What Your Year 4 Child Needs to Know

Editor: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
UK General Editors: Robert Whelan and Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka
June 2013

What Your Year 4 Child Needs to Know is the fourth in the series of six books—one for each year—for parents, home educators, teachers and children to enjoy. See below for a selection of the varied topics and activities it includes.

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

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