Year 4 Home Practice Friday 24th September 2021

Date: 24th Sep 2021 @ 8:29am

Year 4

Home Practice 24^th September 2021

Welcome to the Year 4 Blog.  Each week the blog will include a brief summary of our learning and the children’s Home Practice to be completed during the week.

Year 4 have made a super start to the new school year.  They have transitioned well into their new routines and been enthusiastic about their learning.

This week, we have practised counting in 2’s, 10’s, 100’s and 1000’s. In addition, in maths we have learnt more about whole numbers upto 4 digits as well as decimals (tenths). In English, we have read some more stories from our class novel ‘How the Whale Became and Other Stories’.  Following this, we wrote our own questions about a story for someone else to answer. We went outside during Science and looked at different trees and their leaves. Back in class, we grouped the leaves in different ways, for example, according to whether they were a large or a small leaf, or serrated or lobed.

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 (30^th September 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 2’s and 10’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 2’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 24 and back again

0 2 4 6 8 10   etc                     24 22 20 18 16    etc

Start at 90 and count up to 114 and down again

90 92 94 96    etc              114 112 110 108    etc

Count in 10’s

Start at 0 and count to 150 and back again

0 10 20 30 40    etc           150 140 130 120  etc

Start at 55 and count to 185 and back agin

55 65 75 85  etc                185 175 165 155 etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore different letter patterns for the same ‘ei’ sound. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (30^th September 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’.

prey            wait             bait             afraid          grey

eight           weight         sleigh          neighbour    freight

paint            eighteen      eighty          reign           vein

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, 5 and 10 times tables
• A maths challenge based on 4 digit numbers (and place value) and tenths

Please make sure you log on and have a go!