Key Dates for Term 4

There are no timetable changes this term.

PE: Tuesday

Forest School: Thursday

Book Change: Friday

Week 1

It was lovely to have the children back and ready to continue their learning journey.

For English this week we focused on the text "What the Ladybird Heard" by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monk. We made our own books about farm animals and wrote the directions used by the "2 Bad Men".

In Maths we revised the composition of 5 and then looked at the ways of making 6 - 10.

We also looked at farms from the past and compared them to now. We looked at the differences in machinery from huma drawn, to hose drawn to modern tractors and combine harvesters.

We used "The Stinky Cheese Man" as our text for Drawing club.

We are not learning any new sounds this term but focusing on revising Set 2 sounds and blending words containing 4 or 5 sounds. 

Week 2

This week we used "What The Ladybird Heard Next!" We created wanted posters for the "2 Bad Men", Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, who had snuck into our classroom and taken one of our toys. We created our own "Snugglysnerd" and described it.

We had a visit from PCSOs Amy and Georgia. they talked about their job and let us sit in their car. We even got to switch on the blue lights.

In Maths we revisited more than/fewer than and equal to. We then celebrated pancake day by tasting pancakes. We tried 3 different toppings: traditional-lemon and sugar, savoury-cheese and sweet treat- banana and chocolate sauce and then had to vote for our favourite. We compared the results seeing which topping had more or fewer votes.

We also the explored doubles.

We learnt about the lifecycle of a chicken: from egg to chick to hen.

On Thursday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing as our favourite character.

Week 3

This week we used "The Teeny Weeny Tadpole" by Sheridan Cain and Jack Tickle. We wrote sentences about the story and learnt about the lifecycle of a frog. We also have a tank of frogspawn in the classroom to watch which has already to hatched into tadpoles. 

In Maths we developed our addition skills to use the method of counting on. We then used these skills to play a game where we had to make a frog jump at a target and add together our scores.

Ahead of Recycling Day and Earth Hour we learnt about Greta Thunberg and discussed little things we could do to help the planet.

Week 4

This week we continued our look at life cycles and used the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. We used the illustrations from the book to create the life cycle and labelled each stage. We also wrote sentences about what the caterpillar ate.

We also created symmetrical paintings to represent butterfly wings.

In Maths we looked at how to build numbers beyond 10. Using Numicon tiles we saw them as "1 lot of 10 and __ more". For example 14 is 1 lot of 10 and 4 more.

Now the weather is beginning to feel a little warmer during Forest School we explored our area to search for signs of spring. We were able to spot catkins and blossom. We then collected catkins that had fallen to the ground to make pictures with.

In Jigsaw we continued to explore how to keep healthy, especially the effect sleep has on our health and ability to learn.

On Friday we were lucky to work with the charity Star*. They brought ex- Bristol Bears rugby players in to lead a session on rugby skills. It was great fun, especially crashing into the "dummies" during the obstacle course.

Week 5

This week we continued our look at different life cycles by looking at that of a plant. We used Jack and the Beanstalk as our main text and discussed whether plants really grow that fast.

We drew and labelled a story map of the story and wrote simple instructions to plat a bean.

Then in  Forest School we planted our own beans.

In Maths we explored subtraction, we pretended to be Jack stealing some of the giant's gold and then counting how many were left.

We also explored measuring and why we need to use a standard measure. we then used cubes to measure different objects.

We used "Grandpa's Secret Giant" by David Litchfield as our story for Drawing club.

Week 6

After reading Jack and the Beanstalk last week we thought we'd find out about castles. We read a non-fiction book about castles learning where and why they were built and learnt that even the animals lived within the castle to keep them safe. We tried to label some of the different part of the castle.

In PE we had a go at archery. It was very tricky to pull the string on the bow back far enough to make the arrow reach the target.

We also had a go at sewing, which was a past-time during the medieval times. This took great hand-eye coordination and resilience.

In Maths we revised our numberbonds to 5 and began to learn about odd and even numbers. We noticed the numbers are in a pattern "odd, even, odd even" and that even numbers are a double.