Year 4 Blog Friday 5th December 2025

Date: 5th Dec 2025 @ 1:05pm

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 summarise what you have already read or make a prediction about what you think will happen?

Spellings

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

disappoint             disagree                disobey                 disobedient

disgrace                disguise                 misbehave             misspell

mislead                  misunderstood       misunderstand       misconduct

misdeed                 misfire                  misguided              misuse

misspent               misplace

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 2’s, 4’s and 8’s and back again using your times tables

For example, start at 0 and count to 48 and back again

0    4    8  etc                            48    44     40  etc

Then have a go at counting in 0.2’s, 0.4’s and 0.8’s and back again using your times tables as a guide

0   0.4    0.8 etc                        4.8    4.4    4.0 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’ competition – Year 4 v Year 5

Sumdog challenges

A spelling challenge based on the words above

A maths challenge based on doubling, halving and related multiplication facts

Our Learning This Week

In English, we read some more of our novel and learnt that the Iron Man enjoyed eating anything made of metal.

We also started gathering ideas together for a menu specially designed for the Iron Man which we will be writing next week.

In Maths, we practised using partitioning to mentally multiply TU x U, and built on our knowledge of the grid method of multiplication.

Some of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our times tables, so we need to make sure we practise these as often as possible.

In RE, we discussed what a Jesse Tree is – a way to prepare for Advent by reading stories about Jesus’ family tree and hanging a symbol each day.

We then drew symbols which showed the different stories from the Bible and created a Jesse Tree in the classroom. 

Have a look at some of these symbols in our gallery.

In Geography, we learnt about the different stages and features of a river.

We now know that a river can be divided up into three courses – the upper, middle and lower course – and that each course has different features.

This week, we also took part in the Santa Dash on Tuesday afternoon.

You can see some pictures of this in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Rory

Super Learner: Daisy

Superstar Writer: Rudy and William

Bookworm: Emilia

Marvellous Mathematician: Lottie

Special Mentions: Violet Co and Rowan – for making Year 4 a lovely place to be and bringing big smiles into class every day

Have a peaceful weekend

The Year 4 team