Home Practice Friday 16th October 2020

Date: 16th Oct 2020 @ 3:48pm

Year 4

Home Practice 16^th October 2020

Another busy week in Year 4!

This week we have dramatised the poem ‘The coming of the Iron Man’ during our English lesson.  As part of our Celtic topic in history, we made a model of a roundhouse - see our models in the gallery.  Following this, we wrote a set of instructions to help others make a roundhouse. In maths, we learnt how to compare and order numbers to 1 decimal place, round decimal numbers to the nearest whole number and double 2 and 3 digit numbers. In French we practised the days of the week and the months of the year. We now have the vocabulary to answer the question “Quelle est la date?”

Well done to all those who has been on Sumdog during the last week – practising these skills is the key to making progress, so keep up your fantastic efforts.  Let’s see if everyone in Year 4 can log onto Sumdog next week and practise these 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. 

You can find even more books to read on our website.  Go to Year 4, Home Learning and click on Oxford Owl.  Use the class login and password and explore lots of books to read.

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 Wednesday (21^st October 2020).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  Well done to everyone who has been practising their tables during the past week – it is fantastic to see the progress you are making.

Spellings

The spellings this week explore the ‘g’ sound spelt gue, which is French in origin. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (22^nd October 2020).  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    morgue

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 2 challenges on Sumdog:

• A multiplication challenge (x3 x4 x6 and x8)
• A grammar challenge (parts of speech, eg verbs, nouns, adverbs etc)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!