Year 4 Home Practice 1st October 2021

Date: 1st Oct 2021 @ 1:07pm

Year 4

Home Practice 1^st October 2021

Another great week of learning in Year 4! Well done to everyone who has been on Sumdog during the last week to practise their tables and spellings.  The more you practise, the more confident you will become.

This week, we have practised counting in 5’s, 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s. In addition, in maths we have learnt how to compare whole and decimal numbers using the words ‘is less than’ and ‘is more than’, as well as the symbols < and >.  We also learnt more about multiples of 10 and 100 as well as rounding to the nearest 10 and 100. In English, we have read some more stories from our class novel ‘How the Whale Became and Other Stories’.  Following this, we wrote a letter from Polar Bear to Peregrine Falcon, and planned our very own story which we will be writing next week. In History, we discovered that Celts lived in ‘roundhouses’ and considered the similarities and differences between Celtic homes and our own!  Why not ask us what roundhouses were made of!

Reading

Please read for 20 minutes each evening to an adult at home.  Make sure you discuss the story and the characters.  Find the meaning of any new words too.  Reading every night will help you read more fluently and with understanding. 

Times tables

You have been given your own individual times table target.  Please make sure you continue to practise your times tables in preparation for your test next week, on Thursday (7^th October 2021).  Ask someone at home to test you on your tables – can you recall them quickly and accurately?  

Remember - you can also practise your tables playing ‘Hit the button’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 5’s and 100’s – draw a line and some marks on it like I do in class.  You could write the numbers down as you count up.  When you count down, cover the numbers up, say the number, then reveal what you’ve got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 5’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 60 and back again

0   5   10   15 etc                     60  55  50    etc

Start at 80 and count up to 125 and down again

80   85   90    etc              125  120   115    etc

Count in 100’s

Start at 0 and count to 1200 and back again

0  100  200    etc           1200  1100   1000  etc

Start at 455 and count to 1455 and back agin

455   555    655   etc                1455   1355   1255   etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words which have an ‘o’ sound after a ‘w’, ‘wh’ or ‘qu’. For example, the word ‘what’ sounds as if it should be spelt ‘wot’ using an ‘o’ instead of an ‘a’, the word squash sounds as if it should be spelt ‘s-qu-o-sh’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (7^th October 2021).  We have discussed in class different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could always use ‘Look say cover write check’.

what            quality         quantity       squash         squad

squabble      squander      squadron      wanted         swallow

quad             swap            swapped       wallow          wasp

Sumdog Challenges

You have been set 3 challenges on Sumdog:

• A spelling challenge based on the spellings above
• A times table challenge based on the 2 and 3 times tables
• A grammar challenge based on punctuation at the end of sentences (remember there are 4 types of sentences – questions, statements, exclamations and commands)

Please make sure you log on and have a go!