1. Learning Map for Year 4 : Autumn 1 2015
Theme: Hard Times
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
Swimming
Stories in historical settings
Read and watch Tom’s Midnight Garden
_ discuss the language features used
Plan our own story based on Tom’s Midnight Garden plus our new theme knowledge
- Write our own story using new skills
Netball skills
Throwing
Catching
Team work
Rules
Homework:
English/ Maths Free Choice - Set on a Tuesday and handed in the following Monday
E-safety and core skills
responsibility, reporting concerns.
Programming
design, write and debug programs
National Poetry Day
Investigating light poems
Looking at the features
Writing our own poems in a similar style. PE
English
ICT
Science DT
Class 4
Hard Times
Taught in Autumn 2
Animals including humans
Understanding the digestive system and the process food goes through
Understanding how to look after our teeth and the effects certain food and drinks have
Looking at food chains and where energy comes from.
Geography
Exploring other cultures
Learning how to have effective discussions
Understanding a range of musical instruments
Taught Spring 1
Art
History
Music
Understanding number
- Rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000
PSHCE
Maths
Sketching based on Klimt
Inventors and inventions
-Changing lives
-Thomas Edison
-Stevenson
-Alexander Graham Bell
Life in Victorian times
School in Victorian times
Jobs Victorians had.
Industrial Revolution
-Exploring society’s changes
-Learning about scientific and technological developments RE
Fractions
-Recognising fractions of numbers and shapes
-Adding fractions with the same denominator
- Finding equivalent fractions
Doubles and halves
- Doubling and halving odd numbers
Judaism
Understanding the differences to Christianity
Finding out about Jewish celebrations
_ Comparing Jewish beliefs to Christian beliefs
Addition and subtraction – solving word problems using each.
Jewish Celebrations
Passover
Yom Kippur