Fullwood Primary School

Year 3 & 4

Our learning journey for the Spring term is…

A Brave New World

What can you do at home to help?

WATCH

READ

DO

WRITE

Play/Explore

Dreamcatcher by Audrey Osofsky.

Morning on the Lake by Jan Bourdeau Waboose

The Star People: A Lakota Story by S.D. Nelson

Baby Rattlesnake by Te Ata (Chickasaw)

The Rough Faced Girl by Rafe Martin

Information texts related to Native Americans

Native American Myths and Legends.

Write a poem for your annual Pow-Wow.

Write a story using Native American symbols.

Keep a diary as one of the 2 lost children we are learning about.

Make a dish traditionally eaten by Native Americans and write a review as a restaurant food critic.

Make a model wigwam and then write a set of instructions on how to make it.

Pocahontas

Squanto – a warrior’s tale.

Native American documentaries – National Geographic)

Spirit, stallion of Cimarron.

Forest – Go on a nature trail

Kew gardens – plant adaptation

Zoo – animal adaptation.

Make your own tepee in your back garden.

Have a cookout with your family.

Visit the British Museum and learn about the Native Americans.

Making a dream catcher

Weave a basket

Create a Native American shelter

Make a map of where the various tribes lived.

Design and make a totem pole

Make tortillas or corn bread.

Make a feathered head band.

Make a bracelet.

Some of the new vocabulary we will be

introducing this term…

Conversations to be had with your child….

What is migration?

Why do people migrate?

Who were the first migrants in North America?

How do people and animal adapt to different environments?

What are biomes and tundra?

How is the world mapped?

What are longitude and latitude?

What are the physical and human features of North America?

What makes a healthy diet?

How to keep our minds and bodies healthy?

What were the cultures and traditions of the Native Americans?

What happened to the Native Americans?

Are there Native Americans today?

Some of the key questions we are hoping to

answer this term …

How did the first Native Americans come to North America? Why did leave their homeland? What caused the land bridge to vanish? How did the various tribes come to settle in the different

regions of North America and Canada? How are their lifestyles similar/different? How did they adapt to the various explorers who came to

North America? How was their history recorded? What religion did they follow? What remains today of the ancient Indigenous peoples? What can we learn from the Native Americans?

This term we will be thinking scientifically about:

Living Things and their Habitats: We will be discussing pollution, its causes and how we

can work to help reduce our carbon footprint. In addition, we will study the importance of

habitats and the destruction of these, how they impact on the plants and animals that live

there. Furthermore, will be looking at how plants and animals are adapted to the environment

in which they live.

We will also be looking at the Sun, the Earth and the Moon. In addition, we will be

investigating how circuits work during our work on Electricity.

Plant and Animal Classification: We will be discussing why classification is needed, how we

can use simple keys and branching databases to identify plants or animals.

We will be working scientifically to answer questions, take measurements, record and

report data, as well as give conclusions to our experiments.