English- To start this year we will be writing a letter to our teacher and talking about our likes and dislikes. After that, we will be focusing on the book, The Tiger Who Came to Tea to write a short narrative. Focusing on using capital letters and full stops in our own writing. We will then move on to using the short film “A Cloudy Lesson” as a stimulus to write a set of instructions on how to make a cloud blower. We will be focusing on imperative verbs and time conjunctions. We will end the half term using the short film “Something Fishy” to write another short narrative with a focus on using the word ‘and’ to join clauses together and using adjectives in our writing. 

Maths- We will all be focusing on place value this half term. Some children will be focusing on numbers within 10, others within 50 and some of us will be looking at numbers within 1000. We will be deepening our understanding of the value of numbers, how to partition numbers and supporting our learning with practical resources such as base 10, number lines and tens frames.  

Topic- Our topic this half term is ‘Our School’ and we get to become geographers looking at our local area. We will be working on creating simple maps, understanding the features of maps as well as looking at where we are in our local area and the features around us.  

Science- In Science this half term we will be looking at the topic “My Body” where we will get to learn all about parts of the human body and their functions, as well as the five senses.

This year for Black History Month, we learned all about a famous TV chef called Lorraine Pascale. Last week, we made one of her recipes and baked a tiger cake.

We have done lots of exploring in our Forest School area this half term.

In Geography, we have been learning all about Our School. During this lesson, we created a messy map of our classroom.

In Art this half term, we have been using our observational skills.

For World Space Week, we learned all about Saturn and were inspired to create some art.

In Music, we revised all the things we know about playing the chime bars, we practised copying rhythms and changing notes and reading the "slug" and "spider" notation. We are going to start making up more of our own music this year, too.

We mixed different things into water to see how they changed and how they felt. Our favourite was cornflour! We used lots of adjectives to describe how it felt on our hands. 

In Science, we used bubble bath, washing up liquid, hand wash and washing powder to see which one made the most bubbles.