Year 4 - Our Unit of Inquiry
Who we are?
Lines of Inquiry
We will be following different lines of inquiry to help us discover:
We will be following different lines of inquiry to help us discover:
- How can learning be accessible for everyone?
- How can I be responsible for my own learning and personal success?
- How do people learn new skills differently?
This term in Year 4 we are finding out ‘Who we are?’. The central idea for our Unit of Inquiry is ‘Learning requires resilience and a diverse approach’. We will be investigating ourselves as learners and comparing our similarities and differences to our peers. We will also be drawing an accurate self-portrait using shades and tones and will be testing our learning styles as a scientist through practising how to make careful observations, record accurate results and draw appropriate conclusions.
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Our focus text in English for Term 1 will be “The Butterfly Lion” by Michael Morpurgo. Please feel free to buy a copy if you wish to read along at home. We will use this to inspire our own pieces of descriptive writing. We will also be writing our own diary entries and considering the differences between informal and formal letters.
In spellings we will begin our work on the Year 4 spelling patterns. This term we will focus on words with the ‘aw’ sound spelt ‘augh’ and ‘au’, the prefixes ‘in’ and ‘im’ and ‘il’ and some of the Year 4 homophones and near homophones. We will also learn words from the Year 4 statutory word list and to revise and consolidate the Year 3 spelling patterns.
In Science we will be exploring the requirements of plants for life and growth and we will have the opportunity to investigate the way in which water is transported around a plant.
Our Maths learning will focus on two separate areas of the curriculum. We will start the term looking at Place Value and spend time consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 1000. We will investigate how to place numbers in the correct order on a number line and how to round numbers accurately. This will be followed by spending time on addition and subtraction and focusing on exchanging and how to estimate answers.
You might like to join in with our learning by…
In spellings we will begin our work on the Year 4 spelling patterns. This term we will focus on words with the ‘aw’ sound spelt ‘augh’ and ‘au’, the prefixes ‘in’ and ‘im’ and ‘il’ and some of the Year 4 homophones and near homophones. We will also learn words from the Year 4 statutory word list and to revise and consolidate the Year 3 spelling patterns.
In Science we will be exploring the requirements of plants for life and growth and we will have the opportunity to investigate the way in which water is transported around a plant.
Our Maths learning will focus on two separate areas of the curriculum. We will start the term looking at Place Value and spend time consolidating our knowledge of numbers to 1000. We will investigate how to place numbers in the correct order on a number line and how to round numbers accurately. This will be followed by spending time on addition and subtraction and focusing on exchanging and how to estimate answers.
You might like to join in with our learning by…
- Beginning to learn a new skill (playing an instrument, riding a bike, a style of dance, or knitting) and thinking about what you use to help you to do this.
- Finding out what other people you know are good at. Present this information in a style of your choosing (bar chart, poem, factual writing, pictures)
- Try doing a different skill with a ‘handicap.’ For example, write a sentence with the wrong hand, get dressed whilst blindfolded, tie one hand behind your back from an hour and see what you can’t do. Record what you did and what you learnt.
- Present a piece of work entitled ‘Me and how I learn.’
- Ask some people you know ‘what does learning mean to you?’ Record their responses.
- Find some quotes on the internet about learning. Present them in your own way.
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