Writing

We will be choosing and story mapping one of the films we watched last week to plan and write a film review.

Phonics/ SPaG

We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns. We will also be looking at how to spell high frequency words and improving simple sentences by adding adjectives and connectives.

We will be focusing on synonyms within our writing to make it more interesting.

Reading

Our class read is Pippi Longstocking. We will be thinking about what has happened so far in the story, making predictions about what might happen and clarifying new words and their meanings.

Maths

We will be looking at addition and subtraction.

We will be looking at adding and subtracting 10’s before we move on to adding and subtracting 1’s to 2-digit numbers crossing the 10’s boundary. We are also beginning to think about ways we can add and subtract two 2-digit numbers.

Just an aside: We DO NOT teach your children the column method for addition and subtraction when calculating. If you would like any tips or advice as to how we teach these strategies please just ask 🙂

Topic

We will be learning about People of the past. There are strong links to art and history.

PE

PE is on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon.

Monday: pilates.

Wednesday: ball skills.

RE

We will be looking at why things are special to people. This will be taught by my PPA teacher on a Thursday morning.

PSHE

We have started the Zippy’s Friends project which will run for most of the year.

ICT

We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs.

Writing

We will be having a focus on SPaG this week with emphasis on using different sentence types and ways in which we can improve our sentences e.g. by adding adjectives and adverbs.

Phonics/ SPaG

We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns. We will also be looking at how to spell high frequency words and improving simple sentences by adding adjectives and connectives.

We will be focusing on synonyms within our writing to make it more interesting.

Reading

Our class read is Pippi Longstocking. We will be thinking about what has happened so far in the story, making predictions about what might happen and clarifying new words and their meanings.

Maths

We will be looking at addition and subtraction. We will be focusing on relationships between 1’s and 10’s e.g. if I know that 3+5=8 then I can work out that 30+50=80.

We will also be looking at understanding 10 more and 10 less of any given number in preparation for adding and subtracting 10’s before we move on to adding 1’s to 2-digit numbers crossing the 10’s boundary.

Topic

We will finishing our topic this half term is The Circus is Coming to Town and then moving on to People of the past. There are strong links to art and history.

PE

PE is on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon.

Monday: pilates.

Wednesday: ball skills.

RE

We will be looking at why things are special to people. This will be taught by my PPA teacher on a Thursday morning.

PSHE

We will be looking at maintaining relationships and how to be a good friend.

ICT

We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs.