Year 4 Home Practice Friday 8th October 2021

Date: 8th Oct 2021 @ 4:22pm

Year 4

Home Practice 8^th October 2021

You have worked hard this week Year 4 and shown a brilliant attitude to your learning! 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.

In English, we finished reading ‘How the Whale Became and Other Stories’.  We then wrote our own story in the same style and edited it with a partner. At present, we are trying to build up our stamina, and improve our sentence openers and vocabulary when we are writing.   In maths we have continued rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 – many of us found this tricky but we persevered, and all made great progress.  We also learnt mental strategies for adding and subtracting 1, 10, 100 and 1000. In History, we sketched and labelled a roundhouse and then started to make our own roundhouse out of clay and lolly sticks.  In PE we continued practising our bounce and chest passes and enjoyed playing mini games of netball.  In Science, we discovered how to classify different animals. We learnt that there are lots of different ways to group animals.

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 (14^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 3’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 3’s

For example, start at 0 and count to 36 and back again

0   3  6  9  etc                     36  33  30   etc

Start at 30 and count up to 48 and down again

30   33    36       etc              48   45   42    etc

Count in 100’s

Start at 234 and count to 1334 and back again

234   334   434    etc           1334   1234   1134  etc

Start at 3520 and count to 4720 and back again

3520    3620   3720   etc                4720    4620   4520    etc

Spellings

The spellings this week explore words which have an ‘aw’ sound which is spelt ‘a’. For example, the word ‘ball’ sounds as if it should be spelt ‘bawl’ using an ‘aw’ instead of an ‘a’. Please practise your spellings each evening at home.  You will be tested on them next Thursday (14^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’.

ball              wall              bald             walk             chalk

stalk            small            called           fall              sleepwalking

tall              baseball       stall             talk             call

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 maths challenge, rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000

Please make sure you log on and have a go!