St Oswald's Catholic Primary SchoolYear 4 Blog Friday 12th January 2024
Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 8:15am
Happy New Year to you all and welcome to your Friday blog
Home practice
Reading
Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding.
Spellings
The spellings this week all end with -ing, -ed, -er or en.
forgetting excelling excelled regretting regretted
upsetting beginning beginner recapping recapped
travelling travelled traveller forbidden forbidding
Counting
This week, please practise counting in 11’s.
For example, start at 0 and count up to 132 and back again
0 11 22 33 etc 132 121 110 etc
For example, start at 59 and count up to
59 70 81 etc 158 147 136 etc
Times tables and Number facts
Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week.
You can practise your tables on Hit the Button and timestables.co.uk
Please also practise your number facts.
You can practise your number facts on Hit the Button
It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts and your number facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.
Sumdog challenges
- A spelling challenge
- A times tables challenge based on the 11 times tables
- A telling the time challenge
In English, we started our new novel – The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips. We used words to describe Lily’s character, and planned and wrote a diary extract.
In Maths, we learnt how to divide by 10, and described the effect of dividing a 2 digit number by 10. In addition, we revised reading and writing time on analogue clocks.
In RE, we read the story of the Wise Men from Matthew’s Gospel and talked about the symbolism of their gifts.
In Geography, we learnt about the different stages of rivers and their features.
We started our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing. We learnt how to rotate and crop pictures using the BeFunky app.
Have a lovely weekend
The Year 4 Team