Year 4 Blog Friday 8th March 2024

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 4:33pm

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 dialogue / speech marks. Look carefully at the punctuation – this will be useful for our English learning over the next couple of weeks.

Spellings

These are your spellings for next week:

position       straight       consider       favourite     knowledge

possess        possession   strength      minute         promise

through       fruit            probably      remember    separate     

Counting

This week, please practise counting in hundredths. 

For example, start at 0.05 and count up to 0.23 and back again

0.05   0.06   0.07   etc                                  0.23   0.22   0.21   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 based on the words above
• A times tables challenge based on the 4 and 8 times tables
• A comparing decimal numbers challenge

In English, we made predictions about our new class novel – The Firework-Maker’s Daughter.  We read an extract from Chapters 1, 2 and 3 and then thought carefully about the characters, the setting, and what we thought would happen in the book.  In addition, we used evidence from the text to describe the main character, Lila.   

In Maths, we learnt more about decimal numbers to two decimal places in the context of money. We also compared numbers represented by place value counters and coins.

In RE, we watched a video of The Concluding Rite which ends the Mass. We then described ways we can glorify God and explored Romans 12:8-11.   

In Art, we practised sketching a flower. We then experimented with tints and shades by mixing a colour of paint with white paint. Following this, we painted a picture of a flower to go on a card.

In Computing, we practised retouching a picture. We will be putting all our photo editing skills together over the next couple of weeks in order to edit a photograph of our own choice. 

This week we have also been to Reconciliation with Father Michael, taken part in a dance class and a yoga session, and enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

Have a lovely weekend

The Year 4 team