Grade 4 Curriculum Newsletter Unit 6
Please read about what your children will be learning and how you can support them at home...
Transdisciplinary Theme: How we organise ourselves
Central Idea: Economic activity and the natural environment are
interconnected.
Key Concepts:
• Function
• Perspective
• Connection
Lines of Inquiry:
• Physical Geography
• Economic activity
• Connections between economic activity and the
natural environment
Focus for Learner Profile and Attitudes:
• Inquirer
• Knowledgeable
• Creativity
• Cooperation
PSE – (Personal and Social Education) - students will:
• Understand how human activity can affect the physical environment
• Explore the importance of protecting the physical environment.
• Identify individual responsibility for not damaging the environment.
Language - students will:
• Revisit story writing techniques
• Explore the use of prepositions in sentences
• Write for a range of (Including; stories, poetry and instructional texts)
• Express points of view about environmental issues
• Use research skills including collating and editing to present information
• Continue to develop speaking and listening skills through presenting
information to an audience
Mathematics – students will:
• Locate and draw features on a grid using coordinates
• Use grid references to locate features on a map
• Use the eight point compass to describe position and
direction
• Explore angles and rotation: use a protractor and
mathematical language to describe a turn e.g. 90º anticlockwise
• Review written strategies for mathematical operations (adding, subtracting,
multiplying, dividing)
• Apply their understanding of calculations and decimals to solve money
problems
• Continue to develop strategies in order to solve word problems.
Social Studies and Science – students will:
• Explore features of a map i.e. key, scale, co-ordinates and compass
directions
• Use maps to learn about the physical geographical features of Italy
• Inquire into the main economic activities in Italy
• Explore the relationship between the location of economic activities and the
physical environment
• Find out about the negative impact economic activity can have on the
environment
2014-2015
Italian:
• Ripasso di analisi grammaticale e osservo i gradi dell`aggettivo qualificativo
• Presento il predicato nominale in analisi logica
• Ripassi ortografici
• Descrizione di luoghi usando i dati sensoriali
• La cartina fisica dell’Italia: riconoscimento di montagne, mari, pianure, laghi
e fiumi a partire dai colori convenzionali
• Visione dei diversi paesaggi sul libro sussidiario, con memorizzazione del
lessico geografico specifico e particolari approfondimenti riguardanti l’Italia
• Le attività economiche legate al territorio – i tre settori dell’economia –
ricerche individuali e a gruppi
Italian as an additional language - students will:
• Work on difficult spellings
• Work on present simple and continuous
• Explore the map of Italy
• Find out some facts about Italy
Visual Art – students will:
• Look at how artists create perspective in
their work
• Understand vanishing points in pictures
• Draw pictures showing perspective
• Explore the use of colours and tone to
create depth in a landscape picture
Music – students will:
• Learn a selection of new songs
• Create a piece of music which demonstrates their understanding of how
people communicate across cultures, place and time through music with a
• Have the opportunity to revisit the Reference Area.
• Reinforce note-taking skills
ICT - students will:
• Use the internet to find out more about different places in Italy, including
major cities, geographical features and economic activities
• Use Google Earth and Google maps to explore the physical features of
countries and continents around the world
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Helping at Home
Encourage your child to look at maps and plans of their
local environment and places that they visit
Provide opportunities for your child to solve everyday
problems involving money e.g. How much change will
I get?
Discuss and encourage your child to express their points of view about
environmental issues
http://mapzone.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/mapzone/
http://maps.google.com/
focus on “place”
PE – students will:
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Play volleyball games and learn rules and techniques.
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Develop their understanding of tactical play
Library – students will:
• Revisit some of the key library skills such as the Dewey system.
2014-2015