Elm Class - Year 3 and 4
Miss Beaumont and Miss Shaw
English
This half-term, Elm will be reading ‘Pebble In My Pocket’, a story about the journey of a pebble over millions of years. This is a narrative non-fiction text that will support our science learning by helping us to understand how different rocks are formed, where they have come from and how they change shape over time.
Maths
The children will develop their mathematical understanding through a range of topics, building confidence in problem-solving and reasoning.
This term, we will be focusing on addition and subtraction. We will use our place value knowledge as we learn to add and subtract up to 4-digit numbers, including crossing place value boundaries. We will be using a range of resources to support our learning, such as Dienes, counters and number lines. We will also recognise strategies to check our work, such as using the inverse. We will continue with our multiplication Monday lessons.
Science
In Science, Elm will be learning about rocks. We will think about how different rocks are formed over millions of years and how they change shape due to erosion. We will consider the three types of rock: igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary; and we will learn how to recognise them by their features. We will also consider which rocks are permeable and impermeable. Finally, we will learn about Mary Anning, a paleontologist who discovered many fossils along the Dorset coast.
Art
In Art, we will be studying line. We will look at how different lines are used in art and we will study the work of Hakusai, Henry Moore and Leonardo da Vinci and consider how they each used lines in different ways. We will start by sketching a range of objects using different lines, and our final piece will be creating and using a block print with bold lines.
RE
Our RE question this half-term is ‘What is my duty and how do I know?’ We will be particularly looking at the Hindu faith and seeing how Diwali is celebrated by a small group of Hindus in Leicester. We will learn about some key Hindu stories and look at how they influence the way Hindus live.
Geography
In Geography this term, we will be studying settlements. We will look at both urban and rural settlements and compare their populations. We will compare and contrast urban and rural areas. We will consider what resources and amenities are needed in a settlement, including the location of settlements in history.
