1. Theme Map for Year 4: Summer 1 2018 Theme – In My Shoes
Please
encourage
your child to read
each day
Theme Map for Year 4: Summer
Theme – In My Shoes
Puppet Pals project – animation
Sessions linked through cross-curricular opportunities such as explanation texts topic in Literacy
Exploring animation features
Swimming
Homework:
Topic/ Literacy - Free Choice – Given out on Thursday and returned the following Tuesday
Using video clips to enhance descriptive writing and techniques based on ‘Dangle’
Explanation texts
Writing instructions based on Wallace and Gromit inventions and using appropriate features
Cricket skills and athletics PE
English
Electricity
How electricity is made
Identifying common appliances and sorting between sources of power and consumers of power
Constructing circuits using conventional symbols
Recognising common conductors and insulators
Our Local Area
-Using atlases to locate
-Exploring weather, climate and local landmarks
-Creating own map of locality
-Comparing London to Chessington
ICT
Class 4
In My Shoes
Science
Geography
Understanding a range of musical instruments
Good to be me
Our Local Area
-Finding out all about homes, jobs and people’s lives
PSHE
The Four Number Operations
-Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division
Maths
Music RE
History
Properties of shapes
Similarities and differences
Different types of lines
Angles and the skill of using a protractor
Vocabulary – acute, obtuse, right angle, lines of symmetry. Perpendicular, parallel
Fractions
- Revise unit fractions
-Identify equivalent fractions
Converting fractions into their simplest form
Counting in fractions (in their simplest form)
Sikhism
Exploring the important beliefs for Sikhs and what they believe in
Guru Nanak, his significance and his life
Sikh’s place of worship – Gurdwara
Symbolism of the 5K’s
Values and the importance they have in individual’s life
Taught in Autumn 1&2
Roman Numerals
Reading Roman Numerals to 100
Art/ DT
Banksy
-Exploring graffiti in the local area
-Creating own graffiti inspired art