Year 4 HOME PRACTICE Friday 28th January 2022

Date: 28th Jan 2022 @ 5:07pm

Year 4

Home Practice 28^th January 2022

Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s what we have been learning in school this week ….

In English, we wrote and published our own story based on The Iron Man.  We tried to write in the style of Ted Hughes and enjoyed using Word to publish them.  In addition, we learnt more about the apostrophe and how it is used in contractions (eg cannot becomes can’t).

In Maths, we used the grid method to solve problems with missing numbers.  We also revised many of the mental strategies we have learnt over the past couple of weeks. We then used different multiplication strategies to solve word problems – although we found these tricky, it was a great feeling when we were successful. Additionally, we have been practising our tables, especially our 2 and 5 times tables.

In RE, we discussed what it meant to minister to the community and any sacrifices this may entail.  We then considered what the parish would be like if no one offered to minister.

We talked last week about some of the Roman buildings in Nimes. This week, we had some postcards from Nimes from our partner school there. The children drew some of the places. There are some great artists in y4! Well done.

We practised the chords C and F on the ukuleles in Music this week.  We also enjoyed exploring body percussion and were surprised by the sounds we could make!

In Science, we finished our evaluation of different switches.  We needed to be able to make a switch as we needed to include this in our DT design.

We began our PE lesson running 4 times around both playgrounds without stopping.  We then split into 2 groups.  Inside, we learnt 2 different balances and then devised our own gymnastics routine which we performed for the rest of our group. Outside, we practised our hockey skills – passing the ball to a partner and then trying to score a goal. We then took part in mini games using the skills we had learnt.

Our week ended with a DT day making our own ‘Iron model’. This was inspired by The Iron Man novel. We planned our model carefully and labelled it with items we wanted to use for decoration.  An electrical circuit, including a switch, was also incorporated into the design.  We had great fun and produced some interesting and fantastic models.  Well done Year 4!

This week’s Home Practice …

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 (3^rd February 2022). 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’ and https://www.timestables.co.uk/

It is crucial that you learn all of your table facts as this will help you with many aspects of maths.

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 20’s and 50’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 have got written down to check you’ve said the correct number.

Count in 20’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 240 and back again

0   20   40   60  etc                     240   220   200  etc

Then try counting from 150 to 390 and back again

150   170   190  etc                      390   370   350  etc

Count in 50’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 600 and back again

0  50   100   150  etc                    600   550   500   etc

Spellings

The spellings this week are contractions. This is when we shorten words and use an apostrophe to indicate the missing letter(s).  Please practise your spellings each evening at home as many of you are still not doing this.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (3^rd February 2022).

can’t            didn’t           doesn’t         it’s     couldn’t

won’t            wasn’t          hadn’t          you’re          you’ll

you’ve          they’ve        haven’t         aren’t          they’re

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 problem solving challenge using knowledge of multiplication

Please make sure you log on and have a go! Many of you are still not accessing Sumdog on a daily basis. Little and often is the key to success!

Number bonds

Number bonds are very important and help with many aspects of maths. The more confident you are with these, the easier you will find addition, subtraction, mental calculations etc.  Therefore, please continue practising your number bonds / addition skills playing Hit the Button

The game you will play will help with your number bonds and quick addition skills. For example:

8 + 6               you could partition this into         8 + 2 + 4 = 14

This is because 8 + 2 is a pair to 10, then add the 4 to 10

Click on the link above, then on Play Game.

Click on Number bonds

On the left-hand side you will see the words ‘Up to 20’

Click on Addition within 20

See how many you can get correct in 1 minute. Then have another go and try and beat your score.

Maths and spelling training

Please continue to use the maths and spellings training sections as these are tailored for your child to practise skills, facts and words that they find difficult.