March
World Book Day Fun. We took an old book and made it in to an animal. What a way to finish off our Amazing Animal topic!
Pancake Tuesday
Den Building
Superhero Activity Based Learning
Mar/Apr Contact: rreavey141@c2kni.net
Literacy
This half term we are learning to:
- identify the key features of Explanation/Instructional texts
- Write our own explanations making sure we have included key features - eg frog, ladybird, butterfly life cycles,
- follow instructions/write instructions
- use "bossy" verbs - cut, put, turn, colour...
- Check for grammatical sense and accuracy by re-reading own writing
- Spell known high frequency words correctly in our writing, use our knowledge of sound to spell unfamiliar words.
- Use capital letters and full stops appropriately. Develop and extend sentence structure.
- make sentences super - add descriptive words, adverbs, detail
- look for apostrophes and how they are used
- identify speech marks in our reading
- comprehend what we read by asking and answering questons on texts
- identify and use onomatopeoia - CRASH, BANG, WHOOSH, HISS...
Numeracy
This half term we are learning to:
- work on targets as on MM homework
- continue to work on the importance of ten
- repeated addition, groups of, sets of, lots of, mutiply, times
- more less than
- language of time - o clock, half past, quarter to, quarter past, in how many minutes will it be... , duration, later, earlier
- revise area
- revise 3D shapes and their properties
- handle data related to WAU topic
World Around Us - Superheroes
This half term we are learning to:
- Appreciate our uniqueness, special qualities
- Celebrate International Women's Day
- What makes a superhero?
- Real life superheroes - past/present
- Superheroes in their lives
- Science experiments - power
PDMU
This month we are learning to:
- recognise what being Trustworthy means
- How do we gain Trust
- Keep safe using our knowledge of internet safety
- Us as Superheroes
Thinking skills and personal capabilities
This month we are learning about ‘Being Creative"
Some of the things we will be discussing/touching upon:
- Suggesting ideas
- How we can transform/improve our ideas
- Enjoy the process of being creative, discussing how we learn from this
- Working with others/self-management
- We can use our imagination
- We can find different ways of doing things
- We know that other people can help us develop ideas
- We can keep trying until we find the best way of doing things
- We can alter plans if original ideas don’t work out
- We know it’s ok to make mistakes