Term 3 : 2024 : Learning competencies : Primary four

 

T3 P.4 LEARNING COMPETENCIES
	ENGLISH	MATHEMATICS	SST	SCIENCE	RE
WEEK 1	Expression of the future: The future	Measurements I - Money	Our leaders in the district: Leaders	Human health - Communicable intestinal diseases and warm infestations	Making our decisions as Christians: Good and bad decisions
	Future simple tense	Identifying denominations of Uganda currency	Definition of terms related	Identifies diarrhoeal diseases; diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, and typhoid	Defining a decision
	Use of will and shall	Adding money	Decentralization - Advantages and disadvantages of decentralization	Describes the causes of diarrhoeal diseases, bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and warms	Examples of good decisions
	Affirmative, negative, and interrogative sentences	Subtraction of money	By-laws	How some common intestinal infectious diseases are spread through the 4F's	Examples of bad decisions
	Question tags	Division of money	Importance of leaders	Identifies signs and symptoms of common intestinal infectious diseases (diarrhea, dysentery, cholera & typhoid)	Importance of decisions
	Active and passive voices (Future simple tense)		Types of leaders: political leaders - examples	Identifies treatment & prevention of common diseases; mixing and administering ORS
			Levels of local government
			The local council committee ,their duties, and problems faced by political leaders
			The LC V system, duties of the LC V C/P, district speaker, RDC, etc
			Civil/civic leaders - examples, duties of the different civic leaders e.g DISO, CAO, DEO,DAO, DHO etc
WEEK 2	Conditional clauses	Solving word problems in multiplication of money	Religious leaders - definition, examples, and their roles	Demonstrates how to mix and administer ORS and make SSS	Good decisions in the Bible:
	Language structure: (Use of unless ......)	Finding bills and change	Brief notes about; ATR, UMSC, UJCC, IRCU	Identifies types of worms - tapeworms, roundworms, threadworms, etc	Examples of people who made good decisions in the Bible
	Synonyms	Finding profits	Examples of religions in Uganda	Explains how worms enter the body	Bad decisions made by people in the Bible (Story of Eli - 1 Samuel 2:12-17)
	Common abbreviations		Voluntary leaders - definition, examples, and examples of voluntary organizations (NGOs) and their roles in different districts	Describes signs and symptoms of worm infestations	Story of Judas
	Contractions		Cultural leaders - definition, clan, chiefdom, kingdom & lineage	Identifies treatment, prevention of worm infestations; eating well-cooked meat, wearing shoes or sandals etc	Story of Herod
			Examples of cultural leaders and their roles
			Ways of choosing leaders in our district
			Qualities of a good leader
			Elections - definition, systems of elections, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
			The roles of the Electoral Commission, challenges faced by the Electoral Commission
			Importance of elections
			Materials used in elections
			Terms used in elections
WEEK 3	Description of people and occupations	Measurements 2 - Time	Rights and responsibilities of people in our district: Children's rights -	Vectors and diseases:	Making good decisions
	One word for many	Finding loss	Definition of children's rights and their examples	Names some common disease vectors; bedbugs, cockroaches, houseflies, mites, etc	How to make good decisions
	Dialogue	Finding the sum of days of a given month	Importance of children's rights	States the characteristics of some disease vectors; their body structures, their habitat, their feeding habits	Making unselfish decisions
	Passage	Telling time using digital clocks	Defn of child abuse, forms of child abuse, child abuse practices, and causes of child abuse	Describes the life cycle of mosquitoes, cockroaches, houseflies & tsetse flies	The story of Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5: 1 - 6)
	Guided composition	Telling time using analog clocks	Ways how children lead to the abuse of their rights	Explains how vectors spread diseases; bites, dirty bodies, dirty environment
			Groups of people who practice child abuse	Identifies the diseases spread by the vectors
			Effects of child abuse
			Ways of controlling child abuse
			Human rights and citizenships: Human rights and the examples
			Human rights abuse
			Citizenship
			Ways of becoming a citizen
			Types of citizenships
WEEK 4	Keeping a diary :	Showing time on analog clocks	How to meet people's needs in our district: Social services	Practices correct prevention and control of diseases spread by vectors; covering food, biological control, etc	Peace :
	Vocabulary (use of a wide range of grammatical structures and vocabulary about keeping a diary)	Changing hours to minutes	Defn of social services	What causes HIV/AIDS	The meaning of peace
	Homophones	Converting minutes to hours	Examples of social services	Explains ways in which HIV/AIDS spreads	Signs that show unpeacefulness
	Substitution tables	Addition of time	Education services (types of education & more about it)	Discusses the effects of HIV/AIDS	Peace given by Jesus (John 14:27)
	Speeches (Direct and indirect speech of present simple tense)		Health services	Explains ways of caring for HIV/AIDS patients	Traditional ways of keeping peace
	Comphrehension (A diary)		Transport services; definition and types
			Types of roads
			Means of road transport
			Advantages & disadvantages of road transport
			Road accidents
			Road signs
WEEK 5	Direct and indirect speech (Present continuous tense)	Subtraction of time	Water transport and its means	Accidents, poisoning, and first aid;	Keeping peace
	Comprehension (Calendars)	Changing weeks to days	Advantages and disadvantages of water transport	Defining accidents and other terms related	The story of David and Abigail (1 Samuel 25:1 - 36)
	Direct and indirect speech (Present perfect tense)	Changing days into weeks	Causes of water accidents and why some rivers are not navigable	Identifies types of injuries, causes , ways of preventing accidents, and safety rules on the road	Traditional ways of bringing back peace
	Comprehension (Letters and Letter writing)	Changing years to months	Air transport and means	Defines poisoning, causes, and prevention of poisoning
	Using study time -	Changing months to years	Advantages and disadvantages of air transport	Demonstrating correct practices for avoiding accidents
