Welcome to Panda class with Mrs. Monks and Mrs. Smith (Class Teachers) and Mrs. Gaffny, Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Burvill (Classroom Support Professionals)
Autumn
English
For the first few weeks our learning will be based on the book ‘Our Class is a Family’. We will share the story, talk about our families and create story maps to go with the text. We will look at key vocab and learn the importance of these words. The key outcome of this unit will be to write simple sentences, begin to apply capital letters, finger spaces, full stops and focus on phonics skills.
In our English lessons we will base our learning on the book ‘Room on the Broom’. We will immerse ourselves into the story by carrying out role play sessions, going on word hunts and hot seating. Throughout the half term we will write our own character description of the witch, learn about adjectives and consider how to include them to create an effective sentence. At the end of this unit we will write the story with a few changes!
Maths
In our Maths lessons we will look at place value within 10. We will work hard to recognise numbers as words, look at 1 more and 1 less, count forward and backwards, compare groups and learn about fewer, more and the same. We will then move onto looking at addition and subtraction within 10 and how we can work out number sentences using a range of different strategies building on fast mental recall.