Home Learning 29th April

 

This week's home learning activities allow children to further practise the maths we studied in class and to prepare for next week's learning. 

1) In the children's home learning books they will have an area worksheet. If for some reason it hasn't come home you can access it here.   

2) Collect examples of persuasive writing. Over the next few weeks we will be doing some persuasive writing. With your help, please can you help your child to notice and collect adverts, slogans or examples of when someone tried to persuade them to do or buy something. They might like to make a note of it if this is something they saw on television or other media. They may want to cut out advertising materials or perhaps collect advertising brochures or leaflets. 

3) Please encourage your child to learn their spellings. We will have a spelling test on Tuesday. They should have come home with a paper copy of their spellings or you can click here. They can also practise their spellings on spellingshed, which gives them this week's spellings and the common spellings to learn by the end of this year.   

4) Times tables practise needs to be daily wherever possible please. Year 4 will have a times table check in June and getting regular practice will help them prepare for this. 

Times Tables rockstars is a great program to help children to learn their times tables but there are other approaches you may want to consider in addition. You may want to display times tables or ask your child times tables questions verbally. Please also ask if you would like a paper copy of a times tables booklet or a multiplication square. 

Next week, the children will have a mock multiplication test. We will be using Multiplication Tables Check which replicates the conditions of the actual test in June. This to give the children a sense of what to expect during the actual test and it using this website may be something that families would like to start adding to their child's daily multiplication practise to help prepare (you may want to have a multiplication square if your child is particularly anxious without. 

We will send home the results of these mock tests to parents and carers and will also send home a Times tables Rockstars Heat map. The heat maps help you to identify those times tables that your child need to learn and practise recall of.

The heat map below shows lots of green tables which indicates that the child has learnt this times table fact and can recall it with speed. The dark red the rectangle the slower the child's recall of the times table fact. The map below shows that the child in question needs to learn 8 x 6.  

The heat mat below shows a mixture of colours. The grey rectangles show that this child hasn't recently answered that times tables fact recently on Times Tables Rockstars. It may be that they are choosing games which avoid tables that they are unfamiliar with. The red and orange rectangles show that this child would benefit practising these times tables facts more to increase their recall speed.   
   

I will talk about the times tables check and other dates and events coming up this term during year 4s parent information session on Monday 9th May  but for now the most important thing is to not worry!

Hope you have a wonderful long weekend.

Kind regards,

Ms Browne and the Year 4 team. xx