Year 4 Blog Friday 2nd May 2025

Date: 1st May 2025 @ 4:12pm

Welcome to your weekly 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.

Find a couple of words you don’t know the meaning of and look them up in a dictionary. Write them in your reading diary and use them in a sentence of your own.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

scheme        chorus         chemist       echo            character       chef            chalet          machine       ache            brochure

anchor         chaos           monarch       chute           mechanic      school          parachute    champagne

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0   3   6   9   etc                        36   33   30 etc

Now try counting in 4’s

0   4   8   12    etc                     48   44   40 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

You can practise a similar Multiplication Tables Check on timestables.co.uk

If you practise for 5 minutes every night, you will see a big improvement in your tables fluency.

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 – lets see if EVERYONE can log on and play this week!

Sumdog challenges

• A spelling challenge based on the words above
• A comparing and ordering angles challenge

This week in Year 4

In English, we discussed the features of instructional writing.

Following this, we used our imagination to plan and write a recipe for our very own chocolate inspired by Willy Wonka.

We were very proud of our creations and think Wonka would be too!

In Maths, we learnt that an angle is a measure of a turn.

We then identified acute and obtuse angles, and also compared and ordered angles from smallest to the largest.

In RE, we explored the fact that St Peter was the first Pope and discussed what Peter’s life teaches Christians today.

In PSHE, we started our new topic – ‘relate’. Throughout the topic, we will learn to understand and celebrate our differences.

We began by learning what it means to ‘stop, understand and consider’.

In Science, we named the basic parts of the digestive system and described their functions.

We also found out how 'poo' is made in our digestive systems. Take a look at the pictures in our gallery.

In History, we studied different Greek pots with pictures on.

We considered what the people in the scene were doing and wearing and what we could see in the background.

From the pictures, we then inferred what life was like during Ancient Greek times.

In art, we finished our still life collages. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week - Emma 

Super Learner - Joni

Superstar Writers - ALL of Year 4!

Bookworm - Josh M

Marvellous Mathematician - Tiffany

Special Mentions - Josh M, Josh W and Alana

The Year 4 team