Welcome to Panda class with Mrs Monks and Mrs Richardson (Class Teachers) and Miss Williamson, Mrs Palade and Mrs Bishop (Classroom Support Professionals)
Summer
Our Class text this half term is ‘The Night Pirates’ by Peter Harris. This will start off with a fun filled Pirate day! We will write descriptions, make wanted posters and write some instructions about finding treasure! We will also write pirate poems.
In maths we will continue to look at measures and focus on mass/weight and volume and capacity. We will make comparisons and use vocabulary such as lighter, heavier, equal, full, empty, more and less. We will also focus on multiplication as repeated addition.
We are looking forward to creating our own Kandinsky inspired paintings in art and learning songs and more dance moves for our pirate themed class assembly!
We will keep active in PE and focus on athletics and multi-skills. We will consider good techniques for running, jumping, catching and throwing.
Spring
Our main focus text this half term was ‘Space Tortoise’ by Ross Montgomery and David Litchfield. We used it to make predictions, describe settings and write postcards and letters.
In maths, we explored numbers to 50 and addition and subtraction within 20. We also measured length and height using standard and non-standard units of measure.
We compared localities in geography (Antarctica and UK) and made our own model vehicles in our DT lessons.
Autumn
English
For the first few weeks our learning was based around the book ‘Our Class is a Family’. We shared the story, talked about our families and created story maps to go with the text. We looked at key vocab and learned the importance of these words. The key outcome of this unit was to write simple sentences, beginning to apply capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and focusing on phonics skills.
In our English lessons we based our learning on the book ‘Room on the Broom’.
We fully immersed ourselves into the story by carrying out role play sessions, going on word hunts and hot seating.
Throughout this half term we will wrote our own character description of the witch, learnt about adjectives and considered how to include them to create an effective sentence.
At the end of this unit we retold the story and wrote our own retell using all the objectives taught.
Maths
In our Maths lessons we looked at place value within 10. We worked hard to recognise numbers as words, looked at 1 more and 1 less, counted forward and backwards, compared groups and learnt about fewer, more and the same.
We then moved onto looking at addition and subtraction within 10 and how we can work out number sentences using a range of different ways.