This is our first full week back in school! Please ensure PE kits are in school as well as a coat every day as we will aim to get outside whatever the weather.

English 

Text: ‘Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish’, By Michael Foreman

Phonics: Phase 5a – Mastery
Focus GPCs: ay, ou, ie, ea, nk
CEW to read and spell: would, should,  put , says, said, do

In English this week we will look at a new class text ‘Dinosaurs and all that rubbish.’ We will start off by discussing what the man in the book might be thinking and dreaming about, we will then explore what dreams are whether there can be multiple meanings of the word. This will follow on from last week’s work where the children thought about their personal resolutions and goals. Through this book we will make predictions, explore commands and suffixes, and finally write a set of instructions for the dinosaurs to help them clean up the planet.

Reading:

• Read as part of a group. Look at front cover details and explore making predictions, using phonetic knowledge to decode unknown words and to extend vocabulary. Read aloud and look at increasing fluency and use discussion as a group to discuss comprehension.
• In reading groups, continue to continue on phonic and CEW recognition gaps identified.

Maths

Addition and Subtraction within 20

Mental Maths
Number bonds to 10
Recall of addition of 10 and another single digit number, e.g. 10+3 = 13

Main Learning
Adding 3 single digit numbers by counting on. We will look at different methods for this, including concrete (with counters below) and using a number line to count on.

We will be deriving our number bonds to 20 and linking these to number bonds to 10. E.g. below:

Supporting at home: As we are working on number bonds to 10 and 20 in school this week. It would be great to support this at home by using the White Rose Minute Maths app and clicking on the relevant sections, see below:

Wider Curriculum

PE-SHINE Outside Session 

Jasmine PE– This term’s focus is RealGym. This week, the children will be learning and practising a range of different shapes that they can make and hold with their bodies.

Science – This week, we are beginning our new science topic of Marvellous Materials. We will start off by exploring the different everyday materials that we already know such as wood, plastic, glass and metal and identifying things in and around our classrooms that are made out of these. 

R+WV- “Why are some stories special?”
This week, we are going to explore why the Qur’an is special in Islam, why Allah is deeply respected in Islam and what followers of Islam are called.

Art – We will be exploring artwork by Edgar A Whitney and Zoltan Szabo to inspire us to create our own cold scenes. We will consider the colours used to show coldness and how the artwork makes us feel. 

PSHE – Dreams and Goals
We will be thinking about setting a goal and how we can work to achieve it. This links to our English learning from last week where we set some New Year’s resolutions.