19/04/2024
Posted on: May 24th 2021
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 24/05
Week Beginning: 24 May 2021
NURSERY
This week we shall still be exploring our story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff, we will be introducing questions that will encourage the children to solve problems e.g. ask them to go two stones forward and ask where they will be if they go one stone back. We shall be encouraging the children to think about bridges then use a variety of blocks and small role play toys to construct their own bridge.
Please refer to the board outside the nursery gate for updates to the week.
RECEPTION
This week, we will be involved in D&T week and making our very own moving vehicle. We will be exploring a range of construction materials, designing and making our vehicles. We will be looking at a range of transport too. In Maths, we will be exploring number, addition and subtraction and applying it in our everyday activities.
YEAR 1
In Maths we will be reading and writing the time for o'clock and half past, on analogue clocks.
In English we will be writing sentences based on our geography and science learning over the last half term.
It is also DT week so please send in your old boxes - eg cereal, shoe, tea boxes.
Enjoy your half term break.
YEAR 2
In Maths this week, we will be recapping on our geometry knowledge and taking our knowledge a little further. We will be focusing on 2D shapes and lines of symmetry, recapping the properties of 3D shapes - using the correct terminology: face, edges, vertex/ vertices and we will even be making 3D shapes out of spaghetti and marshmallows on No Pens Day!
In Writing this week, we will finish off our Curriculum topics that we have been focusing on in half term. We will be writing a letter to Miss Groom to explain to her what we can do as a school to help our planet and we will be making a fact file all about ladybirds, using the interesting facts that we have been learning about!
The children have worked incredibly hard this half term and always continue to surprise us with their knowledge and perseverance. If we don't manage to see you before the end of term, we hope you have a lovely, restful half term and we will see you on Monday 7th June!
YEAR 3
In maths, Year 3 will be learning about statistics and data for the first part of the week. At the end of the week, we will be looking at shapes, lines, angles and rotation. In English, we will be doing the accelerated reader test on Monday, writing a story on Tuesday and a 'No Pen's Day' activity on Wednesday. For the rest of the week we will be looking at contractions and the possessive apostrophe. In the afternoons, we will be taking part in DT week to design and create a moving vehicle!
YEAR 4
This week, year 4 will be continuing to use persuasive language and exciting adjectives in our writing linked to our topic in geography. In maths, we are plotting and translating co ordinates.
YEAR 5
This week in Year 5, we are honing our writing skills through using ellipses and creating an image with relevant expanded noun phrases. In Maths, we are revisiting our online learning of pie charts. Each afternoon we are looking forward to DT week and creating our moving vehicle. We also have No Pens Day on Wednesday and are excited about the challenge of not using any writing implements!
YEAR 6
This week, we will be learning the difference between active voice and passive voice. In addition to this, we will be looking at the net of 3d shapes.
In DT, we will be planning and designing, making and evaluating a moving vehicle.
