Year 3/4 - Our Learning
English
In English this term we will be focusing on stories with humour , pursuasive writing and nonsense poems.
Science
In Science we will be learning about scientists and inventors
Gerald Durrel
Alexander Graham Bell
Maria Telkes
Garret Morgan
Thomas Edison
After Half term we will be focusing on living things and habitats.
Topic Work
Topic
Due to the ongoing situation and necessity to focus on core subjects, History will not explicitly be taught in class until reviewed at the end of this half term.
Hopefully, we will be covering the topics of Railways.
- Early locomotives
- Steam Enginge
- Impact of railways
- Railway art
- Locomotive technology
Maths
In Maths this term we will be learning:
- Measuring and comparing capacity, mass and temperature.
- Decimals - rounding, comparing and ordering.
- Money - Understanding pounds and pence, adding and subtracting amounts of money, giving change and converting pounds and pence.
- Symmetry and coordinates - looking at horizontal and vertical lines, lines of symmetry, drawing symmetrical shapes, describing positions and movement on a grid.
- Time - Telling the time to 5 minutes, looking at digital and analogue clocks, understanding 24 hour clock, converting minutes to hours, finding and comparing duration.
- Data Handling - looking at bar charts, pictograms, line graphs , tables and comparing data.
- Shapes and Angles - Focusing on right angles, comaparing angles, perpendicular and parallel lines, identifying and comparing 2-D and 3-D shapes.
