Good Evening Year 4,
I am shocked by how quickly
this week has flown by! It has been an exciting week filled with lots of
fantastic discussion about our picture ‘A Road in Tahiti.’ I am looking forward
to putting your pictures and diaries on display and seeing the final result.
This half term we will be
covering the following aspects in each subject:
English
|
Into
The Forest Diary Entry (From the point of view of the
boy) |
Into
The Forest Adventure story (Changing the
plot of the story)
|
Beowulf Narrative (Writing your own myth – focus
on description) |
Beowulf Narrative (Writing your own myth – focus
on description) |
Beowulf Persuasive Letter (To dissuade Hrothgar from the
mission) |
Science
Report Digestion and how it happens. |
Maths
|
Division
problem solving – sharing and grouping. Division
– two and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers including halving. Multiplication,
division and fractions – scaling and correspondence. Problems Division – long division. Time –
hours, minutes, seconds, days, weeks, months, years. |
Time -
telling the time (analogue and digital) and estimation. Time – duration. securing the four operations with whole number including problem
solving. Place
value and decimals – ten times greater and ten times smaller. Place
value and decimals – regrouping. Place
value and decimals – estimation, comparing and rounding. Measures
– measuring and problem solving. |
Science
|
Animals Including Humans. Recap on our knowledge of the
digestive system. |
Introduction to the digestive
system. |
Describe the simple functions
of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans. (Naming and Labelling) |
Describe the simple functions
of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans. (Understanding the functions of
different parts) |
Identify the different types of
teeth in humans and their simple functions.
|
Identify the different types of
teeth in humans and their simple functions.
|
Construct and interpret a
variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey. |
Computing
|
E Safety
Lesson. Being
SMART online. Discuss the issues that we may face online and discuss how we
might overcome these. |
To talk
about the ways I can protect myself and my friends from harm online.
|
To
discuss whether a resource I am using is on the Internet, the school network
or my own device. |
To
identify key words to use when searching safely on the World Wide Web.
|
To think
about the reliability of information I read on the World Wide Web.
|
To
discuss how to check who owns photos, text and clipart.
|
To
create a hyperlink to a resource on the World Wide Web.
|
Art
|
Eliminate
the fear of drawing using the story ‘The Dot’. Children
to draw their own version of a dot picture. |
Creating
a response to another picture. Paul
Gaugin Road to Tahiti. |
Exploring
art from other cultures relating the RE. Design a Diwali pattern. |
Draw an
object/ artefact from the Anglo Saxon era. |
Design
and draw using shading a piece of Anglo Saxon Jewellery. |
Use clay
to model sculpt an Anglo Saxon pattern as. This can be on a pot or just a
piece of clay. |
Discuss
their likes and dislikes about their sculpture and identify any improvements
that may need to be made. |
History
|
To
understand that the past is divided into differently named periods of time
and use some dates to explain world history. |
To write
sentences or a paragraph to describe some of the main events, people and
changes in the history of the wider world. |
To tell
you a range of similarities/differences between different times in the past
in the periods covered so far. |
To understand
that the past is divided into differently named periods of time and use some
dates to explain local history. |
To
answer and sometimes devise my own historically valid questions
|
To study
the archaeological evidence at Sutton Hoo to ask and answer questions. |
To
compare our modern age life today to that of an Anglo Saxon. |
RE
|
What
does religion mean to me? Introducing religion, why we study it, the
importance of acceptance and tolerance. Reflective lesson linking to British
Values. Introduce
main religions.
|
Introduce
topic for this half term: Symbolic expression in prayer and worship.
What is
worship? How do different people show acts of worship? Discuss
different points from different religions. Introduce Sikhism and Christianity.
What do we already know?
|
Introduce
Sikhism and specifically focus on the 5K’s. Link to religious belongings of
Christian’s, holy beads, cross etc. Link to children’s personal belief, what
is significant? |
Learn
about Sikh and Christian God/s and begin designing their own God based on
their beliefs and things that are important to them, e,g. God of animals or
laughter. |
Explore
Vaisakhi and compare this to a Christian festival.
|
Learn
about Sikh and Christian God/s and begin designing their own God based on
their beliefs and things that are important to them, e,g. God of animals or
laughter |
Explore
and research Sikh and Christianity art and culture. |
We will continue to practise our handwriting and spellings
weekly. You will have a pre-test every Monday and then receive the spellings to
practise every day. Well done for continuing to read daily.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs Bidder
