Year 4 Blog Friday 11th November 2022

Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 3:42pm

Year 4 Blog

Friday 11^th November 2022

Welcome to this week’s blog.

If your child is following the Reconciliation program at church, they will have come home with a leaflet, ‘Celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation at home’. Please discuss and share this information with your child.

Here’s what we have been learning this week:

We read some Remembrance poetry this week, listening very carefully to the words. We then copied a poem into our books, making a big effort to make our writing look beautiful on the page and not to make any mistakes. Following this, we wrote our own Remembrance poetry using the poem ‘What are we fighting for?’ as a stimulus. Our poems were very thoughtful and beautifully written.

In Maths, we revised and learnt more about the formal written method of subtraction.  We used this to subtract 4 digit numbers from 4 digit numbers, including when zero was used as a place holder.  We were very proud of our efforts, especially when we needed to include exchanging!

In RE, we have been learning about Judaism. We learnt about the rules of the Jewish faith and the Torah.

We also finished our History topic about the Romans this week.  We learnt about the 3 invasions of Britannia and why the first 2 were unsuccessful. We also learnt about Boudicca, her army and how she rebelled against the Romans. Finally, we considered the lasting legacy the Romans have left on Britain.

In French this week, we learnt the verbs J'ai (I have) and Je suis (I am) in the context of World War 1 soldiers. We thought about how the soldiers must have felt and used expressions such as J'ai froid - I am cold.

We started our new computing topic – audio production. Over the course of the topic we will be making digital recordings and editing them.

On Friday afternoon, we also had a visit from Mr Maloney and his dog Poppy.  Poppy was so well behaved and we enjoyed stroking her and asking lots of questions. You can see some photos in our gallery.

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. 

Counting

This week, please practise counting 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

Times tables

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week on Wednesday (16^th November 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 timestables.co.uk

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Spellings

Here are your spellings for this week.  You have also brought a paper copy home with you, so that you can practise these during the week.  Please remember to use neat joined up writing and check them very carefully once you have written them! We will be practising these spellings in class too. Your test will be on Friday 18^th November 2022.

busy            business      exercise      imagine        opposite

regular        calendar       experience   important    ordinary

remember    caught         circle           forward       library

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 6 times tables
• A challenge based on the formal written method of column subtraction – please note this only goes up to 3 digit subtract 3 digit numbers

Please make sure you log on and have a go!  Little and often is the key to success!

Have a great weekend

The Year 4 Team