Year 4 Home Practice Friday 5th November 2021

Date: 5th Nov 2021 @ 4:05pm

Year 4

Home Practice 5^th November 2021

Welcome back to another busy half term and the run up to Christmas! Year 4 have had a fabulous week of learning and now need to get back into the swing of completing their weekly Home Practice.

Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….

In English, we wrote a letter from Lila (the main character in the book) to her father explaining her feelings about wanting to be a firework maker. We tried our best to include paragraphs and a rhetorical question.  In addition, we listened to the class novel, discussed new vocabulary and summarised the story.  During the grammar part of the lesson, we practised using co-ordinating conjunctions to extend sentences. We can now use a variety of these in our writing.

In Maths we used numberlines to help subtract numbers. Bridging 10 and 100 was involved and although many of us found this tricky, we have all made good progress. We also learnt more about tenths, especially pairs to 10 where decimal tenths are involved (eg 6.4 + 3.6 = 10).

In RE we explored how we are all unique and different. We understand that we should treat each other as we would like to be treated and wrote our own set of Golden Rules.

We also started our Roman’s topic in History. Initially, we discussed what we already knew, what we would like to know, where the Romans originated from and what the Roman Empire was.

In French we learnt about subject pronouns (I,  you, he. she. we, you, they) and the verb etre (to be) in the context of Remembrance Day. Next week, we will use this grammar to write about this special time.

In PE we started a dance unit called ‘Sparks Might Fly’ which complements our new science topic, Electricity. In addition, we learnt some new tag rugby skills.

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 (11^th November 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 6’s and 0.2’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 6’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 72 and back again

0   6   12    18  etc                     72   66    60   etc

Start at 36 and count up to 90 and down again

36    42     48   etc                   90    84     78    etc

Count in 0.2’s

Start at 0 and count up to 1.6 and back again

0.2    0.4    0.6   etc           1.6   1.4   1.2  etc

Start at 5.4 and count up to 7.0 and back again

5.4   5.6   5.8   etc             7.0   6.8   6.6    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words ending with the ‘g’ sound spelt ‘-gue’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (11^th November 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’.

rogue           league          tongue         plague          intrigue

vague           fatigue        dialogue       epilogue       prologue

colleague      meringue      catalogue     synagogue    intrigued

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 6 times tables

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

Knowing your number bonds to 10 is important and will help in many aspects of maths.  Please practise this at home using Daily 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on the pink Select button and choose Level 1

Click on the purple Select button and choose Addition

Click on the green Select button and choose Bonds to make 10.

Choose your time interval or ‘manual’ if you want to move on when you are ready.

Remember to USE A NUMBERLINE to help you! We have been using these in class!