Week Beginning 24th April

April 24, 2017

WB: 24^th April

Our key learning objectives this week will be:

Maths-We will be starting a new topic on statistics; looking at pictograms and bar charts & understanding how to ask and answer questions about the information.

Reading- We will be reading Harper and the Scarlet Umbrella.

Writing- We will be looking at leaflets and writing our own non-fiction leaflets on ‘Healthy Lifestyles.’ We will be discussing the features of leaflets before planning and writing our own

Science- Ourselves- how to be healthy and fit.

Topic- How are you? – with strong links to Science and History.

PE- On Mondays: dance with Miss Handley

On Thursdays: introducing playground games e.g. skipping, rounders

RE-Our RE topic this term is Islam. We will be looking at beliefs that Muslims have.

Maths objectives that you could help with at home:

Practicing various strategies for +, -, x and ÷ e.g. using a blank number line, partitioning and recombining, sharing, arrays and using counting strategies.

SPaG objectives that you could help with at home:

Spelling words with –el, -le, -il and –al endings e.g. camel, table, pencil, oval
Spelling and understanding homophones, in particular, their/ there/ they’re and to/ too/ two
Using suffixes at the ends of words e.g. happily, engagement, plentiful and talking about the spelling rules
Adding adverbs to verbs e.g. walked slowly, smiled happily
Using different sentence types in writing; most importantly questions & exclamations

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