29/04/2024
Posted on: March 2nd 2020
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 02/03
Week Beginning: 02 March 2020
NURSERY
We will be continuing our topic on Jack and the Beanstalk. The children have now planted their own beans and watch them daily to see if they have started to grow. Friday, as you are aware is World Book Day, letters have already gone out and we can not wait to see the children’s costumes and of course remember there is a prize for the best character potato design.
RECEPTION
In reception this week our Jack and the Beanstalk theme will continue. We will be sequencing and writing our own Jack and the Beanstalk stories. As we have approached the end of phase 3 phonics we will be spending this week recapping all the sounds we have learnt so far, including high frequency and tricky words. In Match we will be looking at 1 less and begin to solve subtraction sentences. Outside we will be working on our planting area and small world.
Don't forget parents evening is Tuesday and Wednesday evening!
YEAR 1
In English, we are going to write noun phrases to describe a scene using all of our senses. Towards the end of the week, we are going to write a diary entry using main clauses explaining how our lonely monster feels at different parts of the story.
In Maths, we are going to solve addition and subtraction problems using a number line.
YEAR 2
In Maths this week, we will be adding and subtracting, using dienes or expanded column method.
In English this week, we will be looking at a new narrative and describing the different characters in the story, using noun phrases.
YEAR 3
In English working on using speech in our writing and punctuating it correctly using inverted commas.
In Maths we will be using the compact method for addition and subtraction.
YEAR 4
This week in maths we will be revisiting addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using formal methods and adding to our skills base by using numbers with decimal places.
We will also be focussing on our times tables knowledge in preparation for the Year 4 statutory tests in June.
Please encourage your children to practice their times tables at home as much as possible as this will increase their confidence in this subject tremendously.
In English we will be focussing on our grammar and text understanding skills in order to improve the language, punctuation and presentation of our writing.
Our Big read skills will include studying texts related to our current history topic, The Stuarts.
Swimming resumes this week so please do not forget to send your children in with their swimming kits.
4 Sycamore = Monday
4 Yew = Thursday.
Lastly, Friday 6th March is world book day and your children may come in dressed as their favourite book character.
YEAR 5
English - we are looking at the book Street child to link with our history topic, the Victorians.
Maths we are revisiting column multiplication and long division with decimals.
YEAR 6
This week in Year 6, we will be completing our final SATs practice papers. Our art lesson is going to be linked to our science topic - the circulatory system.
