Our learning for this half term: Something Silly

English We will be:             Reading stories by Julia Donaldson            Finding out about the setting of stories. Focusing on the different elements that make up a story Exploring rhyming words and word play to make jokes and riddles Focusing on correct and varied punctuation in a sentence. Changing our library books every Thursday. Continuing weekly guided reading sessions.  Continuing daily phonics practice. Working on our reading and writing targets.

Maths We will be: Looking at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using and applying the different strategies appropriate for the bigger numbers Practising our times tables: 2x, 5x and 10x facts to be recalled automatically Investigating money Learning the units of measurement of capacity Learning 3 D and 2D shapes Problem solving so that the children can use and apply all the concepts they have been learning Working on our Maths targets.

Science We will be: Investigating different types of materials. Finding out about different states. Conducting our own investigations.

Art & DT We will be: Looking at work by Kandinsky and Picasso. Creating our own pieces of work in the style of these artists.

Music Responding to the Gruffalo music and creating our own interpretations.

History Not this half term.

Geography We will be: Looking at features of urban and rural landscapes Making our own 3d landscape

PE We will be: Learning new gymnastic skills. Applying our skills to the apparatus. Making sequences of movement.

RE We will be: Looking at some elements of Islam Looking at the importance of prayer.

Computing We will be: Practising our keyboard skills with a wide range of activities. Learning to use Scratch

PSHE We will be: ·       Thinking about our goals and aspirations. ·       Thinking about the barriers to our learning.