Autumn 2
English
This half term our writing units will continue to be based on the book, The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. This story is about a gigantic iron robot who appears out of no-where, crashing onto the beach and shattering into many parts. He is discovered by a young boy, Hogarth. The Iron Man proceeds to cause trouble to the villagers, devouring their machinery, until they decide to rise against him and entrap him.
We will be studying how tension is created and writing our own narrative. We will also be studying features of a formal letter of apology and a newspaper report. We will also watch the film version and compare similarities and differences between this.
Maths
This term we will be covering topics including written methods of multiplication and division, rounding, fractions, decimals and time. We will be focusing on learning the 8 and 9 times tables and their related division facts, in addition to recapping prior multiplication and division facts.
We will be working to cover the objectives:
As a school we use TT Rockstars to practise our times tables. We encourage the children to practise regularly at home. Year 4 have a termly challenge to earn raffle tickets and wow cards for playing regularly at home!
Geography
All Around the World
We will be focusing on learning about the wider word in our geography lessons this half term, including:
- Continents and oceans of the world
- Using an atlas to locate countries and their flags
- Identifying and understanding lines of latitude and longitude
- The Prime Meridian
- Different climate zones
- Identifying polar regions and comparing them to the UK
- Different times zones around the world
Don't forget our home learning project to chose a continent to research in detail and present your findings. Projects are due Friday 8th December.
Science
Changing States
We will be continuing our unit on changing states this term, which will teach us all about the three states of matter, solids, liquids and gases. We will be looking at:
- Solids, liquids and gases and their properties
- Temperature and how we measure it
- The process of changing states between solids, liquids and gases by heating, cooling, evaporation and condensation
- The Water Cycle and how it uses these processes
- Investigating the effects of these changes
French
We will be continuing our unit on numbers 11-20, as well as recapping previous numbers learned. We will recognise Euros and prices, dates and birthdays.
Music
Our unit this half term focuses on developing our musical notation skills. We will be looking at recognising different letter notes and the names and duration for each note. We will be playing glockenspiels to a variety of pieces and begin to compose our own pieces.
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Safety First
We will be learning about different responsibilities that we have and how to keep ourselves safe. This includes school rules, emergency situations, road, water and railway hazards, and how to deal with common and simple injuries.
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Seasonal Stockings
In this textiles unit we will be exploring different stocking products. We will use these to design, make and evaluate our own Christmas Stockings!
Computing
We will be looking at spreadsheets this term using Purple Mash. We will be inputting formula into cells and using this to look at data.
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