Year 4 Blog Friday 1st March 2024

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 8:40am

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.

See if you can spot any adverbs when you’re reading. Adverbs are words which describe a verb eg. He ate his breakfast quickly. The word ‘quickly’ is an adverb.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

calf    calves          half    halves          knife  knives

leaf    leaves          shelf  shelves        thief thieves

yourself       yourselves    themselves

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5s. 

For example, start at 0 and count up to 60 and back again

0     5     10   etc                                 60     55     50   etc

Now have a go at counting in 50’s

Start at 0 and count up to 600 and back again

0     50     100       etc                                   600     550     500    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 the 6 and 12 times tables

Please also click on the link below and have a go at the tenths and hundredths quiz which will help consolidate our maths learning from this week.

https://www.iknowit.com/lessons/c-decimals-tenths-and-hundredths.html

In English, we experimented using adverbs / adverbial phrases in sentences and then moving them around to different places. This helped us understand how to use an adverb / adverbial phrase in our writing to make it more interesting, and we also became experts at recognising whether the sentence ‘sounded’ grammatically correct or not.

In Maths, we learnt that a tenth can be divided by 10 to create a hundredth.  Using pictorial representations to help with our learning, we learnt the equivalence of tenths, hundredths, common fractions and the decimal forms of these.

In RE, we learnt about the different parts of the Communion Rite.  We then wrote our own prayer for peace and unity. We also discussed ‘Living in Communion’ and what this means in daily life.

In PSHE, we recognised how people manage their feelings. In addition, we discussed how people show their feelings through their body language.

In PE, we practised our netball skills and then played a game. We also learnt some new ways to balance in our gymnastics lesson.

This week, we also took part in a brilliant dance session, a triathlon event and enjoyed the 'wear something bright' school disco. Have a look at our galleries.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team