Year 4 Blog Friday 26th January 2024

Date: 25th Jan 2024 @ 4:35pm

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 verbs when you are reading (a verb is an action or a doing word). It can also show what something has or is.

eg The boy is tall. (is is the verb) 

The tree has green leaves. (has is the verb).

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the ending -ture.

mixture       capture        feature        moisture      adventure

nature         picture        vulture         future         torture

sculpture     creature      fracture      furniture     temperature

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 7’s. 

For example, start at 0 and count up to 84 and back again

0   7     14     21     etc                         84    77      70   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 7 times tables
• A 3D shapes and their properties challenge

Reminders

Online Safety

In English, we wrote a formal letter to Mr Tregenza (grandfather in the novel) to persuade him to leave his home in Slapton Sands. We tried our best to use vocabulary which was both formal and persuasive, and enjoyed using our ‘posh’ voice to rehearse our sentences as we were writing as Lord Somethingorother.

In Maths, we started a new topic – shape. First, we identified, named and described 2D shapes according to their properties.

Following this, we identified and named prisms according to their properties. 

Prisms are 3D shapes, made up of two identical (congruent) polygons at opposite ends and joined up by parallel lines called edges.

This week, we also identified and named pyramids according to their properties.

Pyramids are 3D shapes with a polygon as a base and straight lines called edges that go from the vertex on the base and meet at one point called an apex.

In RE, we continued our topic, 'Community'. We discussed where our local parish is as well as members of the clergy. In addition, we thought about the links between the parish and the school, and the lay people who help in church. A lay person is someone who is not a member of the clergy, but helps as church eg a flower arranger or catechist.

In Art we continued making our boxes for our ‘pocket gallery’. We also cut out the pictures of ourselves and mounted them on to card. Next week, we will set up our gallery, including some pieces of art.  

In Science, we classified materials as solids, liquids and gases. We used a Venn diagram to help us sort these as some of them were quite tricky (eg jam, honey and hair spray).

We continued our new topic ‘photo editing’ in Computing. We learnt how to recolour pictures as well as clone and retouch them.

Enjoy your weekend

The Year 4 Team

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