, please make sure you continue to practise your times tables and division facts, especially those that you find tricky. Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 10’s and 100’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class. You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 10’s

For example, start at 57 and count up to 217 and back again  

57   67   77     etc                     217   207   197  etc

Count in 100’s

For example, start at 600 and count up to 2400 and back again

600    700     800     etc                    2400    2300   2200   etc

Spellings

This week, the spellings are all homophones.  Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently. Please practise your spellings each evening at home as many of you are still not doing this.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (11^th February 2022). Remember you need to know the meanings of the words, so that you know which spelling to write!

him    hymn            new    knew            no      know

mist   missed         side   sighed         piece  peace

rain    rein             reign  to                too     two

Sumdog challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 3, 4 and 8 times tables (this involves missing numbers)
• Revision of place value in 4 digit numbers

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc.  Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button

The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:

8 + 6               you could partition this into         8 + 2 + 4 = 14

This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on Number bonds

On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’

Click on Addition within 20

See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.

Maths and spelling training

Please continue to use the maths and spellings training sections as these are tailored for your child to practise skills, facts and words that they find difficult.

Thank you for your support - have a lovely weekend.