This half term's learning - Fabulous Flight!

English We will be: Finding out about life on the International Space Station and making information leaflets.  ·         Reading  'The Sulky Vulture'. ·         Learning how to write a compound sentence. ·         Writing perfect paragraphs. ·         Writing persuasively. ·         Finding out about the features of non-fiction books. ·         Thinking about where books take us as part of Book Week. ·         Focusing on correct and varied punctuation in a sentence. ·         Continuing weekly guided reading sessions. ·         Continuing daily phonics practice.

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 Using number lines to support our addition and subtraction. Practising telling the time. Reinforcing our earlier work on halves and quarters. Problem solving so that the children can use and apply all the concepts they have been learning

Science We will be: Conducting our own investigations and making predictions.

Art & DT We will be: Responding to Book Week stimuli Cooking - what can you do with an egg?!

Music We will be: ·         Using percussion ·         Thinking about rhythm

History Finding out about the history of flight.

Geography We will be: Finding out about different countries through our work on birds.

PE We will be: Continuing to use the large apparatus. Developing our teamwork skills in outdoor games.

RE We will be: Thinking about signs of new life in the Springtime. Thinking about eggs as a symbol of Easter. Retelling the Easter story.

Computing We will be: Practising our typing skills.

PSHE We will be: ·       Thinking about our Rights and Responsibilities ·       Writing to our link school in Nepal.