Year 4

Summer Term 2

Year 4 is taught by Mrs Walters on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Mrs Dinham, our school SENDCo, teaches the class on a Monday. The TAs who work in Year 4 are Miss Law and Miss Roberts.

Reading

Our class text, on which our daily reading sessions are based, is ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. We begin each week by learning the definitions of new vocabulary coming up in the text and recap on these each day. We then read the text together and work on a range of tasks focussing on author choice, vocabulary, compare, contrast and comment, retrieval, inference, summary and prediction.

We also read a non fiction text weekly and use our skills to retrieve information from it. This half term, our non fiction text is  ‘The Amazon Basin’.

English

Our class text, on which our daily reading sessions are based, is ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. We will be writing rhyming couplet poetry based on the layers of the rainforest, non-chronological reports on rainforest creatures, narrative writing based on ‘The Explorer’ and writing leaflets to persuade people to look after the rainforest!

Geography

We will be learning about the Amazon rainforest, what it is like there, what grows/lives there and how we can look after it.

Computing

We will be continuing to learn about internet safety and making music using the ‘Garage Band’ app.

DT

We will be designing and making moving rainforest animals using levers and linkages.

Science

We’ll be learning about living things local to us and how they can be classified. We will then look at how environments change naturally and are changed by humans and how this can pose dangers to wildlife.

PE

Each week, we will be enjoying 2 PE sessions: ‘Young Olympians’ on a Tuesday and  ‘Fitness Frenzy’ on a Thursday. Please make sure your child has a full PE kit at all times.

RE

We will be asking how and why do people in Cornwall mark significant events in community life?

 

MFL

Our French unit this half term is Où vas-tu? This includes learning how to: name and recognise various French cities, give and understand basic directions, talk about the weather and talk about the weather in a particular city.

Music

We’ll be reflecting on, rewinding to and performing some of the music we have learnt about through the year.

PSHE

We will be learning about problem solving and resourcefulness, how to try and try again, leadership and how to keep our bodies safe (Taught in Health and Sports week.)

It is our aim that every child in Year 4 has a great year. Please come and see us if you have any questions or concerns.