Blue Abyss, Discovering Specific Points
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Year 4 Term: Summer 2 Writing: Engage: Maths: Delve into the beauty of story writing, Grab your wetsuit! Explore position and direction using focussing on wishing tales in particular. We’re going on a deep sea adventure for coordinates on grids and how to plot Understand the wisdom of a poor our topic, Blue Abyss, discovering specific points. Revisit number sequences, fisherman who combined 3 wishes into one incredible coral and mysterious sea spotting patterns and planning to problem to help his father, mother and wife. Apply creatures. This half term, we’ll visit an solve. Explore 3D shapes and their great vocabulary choices to describe aquarium as part of our trip to Bird World, properties and how different 2D shapes characters through expanded noun to gain an insight into the magical place can make up 3D shapes on their surface. phrases. that exists underwater. Reading: Flippers on? Snorkel ready? Let’s head into Computing: Read WONDERSCAPE using ‘VIPERS’ skills the blue abyss… Design a programme with a specific use by to focus on vocabulary, inference, creating a new educational game using the software ‘Scratch’. Apply coding to make predictions, explanations, retrieval and This is what we’ll be learning this half summaries. Follow the characters as they characters race and against each other and investigate a mysterious explosion and then term… explore the algorithms behind them. find themselves trapped in the year 2473! Science: Art Recognise how living things can be grouped Create a bright design for a batik using in a variety of ways using classification keys observations from the visit to the to identify and name a variety of living aquarium using a range of mark making things including the infamous MRS NERG! techniques. Interpret the movements of Explore how environments can change and the sea creatures by adding patters for Blue Abyss how that can sometimes pose dangers to effect. living things. History: PSHE: Geography: Discover the era of the Vikings! Explore their Understand that some physical and/ or Learn the oceans of the world and their raids and invasions and the resistance by the emotional actions can be harmful. Act with layers. Research the Great Barrier Reef very first King of England. Compare and consideration and awareness of differences including its location, features and how it contrast both the changes and continuity in a way that avoids harming others. looks. Understand the adverse impact of within the British justice system through the RE humans on the oceans, the Great Barrier Anglo- Saxon and Viking times including the Explore what belonging means to us and Reef and its marine inhabitants. Danegeld law. other people including Christians and the Jewish community. PE: Our PE days are Monday and Wednesday. Things to explore with your child… Please ensure children have suitable PE clothing and footwear. They should come into school wearing their PE outfit on these days. Creative Zone: Reading: Writing: • How many amazing shark facts can We are now half way to our target of • Write a story about a diver’s you find? Build them into a reading a million words by the end of exploration of a coral reef. PowerPoint presentation to show the year. There are still lots of prizes to • Write a ‘true or false’ quiz with the rest of the class. Remember to be won simply from reading at home. If fascinating facts about creatures and include images and perhaps some your child is reading a chapter book, plants under the sea. video clips too. they can complete each box in their • Make a tourist leaflet for people • Draw the view of the ocean you passport with the number of pages or a visiting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. might see if looking through the chapter they read. There is also the link • Create a picture dictionary of plants window of a submersible. to the library on the Year 4 webpage and creatures of the ocean. • Design an ‘under the sea’ board which is free to use. A lovely wind down • Create fact cards about the creatures game. What creatures might your task or escapism for our young minds. of the Great Barrier Reef in a Top counters represent? Trumps style. • Learn The Beatles’ song, Yellow Submarine, and write a new verse Maths: Dates and other important of your own. • Use the web with an adult to find The Times Table Rockstar website is information: available as a link on our Year 4 out about famous undersea Open Box: 18th June webpage. Times table knowledge will explorers, such as Robert Ballard, encourage development across many st Sylvia Earle, William Beebe and areas of their maths learning. They will Bird World trip: 1 July James Cameron. move onto the next times table as their • Use junk modelling to create a 3-D recall increases. Children meet their new teacher: 13th sea creature. July Last half term the children were • Design a fierce new sea creature learning about symmetry, angles and Parents meet the new teacher: 14th and paint its profile. 2D shapes. They could recognise lines July • Create a new song about the of symmetry and shapes around the ocean using homemade home and identify whether the angles instruments. are acute, obtuse or a right angle. Last day of term- early finish to be confirmed: 23rd July Remember, we’re here if you need us-.