Y4 Friday Blog - 07/02/25
Date: 5th Feb 2025 @ 3:04pm
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.
Team Point Update
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 13th February (see the files section on our Year 4 class page for the spelling overview for Spring Term 1).
Spellings
Geography Fact of the Week!
This half term, our Geography topic is to locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on Europe. We will then be focussing on France, deep diving into their capital city!
Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog... Here is our second fact
The first commercial screening of a projected film happened in Paris!
In the late 19th century, the race to develop technology for capturing and displaying moving pictures was well underway. The two countries leading the charge were France and the USA.
American Thomas Edison and his modestly self-titled Edison company were the first to produce a moving picture for the masses – well, masses of one. His device, the Kinetoscope, enabled one person at a time to view moving pictures.
But the first people to present projected moving pictures to a paying audience, in anything like the cinemas we have today, were the Lumière brothers in December 1895 in Paris, France. The device they developed and used was called the Cinématographe; it was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.
Unlike the electrically powered Kinetograph camera, which was used to create the film for Edison’s Kinetoscope, the Cinématographe was hand-cranked so films could be shot anywhere - in the middle of bustling cities or deep in the wilderness, sometimes even from moving vehicles. This portability meant the technology quickly caught on and the Lumières swiftly established agencies in many countries - but the place where it all began was the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris.
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...
A) 6/6 or 1 whole
B) 30/15 or 2 wholes
3) 5/10 or 1/2
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Fast Fashion - Is it a positive or a negative?
For our final 2 weeks of half term, we will be looking at persuasive writing, with a particular focus on Fast Fashion. Although it seems good to get fashionable items quickly and cheaply, have you considered the effects it might have on the planet?
We will be writing persuasively, using language and skills to bend the reader to follow our own opinion! Let's see how they look!
Maths
In Maths, we have been looking at diving numbers mentally, using partial partitioning!
I honestly expected this to be a huge struggle, but, as always, Y4 rose to the challenge and applied all their previous knowledge to make it seem simple!
Have a fantastic weekend!
The Year 4 team