Writing

We are continuing with our focus  on a losing tale where a character loses a precious item. We will be using Julia Donalsdon’s story Monkey Puzzle as a stimulus for our writing.

Here is an example of a losing tale toolkit. We will be keeping the middle part of the story the same and the children will be using the toolkit to innovate their own prequel and ending.

Reading

We are still really enjoying Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We are able to talk about the story & characters and are able to make predictions about what may happen in the text.

Maths

We are continuing to learn about fractions this week.

We have learnt about halves and quarters already- thinking about how they need to be equal parts of a shape or equal groups for an amount.

This week we are looking at unit fractions and comparing 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3’s before moving on to recognising and calculating 2/3’s and 3/4’s. We will also be learning about the equivalence of 1/2 and 2/4’s.

PSHE

We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.

P.E

We are going to be doing athletics on a Monday and doing circuit training on Thursdays.

Science

We will be looking at the different foods that omnivores, carnivores and herbivores eat.

Important information

DON’T FORGET: last day of term is Thursday 29th March and we are back at school on Monday 16th April. 

Writing

We will be moving on to our new topic in literacy next week. Our focus will be on a losing tale where a character loses a precious item. We will be using Julia Donalsdon’s story Monkey Puzzle as a stimulus for our writing.

Here is an example of a losing tale toolkit. We will be keeping the middle part of the story the same and the children will be using the toolkit to innovate their own prequel and ending.

Reading

We are still really enjoying Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White.

Maths

We will be finishing off looking at 3D shape before moving on to fractions works.

The children will be consolidating and making links between equal and unequal groups (which we covered when we looked at multiplication & division) before investigating halves and quarters. There is a big emphasis on linking the parts of fractions to the whole.

We will be using lots of different representations including arrays and shapes but the children will also need to understand fractions of amounts.

PSHE

We will be continuing with our new module of Zippy’s Friends.

P.E

We are going to be doing athletics on a Monday and doing circuit training on Thursdays.

Science

We will be looking at the different foods that omnivores, carnivores and herbivores eat.

Important information

Parent’s evening:

Thursday 22^nd March 2018– (this was previously arranged for Thursday 1^st March but was cancelled).