Y4 Friday Blog - 14/11/25
Date: 12th Nov 2025 @ 12:10pm
Important Update!
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 20th November
Spellings
completely
wildly
bravely
gently
foolishly
proudly
horribly
nervously
happily
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 Switzerland
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog...
Switzerland is a small mountainous country located in central Europe. This landlocked country is about the size of New Jersey and is between France and Italy. It is also bordered by Austria, Germany, and Liechtenstein.
Most of the population lives in the plateau which is between the high Alps in the south and the Jura mountains in the north. The mountainous area in the south is sparsely populated.
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...
If A to B is 15cm, B to C is 7.5cm
Therefore, A to C is 22.5cm
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Our second English book of the year is The Firework-Maker's Daughter, a story about a wildchild, who wants to be better than her father!
We have done a lot of inference and grammar this week!
We have been focussing heavily on how a character might be feeling, back this up with evidence from the text. In grammar, we have taken a slight step back into Y2/3 ensuring that we are clear on expanded noun phrases - this will set the stall out for using these phrases as part of parenthesis in Y5!
The car - noun phrase, containing a noun and a determiner (can also contain an adjective)
The car with red paint - a noun phrase, expanded with the word 'with'
Maths - Division
We have jumped into our new topic of division and it is a tough one! For the first time, we have been introduced to the idea of 'chunking division'
We are literally starting from scratch with this method, so we definitely won't crack it overnight! But, after just a couple of lessons, the amount of children in the class, already showing understanding, is amazing!
Weekly Awards
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team