Y4 Friday Blog - 09/05/25

Date: 8th May 2025 @ 7:10pm

Welcome to the Year 4 Blog!

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

Every Friday, the blog will be shared with the class to recap our learning and make them aware of their homework. Moving to online homework has allowed us to become a more eco friendly school. Throughout the week we will be learning about the spelling rule in preparation for the quiz on Thursday. Spelling frame can be used for practise along with the spelling strategies shared on the blog below. Log in details for Spelling Frame or TT Rock Stars can be found on the inside cover of your child's Reading Record book.

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. Asking questions improves key reading skills, such as retrieval and inference. E.g. "Why do you think the character is unhappy?"

Please note that reading books will be changed when completed. Please write a note in your child's reading record book when a book has been completed and sign the relevant parent signature box. Thank you in advance.

Spellings - Please find this weeks spellings below and a link to spelling frame.

Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 15th May

Spellings

Spelling Rule 28 - Word list – years 3 and 4 - ei- to fe-

eight

eighth

enough

exercise

experience

experiment

extreme

famous

favourite

February

Geography Fact of the Week!

Mrs. Macdonald (our Geography boffin) has had a great idea! To make sure our knowledge of the world is solid, each class will be spotlighting a different country in Europe.

For this term, we have the country Iceland (perfect, as it links with our new English unit and history topic!)

Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...

Its tectonic plates are visible!

Yes! Think back to our last geography topic on 'Natural Disasters'. Iceland, is one of only a few destinations across the globe where you can easily see two tectonic plates drifting apart above sea level. Iceland is considered geologically active, with approximately 130 volcanic mountains, about 30 of which are still active today. Even the slightest change in the country's geology could awaken some of the most dormant volcanoes. Currently, one volcanic eruption occurs every four to five years, on average.

Maths Problem of the Week

Each week, a new maths problem will appear on the blog... Can you solve it?

The answers will be posted in next week's blog!

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Previous week's answers...

2kg of strawberries = £8.80

750g of cherries = £10.50

Total = £19.30

Our learning this week in Year 4

English

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What is a folktale?

A traditional story that people of a particular region or group repeat among themselves.

I wonder how the king felt at the beginning of the story as he sent the wizard to assess Iceland's defenses... Was he excited about what he could conquer? Was he nervous about the resistance he might meet? Was he arrogant, simply waiting for the nod to invade?

How did he feel at the end of the story, after the wizard delivered his findings? With a dragon, a giant, a vulture and a bull, imagine his thoughts when he realised his invasion would never happen.

We used our inference skills to imagine the thoughts that would be going through King Harald's head, and the emotions he might be feeling!

Maths

The joys of 'Maths Mastery' is that you learn a variety of different methods. Once you have learnt them, you are free to choose the method you prefer in future! This week, we have been looking at adding and subtracting decimal numbers, using partitioning, rather than a column method. I think if we are being honest, most of us prefer the idea of column addition, purely as we actually found it quicker, and easier! It always good to learn other methods, just in case!

VE Day

Yesterday, we celebrated VE Day, and what a fantastic day it was!

We started off by learning all about Germany's rapid expansion across Europe, before diving into D-Day, and the huge impact it had on the end of the war.

We made Union Flags, and Winston Churchill-style bowler hats, eating our picnic on the field with pride!

Safeguarding - morning routine

If you are dropping off your child at the classroom door/ KS2 entrance door and need to pass a message on to a member of staff please do so by speaking to the staff member who monitors the door in the morning. If you need to enter school for any other reason, adults can only enter the school building via the main school entrance and seek assistance from the school office team. If you are attending a meeting with a member of staff, you must sign in at the front desk as a visitor and have an ID lanyard.

Thank you for your continued support in keeping our school and children safe.