Year 4 HOME PRACTICE Friday 15th October 2021

Date: 15th Oct 2021 @ 1:13pm

Year 4

Home Practice 15^th October 2021

An amazing week in Year 4 – lots of learning and lots of creativity! Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week to practise their tables and spellings.  The more you practise, the more confident you will become.

In English, we started our new novel ‘The Firework-Makers Daughter’. We predicted the setting and what we thought would happen in the story by looking at the pictures on the front cover and reading the blurb carefully. In Maths, we have been counting in tenths and multiples of 4. We also used numberlines to help add and subtract 3 digit numbers which were multiples of 10 and consolidated our learning about sequences. In History, we finished our Celtic Roundhouse models and made a small hill fort near the stage. We are extremely proud of our models – please look at our pictures below! We now know days, numbers and months of the year, so we can write the date in French.  We have been practising these skills in our weekly French lessons. In PE, we used all our netball skills in a mini tournament – well done Year 4.

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 (21^st October 2021).  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’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s and 0.1’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’ve got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 4’s

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

0   4   8   12  etc                     48   44   40   etc

Start at 20 and count up to 68 and down again

20   24   28       etc              68   64   60    etc

Count in 0.1’s

Start at 2.4 and count to 3.6 and back again

2.4   2.5   2.6   etc           3.6   3.5   3.4     etc

Start at 9.7 and count to 11.2 and back again

9.7   9.8   9.9     etc                11.2   11.1   11.0       etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words which have the ‘i’ sound spelt y elsewhere than at the end of words. For example, the word ‘myth’ sounds like it should be spelt ‘mith’; the word ‘gym’ sounds as if it should be spelt ‘gim’. In each case, the ‘i’ sound is spelt with a ‘y’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (21^st October 2021).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

gym             myth            Egypt          pyramid       mystery

symbol         synonym       lyrics           system         gymnastics

hymn            typical         cylinder       physical       oxygen

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 3 and 4 times tables

Number bonds

This week, please practise your number bonds using Hit the Button.

Please complete

• Addition within 10
• Addition within 20

How many can you get right in a minute?

Can you improve your score?

Can you challenge yourself and have a go at ‘Addition within 100 (tens)’

Please make sure you log on and have a go!

PLEASE NOTE – As we break up next Thursday at 3.15pm, there will be no blog or Home Practice uploaded on Friday afternoon.  However, please read and practise your tables every day during half term.