This half-term, our topic is… Freeze it!

Reading
Fiction and Poetry focus
- Reading comprehension strategies
- Evidencing our answers
- Why have certain words been chosen?
- Link what we hear and read to our own
experiences.
Writing
‘Where the Wild Things are’ by Maurice Sendak
‘The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems’ Ed.
June Crebbin
- Narrative and Non-narrative
- Planning our writing
- Edit and up-level our writing
- Work on our individual writing targets
- Poetry
Speaking
- Debating
- Full sentences
- Correct grammar
- Asking open and closed questions
Grammar
- Speech marks
- Apostrophes
- Time Connectives
- Irregular past tense verbs
PE
-Swimming
Art
- Photography
- Perspective
- Collage
This half-term, our topic is…
Freeze it!
International Primary Curriculum
- Molecules; solids, liquids and gases.
- Changing states: At what temperature do
liquids freeze at? Do all liquids freeze at the
same rate and temperature? Do all liquids melt
at the same rate? What materials keep solids
frozen the best?
-Children will be carrying out experiments to
answer the scientific questions.
PHSCE/RE/SRE
-Easter
-Safety
Mathematics Mastery
- Continuing with mass; reading scales,
estimating and linking to the real world.
- Fractions: recognise, find, name and write
fractions 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 2/4 and 3/4
- Telling and writing the time to five minutes
- Developing mental maths strategies
- Times Tables: 2,3,4,5,6,10
French
- Sentence-making - Quand il neige, …
- Joining sentences (et, parce que, mais)
- Telling the time – on the hour, half past
- Songs
Support your child by:
- Reading with your children every night;
exploring poetry
-Encouraging children to speak in full
sentences and helping the voice their opinions
- Giving them Homework support
- Helping them practise their Common
exception words
-Practising times tables