This is an exciting half term with lots of activities and Christmas treats to come!
Please see this half term's planning below:
English
We will be continuing with daily phonic sessions, daily spellings and handwriting three times a week.
We have already begun a new topic around the book 'Farmer Duck,' by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury. The children love this story and so much learning is coming from it.
This week we predicted the story ending, wrote speech bubbles to explain the feelings of the characters and wrote the ending of the story as it was written.
We will be looking at the verbs and nouns in the story and finding objects in the classroom to create a list of nouns. We will be focusing on singular and plural nouns. Next week we will be learning more about sentence structure and using incorrect text messages from the duck to learn how sentences make sense.
Later this half term we will have a poetry focus. The children will learn traditional rhymes and create rhyming words that can be used in poems.
The children will re-arrange poems that have been jumbled to create rhyming couplets.
We will create poems that are descriptive, but do not rhyme.
Maths
This week we have been looking at equivalent values in a variety of ways and writing number sentences to represent them.
They will be making numbers greater than ten, using tens frames and building numbers to twenty using Cuisenaire rods. We will focus on the language of 11 to 20 and some more.
We will be estimating and comparing smaller and larger quantities and focusing on one more and one less.
The children will make doubles and halves using tens frames. We will be exploring odd and even numbers and learning to count in 5s and 2s.
Towards the end of term the children will be learning about 2D and 3D shapes, through their properties in unfamiliar contexts.
Science
Our topic for this half term is 'Seasons.' the children will be learning the months in the seasons, weather and seasonal changes. The children will learn which months belong in each season and what the weather is expected to be like during those months. We will think about appropriate clothing for each season and the festivals and celebrations that occur at different times of the year.
The children will focus on animals and birds and how they manage to survive each season.
We will create rain gauges and create tally charts and graphs to show the weather changes during Autumn.
We will also create leaf prints to show the wonderful colours of the Autumnal leaves.
Religious Education
We will be looking at the different festivals of light that occur at this time of year. Last week the children learned the Hindu story of Rama and Sita. They remembered it so well that they were able to retell it or recount it in writing.
The next festival we look at will be Hannukah, which is a Jewish celebration. As we approach Christmas we will retell the nativity and the children will have many activities to celebrate this time of year.
The importance of this focus is to enable the children to understand the importance of light in the stories and how from a religious perspective light overcomes darkness as good overpowers bad actions.
Art and DT
We will be creating mosaic pictures which focus on the colours the children relate to from an emotional perspective. We have been discussing this in our PSHE lessons.
The children will be creating sliders, which involve creating a moving scene in a story. The focus will be 'The Gingerbread Man.'
We will be exploring the work of 'Monet' by discussing the colours, techniques and atmosphere that is reflected in his work. The children will create representations of the artist's work.
As Christmas approaches the children will create a Christmas card that has a slider or lever mechanism.
ICT
The children will learn how to log on and off a computer. They will discover search engines to find the information they need for certain subjects. Their typing speed will increase as they use a programme to write their poems. We will use one session for 'Maths Seeds.'
PSHE
We are looking at celebrating differences this half term and the children will be creating a version of themselves using different materials. We will be focusing on anti-bullying as we discuss what we think 'bullying' is, the feelings it evokes and what to do to help ourselves if we ever feel we are in that situation.
We will not be covering history or geography this term.
NEXT WEEK
On Tuesday it will be 'Anti-Bullying' day and the children can come to school in odd socks. We will be writing poetry about bullying and the children will be role playing different scenarios and discussing outcomes and feelings.
On Friday it will be a non-school uniform day and a donation of one pound can be made for the charity 'Children In Need.'
Notes
- Children attending Reading Club need to arrive at school at 8.40 am
- Please can children bring large plastic bottles to school to prepare for creation of our rain gauges
Ms Davis
