Welcome to Jellyfish Class!
We are Jellyfish Class and we are Year 4. Our teacher is Miss Kelly and our brilliant teacher assistant is Mrs Meacock!
Summer Term
Topics
Summer 1 - Ancient Greeks
Children will learn
Spring 2 - Rio and South America
Children will learn the location of South America and its key features and find the location of South American countries. Children will find familiarities and differences between Brazil and our own country. They will explore what daily life in Rio de Janeiro is like and look at southeast Brazil’s trade links. To finish, the children will use their new knowledge to describe what the advantages and disadvantages were for Brazil in hosting the Olympic Games.
Novel Study
Summer 1: Our novel this half term is How To Train A Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
Blurb:
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero. In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER! But what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk . . . Can Hiccup save the tribe - and become a Hero?
Author:
Cressida Cowell is the author and the illustrator of the bestselling How to Train Your Dragon book series. Her latest book The Wizards of Once is an international bestseller. Cressida is also the author of the Emily Brown picture books, illustrated by Neal Layton. How to Train Your Dragon has sold over 8 million books worldwide in 38 languages. It is also an award-winning DreamWorks film series, and a TV series shown on Netflix and CBBC. The first book in Cressida's new series, The Wizards of Once (also signed by DreamWorks), is a number one bestseller.
By the end of this unit, children will be able to write:
- Non-chronology report.
- Creature description
Other writing opportunities that will help the children practise their skills are:
- Battle scene
- Action sequence 1st person narrative
- Instructions - how to train your dragon.
Literacy device the children will be practising throughout this writing journey:
Yr 4 Objectives:
- Revise key SPaG • Complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions
- Range of sentence types and lengths (short sentences to create tension)
- The difference between a phrase and a clause
- Heading and subheadings
- A sentence that gives three actions •
- Drop-in clause with an –ing verb
- Starting sentence with ing – using a comma to demarcate the subordinate clause.
Summer 2: Our novel this half term is Who Let The Gods out by Maz Evans.
Blurb:
When a shooting star crashes to earth, it lands Eliot smack bang in the path of Virgo - a young Zodiac goddess on a mission. But when the pair accidentally release Thanatos, a wicked death daemon imprisoned beneath Stonehenge, they’ve got nowhere to turn for help but to the old Olympian gods. These gods are used to getting their own way and they’re more than capable of creating a little chaos themselves. After centuries of cushy retirement on earth, are Zeus and his crew up to the task of saving the world - and solving Elliot's problems too?
Author:
Describing herself as having 'puddle-water eyes and very disobedient hair’, author, comedian, songwriter and poet Maz Evans began writing as a journalist. She founded Story Stew, a creative writing programme that has visited primary schools and literary festivals around the UK before capturing children's imaginations with her brilliantly titled first novel, Who Let the Gods Out and the storming sequel Simply the Quest. The third installment, Beyond the Odyssey, was published on 5 April 2018.
By the end of this unit the children will be able to write:
- Formal Letter
- Character Description
Other writing opportunities that will help the children practise their skills:
- Third Person Narratives
- Instructions
Year 4 Objectives:
- Revise Key SPaG
- Complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions
- Range of sentence types and lengths (short sentences to create tension)
- The difference between a phrase and a clause
- Heading and subheadings
- A sentence that gives three actions
- Drop-in clause with an –ing verb: Tom, smiling secretly, hid the magic potion book. Place comma either side of subordinate clause.
- Starting sentence with ing – using a comma to demarcate the subordinate clause
Mathematics
The units the children will be learning this term:
Unit 1: Decimals
Coverage of this unit's small steps includes make a whole, write decimals, compare decimals, order decimals, round decimals and halves and quarters.
Unit 2: Money
The small steps include pounds and pence, ordering amounts of money, using rounding to estimate money and four operations.
Unit 3: Time
The small steps include hours, minutes and seconds, years, months, weeks and days, analogue to digital - 12 hour and analogue to digital - 24 hour.
Unit 4: Shape
The small steps include identify angles, compare and order angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, lines of symmetry and symmetric figures.
Unit 5: Statistics
The small steps include interpret charts, comparison sum and difference, introducing line graphs and line graphs.
Unit 6: Position and direction
The small steps include describe position, draw on a grid, move on a grid and describe movement.
Science
Summer 1 - Animals including humans
Children will be taught that animals, including humans need nutrition and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat. They will be taught that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
Summer 2 - Living Things and Their Habitats
Children will be taught to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways. They will explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment. Children will recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things