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Welcome To Year 4 with Miss Claxton. Big ideas Continuing from last year… Active 8 (after lunch) Tasc – higher order thinking skills New this year… - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Welcome To Year 4 with Miss Claxton
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Big ideas

Continuing from last year… •Active 8 (after lunch)•Tasc – higher order thinking skills

New this year…•Morning thinking skills tasks based on all areas of the curriculum – closely linked to creative writing strategies, helping children to think ‘outside the box’ and to develop creative elements in their work. • Problem Solving approach across the curriculum.

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Literacy•Visual literacy approach – children will have the opportunity to engage in a text through different ways; video, ebook, books and audio - to try to appeal to all learning styles. this in turn should allow them to understand and analyse the plot more carefully.

•Dramatic literacy – children will gain a good sense of character emotion through hot seating, conscience corridors, sound-scapes, senses walks, role plays and freeze frames. This should add empathy, reality and feeling to their writing.

•More in-depth plot analysis – leading to longer comprehension activities.

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Numeracy•Visual and practical maths – using stories, real-life problems, videos, hands-on activities.•Personalised learning environment – differentiation 5 ways (where appropriate), children peer and teacher assessed, teacher time with children who need extra help on a certain concept or to extend children on further. self assessment = teacher input the following day.•Problem solving/investigative approach – children to find their best way to tackle a problem•Topic themed (where appropriate)

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Themes•Africa (term 1-2)•Ancient Egypt (term 3-4) Archaeological discovery, making a cartouche, using hieroglyphics, clay canopic jars, stories from a historical setting, play-scripts.•Famous figures (term 5) Influential figures through time – children to choose a famous person and create a PowerPoint project to present to the class. •Roman britain (term 6) How Romans influced britain – boudicca. Life in roman Britain, roman arts and crafts.

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Wild Africa (Term 1)

An exploration of the continent, traditions and

culture of African countries.

LiteracyStories with dilemma – The Crocodile and the Dung Beetle, Jamonghoie and the Blacksmith’s Dilemma from African traditional texts.Stories set in Imaginary Worlds - African folktales – Anansi Stories – Anansi and the Sky Kingdom.Advertisements – WaterAid – linked to Geography – leaflets and posters.Letters – about children moving to large cities slum towns from rural villages.

Numeracy Counting, partitioning and calculating,securing number facts, understanding shape, handling data and measures.Links to Africa: Climate Comparisons – data handling, capacity – African potion task etc. DSI – Mental maths skills

Science African habitats – Savannah – wild life and vegetation, rainforest - Plants and animals in Africa Sorting wildlife into groups – comparing and contrastingAfrican animal food chainsPredator/prey relationshipsAnimal’s use of camouflage for protectionAnimal’s use of senses for protectionMoving and Growing – looking at the human body – linked to Africa (food and famine).

Art/DTAfrican Arts and CultureAfrican Savannah Chalk PicturesRainforest WatercolourAfrican Goli MasksNdebele BeadworkAppliqué - Dyes & Designs African patterns – charcoal

ICT Researching Skills: Finding Information - Using CD ROM and Internet linked to the topic (Kenya/ TRF, Animals). Branching databases Children learn to use and create branching databases to sort and classify information. Children will be introduced to ‘yes/no’ questions which separate a set of objects into two sub-sets. They are shown how to search and create branching databases (Africa)Wii and DSI

Geography/HistoryContrasting locality overseas - Learn how village life in rural Africa differs to life in Mk DAfrican continent - cities and slums Kenya/ Mk D (contrast)RainforestSavannah/ SafariTourism

RE Harvest – Send A CowThe Story of Joseph The Books of the BibleThe Nativity

PE Games – Mrs Oakley (hockey)Swimming – Tues 10:15Dance – African dance

Music - Mr Fell Feel the Pulse - Exploring pulse and rhythm (African drums)Songs - Walking in the jungle, The Elephant, Hippopotamus’ song etc.

PSHE & SEALNew BeginningsWaterAid Poverty in AfricaAnimal conservationZoos – good or bad?Relationships

Year 4

DramaWithin Literacy/Dance – Hot Seating, Role Play, Freeze Framing, and Conscience Corridor etc.

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Weekly Overview Class 4C   Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

8:45 – 9:00 Thinking Skills/DS Thinking Skills/DS Thinking Skills/DS Thinking Skills/DS Thinking Skills/DS

9:00-9.30 WORSHIP WORSHIP WORSHIP KS WORSHIP WORSHIP

9:30 – 10:30 Literacy Literacy –Spellings 

Games(Class Teacher PPA)

Literacy Literacy

Maths – Mental Maths Practice

10.00: Swimming

10:30 - 10:45 Break Duty Break Break Break Break Duty10:45 – 11:45 Maths Swimming French

(Class Teacher PPA)Maths Maths

 

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

12:45 – 1:20 DS Mental MathsEC/Guided Reading

DS Mental MathsEC/Guided Reading

DS Mental MathsEC/Guided Reading

DS Mental MathsEC/Guided Reading

DS Mental MathsEC/Guided Reading

1:20 – 2:00 Theme Work (H,S&E) (ICT)

Science Year 4 Music(Mr Fell)

Handwriting ICT

2:00 – 3:05 Theme Work (H,S&E) (ICT)

Science RE PSED Theme Work (Creative)

3:05 – 3:15 Reminders/Clear Away/Home

Reminders/Clear Away/Home

Reminders/Clear Away/Home

Reminders/Clear Away/Home

Reminders/Clear Away/Home

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Homework•Times tables – tested 3 times weekly•Spellings and HANDWRITING - 5 HANDWRITING WORDS IN TUES +SPELLING TEST TUESDAYS•Literacy – Mon (out) Fri (in)

•Maths – Mon (out) Fri (in)

•Reading

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Learning EnvironmentTo ensure all children have the opportunity to learn and develop in class we have a ‘working well chart’. If a child chooses not to follow class rules, they will be given a visual warning using this chart. On the opposite end of the scale – if a child shows great effort, kindness or ability they will be given a class point or will go in to the ‘happy book’!

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The Small things•Shopping addition/subtraction•Card games •Reading with your child •Who what where why story builder•Beat The Clock Times tables •Vocab shower (WOW WORD FINDER)•Sentence substitution•Another word for…

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ExtrasThere may be times when extra help is required in the classroom/outside the

classroom - if parents could spare the time to help out it would be greatly appreciated.

If you have questions now, or at any time in the year, please do not hesitate to ask!