Year 4 — Lion and Leopard (Autumn 2)
DT
Canopic Jars
RE
Confirmation, World Religions and
Advent/Gifts.
Please see the RE newsletter for ideas of how
to help at home.
DT
We will be making a model of a
Canopic Jar based on Egyptian
Mummification processes.
To help at home:
Research what Canopic Jars looked like, and what they
were made from.
History/Geography
Ancient Egypt and Egypt
today
Spelling and
Grammar
We will be exploring the geography of ancient and
modern day Egypt and looking at the main geographical
features. We will be learning about deserts’ ‘red land’ and
the bank of the Nile’s ’black land’. We will be looking at
maps of ancient Egypt and comparing that to what it is like
today.
This half term we will be looking at verb forms
for different tenses, the difference between first
and third person. We will also be exploring how
to use independent and subordinate clauses.
To help at home:
Find out some facts about the Nile and about the
Geography in Egypt.
To help at home:
Practise identifying different clauses in your
reading book.
Music
Science
Music
Digestion and Teeth
We will be working with a specialist music teacher to
explore music. Across the year we will study Samba,
African drumming and percussion.
Invasion Games
We will be practising our sending and
receiving skills and developing simple
attacking and defending tactics in mini game
situations.
To help at home:
Encourage your child to be as active as
possible at home. Ensure your child has their
PE kit in school on the correct day each week.
We will learn about the major organs of the digestive
system and the way in which food is digested. We will
explore how teeth play an essential part in enabling the
digestive system to work efficiently. We will build on
previous learning by comparing the teeth of carnivores
and herbivores.
To help at home:
Use books and the internet to look at the digestive
system and how it works.
PE
Dance
We will be learning a dance based on our
topic and choreographing it to music.
Please take the opportunity to discuss and research these topics further with your child — thank you.