Week Beginning 16th October 2017

Writing

We will be discussing the use of animals in the circus and forming our own opinions. We will then be planning letters to a circus trying to persuade them against the use of animals.

Phonics/ SPaG

We are continuing to recap phase 5 alternative graphemes and spelling patterns. We will also be looking at how to spell high frequency words and improving simple sentences by adding adjectives and connectives.

We will be focusing on synonyms within our writing to make it more interesting.

Reading

Our class read is Pippi Longstocking. We will be thinking about what has happened so far in the story, making predictions about what might happen and clarifying new words and their meanings.

Maths

We will be looking at addition and subtraction. We will be focusing on fact families, relationships between addition and subtraction and using the inverse operations to check calculations.  We now have a big emphasis on reasoning and problem solving in every lesson.

We will be using our previous knowledge of tens frames, <,> and = symbols and place value to make links within addition and subtraction.

Topic

Our topic this half term is The Circus is Coming to Town. There are many links to science, history and geography within this.

PE

PE is on a Monday and Wednesday afternoon.

Monday: pilates.

Wednesday: ball skills.

RE

We will be looking at why things are special to people. This will be taught by my PPA teacher on a Thursday morning.

PSHE

We will be looking at new beginnings and making relationships.

ICT

We will be looking at how to use algorithms to program digital devices. We will also learn how to debug simple programs.