St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Blog Friday 10th March 2023
Date: 10th Mar 2023 @ 4:04pm
Year 4 Blog
Friday 10th March 2023
Welcome to your Friday blog. Here’s what we have been learning this week:
In English, we started to plan and write our own story. First, we drew a story map and discussed our story with different partners. We made tweaks and amendments to our story maps and then produced a more comprehensive plan. We will be writing our stories next week and publishing them, so that we can share them with Year 6.
In Maths, we learnt the effect of dividing a number by 100, and placed hundredths on a number line which helped with our understanding of comparing and ordering decimals. We also started our multiplication topic and began by learning about number sequences.
In French this week, we began to learn the vocabulary for shapes, noticing which are masculine and which are feminine. Then we revised masculine and feminine colours, coloured some shapes and chose the correct colour word to go after the noun.
In PSHE, we discussed ways to make ourselves feel good every day, and what to do if something feels not so good. We then recorded lots of the ideas we had shared in our books.
In our swimming lesson, we practised personal survival. We learnt how to tread water, what to do if we fell into water, and how to keep afloat lying on our back. This was another invaluable lesson which we hope will help us to keep safe around water.
We started our Geography topic ‘Climate change and its impact on the environment’ this week with a visit to Formby Beach and Southport Eco Centre. You can see some pictures of our trip here. Although it was cold and snowing, we made the most of learning in the outside environment – we had a very interesting trip and learnt lots of new things. Over the next few weeks, we will be using the information we learnt during our trip and finding out more about the impact of climate change on our local coastline.
We were also lucky to have 2 visitors this week. On Wednesday morning, we were joined by our Japanese visitors who told us a story about ogres. We then used chopsticks to pick up soya beans – some of us found this quite tricky. You can see some pictures here.
In addition, on Friday afternoon, Stuart Rowson (a local author and ex CBBC producer of ‘Bedtime Stories’) visited the school. He gave an assembly, read extracts from his book, and held a question and answer session. This was very interesting and gave us some great ideas for our own story.
Home Practice
Reading
Please read out loud to somebody for 20 minutes each evening. Focus on fluency and understanding. Try and add some expression to your reading too.
Counting
This week, please practise counting in tenths
For example, start at 2.56 and count up to 4.16 and back again
2.56 2.66 2.76 etc 4.16 4.06 3.96 etc
Times tables
You should know your individual tables target. These will be tested next Wednesday (15th March 2023).
Remember you can also practise your tables playing Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Spellings
Here are next week’s spellings. You will be tested on these next Friday (17th March 2023).
physician optician magician electrician magician
musician politician extension collision confusion
explosion division exclusion conclusion invasion
Sumdog challenges
You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:
- A spelling challenge based on the spellings above.
- A times tables challenge based on the 7 and 9 times tables
- A dividing 1 and 2 digit numbers by 10 and 100 challenge
Please make sure you log on and have a go! Little and often is the key to success!
Please keep practising your times tables as much as you can. Knowing your tables off by heart is crucial and will help you in many different areas of maths.
Using Hit the Button can also help you practise your number bonds. Please have a go at brushing up your number bond skills, so that you can recall them quickly and accurately.
Have a great weekend
The Year 4 Team