Year 4 Blog Friday 27th February 2027

Date: 27th Feb 2026 @ 8:52am

Welcome to your Friday blog

Home practice

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home. 

Discuss what you have read with an adult.

Can you spot any adverbs or adverbial phrases when you are reading?

Spellings

These are your spellings which will be tested next week – please practise them

accident       accidentally           actual          actually        address

answer         appear                   arrive          believe        bicycle

breath         breathe                 build            busy            business

calendar       caught                   centre         century        certain

Counting

This week, please practise counting in hundredths  

For example, start at 0.52 and count to 0.66 and back again

0.52   0.53   0.54  etc                         0.66  0.65  0.64  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.

TTRockstars challenge

A ‘garage’ session

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on comparing decimal numbers

Our Learning this Week

In English, we practised using adverbial phrases and fronted adverbials.

We used ‘human sentences’ to help us with our learning – you can see some pictures in our gallery.

We also finished our class novel, The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, and then discussed the characters and the story.   

In Maths, we consolidated our knowledge about numbers to two decimal places by comparing and ordering decimal numbers using the greater than ( > ) and less than ( < ) signs.

We also placed hundredths on a number line.

Year 4 have shown a super understanding of hundredths - well done to you all!

In RE, started our new topic – Desert to Garden.

We read the parable of the Prodigal Son and then retold it to show our understanding.

Following this, we 'hotseated' some of the different characters to find out their feelings and delve further into the idea of God forgiving, even when we turn away from him.

In Science, we continued with our States of Matter topic by planning an investigation to see which type of chocolate melt the fastest.

In our ‘Our Happy Mind’ lesson, learnt how to show respect to others and ourselves.

In PE, we played tag rugby. We demonstrated how to pass a ball using a swing pass accurately and then used a simple tactic in a game.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.   

In Geography, we explored an atlas to find out where rainforests are usually located around the world.

We discovered that rainforests are usually found close to the equator.

In Computing, we finished our photo editing topic by planning an image we wanted to create.

We took a photograph and then used the photo editing skills we’d learnt to attempt to create this image.

Have a look at our finished projects in our gallery.

In Art, we started a new topic – Exploring still life. We began by looking at the art work of Paul Cezanne.

Then we used the ‘Four Colour Gestural Drawing Exercise’.

This involved using only 4 colours to help us appreciate how seeing simple shapes can help improve drawing skills.

In our Forest School session there was amazing resilience and team-work shown when making the shelters. The children also demonstrated their knot-tying skills. 

We also talked about all the flowers growing in our nature area.

Golden Assembly

Star of the week: Oscar

Superstar Writer: Francesca

Bookworm: Eliza

Marvellous Mathematician: Eddie

Super Learner: George

Special Mentions: Bella – for beautiful RE work

Evelyn and Daisy – for a super ‘Magic Dragon’ photograph which they edited for their final piece in computing

The Year 4 team