Herefordshire

Week beginning 18.9.23 

A busy week this week, the children have been enjoying researching and creating their own informative text about either Astrology, Constellations or The Milky Way. The children have learnt about different ecosystems including grasslands, tundra, the desert and the ocean, within the ecosystems they have been learning about what animals live there and what they need to survive, including what food they eat and how they fit into the food chain.

Home Learning

Music

Keep practicing this at home ready for the start of every music lesson. 

Multiplication Tables

Please revise your 4 and 8 times tables by playing this game: Coconut Multiples  and singing these songs 4x song  8x song

Practise all your times tables by playing this game: Multiplication Tables Check

Boom Reader

Children in Year 4 should be reading every night for about 20 minutes. Please record on Boom Reader at least once a week. 

Please note: pupil login details have changed slightly due to an upgrade that has taken place on the Accelerated Reader platform. Pupil login details (user name and password) should now be enter in all lower case (no capital letters at all). These login details are used each time your child quizzes a school reading book which carries an accelerated reading quiz code. 

Spelling

Spellings will be tested every Tuesday. 

Red group (Miss Garner, Miss Brewin or Miss Miah's groups)

Funnier

Tidier

Happiest

Sillier

Tastiest

Prettier

Slimiest

Spikiest

Star

Milky Way

Blue group (Miss Arnott) 

Famous

Poisonous

Dangerous

Hazardous

Mountainous

Nervous

Perilous

Venomous

Ecosystem

Herbivore

Purple group (Mrs Harding or Mr Borland)

Automobile

Autograph

Autocue

Autopilot

Autobiography

Automatic

Astrology

Constellation

Ecosystem

Herbivore

Here is a link with ideas of how to support your child with spelling: Oxford Owl

Year 4 Spelling List

• spellingwordlist_y3-4.pdf

The list of words above is the words the children need to know by the end of year 4.