Year 4 Blog Friday 15th March 2024

Date: 15th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm

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.

Keeping looking out for dialogue / speech marks. Look carefully at how the dialogue is punctuated. Can you see the inverted commas? What words are inside the inverted commas? Can you spot any capital letters and punctuation within the speech marks?

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

antiseptic    antidote       antibiotic     antibody      anticlockwise

antisocial     anticlimax    antihistamine         interfere     international

interrupt     internet       intervene     intercept     interject

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 4’s. 

For example, start at 0 and count up to 48 and back again

0    4    8     etc                                  48   44   40 etc

Now try counting in 8’s.

Start at 0 and count up to 96 and back again

0   8   16 etc                                       96   88   80 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 based on the words above
• A times tables challenge based on all the times tables
• A dividing by 10 and 100 challenge

In English, we read some more of our class novel – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.  We then revised the rules for speech / dialogue. Following this, we thought of lots of different words for ‘said’ which Lila and Rambashi (2 characters from the novel) would use. We will be writing our own dialogue between the characters next week.

In Maths, we compared and ordered numbers with tens, ones, tenths and hundredths.  In addition, we placed hundredths on a blank numberline. 

In RE, we started our new topic – ‘Giving: Self Discipline’. We read a story and discussed how feelings and beliefs affect self-discipline. We learnt that although being self-disciplined can be difficult, it can also lead to positive results.

We started our DT project this week. We practised 3 different types of stitches, then planned and designed our product. We will be making our product next week.

We need to remember to bring in any decorations we want to include on our product next week.

This week, we also enjoyed a trip to Formby Beach and Southport Eco Centre. We learnt a lot of information about the Formby coastline, and ways to be more eco friendly. It was an excellent trip and we gained a lot of knowledge from the experience. Have a look at our photos in the gallery. 

In addition, this week we have taken part in an energetic keep fit session with Freddie Fit and a lesson led by the Japanese students, during which we learnt how to show hospitality in Japan. See the photos in our gallery.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team