Year 4 – On Safari: Summer Term
Literacy
Maths
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3: 8.5.17
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Meerkat Mail
Converting
Focus: Letter, newspaper
1. Convert between cm – m and cm – mm.
1. Get to know story: extended GR
2. Measuring with a ruler then convert.
2. Grammar: Paragraphs Retell the story using paragraphs for topic, 3. Convert between kilometres and metres.
time, and place.
4. Convert between grams and kilograms.
3. Letter to aunt/uncle, wanting to get away.
5. Five Question Friday
4. Missing Meerkat Newspaper
5. Edit to improve
Focus: adventure story
1. MAY DAY
Grammar: inverted commas. Retell an adventure including speech.
2. Retell and adapt an adventure he could have in a relative’s place
3. Choose planning format (justify)
4. Write story (first 3)
5. Complete story (last 3)
Running Wild
Focus: diary (choosing app. words)
1. Grammar: adverbials
2. Diary: mum’s entry (optimism)
3. Edit and redraft
4. Diary: boy’s entry (excitement)
5. Diary: Boy’s entry ( sadness, lost)
Focus: Non-fiction: explanation text
1. Grammar: use of the pronoun
2. TRIP DAY
3. Explanation text: purpose, identification
4. Research and planning
5.Write explanation text
Co-ordinates
1. MAY DAY
2. Plot positions on a 2-D grid as coordinates in the first quadrant.
Plot co-ordinates with 2 – progressing onto 4 quadrants.
3. Plot specified points and draw sides to complete a given polygon.
4. Describe movement between transitions as translations
5. 5. Five Question Friday
2D shapes
1. Identify the properties of geometric shapes, including triangles
and quadrilaterals.
2. Compare and classify the shapes according to their properties.
Compare and classify irregular and regular polygons in a Carroll
diagram.
3. Explore symmetry; identify lines of symmetry within triangles
and quadrilaterals.
4. Complete symmetrical figures with respect to a specific line of
symmetry.
http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/75/shapes_sort_
carroll
5. Five Question Friday
Triangles and Angles
1. Identify and classify the properties of isosceles, scalene and
right-angled triangles. (identify and then draw their own)
2. TRIP DAY
3. What’s my triangle? Solve problems involving identifying a
triangle based upon its properties.
4. Identify acute and obtuse angles – measure angles.
5. Compare and order angles up to two right angles by size.
http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/75/shapes_sort_
carroll
Topic
Geography OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Where/what is Africa? Continents focus. Locate
countries in location to the world.
3. Kenya focus. Physical and human features (climate, key;
desert, mountain, contour lines etc.)/ Modern Foreign
Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/Topic
Art: paint EH
1. MAY DAY
2. Sunset: colours blending
3. Figures on (talk about identity within tribe)/ Modern
Foreign Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/Finish paintings
Science: habitats OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Big five: fact file (endangered, habitats, family groups,
food) whole morning lit and topic)
3. Food chains/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/music
5. PE/ Topic
Science: Sound OC
1. PE/ICT
2. TRIP DAY
3. How is sound produced? Explore sources and vibration. Draw
waves and explain the differences/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/ Topic
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Focus: persuasion
1. Grammar: present perfect tense
2. persuasive language
3. Persuade mum to let you go on an elephant
4. Persuade fellow islanders to look for your grandchild.
5. Edit and redraft
3D shapes
1. Identify the properties of 3D shapes.
2. Missing shape Wanted posters – what’s my shape sentences.
3. Compare and classify the shapes according to their properties.
4. Solve problems and reasoning questions involving 3D
shapes.
http://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/115/sorting
_3d_shapes_on_a_venn_diagram
5. Five Question Friday
Science: Sound OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Explore pitch. What is pitch? How does it relate to the
object that makes the sound? Can you influence the pitch?
Explanation text and experiment.