	Vocabulary - read, pronounce, and construct sentences			Practices habits that help to avoid accidents and poisoning at home, on the way, from and at school
	- use the related vocabulary
WEEK 6	Language structures:	Measurements 3 - Length, Capacity & Weight	Railway and pipeline transport:	Demonstrates how to take care of a person who has taken poison	Keeping peace in the Bible
	.....usually.......	Reading a ruler in standard units meters, centimeters, and millimeters	-Railway transport definition and means	Defines the components of the first aid kit, uses of components	Ways of keeping peace in the Bible (Leviticus 26: 3 - 20)
	.......sometimes ........	Measuring the perimeter of the shape using a ruler	Types of trains	Discussing procedures taken before/during giving first aid	Jesus teaching about keeping the peace
	Passages :	Finding a perimeter of a rectangle	Advantages and disadvantages of railway transport	Identifies importance of giving first aid to a casuality	God's will on peace
	- Mugabi's daily activities		Pipeline transport		Reconciliation
	-The best place for me		Advantages of pipeline transport
	Comprehension - The Time table		Communication services:
	Democracy; Games and Sports :		Definition of Communication and types
	Vocabulary about games and sports		Means of communication (talk about each and its meaning in detail)
	Sentence construction
WEEK 7	Alphabetical order	The perimeter of a square	Security services:	Growing crops	Problems that disturb peace
	Adjectives and languages:	The perimeter of a triangle	Security	Identifies common crops grown in the community: sorghum, peas, bananas, etc	Results of lack of peace
	Structures :	Finding the area of a triangle	Security organs	Discusses groups of common crops such as perennials and annuals	The suffering of the Israelites in Egypt (Exodus 7)
	.....than.......	Finding the area of a square	Uganda police - duties, departments of the Uganda police, and roles for each	Draws and labels annual crops
	......not as .......		Units of police	Identifies and labels annual crops
	Substitutional tables		Roles of different police officers	Identifies common tools, equipment and materials used in growing annual crops
	Ordinal numbers		How the police maintains law and order	Describes the uses of common tools, equipment and materials
	Proverbs		How police can prevent people from committing crimes	Draws and labels common tools and equipment
			Roles of people in keeping law and order
			A crime and common crimes
			Causes of crimes
			Problems facing the Uganda police
			Possible solutions
WEEK 8	Music Dance & Drama: -	Finding the area of a rectangle	The Uganda prisons	Identifies crop growing practices: land clearing, mulching, weeding, etc	God's promised peace
	Guided composition	Measuring mass using Kg and Grams	Duties of the Uganda prisons	Demonstrates some of the crop-growing practices	God's promised peace and how it comes
	Notice (Football club)	Solving word problems involving mass in Kg	Why lawbreakers are kept in prisons	Identifies some common signs of disease damage in crops	Examples of God's promised peace
	Vocabulary about Music Dance and Drama	Measuring capacity using liters and milliliters	UPDF - duties of the UPDF, composition of the UPDF - land forces, air forces, navy forces etc.	Describes some signs of pests and diseases and pest damage in crops	The birth of Jesus Christ - the Prince of Peace
	Language structures: ...... when.....		Private security guards and companies with examples	Identifying ways of controlling pests & diseases in the garden: spraying, cleaning seeds, planting clean seeds, etc
	Comprehension (Poem - The life of a musician)		Importance of peace and security
			Banking services :
			Banking -
			Types of banks
			The Central Bank and its functions
			Commercial banks and examples
			Importance of commercial banks
			Reasons why people keep money in banks
			Money - definition
			Forms of money
			Uganda's currency in coins and notes
			Uses of money
WEEK 9	Passage (The concert day at Nankoma P/S)	Algebra;	Housing services & electricity services :	Keeping rabbits:	Simon's message
	Jumbled sentences	Solving equations without letters in Addition	A house; types and examples	Identifies the types of rabbits (local and exotic)	Seeking and promoting peace
	The use of the superlatives	Solving equations without letters in Subtraction	Building materials used in different types of houses and their sources	Mention uses of the different types of rabbits
	Elections -	Simple equations without letters in multiplication	Why people should build storeyed buildings/flats	Names the external parts of a rabbit
	Vocabulary about elections		Uses of houses to people	Constructs a hutch for rabbits
	Dialogue - Elections in schools		Electricity service	Describes breeding habits of rabbits
	Pronouns (Relative pronouns)		HEP and examples of dams
			Other types of electricity
			Uses of electricity
			Dangers of electricity
			Water supply services :
			Water and its sources
			Organisations that provide clean water in the community
			Social amenities and examples
			Uses of water
			How people contaminate water
			How to make water safe for drinking
WEEK 10	Language structure;	Forming and solving equations in addition without using letters in word problems	Basic needs:	Identifes different management practices (keeping rabbits) feeding rabbits, hygiene	Revision exercise
	......who......	Forming and solving equations in subtraction without using letters in word problems	Definition of basic needs	Describes common diseases of rabbits : ear canker, flu, colds, coccidiosis, snuffles etc
	Interrogative pronouns	Forming and solving equations in multplication without letters using word problems	Examples of basic needs	Practices the control, prevention and treating rabbit diseases
	Language structure;	Forming and solving equations in division without letters using word problems	Sources of basic needs	Demonstrates skills in keeping rabbits
	Whom ......?		Activities done by people to get their needs ; economic activities and examples
	Comprehension		Problems faced in meeting people's needs in our district
	Word puzzles		Possible solutions to the above problems
	Jumbled sentences		Social service centres
			Examples of social services centres
			Social service providers
			Things which destroy social services centres
			Ways of caring for social services centres
			End of topic evaluation tests