Year 4 Friday Blog - 5th July 2024

Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 4:36pm

Dear parents,

Welcome to the Year 4 Friday blog!

Each week you will find out what we have been doing in class, weekly spellings and times tables and lots more. 

Homework

Reading - Reading is one of the most important skills for children to master as it unlocks their imagination and allows them to access the rest of the curriculum. Please read with your child every night. Remember to ask questions as this will improve key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference.

Spellings - This week, we will be revisiting some of the spelling rules we have learned this year. Our spelling words to learn are listed below and these will be tested on Thursday. As homework, each child should log into SpellingFrame and complete this weeks test using the link below. Homework books can be used to practise spellings, but do not need to be returned to school.

          Times tables -  As we come to the end of Year 4, we begin to look ahed to Year 5 and 6, where children will need to retain their times table knowledge and apply it in their maths. For this reason, we ask that every child continues to log in to TT RockStars each week. On Friday, we will continue with our weekly times table tests and this week we will be testing  a mix of all of the times tables.

I will be keeping track of all children logging into both Spelling Frame and TT Rockstars. I recommend 10 minutes on both, as many nights as possible. 

An overview for spellings and times tables can be found at the bottom of the blog. 

Our learning this week in Year 4

English

This week, children have written their own narratives, having planned their own journeys for their characters. All children have planned and written their narratives independently, using their own ideas and some of the new grammar skills they have learned in our lessons. I am very much looking forward to reading them all.

Maths

This week, we have been learning how to work out the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares. We started by counting squares in groups using our times table knowledge, and then moved on to counting whole and half squares. The children have really enjoyed this, and will be revisiting it in Years 5 and 6.

Move up morning

On Wednesday, the class spent the morning as Year 5 with Mrs Oral and Mrs Tattersall. They read a new story about a girl called Hope, who wanted to brighten up her town. The children then made their own flags of hope as well as getting to know Mrs Oral and making bookmarks. It sounds like everyone had a lovely time!

Sports Day

Have a fantastic weekend!

The Year 4 team

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