29/04/2024
Posted on: February 7th 2022
This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 07/02
Week Beginning: 7th February 2022
NURSERY
This week in nursery we shall be exploring patterns.Through our music and movement sessions the children will be encouraged to move like some of the animals that we have recently learnt about. During our expressive arts and designs, we will be exploring repeated patterns using a range of instruments and asking the children to follow a simple pattern. We will be creating symmetrical pictures by painting one side of the paper and folding the other.
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RECEPTION
In Reception this week the children will be continuing to find out all about Chinese New Year. They will be learning all about the story of The Great Race and how the Chinese Zodiac was ordered. They will also be making Valentine's Day cards for their special people! In Maths the children will be continuing to practise finding the total of two groups by counting all of the objects and having a go at recording what they know.
YEAR 1
In Maths, we are going to consolidate prepositional language such as above, near, below and close. Towards the end of the week, we are going to recognise and name common 2D shapes and describe their properties.
In English, we are going to look at a Welsh myth, The Story of the Welsh Dragon. We are going to write main clauses using emotive language.
We are also going to put some spellings and maths activities on Google Classroom to practise/complete.
YEAR 2
This week in Maths, we will be looking at fractions of shape and numbers. We will be focusing on 1/2, 1/4, 3/4, 1/3 and 2/4.
This week in English, we will be doing our Curriculum write up to show off all our new facts to do with Australia / materials. We will be deciding where we would rather live - UK or Australia and why and we will be writing a letter to the 3 Little Pigs to tell them what materials would/ wouldn't be best to you.
YEAR 3
This week is DT week and so Year 3 will be busy planning, making, tasting and then evaluating their delicious pizzas! As well as this we will be practising our fractions knowledge and looking at finding fractions of amounts. It is also the last week we will be learning about our current geography topic 'Where would you rather live?'.
YEAR 4
In Year 4 we will be:
In English revisiting the skills we have learnt so far this term.
In Maths
- Compare and classify geometric and irregular shapes, including different quadrilaterals and triangle types based on their properties and sizes. Use carroll diagrams and venn diagrams to sort and classify, based on given properties.
- Identify lines of symmetry in 2D shapes presented in different orientations (should include different lines of symmetry not just reflection) [
- Complete a simple symmetric figure with respect to a specific line of symmetry
YEAR 5
This week in Year 5, we are excited to find out what happens at the end of the short film we have used as a writing stimulus. In maths, we are looking at different ways of displaying and interpreting data. and we are finishing our science topic by dissecting a plant.
YEAR 6
This week, Year Six will be creating burgers in our D.T sessions. We will then be writing persuasive text - in the form of a letter to ask a local restaurant owner to sell our delicious creations in their establishments.
We will also be writing our book - Burger Boy - which will be about a boy who refused to eat anything apart from burgers!
