BLUE ABYSS Year 4

Geography

In our geography lessons we will learn to:

1. That the Tropic of Cancer is 23.4 degrees north of the equator and Tropic of

Capricorn is 23.4 degrees south of the equator.

2. To identify the world’s oceans and seas. Identify their position in relation to

the equator, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and the Arctic and Antarctic

Circles

3. Locate the Great Barrier Reef using maps and satellite images.

4. Use a range of geographical source materials to find out about a number of

environmental issues linked to the oceans, such as overfishing, oil spills,

coastal erosion, tourism and pollution.

ART and DESIGN

On our art and design we will learn to:

1. Complete observational drawings by sketching sea creatures

using a variety of tomes with different grades of pencils and begin

to record movement

2. Know the British artist Turner and look at his seascape:

Breaking Against the Wind and use this to create own painting

using: hot/cold colours, seascapes- wet on wet and wet on dry

3. Create a sea themed batik using cool and warm colours

CAN YOU REMEMBER?

What we have learned

in this topics. What we

have enjoyed in this

topic.

Subject Can you remember?

Design and Technology

What the principles of a healthy diet are? What can you suggest as sugar substitutes?

Music

Can you give an example of: A percussion instrument> A brass instrument? A string instrument? A woodwind instrument? What do the symbols in music tell us to do? f and p?# What does the word pitch mean in musical terms?

History

What does AD and BC mean? How do we know about the lives of the Gladiator?