3. How does the volume change due to distance of the sound?
Investigation, experiment and evaluate / Modern Foreign
Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/ Topic
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Half term
Focus: story
1. Grammar: word classes
2. Jungle description (app. words)
3. Plan story
4.Write story (first 3)
5.Complete story (last 3)
Focus: story
1. Grammar: possessive pronoun
2. Retell an adventure.
3. Plan story
4.Write story (first 3)
5.Complete story (last 3)
Focus: Diary, newspaper
1. Grammar: commas
2. Tiger on the loose newspaper
3. Edit to improve.
4. Diary entry, boy meets girl
5. Boy has returned newspaper
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Focus: Newspaper, diary
1. Grammar: app. use of pro noun
2. Lost boy newspaper
3. Edit to improve
4. Diary entry, Baloo finds a boy.
5. Diary entry, tiger hears about boy.
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Jungle Book
Lion King
Focus: Newspaper, recount
1. Grammar: clauses (main, subordinate)
2. Simba diary (happy)
3. Bird’s diary (unhappy, annoyed)
4. Mufasa’s death newspaper
5. Lost cub Newspaper
Bar modelling
1. Bar modelling with addition.
2. Bar modelling with subtraction
3. Both addition and subtraction problems. Solve reasoning and
problems using the bar modelling method.
4. Give the children a labelled bar model drawing, children to write
their own story that goes with it.
5. Five Question Friday
Multiplication
1. Introduce the vertical written method of multiplication.
2. Continue working on the fluency of vertical written method.
3. Solve problems using this method.
4. Use this method to solve mastery questions; missing number, this
is my answer, what is my question?
5. Five Question Friday
Division
1. Recap the standard written method of division – chunking. (LA
chunking on a number line.)
2. Continue working on the fluency
3. Solve problems using this method.
4. Use this method to solve mastery questions; missing number, this
is my answer, what is my question?
5. Five Question Friday
Time
1. Recap on reading analogue and digital clocks.
2. Converting between 24 and 12 hour clocks.
3. Converting between minutes and hours.
4. Converting between days and weeks.
5. Five Question Friday
Calculating problems with whole numbers and decimals.
Art: drawing EH
1. PE/ICT
2. Look at pictures, proportion of head to body, legs to body,
nose to face. Zebra day.
3. Repeat for lions; shading/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/ Finish topic
Science: human OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Teeth: types and purpose. Label and explain. Day in the life
of a tooth.
3. Digestive system: label body, digestive system label and
purpose. Experiment: tights and Weetabix and orange juice
acidity/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/Music
5. PE/ Finish topic
Art: printing EH
1. PE/ICT
2. Animal prints, and designed their own template: string and
card.
3. Print onto fabric/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/ Music
5. PE/ Finish topic
Travel agents OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Research Africa, where are you going to sell. Research
their climate, food, tourist attractions.
3. Leaflet (travel agents, language, the persuasive language)/
Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/ Music
5. PE/ Finish topic
Travel agents OC
1. PE/ICT
2. Cartoon strip of TV advert
3. Record TV adverts/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/ Music
5. PE? Finish topic
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Focus: Play
1. Grammar: !/?/:/;
2. Annotate features, investigate meaning
3. Setting the scene (narrators description)
4. stage directions in brackets
5. Write a scene
Consolidation and application opportunities.
DT: moving parts: lion king EH
1. PE/ICT
2. Hinges and joints, links to animals and humans (science)
3. Design their own character, equipment list and method for
creation/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/ Music
5. PE/ Finish topic
Focus: writing their own book
The Lion King 2
1. Grammar: determiners
2. Plan their story
3.Write story
4. Write story
5. Illustrate story
Times tables (Last week)
Write and calculate mathematical statements for multiplication and
division using times table knowledge including 2 digit numbers X 1
digit. (7,9, 25)
1. Using the inverse to check.
2. Create number stories
3. Factor pairs
Children to write their own mathematical problems.
DT: moving parts: lion king EH
1. PE/ICT
2. Make their characters
3. Practise/perform/ Modern Foreign Languages
4. RE/ Music
5. PE/ Evaluate