Week Beginning 3rd July
WB: 3rd July
Our key learning objectives this week will be:
Maths- We will be recapping and consolidating time including 5 minute intervals and problem solving.
Reading- We are reading The Witches by Roald Dahl.
Writing- We will be taking inspiration from pictures from http://www.literacyshed.com/the-images-shed.html
to write our own narratives.
Science- recapping science from across the year.
Topic- Hooray! We’re going on Holiday with links to Geography- naming continents and oceans around the world and understanding weather around the world.
History- comparing holidays from the past to those now.
PE- On Mondays: dance with Mrs Amin
On Thursdays: introducing playground games e.g. skipping, rounders
RE-Our RE topic this term is Hinduism.
DON’T FORGET:
Sport’s Day on Tuesday 11th July at Old Whitgifian’s
Maths objectives that you could help with at home:
- Discussing properties of 2 and 3D shapes e.g. corners & sides (2D) and vertices, faces and edges (3D).
- Finding symmetry and pattern in the world around you.
- Practicing telling the time to the 5 minute interval and looking at how much time has passed.
- Making the same amount e.g. £1, £5, £10 using different values of coins and notes.
- Beginning to partition 3-digit numbers e.g. 153=100+50+3
- Calculating with addition & subtraction over and back across 100.
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 words ending in –tion e.g. station, mention
- Understanding the rule of dropping the /y/ and adding –ies when pluralising e.g. baby- babies, city- cities
- 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