Year 4 Blog Friday 22nd March 2024

Date: 21st Mar 2024 @ 4:19pm

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.

Can you summarise what has already happened in the book so far? Can you make a prediction about what you think will happen and explain why you think this?

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

physician      optician       magician       politician      mathematician

electrician   musician       extension     collision        confusion

explosion      division        exclusion      conclusion     invasion       

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 0.2’s  (similar to your 2 times table but 10 times smaller)

For example, start at 0.2 and count to 2.6 and back again

0.2   0.4   0.6   etc                    2.6    2.4    2.2   etc

Now try starting at 0.1 and count to 2.7 and back again

0.1   0.3  0.5    etc                     2.7   2.5   2.3   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 competition based on all the times tables
• A missing number times table challenge

In English, we wrote a conversation between Lila and Rambashi ensuring that our words for said reflected the characters, and our punctuation was correct. We then acted this out with a partner.  

In Maths, we continued learning how to accurately place hundredths on a blank numberline. We also found the effect of dividing a one or two-digit number by 100, and started to learn how to solve number sequences when we needed to add or subtract to find the difference.

In RE, we learnt about the events of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday. We then started to produce a beautiful piece of work in our books which explained our learning. We will continue this next week.

We also made our DT projects this week. First, we stitched a button or a pattern on the ‘front’ of the product, then we sewed the two pieces of felt together. You can see some pictures of us busy at work and of our finished products in the gallery.

This week, we also took part in a retirement assembly for Mr Bedford who taught us how to swim when we were in Year 3. We wish Mr Bedford all the very best for his retirement.

In addition, we had our last dance session provided by Beth from South Ribble Sports Coaches, and attended the Parish Mass and Stations of the Cross on Friday morning. 

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team