English: We will share some lovely texts that support our topic theme including ‘The Songs of the Dolphin Boy’ ‘What a waste’ and ‘Old enough the save the planet’. We will write our own stories with issues, non chronological reports and persuasive texts. We will also use the text ‘Poems from a green and blue planet’ as inspiration for our own poems. Maths: This half term we will learn about… Number - Decimals – - tenths and hundredths - Compare decimals - Order decimals - Round decimals - Number – Money - Converting pounds and pence - Add, subtract and give change We must also know all times table facts
Science: Living things and their Habitats During this half term we will learn about food chains and animal survival, predators and prey. We will learn that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways and explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things. We will find out about how environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things. Man made changes such as pollution and environmental changes.
Year 4 Summer Half-term 1: ‘Our Changing World’ History and Geography - Through this topic we will investigate the men and women who have studied the world around us and those that campaign and raise awareness of the ways our world is changing, encouraging us all to conserve the planet for future generations. We will learn about the human and physical changes in the environment and learn about mountains and how they are created.