Y4 Friday Blog - 14/02/25
Date: 12th Feb 2025 @ 3:25pm
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 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 third fact.
There are Statues of Liberty dotted all over Paris
Few things are more American than the Statue of Liberty, right?
Well, not quite: the familiar 93-metre monument that lives in New York City was originally a gift from the people of France to commemorate the friendship between their countries.
The statue is made from copper sheets, bent into shape using hammers and pieced together over an enormous structure of steel supports. The completed statue was presented to the American minister to France in Paris on 4th July, 1884. In 1885 the statue was disassembled and shipped to New York City.
With one famous statue shipped across the Atlantic, many more popped up to fill her place. Today there are several replicas of the statue located all over Paris, the largest on a small man-made island on the river Seine called Île aux Cygnes. This smaller replica, standing 11.5 metres tall, was actually a gift from America to France in return for their previous statue-based generosity. Nice!
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) 50cm
Our learning this week in Year 4
English
Fast Fashion - Is it a positive or a negative?
Our independent write is finally finished! And what an amazing amount of persuasive language!
For over £1000 each year, why do we keep upgrading to the newest smart phone?
How does it make you feel to know all that microplastic ends up in a landfill site?
Surely you can see the damage that excessive plastic is doing to our oceans!
Would you enjoy working in these working conditions? I bet you wouldn't!
Absolutely amazing, and it has certainly opened a lot of eyes in the class.
Maths
What a lovely way to finish the term! A nice and easy set of lessons, linking to adding, and subtracing, fractions with the same numerator.
Even the deeper learning challenges didn't push us to the max, so we had a little look at how to add fractions with a different denominator, just to give a heads up for Y5!
Have a fantastic half term break!
The Year 4 team