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What Your Year 4 Child Needs to Know

What Your Year 4 Child Needs to Know is the fourth in the series of six books—one for each year—for parents, grandparents, home educators, teachers and children to enjoy. See all the varied topics and activities it includes, and purchase it from our online shop from June 2013.

Language and Literature:

• Poetry, including: 'For Want of a Nail'; 'Eletelephony'; 'Ducks' Ditty'
• Stories, Legends and Myths, including: 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll; 'Bertie and the Lion' by Michael Morpurgo; 'William Tell'; 'Finn MacCool and the Giant's Causeway'; Myths from Ancient Greece and Rome
• Learning about Literature and Language, including: Let's Write a Report; Parts of a Sentence; Homophones; Abbreviations
• Familiar Sayings, including: 'Beggars can't be choosers'; 'Touch and go'; 'A stitch in time saves nine'; 'Let bygones be bygones'; 'When in Rome, do as the Romans do'

History and Geography:

• World Geography, including: Maps; Mediterranean Europe; Eastern Europe
• British Geography, including: London and the South East; The South West; Northern Ireland
• World History - Ancient Rome, including: The Legend of How Rome Began; Hannibal Keeps His Promise; Julius Caesar Shows Who's Boss; Crossing the Rubicon; Constantine Sees a Cross in the Sky; What is a Century?
• British History, including: Union of the Crowns; Civil War; Restoration; Great Plague and the Great Fire; Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights; A Great Explorer: Sir Francis Drake

Visual Arts:

• Painting with Light and Shade, including: Vermeer's The Milkmaid; Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus; Turner's The Fighting Temeraire
• Design, including: Filling a Space; Perspective; Make Your own Mosaic; Drawing with Scissors: Matisse's 'Icarus' from Jazz
• Pictures from Stitches, including: Stitching Icarus; Christ's Charge to Peter; Coronation Robes; Appliqué for Prince William and Catherine Middleton’s Wedding
• Roman Monuments, including: Trajan's Column; Arch of Constantine; The Pantheon

Music:

• Elements of Music, including: Reading and Writing Musical Notes; Rhythm; Keeping Time; Rests; Loud and Soft
• Let's Join the Orchestra, including: Brass Family; Woodwind Family
• Composers and Their Music, including: Tchaikovsky and the Story of Swan Lake; Holst and How the Planets Made Him a Star
• Songs for Year 4, including: 'On Ilkley Moor Baht 'At'; 'London's Burning'; 'In Dublin's Fair City'; 'Aiken Drum'; 'Annie Laurie'

Mathematics:

• Working with Numbers to 100,000, including: Ten Thousands and Hundred Thousands; Rounding Numbers; Ordering Numbers
• Addition and Subtraction, including: Sums and Differences of Four-Digit Numbers; Mental Addition and Subtraction; Subtraction and Regrouping
• Multiplication and Division, including: Multiplying Visually and Vertically; Square Numbers and Square Roots; Dividing Tens, Hundreds and Thousands
• Parts of a Whole, including: Recognising Fractions; Decimals
• Geometry, including: Polygons; Congruent and Symmetrical Figures; Perimeter; Area
• Measurement, including: Imperial and Metric; Measuring Weight, Capacity and Temperature

Science:

• Classifying Animals, including: What Do They Have in Common?; Does It Have a Backbone?; Fish; Amphibians; Reptiles; Birds; Mammals
• Ecology, including: Living Things Depend on Each Other; A Web of Living Things; Help the Environment to Make the World a Better Place
• The Human Body, including: The Skeletal and Muscular Systems; The Brain and Nervous System
• Light and Vision, including: Mirrors Flat and Curved; Lenses; What Colour is Light?; How Your Eyes See
• Sound and Hearing, including: Good Vibrations of Sound; The Speed of Sound; How the Ear Works
• Astronomy, including: The Universe; Our Solar System; Planets in Motion: Orbit and Rotation; The Force of Gravity; A Solar System Model
• The Lives of Famous Scientists, including: Nicolaus Copernicus; Galileo Galilei; Isaac Newton; Caroline Herschel