Y4 Friday Blog - 12/9/25
Date: 11th Sep 2025 @ 7:53am
Important Information!
This year, spelling practice has moved from Spelling Frame to Spelling Shed. A few parents have been met with an error message when logging into Spelling Frame for this reason. Fingers crossed, Spelling Shed should now be set up, with a working link below. Usernames and passwords are now stuck into Reading Records.
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.
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 Shed.
Please note that our spelling quiz will be on Thursday 18th September
Spellings
incorrect
invisible
insecure
inflexible
indefinite
inelegant
incurable
inability
inadequate
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 Italy - the home of the great Valentino Rossi!
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...
REPUBLIC OF ITALY: FACTS
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Capital: Rome
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Area: 301,230 sq km
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Population: 58.8 million
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Language: Italian
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Life expectancy: 79 years (men) 84 years (women)
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!
Previous week's answers...
1) 8/18 or 4/9 when simplified
2) 5/12
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Our first English book of the year is Escape from Pompeii, a fantastic and gripping story about 2 friends trying to escape the erupting volcano.
To start the week, we managed to complete an English lesson with absolutely no writing required - what a treat! We used our inference skills to draw how Pompeii would have looked all those years ago. Using clues from the text, and our own imaginations, we got some fantastic pictures completed.
Unfortunately, writing then came back the following day! We have been practising our first grammar skills of the unit - the adverbial phrase, putting a phrase (a group of words which do not necessarily make sense on their own) before a main clause, to create a Y4 sentence.
In the morning, (adverbial phrase)
I went to school. (main clause)
In the morning, I went to school. (Y4 sentence)
Maths - Place Value
We are continuing with our unit on Place Value.
Column addition has been our focus this week, adding up 4 digit numbers, with multiple exchanges. For anyone who shows greater depth style understanding, we will even have decimal additions to move on to!
Weekly Awards
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team