6/05/2024
Posted on: April 29th 2024
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 29th April
Week Beginning: 29th April 2024
NURSERY
This week in nursery we will be looking at “There was an old women who swallowed a fly” as two of the children have shown an interest in this rhyme/story.
For maths we will be looking at size order and comparing objects in our environment.
Our new phonics sound O. Please keep practicing the sounds at home.
RECEPTION
This week in Reception we shall be continuing our topic of Life cycles and look at the life cycle of a frog. We are hoping to collect frogspawn from our school pond and observe the transition from spawn to adult frog before returning them back to their natural habitat.
In maths we shall be moving onto odd and even numbers and using a variety of practical activities to reinforce this with the children, Please ensure you read regularly with your child and return ALL books every Wednesday to give us time to change the books for Friday.
YEAR 1
This week, in English, Year one will be finding out facts about penguins and writing about penguins using subheadings. In Maths, Year 1 will be using multiplication and division operations to multiply and share different amounts. If any of the children would like to bring in a photo of them as a baby, that would be great. Thank you.
YEAR 2
Year 2 will be multiplying and dividing using arrays. In English, we will be learning the conjunction 'that'. In Science, we are looking at the offspring of animals and we are looking forward to our DT days on Thursday and Friday!
YEAR 3
Next week in year 3 we will be continuing our story 'George's Marvellous Medicine' and writing the next part of the narrative. In maths we will be practising our division skills and using the chunking method to answer 3 digit questions.
YEAR 4
This week in English, we will be focusing on paragraphs. The children will be retelling a story using their new knowledge of paragraphs e.g. introducing character, setting, different events in the story.
This week in Maths, we will be focusing on conversion. The children will be using their multiplying by 10 and 100 to convert between different measures and they will also be converting between analogue and digital time.
YEAR 5
This week in Year 5, we are using a variety of resources to name and locate key rivers of the United Kingdom and the world. In maths, we are focusing on fractions. Relating them to their decimal and percentage equivalent, finding fractions of a given amount and using our calculation skills to add, subtract and multiply fractions.
YEAR 6
This week, year six will be learning about the impact on people's lives during rationing in WW2. They will look at a typical week's allowance and will make comparisons with the amount of food we eat in a week. In writing, they will be developing their persuasive techniques and organising their reasons into that of most importance.
