Should you have any questions about this half term or year ahead please
do not hesitate to contact us.
Mrs. Harness and Miss Allen
Fiction and Poetry
i) Poems based on observation and the senses.
Calligrams and shape poems.
ii) Narrative setting – stories with familiar
Place
settings.
Value,
iii) Narrative dialogue – use of dialogue
ordering,
within a story setting.
rounding.
iv) Plays – oral and written plays
Understanding
x and ÷.
Non-Fiction
Money and ‘real life’
problems.
i) Understanding the
Fractions,
difference between fact
Multiplication and Division
and fiction.
Handling Data.
ii) Reports – NonShape and space.
Chronological
Reasoning about shapes.
reports – making
Measures. Position,
a simple
movement and
record of
Scales.
info. from
Mental and paper
texts
strategies
read.
for + and -.
Number patterns
and sequences.
Finding out about different rainforests
and plants.
Investigating where different animals
and plants live in the rainforest.
Finding out why plants have leaves.
Finding out the best conditions to grow a plant.
Finding out about rainforest fruits and seeds.
Growing our own plants from seeds.
Using CD Roms and the Internet to
support our research.
Using ICT to organise and present
our work.
How different
countries help to
protect the rainforest
Composing
our own
rainforest
music
Making face
paint designs
Look at body
art
Life of Jesus
Designing a recipe for
making our own fruit
drinks
Planning and performing
our own rainforest dance
Finding out where rainforests are in the word
Finding out which rainforest products we use in everyday lives
Comparing the ways which rainforest people live with our own lives
Finding out how and why the rainforest is being destroyed
Discovering the ways that people are trying to save the rainforest
Thursday to be handed in on Monday
Daily reading of six pages per night.
For your child’s pirate to move across the Islands please read:
•Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
•One of either Friday, Saturday or Sunday.
Times tables test is every fortnight, please
help your child to learn their relevant
times table.
Children will be informed of
any lunchtime or after
P.E. kit should be in school at all
times. (red/white t-shirt/polo
shirt and black shorts/skirt –
black pumps)
school clubs when
they begin.
P.E. kits will be sent home for
washing at the end of every half
term.
Over the next six weeks we
are following a theme that
focuses on ‘The Rainforests’.
This unit is part of the
International Primary
curriculum (IPC).