Spring
Our Topic will be London's Burning
In English, we will be looking at Traditional Tales with a twist. We will begin by reading the story of 'Prince Cinders' and discuss how it compares to the well known story of 'Cinderella'. We will then help the characters in the story by writing missing posters (character descriptions) to help them track down the missing Fairy Godmother and Prince! We will then use the book 'The Woodcutter and The Snow Prince' as a stimulus to help us write a setting description. In Spring 2 we focus on biographies, using the story 'The Emperor of Absurdia' as a stimulus text. Throughout the term, we will continue to embed capital letters and full stops, while learning to use past tense verbs, adjectives and the conjunction 'and'.
In Maths, we will begin the term developing our understanding of place value within 20 and challenging ourselves to compare and order 2 digit numbers. We will continue our learning of addition and subtraction to 20, using a range of practical resources and methods to support us. Later in the Spring term, we will explore place value to 50 and begin comparing and measuring lengths, height, mass and volume using standard (cm) and non standard units of measure (cubes).
As Historians we will be learning about The Great Fire of London! We will begin our topic with an immersion day where the children will be transported back in time to 1666! They will get to experience baking 17th Century treats, writing with a quill and ink and build their very own 17th Century house compete with a straw roof. During the topic the children will compare life in the 17th Century to life now by looking at the types of jobs people had. They will also learn how the fire started, why it spread so quickly and put together a timeline of the events. We will also look into the life of Samuel Pepys and King Charles II.
As Scientists we will learn all about plants. As we move into Spring the children will explore the common garden plants we have growing in our school grounds and learn to label the different parts. We will further our investigative skills by researching if the size of the seed determines the size of the plant it grows into.
As Computer specialists (in Computing) we are going to be detectives! We will explore datasets as printed cards and then transfer this knowledge to look at virtual cards in Popplet. We will then organise data into a tree using questions to create subgroups and will input data onto online forms. On a spreadsheet we will create filters to identify subsets of the data and use this spreadsheet to solve clues about a pirate!
In DT we will be exploring and using mechanisms. We will look closely how a drawbridge works and how they are made. This will help us design, make and modify our own working drawbridge for our castle, using mechanisms such as levers and sliders.
As Artists we will be exploring textures to use in our own collage. Using the artist Eileen Downes as our inspiration, we will focus on how we can create different textures to use as a layer in our collage.
In RE we will explore the question, 'What makes some places sacred?'. We will be looking at different holy places, comparing these, as well as learning the difference between 'special' and 'sacred'.
Here are some websites that you might find useful:
Top marks - counting maths games and number bonds to 10 games
Phonics Play - a mixture of phonics games that help practise blending, segmenting and sound/letter recognition
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
My Maths - a login code will be provided by your class teacher