Message: Next week in PSHE we will be doing a science experiment using egg shells. Egg shells have similar properties to teeth. We will place the egg shells in a range of liquids to see how they react to sugary, fizzy drinks. If you have any used, clean egg shells, please send them into class on Monday morning. We will only need 3-5 per class.
Diary dates
Friday 30th January – Inset day. School closed to children
English
Phonics: Revisiting as needed in each class
Spelling:
You can help your child with spelling at home by practising the word lists below each lesson objective.
Lesson 1: Review the /j/ sound spelt dge
- badge
- fudge
- badger
- fridge
- midge
Lesson 2 Review the /j/ sound spelt ge
- cage
- page
- huge
- charge
Lesson 3 Review of plurals adding -s or -es with no changes to the root word
dog → dogs cat → cats chair → chairs drink → drinks
fox → foxes dress → dresses flash → flashes bunch → bunches
Writing
We will be continuing to revisit the basics of sentence construction to help the children consolidate their understanding of how to use capital letters, finger spaces and punctuation correctly. We will revisit the word classes noun, verb, adjective and adverb.
Noun – Word used to name people, places or things.
Verb – A doing word to describe an action that you do with your body or inside your head.
Adjective – A describing word.
Adverb – Describes a verb. It tells us how a verb is done.
Reading
We will begin reading a new class text – ‘Coming to England’.
We will learn about the Windrush generation.
We will use prediction skills to try and predict what will happen next in the story.
We will learn about Trinidad (where the main character is from).
We will retrieve synonyms from the book.
Maths
In maths, we will be learning about multiplication.
We will be revisiting the concept of ‘repeated addition’ taught in Year 1 and linking this with writing as multiplication question.
We will use different language to describe multiplication problems, including ‘lots of’, ‘groups of’ and ‘multiplied by’.
We will also look at how to use an array to add equal groups and write 2 multiplication equations to match an array.
Wider Curriculum
Science: ‘Materials’: What are materials used for? Moving onto categorising ceramics, rock, paper, card and fabric.
PE: Gymnastics.
PSHE: Health and Wellbeing – looking after our teeth
Computing: Coding – this week we will be focusing on ‘debugging’ code.
DT: We will be continuing our work on making a moving monster. This week we will be looking at objects and understanding how they move.