Theme

Autumn 1

The children have been looking at what are continents?, how many can they name? and how many European countries can they name. They then used maps and atlases to accurately mark country names on a map of Europe. As a class, we  talked about why we originally joined the EU ( European Union). The children then worked in groups and discussed how Europe is different to the EU and why leaving the EU might cause issues and why people may want to leave the EU.

The children began to explore Greenland. They looked at the capital city and satellite image of the country. The children were given pictures of diiferent parts of Greenland and worked in groups to discuss what they might know and what they would like to find out.

Click on the link to find out more about Greenland.

Colourful Nuuk - Capital of Greenland | Guide to Greenland

Children used Digimaps to locate local landmarks.

Then they researched Greenland. They Describe where Greenland including:

• Hemisphere,
• which circle it is in,
• the surrounding oceans,
• which continent is it in?

On your map, label the lines of longitude and latitude.

The task was:

• Find the UK on your map.
• How many degrees north of the equator is it?
• What about Greenland?
• What other countries lie to the West and East of the UK with a similar latitude?

Then they imagined they are in the UK and you are flying south along the zero degrees of longitude (prime meridian) and began making a list of the countries they would pass over and labelled and coloured these on the map.

The children have been looking at the physical features of Greenland.

Working in groups, the children wrote down their observations of the physical features based on the relief maps.