Y4 Friday Blog - 24/01/25

Date: 22nd Jan 2025 @ 8:27am

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 30th January (see the files section on our Year 4 class page for the spelling overview for Spring Term 1).

Spellings

Spelling Rule 16 - Words with the /ʃ/ sound spelt ch (mostly French in origin) (e.g. chalet, chef... etc.)

chef

chalet

machine

brochure

charade

crochet

parachute

champagne

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 first fact

Paris has the world's largest museum and the most famous portrait!

The Louvre, a museum and art gallery in Paris, is the largest museum on earth with nearly 73,000 square metres of exhibition space - that’s more than the size of ten football pitches!

The Louvre was originally built in 1546 as a palace for the French royal family. The first resident of the palace was King Francis I. Francis, a lover of art, intended the Louvre to showcase his collection.

The collection remained mainly private until the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, and in 1793 the Louvre opened as a public art gallery. The first exhibition contained just 537 paintings, while today the museum displays more than 35,000 works of art. That means if you spent just 30 seconds looking at each piece, you would be in the museum for more than 200 days.

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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Our learning this week in Year 4

English

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We have started our modelled write, using The Pied Piper as our base.

This week, we have written the introduction, build-up and problem of our story, and the vocabulary and sentence structure has been amazing!

Maths

We have moved onto using the grid method to help us with long multiplication. It was tricky, but our times tables knowledge is sound, which makes it so much easier!

Even this greater depth style question didn't hold us back!

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.