St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYEAR 4 Home Practice 11th March 2022
Date: 11th Mar 2022 @ 10:25am
Year 4
Home Practice 11th March 2022
Reminder - Sunday 13th March 2022
There is a Sacramental Preparation Mass on Sunday 13th March at 10.30am for the children in Year 4 who are taking part in the Sacramental Preparation Programme. We look forward to seeing you there.
Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….
In English, we learnt more about inverted commas and practised using them in our own writing. We also discussed how Michael’s emotions changed throughout a chapter of the novel. In addition, we wrote a powerful description of a thunderstorm using our senses to help with our narrative.
In Maths, we continued to learn about hundredths, discovering how to write fraction and decimal equivalents of halves, quarters and three quarters. We also made links between decimal notation and money. Finally, we used our understanding of equivalences between tenths and hundredths to recognise that a number with 2 decimal places can be represented in different ways. Again, another tricky concept – well done for working so hard in maths Year 4!
In RE, we started our new topic ‘Self-discipline’. We shared a story and discussed whether or not the main character had shown self-discipline. We also considered times in our own lives when we needed to make choices which required self-discipline. In addition, on Monday, we attended church for the first session of our Sacramental Journey. Please see the blog posted on Monday for more information about this.
We learnt that in French, the adjective has to match its noun. So if the noun is feminine or plural, the adjective has to be feminine or plural too. We practised this by drawing shapes and adding a colour, making it agree. We are working towards doing a piece of artwork and describing it in French.
In Music, we learnt a new song ‘Everything starts with a seed’ for Science week. We will be singing this in Golden Assembly on Friday. Following this, we played the rhythm game from last week - ‘Pat, click, clap, groove’. Finally, we played a musical challenge which involved body percussion, reading symbols and counting in 4’s.
In Science, we carried out an investigation into the viscosity (thickness) of liquids. We poured equal volumes of different liquids into separate cups. We then chose 2 liquids to ‘race’. Before we began the race, we made a prediction, then we carried out the race and recorded our results. We tried racing different liquids and then attempted to order the liquids from thickest to least thick.
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
You have been given your own individual times table target. Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (17th March 2022). 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 9’s and hundredths – 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 9’s
For example, start at 0 and count up to 108 and back again (this will help with your 9 times table)
0 9 18 27 etc 108 99 90 etc
Count in hundredths
For example, start at 0.05 and count up to 0.14 and back again
0.05 0.06 0.07 etc 0.14 0.13 0.12 etc
And start at 0.57 and count up to 0.72 and back again
0.57 0.58 0.59 etc 0.72 0.71 0.71 etc
Spellings
This week’s spellings are irregular plurals. Each time ‘ves’ needs to be added to the word ending in ‘f’ or ‘fe’, to spell the plural. 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 (17th March 2022).
calf calves half halves knife knives
leaf leaves shelf shelves thief thieves
yourself yourselves themselves
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, 6 and 9 times tables
- A decimal equivalents challenge – recognising and writing decimal equivalents of any number of tenths or hundredths
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.