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Year 4 : Who is Edward Tulane?
NC – links – Geography, Music and Art
Literacy Link: Diary writing as a character
Narrative – recounts from his journey
Persuasion – give to charities
Narrative - Stories in historical settings in the
time period of the book.
WOW: Visiting Emirates Cable car
LC1
What are charities?
LC2
How do we support charities?
LC3
How did Edward get from A to B?
LC4
How would it feel to be homeless?
LC5
What are the lessons from Edward’s journey?
LC6
What colour are you feeling?
LC7
How does music affect mood and feeling?
Numeracy Link:.
Creative Art Link: colours and moods
The
miraculous
journey of
Edward
By Kate
DiCamillo
.
Tulane
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Year 4 : Who is Edward Tulane?
Year 4 : Art, Music and computing
Art
Computing
Painting
• Can they create all the colours they need?
• Can they create mood in their paintings?
• Do they successfully use shading to create mood and feeling?
Drawing
• Can they begin to show facial expressions and body language in their
sketches?
• Can they organise line, tone, shape and colour to represent figures and
forms in movement?
• Can they show reflections?
Use of IT
• Can they combine graphics and text based on their research?
Sketch books
• Can they use their sketch books to express their feelings about various
subjects and outline likes and dislikes?
• Can they produce a montage all about themselves?
Textiles
• Can they use early textile and sewing skills as part of a project?
Year (Challenging)
•
Can I use book creator .
• Can they capture
images using webcams,
screen capture,
scanning, visualiser and
internet?
• Can they choose
images and download
into a file?
• Can they download
images from the
camera into files on the
computer?
• Can they copy graphics
from a range of sources
and paste into a
desktop publishing
program?
• Can they insert sound
recordings into a multi
media presentation?
• Can they use a search
engine to find a specific
website?
Music
• Can they explain the
place of silence and say
what effect it has?
• Can they start to
identify the character
of a piece of music?
• Can they describe and
identify the different
purposes of music?
• Can they begin to
identify with the style
of work of Beethoven,
Mozart and Elgar?
Challenge:
Can they identify how a change
in timbre can change the effect
of a piece of music?
E-Safety:
• Understand that copyright
exists on most digital
images,
video
and
recorded music.
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Year 4: Who is Edward Tulane?
LC1 What are charities?
LC2 How do we support charities?
Research different charities to support homeless
people. Research a homeless charity to see how
they operate. Write the next part of Edward’s story,
using features from the time period.
Make animals out of felt fabric – use cutting and
sewing, before stuffing with tissue. Then donate these
to charities or sell them to give the money to
charities. List all the known charities in the local area.
Identify ways we can give used items to support e.g.
shoes or clothes.
Write a diary about one of Edward’s days from the
book so far.
LC3 How did Edward get from A to B?
LC4 How would it feel to be homeless?
From reading the chapters of the book identify
which types of transport were available in that time
period. What was it like on board the Queen Mary?
Recount Edward’s main events on board the ship.
Read the chapter of the book about the homeless
people. Create a shelter with a tarp, string and
cardboard for a homeless person.
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Year 4: Year 4 : Who is Edward Tulane?
LC5: What colour are you feeling?
LC6: How does music affect mood and feeling?
Create a colours emotion wheel to represent
different emotions you could be feeling. Explore the
different shade of colours with water colour paints.
Create different backgrounds from the story using
colours to create moods and emotions. Write an
emotions poem using colours linked to emotions.
Pupils listen to a range of composers
Can they begin to identify with the style of work of Beethoven,
Mozart and Elgar?
Pupils to read an extract from the book Edward’s Journey…
Then add to this background music and sound effects. Can they
explain the place of silence and say what effect it has?
Listen to music with a variety of tempos and explain the effects
on the listener. Can they describe and identify the different
purposes of music?
Can they start to identify the character of a piece of music?
Explain about the elements of music - pitch, dynamics, timbre,
texture, and tempo. Then compare different pieces of music.
LC7 Reflection: What are the lessons from Edward’s
journey?
Identify the changes to Edward’s character as he
encountered different people and circumstances.
Write a letter as Edward to Abilene explaining how
he has changed to have a better personality, as a
result of his experiences.
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