Learning for the Summer Term

Our topic for the Summer Term will be the Wild West!  We are looking forward to a fun half term.
This information is also available under the 'This Half Term's Learning' tab.

English We will be:          Reading  stories about Native Americans and cowboys. ·         Improving the way we start our sentences. ·         Thinking about characters - what do we know about them and how do we know this? ·         Writing from a character's point of view. ·         Making great word choices to improve our writing. ·         Planning and making notes, ·         Writing our own legends. ·         Changing our library books every Tuesday. ·         Continuing weekly guided reading sessions. ·         Continuing daily phonics practice. ·         Working on our reading and writing targets.

Maths We will be: Looking at addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and using and applying the different strategies appropriate for the bigger numbers Practising our times tables: 2x, 5x and 10x facts to be recalled automatically Using number lines to support our addition and subtraction. Working with simple fractions. Solving problems by 'drawing it out'. Finding right angles. Telling the time in digital and analogue forms. ·       Working on basic number skills daily in '5 Minute Target Time'.

Science We will be: Concluding our work on investigations. Working in our school garden, planting and growing.

Art & DT We will be: Making our own dreamcatchers. Making Fandango Stew!

Music We will be: ·         Using percussion ·         Thinking about rhythm

History We will be: Looking at significant historical Native Americans Looking at the history of the Wild West

Geography We will be: Finding out where the Wild West is. Looking at the terrain of the Wild West.

PE We will be: Swimming later on in the half term. (We will notify parents when swimming is due to commence). Line dancing!

RE We will be: Writing an Apache blessing. Looking at other religions.

Computing We will be: Developing our programming skills using Scratch.

PSHE We will be: ·       Thinking about our Rights and Responsibilities. ·       Continuing to reinforce our new playground charter. ·        Thinking about loneliness.