Year 4 Home Practice Friday 7th January 2022

Date: 7th Jan 2022 @ 5:01pm

Year 4

Home Practice 7^th January 2022

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

In English, we learnt more about adverbs and how to correctly use them at the beginning of a sentence. We tried to include some of these in our writing about our first day back at school after the Christmas holidays.  In addition, we have continued reading our class novel, The Iron Man, and discuss the different characters we have been introduced to.

In Maths, we revised rounding to 10, 100 and 1000.  In addition, we have continued to refine the formal written method of subtraction, especially where there were zero’s in the numbers – some of these were quite tricky but Year 4 worked hard to try and master this. Additionally, we have been practising our tables, and counting in 3’s and 6’s.

In RE, we learnt about community – we discussed the different communities we belong to and what makes it function well.  In addition, we talked about the advantages and demands of being part of a community, and what causes a community to either break down or helps to build it up. 

In History, we learnt about the types of houses the Romans lived in and looked at various different mosaic patterns.  We then looked more carefully at mosaics and started to appreciate which mosaic patterns we liked and why.

Bonne annee! In French this week, we learnt about how French people celebrate La fete des Rois - the Feast of the Epiphany. A special cake which contains a lucky charm is shared. Whoever gets the lucky charm in their slice becomes the King or Queen for the day. We then focussed on the phonic sound oi (wa) as in roi, listening to a song with lots of oi words and reading them. Tres bien!

Our PE lesson involved both gymnastics and hockey. In gymnastics, we practised a one-foot balance, explored different ways of travelling and refined the front and back support. We then started to create our own sequence and showed this to the class.

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 (13^th January 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’.   

Counting

This week, please practise counting in 3’s and 6’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 3’s

For example, start at 0 and count up to 36 and back again (this will help with your 3 times tables)

0   3   6    9  etc                     36   33    30  etc

Then try counting from 30 to 66 and back again

30  33   36 etc                       66    63    60

Count in 6’s

Start at 0 and count up to 72 and back again (this will help with your 6 times tables)

0   6   12   18     etc                    72   66   60   etc

Do this a few times to help you learn them!

Spellings

The spellings this week all have the ending ‘sure’ or ‘ture’.  The ending sounding like ‘zhuh’ is spelt ‘sure’.  The ending sounding like ‘chuh’ is spelt ‘ture’.  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 (13^th January 2022). We have discussed different strategies you could use to help you learn them and you could also use ‘Look say cover write check’.

future         nature         creature      feature        mixture

picture        adventure    fracture      vulture         closure

leisure         measure       enclosure     pleasure       treasure

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 3 and 6 times tables
• Rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 (we have practised this in class this week)

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.