Year 4 Blog Friday 9th January 2026

Date: 9th Jan 2026 @ 10:25am

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 find out the meaning of any new words in a dictionary?

Spellings

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

famous         various         jealous         serious        obvious

poisonous     dangerous    enormous     glamorous     vigorous

outrageous   curious         hideous        humorous     mountainous

courageous            spontaneous           tremendous

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 11’s  

For example, start at 11 and count to 132 and back again

0    11   22  etc                          132    121  etc

Then have a go at counting up in 11’s from a different number, for example 54 or 79

54   65    76 etc        

79    90    101  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 doubling, halving and related facts (times tables)

Our learning this week

In English, we wrote about our first day back at school after Christmas and how everything had changed – what wonderful imaginations we have!

We also started our new novel – The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips.

We began by thinking of the similarities between this novel and Kensuke’s Kingdom, also written by Michael Morpurgo.

We were also introduced to the main character (Lily) and we thought of lots of words to describe her personality.

In Maths, we consolidated our learning about chunking. Many of us found this tricky as we are not confident with our tables or number facts.

Knowing these off by heart would be beneficial in lots of maths areas.

We also learnt how to divide by 10, and described the effect of dividing a 2digit number by 10.  

In RSHE, learnt that God loves us in our differences. We considered how we are all different and that these differences should be celebrated.

We then created a poster in our books to describe how we should all be accepted and respected, along with how we should relate to each other to make the word a better a place.

Have a look at the pictures in our gallery.

In Music, we composed patterns on the boomwhackers using pentatonic scales.

In Geography, we discussed the causes of flooding, the impact and how it can be prevented.

In addition we talked about river pollution and the impact on this on communities.

We carried out some research and presented our findings ina poster.

In Art, we produced an independent piece of work based on previous work we had completed when exploring pattern. 

You can see some examples in our gallery.

Golden Assembly

Star of the Week: Isla

Super Learner: Eddie

Superstar Writer: George

Bookworm: Heidi

Marvellous Mathematician: Jessica

Special Mentions: Daisy for always using beautiful manners

Lottie and Georgie for beautiful RE work

The Year 4 team