Year 4 Blog Friday 19th April 2024

Date: 19th Apr 2024 @ 9:41am

Welcome to the first blog of the Summer term

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.

See if you can spot any determiners when you are reading. Determiners are words which come before a noun / an adjective and a noun.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

invention      action          digestion     creation       calculation

direction      completion   expression   confession    admission

progression  discussion    possession   procession   permission  

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 20’s (similar to your 2 times table but 10 times larger)

For example, start at 20 and count to 240 and back again

20   40    60   etc                      240    220    200 etc

Now try counting in 25’s. Start at 25 and count to 350 and back again

25   50    75    etc                    350   325   300 etc

Times tables and Number facts

Please practise your individual tables target for your test next week. 

You can practise your tables on TTRockstars, 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 doubling / halving and related facts challenge

This week we have introduced TTRockstars. Please practise your tables on the app at home and play some different games so that you understand how to play them and what they entail. Next week, a challenge will be set.

In English, we learnt what a determiner is and how using different determiners can change the meaning of a sentence. We also learnt how to write noun phrases / expanded noun phrases. We will be trying to use this learning in a piece of descriptive writing next week.

In Maths, we revised the grid method of multiplication. We used known facts and our knowledge of multiplying by 10 and 100 to help us. In addition, we learnt how to halve whole and decimal numbers with both even and odd digits.

In RE, we started our new topic – New Life. We listened to a story and considered what made the main character feel unhappy and subsequently alive again. In addition, we decided what the character had learnt from the experience and any changes they would make.  We also discussed a religious painting depicting Pentecost, focusing on the people, actions, symbols and colours.

In Computing, we finished our photo editing topic. We thought about the feelings and emotions we wanted to express in a picture, took a photograph in the school grounds, and then altered it digitally in an attempt to elicit these feelings.

In Geography, we shared what we already know about rainforests. Then we located the world’s rainforests. We discovered that they are near or on the equator.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team