Posted on: February 26th 2019

This week at Gray's Farm - WB 26/02

Week Beginning: 26 February 2019

NURSERY

We hope you had a great break.

Nursery will start their new theme based around the story of “ The Selfish Crocodiles”.

We will be doing some support work on sharing and being kind. We will look at foods that are good and bad for our teeth and talking about the importance of cleaning our teeth.

As usual keep your observations on tapesrty coming in as we like to share them with the children.

RECEPTION

Welcome back to the children and parents of Reception. We hope you have had a restful half term. This term we will begin our topic of Growing and changing in different environments. We will be exploring the growth of animals from the jungle to farms. We will also be looking at the growth of plants, humans and animals.

We will be beginning with our jungle theme and our class book will be Rumble in the Jungle. We will be writing our own riddles as the jungle animals (simple sentences with capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops as well as using our phonics).

In Maths we will be securing our number knowledge, counting up and down to 10, and then to 20. We will be practising finding one more and one less than a given number using a number line.
A reminder that on Friday 8th March it is World Book Day. The children have the option of dressing up as their favourite book character.

Please continue to look at Tapestry and if you have any questions please do come and ask a member of the team.

Thank you for your continued support.

YEAR 1

In Maths we will be solving problems involving weight, capacity and length.
In English we will be writing our own version of the story we have been working on, called ‘The Hungriest Giant in Town’.

YEAR 2

After half term, we will be starting our new History topic, astronauts. We will be basing our English themes around space and looking at the book 'Man on the Moon' with a focus on the 'that' and 'if' conjunctions and using different sentence types. In Maths, we will be looking at place value with a link to money. We will be comparing past and present astronauts in our History topic and discussing the possibility of aliens! Don't forget, you've got the option to dress up as an astronaut or alien on Wednesday 27th February.

YEAR 3

In Maths, we are going to recognise the place value of each digit in a 3-digit number. We are also going to tell and write the time from 12 and 24 hour clocks.

In English, we are going to sharpen our skills of how to use apostrophes for contraction and possession accurately.

YEAR 4

In Maths we will be focusing on place value of decimals and multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.
In English we will be focusing on modifying expanded noun phrases.

YEAR 5

In English, we are writing narratives and using speech to show character.
In maths, we are looking at squares, cubes and primes.
Our science topic is now ‘Earth and Space’. In topic, we will be doing geography which will involve reading ordnance survey maps and comparing UK and European regions.