Welcome to Panda class with Mrs Monks and Mrs Day (Class Teachers) and Miss Williamson and Mrs French (Classroom Support Professionals)
Spring
Our main focus text this half term is ‘Space Tortoise’ by Ross Montgomery and David Litchfield. We will use it to make predictions, describe settings and write postcards and letters.
In maths, we will explore numbers to 50 and addition and subtraction within 20. We will also measure length and height using standard and non-standard units of measure.
We will compare localities in geography (Antarctica and UK) and make our own model vehicles in our DT lessons.
Autumn
English
For the first few weeks our learning was based on 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, begin to apply capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and focus on phonics skills.
In our English lessons we based our learning on the book ‘Room on the Broom’. We immersed ourselves into the story by carrying out role play sessions, going on word hunts and hot seating. Throughout the half term we 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 strategies.
Summer 2
Summer 1
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.