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Interdisciplinary Learning:
Habitats
Learning about the different types of habitat on planet Earth
and identifying animals that live there. Building an understanding
of how these animals have adapted to live within their habitats.
Create a personal presentation about chosen animal.
Investigating a simple food chain to develop knowledge of
interdependence.
Learning about natural habitats (rainforests) compared to
man-made habitats (farms).
Details of learning tasks will be on the website.
What I will be learning in P4Term 4
2019-20
Successful Learner
Effective Contributor
Confident Individual
Responsible Citizen
Discrete Subjects
Literacy – Listening and Talking
Creating a personal presentation on a chosen animal and their
habitat. Choosing a method of presenting – experimenting with
recording or presenting to a family member.
Literacy - Reading
Developing our comprehension skills by tackling topic-related
passages and answering a variety of questions to check our
understanding.
Continue to develop fluency and expression through choosing
differentiated texts on Oxford Owl website from literacy grids.
Continue to choose from reading texts at home to develop reading
for enjoyment.
Literacy - Writing
Continue to develop cursive (joined) handwriting and apply this
throughout your work. Develop writing skills through a range of
short writing tasks (such as poems, fact files, and a persuasive
letter). Details of tasks will be on the website. Look out for
Twitter challenges too!
Grammar – revise use of punctuation (apostrophe work) and
identify and apply parts of speech (nouns, verbs and
adjectives)
Numeracy
Build confidence in applying the four processes (addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division). Develop our
understanding of division with remainders. Apply our understanding
to problem solving. Details will be on the website. Twitter
challenges for P3 and P4 will be posted twice weekly.
Maths
Develop our understanding of measure, weight and capacity. Use
co-ordinates to show position and place and learn how to find area
and perimeter.
PE
Aim to do at least 30 minutes of exercise a day. Look at the
other curricular areas grid on the website for activities.
French
Revising numbers to 30, sharing our age and asking others their
ages, revising colours, revising days and months of the year
Technology/ICT
Increasing our knowledge of digital safety by taking part in
activities which show us how to be safe online.
Using a search engine to research and find relevant information
on a topic. Furthering our skills in presenting information using
PowerPoint and other applications.
Health & Wellbeing
Begin new unit of Building Resilience work ‘Make a Difference’.
Develop our understanding of how helping others or trying to make a
positive impact on the world around us can benefit and foster our
own mental health and resilience. We will explore the role of
charities, as well as looking at smaller acts of kindness we can
all make. Weekly Twitter HWB challenges will focus on developing
positive mental health, keeping active and ways to relax and stay
calm during the difficult circumstances we currently find ourselves
in.
Below please find a list of online resources that may help
support home learning:
Fischy Music, BBC Bitesize, Twinkl, PE with Joe,
Go Noodle, Cosmic Yoga, ABC Music, Wildlife Lessons with Steve
Backshall
If you have any technology issues, forgotten passwords or any
other questions/difficulties related to your child’s learning
please email us at: [email protected]
Please also send photos or updates of your child’s learning to
the address above, contact us through our Twitter feed or Face Book
Page.
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