What’s the big idea? The people who helped create the first great civilisations were not unlike you and me. Today we can learn a lot about these people and their way of life through the things they left behind – from everyday objects to magnificent and rare treasures.

Green Dragon Primary School Temples, Tombs and Treasures.

Year 4 Project, Summer 1

What was life like in Ancient Egypt?

Why were people mummified? And how?

What will we be learning?

English: We will be exploring narrative and other genres of writing through the book - Leon and the Space Between. We will continue to improve our SPaG knowledge, skills and understanding, in particular: descriptive writing, fronted adverbials and conjunctions, expanded noun phrases and using speech correctly…and so much more!

Maths: We will be able to:

• Mentally calculate percentages of amounts. • Use a pair of compasses, ruler and protractor to draw triangles.

We will know: • How to find fractions of amounts.

Remember to continue helping your child with times tables – they need to know all multiplications up to 12 x 12 and the corresponding division facts by July!

And much more!

Project: History We will know about:

• Rivers and why they were important to ancient civilisations • Daily life in ancient Egypt • The different rulers of Egypt • Ancient Egyptian religion and burials • The treasures discovered in Tutankhamun’s tomb • Ancient Sumer

We will be able to: • Egyptian hieroglyphics and will try to write using them • Create mind maps • Order events chronologically • Compare different periods of History

International We will be able to

• Plan an Ancient Egyptian celebration to share with friends Art We will able to:

• enlarge Ancient Egyptian tomb paintings • Make and decorate canopic jars using clay

Spellings

The spellings that Year 4 are practising this half term are: question

recent

regular

reign

remember

sentence

separate

special

straight

strange

strength

suppose

surprise

therefore

though

although

thought

through

various

weight

woman

women

Please help your child to practise these and to

use these correctly in sentences.

Not sure how to help your child practise spellings? Talk to their class teacher!

For our project this term, please send your child in with a plastic bottle for them to use to create a canopic jar! One per child is plenty! PE Kits School PE uniform is black shorts (or tracksuit bottoms) with a white t-shirt. PE kits should be in school at all times. Dates of Project Homelearning: We will be giving out homelearning on w/c 24th April – to research the pyramids of Egypt. This will be due in on Friday 5th May. The second homelearning will be set w/c 8th May and will be due in on Friday 19th May. This will be to create a fact-file or poster or leaflet on a chosen God or Ancient Egyptian ruler. Entry Point: w.c Monday 17th April 2017 We will all become archaeologists! I wonder what treasures we will find in the school grounds?! Trips: British Museum to see the mummies and have an exciting workshop! G1: Monday 15th April 2017 G2&3: Thursday 18th April 2017 Class Assemblies G1 on Friday May 12th at 9am G3 on Friday May 16th at 9am

Year 4 Notes & Dates

We are a UNCRC Rights Respecting school. We always try to connect our learning to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. This term in particular we will be thinking about: Article 29: Education should develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. We will be focusing on this Personal Goal Superhero:

Doctor Global I am an internationally minded learner.

I enjoy seeing the world through someone else’s eyes. I love finding out what’s happening all over the world.