1. Learning Map for Year 4 : Autumn 1 Theme: Around the world
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
Swimming
Stories set in imaginary worlds
Read Firework Maker’s Daughter
Discuss the language features used
Plan our own story based on Firework Maker’s Daughter plot and use of children’s imagination
- Write our own story using new skills e.g. writing skills, ability to plan a story, self and peer assessing each other’s work
Homework:
Topic/ Literacy - Free Choice – Given out on Thursday and returned the following Tuesday
- Mini ball games
- Distance running
- Understanding the importance of technique and skill of the sports
E-safety and core skills
Programming
design, write and debug programmes e.g. using Scratch PE
English
Recounts
Science
ICT DT
States of matter
- Comparing/grouping the properties of solids, liquids and gases
Developing scientific skills i.e. observing and interpreting data through practical tasks and experiments
Water cycle – understanding the different elements such as evaporation and condensation
Class 4
Around the world
Taught in Spring 2
Geography
Living in a diverse world
Respect of property – looking after the local area
Investigating Geography around the world
Weather/environments
Locating world countries
Europe as a continent
Equator/Tropics and Arctic
Understanding a range of musical instruments
Art
Understanding number and place value
Rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
Times table knowledge
Music
PSHCE
Maths
History
Aboriginal of the Earth
Doubles and halves
- Doubling and halving odd numbers RE
Taught in Spring 1
Fractions
-Recognising fractions of numbers and shapes
-Adding fractions with the same denominator
Finding equivalent fractions
Finding fractions of amounts (recognising its relation to division)
Judaism
Understanding the similarities and differences with their own religious and/or family practices
Finding out about Jewish celebrations/traditions
Comparing Jewish beliefs to Christian beliefs
School trip to Kingston Synagogue
Addition and subtraction – solving word problems using each
Jewish Celebrations
Passover
Yom Kippur
Telling the time- analogue and digital
Measurement and convertion