29/04/2024
Posted on: November 27th 2023
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 27th November
Week Beginning: 27th November 2023
NURSERY
This week we will be looking at traditional fairytale books, concentrating on "Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs"
This will help develop their listening and language skills and encourage them to ask 'why' questions Why is one of the dwarfs called happy?
We will be discussing emotions and playing emotion card games to help the children identify and understand their emotions.
In maths we will be concentrating on shapes and also looking at shapes in our environment, both indoors and outdoors.
RECEPTION
In Reception Class this week, we will be moving onto our new story topic of the Christmas Jolly Postman, This is a great book with an interactive element with cards to read, games to play and letters to write, something that would inspire our children to use their phonic knowledge to write letters to Santa and the characters in the story.
Our focus on maths this week will be the number 9, ordering numbers to 9, writing the number 9 and exploring different compositions of 9. Please ensure that you look at the board outside reception class and the school website regarding up and coming dates.
YEAR 1
In English, we are going to learn a new skill, how to edit and improve our main clauses (missing punctuation, making the sentence more interesting, etc.) We will also be publishing our writing as well, where we use our neatest handwriting to create a final piece. On Wednesday, it is ‘No Pens Day’, so we will be acting out part of the story, Stick Man. Towards the end of the week, we are going tom write a recount of the story.
In Maths, we are going to use arrays to group objects in 2s, 5s and 10s. An array is a group of things arranged into rows and columns. It is to start understanding multiplication and division.
YEAR 2
Year 2 will be applying all of our maths skills to word problems this week. In English, we will be continuing our writing about Bob the man on the moon. In History, we will be learning about Neil Armstrong and why he is significant. In Science, we will be writing about food chains and in RE will be learning about the festival of Passover.
YEAR 3
In Maths, Year 3 will be identifying names and properties of 2D shapes. We will also learn to measure the perimeters of simple 2D shapes.
In English we will be consolidating the skills we have learned so far such as using expanded noun phrases, conjunctions and time adverbials in sentences.
YEAR 4
This week in Maths, we will be continuing with fractions. We will be learning about adding and subtracting fractions and finding fractions of a shape.
This week in English, we will be recapping on our conjunction knowledge. We will be looking at coordinating (FANYBOYS) and subordinating (ISAWAWABUB) conjunctions.
YEAR 5
This week in Year 5, we are using hyphenated words to create a factfile for our own 'failed' projects based on our class book The Barnabus Project. In maths, we are revising fractions, and place value at the start of every lesson and we will be learning how to complete, read and interpret bar graphs. On Wednesday, it is No Pens Day and we are looking forward to completing some practical activities based on our curriculum.
YEAR 6
This week, in writing, we will be writing an additional scene in a playscript. This will involve the children adding stage directions and the use of brackets. In addition to this, we will be investigating the use of adverbs in a piece of text. In maths, we will be continuing to develop our arithmetic skills. In History we will be debating whether Dick Turpin was a hero or a villain.
