Y4 Friday Blog - 28/02/25

Date: 14th Feb 2025 @ 8:40am

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 13th February (see the files section on our Year 4 class page for the spelling overview for Spring Term 1).

Spellings

Spelling Rule 20 - Possessive apostrophe with plural words

girls'

boys'

babies'

children's

men's

dogs'

parents'

people's

rabbits'

women's

Geography Fact of the Week!

Mrs. Macdonald (our Geography boffin) has had a great idea! To make sure our knowledge of our continent is solid, each class will be spotlighting a different country in Europe. We have Denmark!

Each week, we will find and share a new fact on the blog... let's start it nice and simple with some basic facts about the country.

KINGDOM OF DENMARK: FACTS

Capital: Copenhagen
Area: 42,926 sq km (Denmark)
Population: 5.9 million (Denmark)
Language: Danish
Life expectancy: 79 years (men) 83 (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!

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Previous week's answers...

A) He was missing £9.50, which is equal to 19 50p coins.

Our learning this week in Year 4

English

We have started our Myths and Legends topic this week, focusing on the famous story of Beowulf, the legendary warrior who came to defeat Grendel, the evil from Hell itself! So far, we have looked at some vocabulary from the book (and there are some very tricky words!) before inferring the character details. Then, after a lot of discussion, we have created a short, descriptive paragraph, focusing on Heorot, the mead hall where the story starts!

Maths

Addtion and subtraction of decimal numbers was our focus this week, and due to our fantastic knowlegde of column addition and subtraction, it was a piece of cake!

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.