Welcome to Jellyfish Class!
We are Jellyfish Class and we are Year 4.
Our teacher is Miss Kelly and our brilliant teaching assistant is Miss Boston!
Spring Term 2
Novel Study
Our novel this half term is How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell.
Blurb:
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.
In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!
But what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk . . . Can Hiccup save the tribe - and become a Hero?
Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is a smallish Viking with a longish name. Hiccup's father is chief of the Hairy Hooligan tribe which means Hiccup is the Hope and the Heir to the Hairy Hooligan throne - but most of the time Hiccup feels like a very ordinary boy, finding it hard to be a Hero.
In the first How to Train Your Dragon book Hiccup must lead ten novices in their initiation into the Hairy Hooligan Tribe. They have to train their dragons or be BANISHED from the tribe FOR EVER!
But what if Hiccup's dragon resembles an ickle brown bunny with wings? And has NO TEETH? The Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus is stirring and wants to devour every Viking on the Isle of Berk . . . Can Hiccup save the tribe - and become a Hero?
By the end of this unit I will be able to write…
- Action sequence, 1st person narrative
- Non-chronological report
Literary devices I will be practising throughout this writing journey:
- Revise key SPaG:
- Fronted adverbials followed by a comma: prepositional phrases starting with an adjective and ending in “-ed”
- Formal and informal language
- Inverted commas for speech
- Complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions
- Range of sentence types and lengths (short sentences to create tension)
- The difference between a phrase and a clause
- Heading and subheadings
- A sentence that gives three actions
- Drop-in clause with an –ing verb
- Starting sentence with ing – using a comma to demarcate the subordinate clause.
- If, if, if, then sentence type.
Mathematics
Multiplication and Division A&B:
The small steps include: 11 and 12 times table, multiply 3 numbers, factor pairs, efficient multiplication, written methods, multiply 2-digits by 1-digit, multiply 3-digits by 1-digit, divide 2-digits by 1-digit, divide 3-digits by 1-digit and correspondence problems.
Length and Perimeter:
The small steps include: kilometres, perimeter on a grid, perimeter of a rectangle and perimeter of rectilinear shapes.
Fractions:
The small steps include: what is a fraction?, equivalent fractions, fractions greater than 1, count in fractions, add 2 or more fractions, subtract 2 fractions, subtract from whole amounts, fractions of a quantity, and calculate quantities.
Decimals:
The small steps include: tenths as fractions and decimals, tenths on a place value chart and number line, divide a 1-digit number by 10, divide a 2-digit number by 10, hundredths as a fraction and decimal, hundredths on a place value chart and divide a 1 or 2-digit number by 100.
Knowledge Organiser - Multiplication and Division A
Knowledge Organiser - Multiplication and Division B
Knowledge Organiser - Length and Perimeter
Knowledge Organiser - Fractions
Knowledge Organiser - Decimals A
Topics
History: Persia and Greece
Geography: Agriculture
Religious Education: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Science
Animals, including humans (digestions and teeth)
Children will be introduced to the main body parts associated with the digestive system; such as mouth, tongue, teeth, oesophagus, stomach and intestine. They will find out about the different type of teeth and how they work and how to look after their teeth.
Children will be introduced to the main body parts associated with the digestive system; such as mouth, tongue, teeth, oesophagus, stomach and intestine. They will find out about the different type of teeth and how they work and how to look after their teeth.