Year 4 Blog Friday 3rd July 2026

Date: 3rd Jul 2026 @ 1:27pm

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 spot any homophones when you are reading eg their, there and they’re.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

brake          break          fair             fare             mane            main

weather       whether       missed         mist             meat            meet

to                too              two              there           their           they’re

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 20’s

For example, start at 20 and count to 240 and back again

20  40  60      etc                               240  220  200 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 ‘battle of the bands’ – Year 4 v Year 5

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A multiplication and division challenge identifying unknowns

Our learning this week

English

We used a dictionary to find out the definitions of new words.

We then wrote the word in a sentence of our own to show the word in context.

In addition, we planned and wrote an informal letter from one of the Snargets to his friend.   

Maths

We converted between kg and g using the conversion 1kg = 1000g.

We discovered that we needed to multiply by 1000 to convert from kg to g.

Additionally, we converted between l and ml using the conversion 1l = 1000ml.

RE

In RE, we learnt about the 5 pillars of Islam which are core beliefs and practices that shape Muslim life.

They are:

Shahada – the declaration of faith

Salah – ritual prayer

Zakat – almsgiving

Sawm – fasting during Ramadan

Hajj – the pilgrimage to Mecca

PSHE

We explored different jobs people can have and what skills are important for these jobs.

We also considered what jobs we might want to do when we are older and which character strengths will help us.

Science

We explored the relationship between distance and volume.

History

In History, we researched the 12 Olympian gods and goddesses.

We also identified key Ancient Greek gods and goddesses from historical sources which were pinned up in the playground.

You can see us in action in our gallery.

PE

We practised our tennis skills and then played mini games to put them into action.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week:   Alice

Super Learner:    Rowan

Superstar Writer:    Albert

Bookworm:   Heidi

Marvellous Mathematician: Violet Ca  

Special Mentions: Isla and Lottie   

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team