1. Rainforests Y3/4 Spring Term 2019
Mathematics
Please note, Year 3 and 4 will occasionally focus on different mathematics skills.
We are learning about:
Reading and writing time on analogue and digital clocks
Using <, > and = to describe if numbers are more or less than another
Representing and interpreting data in tally and bar charts
Identifying negative numbers in different contexts
Adding and subtracting numbers in different contexts using the column method.
Methods for multiplication and dividing
Creating an understanding of capacity and weight
Studying various 2D and 3D shapes
Tips - Please support your children by helping them to learn their times-tables. You can help your child further develop their knowledge of time and money by questioning them as opportunities arise. You may also wish to give your child reasoning questions to help them to further develop their reasoning skills and encourage them to engage in Mathletics regularly at home.
Science and Technology
Science
The human body
Bones – human and animal
Teeth –visit from a dentist
Healthy food
Digestion
Tips- Please encourage your child to find facts, questions and answers about the body for our class ‘Wonderwall’.
ICT
Appreciate what databases are and the value of using them.
Learn to plan and create a database.
Mathletics IT based learning at school and home.
D.T.
Homework tasks involve creating models of a rainforest , which will be supplemented and extended within school.
Literacy Language and Communication
English
This term we are focussing on the text Mr Stink by David Walliams. We will be using this txt to engage learners in a variety of different reading, writing and oracy tasks including the following:
Making inferences
Use of descriptive language
Skimming and scanning
Creating Sociograms and Venn diagrams,
Studying similarities and differences
Writing reading and performing playscripts.
Creating recounts and using the text to engage in creative writing tasks.
Following our work on Mr Stink we will be studying the narrative work of other cultures.
Welsh
Year 3 and 4 will be engaging in separate welsh topics due to the differing ability levels.
Year 3 –
Past tense writing, opinions on clothing, writing postcards, The story of St David, studying welsh culture
Year 4 –
Reading and writing the time, describing daily routines, creating posters and book reviews, poetry
Rainforests
Y3/4
Spring Term 2019
Health and Wellbeing PE
Games – ball and racket skills
Gymnastics – sequences using jumps and rolls.
Basketball – We are lucky to have Newport Live coming into school on Wednesdays this term to teach and promote ball skills and motor development.
Tips- please ensure that your child’s PE kit is brought to school each week (Wednesday for Celyn, Friday for Bedw and Poplys). Black shorts and a plain red t-shirt, trainers/plimsolls.
Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning
Lessons regarding SEAL are planned in response to events and issues within the school and wider world. These may include aspects of bullying, getting along with others, safe pay and responsibility.
Expressive Arts
Art
We will be studying the rainforest as a medium for developing our artistic skills through shading, collages, textures, perspective, shape and, linked to our Design and Technology work, modelling.
Music
We will study the music of the rainforest, listening to and appraising various genres of music, creating sound effects and writing and performing pieces.
Drama
Learners will develop their dramatic skills through our whole Year Group assembly
Humanities
Geography
The bulk of our rainforest topic will come through our Geographical learning. Children will study the location of rainforests around the world using their mapping skills, they will identify the various layers of the rainforest and what lurks within them. They will also study the effect of deforestation and how it positively and negatively affects people, animals and the environment. RE
We will be continuing our work in RE from our previous festivals topic as well studying the cultures and religions of the tribes within the rainforest.