Key questions for this area of learning:
Geography:
Where is the Amazon Rainforest?
How long is the Amazon River?
What animals live in the Rainforest?
What kinds of plants grow there?
Does anyone live there?
Physical Education:
Gymnastics
Where is the Amazon Rainforest?
Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the
United Kingdom, Equator, Tropics of Cancer and
Capricorn, Oceans and Rainforests.
Name and locate the world’s seven continents.
Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns of hot
and cold places in the world in relation to the
equator and the North and South Poles.
Understand geographical similarities and differences
of the Amazon Rainforest and England by studying
the human and physical features of each place.
Learn about the lives of tribes in the Amazon.
We will be further
developing our ball
and game skills.
History:
How the Rainforest has changed over time.
Opportunities for English:
We will be looking at nonfiction books and using our
skills in writing to write diary
entries, fact files, posters,
explanations, postcards,
letters, poems, stories and
instructions (How to make a
tribal headdress).
Religious Education:
Christianity: Easter
Is it true that Jesus came back
to life again?
Visits, visitors or key events
Take a walk
on the wild
side!
Science: Plants
We will be learning about plants in the local
environment and turning our ideas into questions
that we can investigate. We will be observing and
describing how seeds and bulbs grow into mature
plants. We will be finding out and describing how
plants need water, light and a suitable
temperature to grow and stay healthy.
Links will be made to plants in the Amazon
Rainforest.
Design and technology:
We will be making tribal
headdresses.
We will also be designing and
making a tropical fruit
salad/fruit kebab.
Rainforest animals.
Making a Rainforest Collage of the 4 layers Emergent Layer, Canopy Layer, Understory
Layer and Forest Floor.
Studying Henri Rousseau’s Rainforest
paintings and creating our own paintings in
Rousseau’s style.
Amazon
Rainforest
Emergent Layer
Canopy Layer
Understory Layer
Forest Floor
Tribe
Equator
Continent
Climate
Tropics of Cancer
and Capricorn
Temperature
Computing:
We will be using the Internet to
research and learn about the
Rainforest. We will also be learning
about programming, coding and
blogging.
Opportunities for maths:
Art:
Key Vocabulary
We will be comparing the
temperature of Brazil to the
temperature of England.
We will be calculating the distance
from Manchester to the Amazon
Rainforest.
Home Learning/Things to do/Places to visit
Children will be encouraged to find out some facts and
information about the Amazon Rainforest. Can you create a
rainforest scene or an animal found in the rainforest?
Music:
We will be continuing
to learn the Ocarina.
We will also be learning
some Rainforest Songs.
We will also be studying
South African music
(Hands, Feet and
Heart).