Posted on: May 10th 2021

This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 10/05

Week Beginning: 10 May 2021

NURSERY

We shall continue our topic on mini beasts, in particular, exploring facts about spiders and worms.

The children will be investigating size and length and using different resources in their measuring.

During our Forest School, the children will be going on a mini beast hunt exploring the difference and similarities of each insect found.

RECEPTION

This week in Reception we will be exploring the story ‘The Tiny Seed’ by Eric Carle. We will be thinking about what seeds are and what happens to them (and what we need to do to make them grow). We will be doing lots of planting of vegetables and flowers this week and observing the changes as our plants grow. We’ll also be looking at the season ‘Spring’ and what happens in this season.

In Maths, we will be ordering objects by size and measuring using non standard units e.g how many cubes long is the pencil? We will be using language such as taller, shorter, tallest, shortest, longer, longest.

YEAR 1

In maths we are introducing division by grouping objects or sharing equally. We will then be finding halves and quarters of objects, shapes and amounts. In English we are beginning a new book: The Storm Whale. We will be predicting what we think the book will be about and continuing to write descriptive and narrative sentences.

YEAR 2

In English this week, we will be starting a new book linked to our Science topic called 'Tadpole Promise'. Our focus this week will be to apply our +ed spelling rules to our verbs.

The rules will be:

1. Just +ed e.g. jumped

2. Drop the 'e' and +ed e.g. baked

3. Change the 'y' to an 'i' and +ed e.g. cried

4. CVC word (consonant vowel consonant) Double the final consonant and +ed e.g. jogged

5. Something else - word changes e.g. eat/ ate

In Maths this week, we will be recapping multiplication and division using our bar model. We will also be moving onto new learning this week when dividing which will be focusing on remainders using our arrays and bar model.

YEAR 3

Year 3 are working on sentence structure and writing for purpose in English.

In Maths we are looking at measure and related word problems.

YEAR 4

This week in English and Geography we will be combining our knowledge about pollution and the ocean to create a non fiction - information leaflet. We will be concentrating on the features of a non fiction piece of text in order to create our own.

In maths we will be re-visiting rounding numbers with decimal places and solving money and measure problems using money.

eg: 1/5 of £20 = £4.00

In Science we are continuing our topic on Electricity and circuits.

YEAR 5

This week we will be continuing our writing around the video Alma including a newspaper report about the mysterious story. In Maths, we are looking at fractions and percentages. In Geography we are looking at local rivers and in Science we are investigating if temperature affects the rate of dissolving.