PE: → Real PE - social skills, with a physical focus on Dynamic Balance to Agility.→ Dance - The Zorba!

Reading:Who let the Gods out? By Maz EvansGroovy Greeks by Terry Deary A variety of Ancient Greek Myths

We will be continuing to develop our reading fluency and expression as well as our VIPER skills. (Vocabulary, Inference, Prediction, Explanations, Retrieval, Summaries and Sequences)

Writing:- Persuasive letters - A Greek Myth - An Explanation text for a

mythological creature.

Art:To make a clay pot and paint it in the style of Ancient Greece. To improve their mastery of art and design techniques using a range of materials.

DT:To make a traditional Greek Tzatziki dip.

RE:

To explore the concept of ‘Ideas of God’ with reference to Hinduism and Christianity.

PSHE: → Going for Goals - new year's resolutions.

Music: → The children will be learning to play the Djembe drums with a specialist teacher from Portsmouth Music Service.

Computing: We are vloggers→ Making and sharing a short screencast presentationThey research this using web-based sources, plan a presentation, source and create visual content and record a spoken commentary.

French: →To listen attentively to spoken language and show understanding by joining in and responding. →To show understanding of words and phrases.

Maths:Recall and use multiplication and division facts for multiplication tables up to 12 × 12.

Use place value, known and derived facts to multiply and divide mentally, including multiplying together three numbers.

Recognise and use factor pairs and commutativity in mental calculations.

Multiply two digit and three digit numbers by a one digit number using formal written layout.

Solve problems involving multiplying and adding.

Recognise and show, families of common equivalent fractions.

Solve problems involving fractions to calculate quantities and divide quantities, including non-unit fractions where the answer is a whole number.

Count up and down in hundredths.

Year 4 Spring Term 1

History: Ancient GreeceTo study Ancient Greek life, their achievements and their influence on the western world. Geography:Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region in a European country.

Groovy Greeks!

Engage:

Ancient Greek Day!Innovate: We will create an exhibition to share our knowledge and understanding of ancient Greece in a creative way. Express:We will host an informative historical exhibition.

Things to explore with your child!

Home Learning:

Homework is set on Friday and due in on Wednesday.In addition to regularly practising the key skills of reading, spellings and times tables, there is a home learning project which runs throughout the half term. Each idea has a number of stars that will be earned if the task is completed. If children gain ten stars, they will be rewarded during the final week of the term.

Times Tables:

By the end of year 4, it is expected that children will know all of their times tables up to 12 X 12 and the related division facts.

It would be great if you could practise the times tables each week using Times Table Rockstars online!

Home Reading:

Children are expected to read for pleasure at least 3 times a week for 10 minutes. They can tick off which days they have read in their home reading passport, which needs signing by an adult at home each week. Please encourage your child to complete an Accelerated Reader quiz when they have finished a book to help them meet their reading target.

Open Afternoon, Events and Trips:

Greek Day! Tuesday 8th February.

Open afternoon - Thursday 14th February @ 2:15

Spellings:

Spellings are set weekly. A list of the weekly spellings can be found in your child’s homework book along with a sheet of suggested fun activities for you to choose from to practise spellings in different ways. The weekly spellings will be tested on a Friday.

Useful websites and resources:

Maths: www.sumdog.com

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm

Reading: www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

History: Bbc - primary history.

PE:Our PE days are Monday / Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please complete enough to gain 10 stars. This will be celebrated in the final week of half term.

Research and create a

poster about a Greek God.

Find out 10 facts about

the Olympics

Write your own quiz

about Greece (with

answers). Write and

illustrate your own

Greek Myth.

Design a shield used for battle in

Ancient Greece.

Recreate a model of The Parthenon.

Create a leaflet about a new olympic sport

with rules and a scoring system.

Create your own

mythological creature.

Home Learning Project IdeasGroovy Greeks

Year 4 - Spring 1 - Weekly spellings

Test on 11/1 Test on 18/1 Test on 25/1 Test on 30/11 Test on 1/2 Test on 8/2

Spelling Activities!

Each week you may choose either one of

these activities, or one of your own to practise

your spellings.

Ancient Greek Day

On Tuesday 8th January, we are having an Ancient Greek themed day! Pupils will take part in a variety of activities including: food tasting, drama

and Olympics! If possible, please come dressed to school in an Ancient Greek outfit. This

can be a toga, a soldier or a character from a myth. Please

remember you will have to take part in activities so it will need to be a costume you can

move around in!

Ancient Greek Day

On Tuesday 8th January, we are having an Ancient Greek themed day! Pupils will take part in a variety of activities including: food tasting, drama

and Olympics! If possible, please come dressed to school in an Ancient Greek outfit. This

can be a toga, a soldier or a character from a myth. Please

remember you will have to take part in activities so it will need to be a costume you can

move around in!