Classifying Living Things | Learning Journal | Year 3/4

This resource introduces the seven life processes using MRS GREN, explains how living things grow, reproduce, respond to their environment, and obtain nutrition, and explores habitats, classification, and adaptations. Students discover how plants, animals, fungi, and micro-organisms survive and interact with the world around them.

Ideal for ELA, science, or STEM lessons, this Living Things activity for Year 3&4 supports understanding of biology, scientific vocabulary, classification, and the features that make something alive.

Help your pupils create a record of thinking, not just complete another worksheet.

This Learning Journal shows pupils how to capture ideas, vocabulary, questions and reflections across reading, listening and discussion — built over time and owned by pupils.

This Learning Journal resource is designed to help pupils build a visible record of thinking across lessons, rather than completing one-off tasks.

Pupils create a two-page spread in their books that is added to gradually after different learning inputs, such as:

• assemblies
• reading texts
• listening comprehension
• short videos
• reflection or discussion tasks

Instead of filling in a worksheet, pupils choose thinking structures, organize ideas with purpose, and explain their understanding using sentence starters and prompts.

What this Learning Journal supports:

• deeper comprehension and reflection
• vocabulary development in context
• pupil ownership and choice
• flexible outcomes at different depths
• inclusive access for EAL, SEND and reluctant writers

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Free Supporting Video
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