Summer Term 1st Half
This half term we will be diving into an exciting explorers theme!
In Geography, we will be exploring what it is like to live in Shanghai, exploring the physical and human features of China.
In writing the children will be exploring the book “Padding Bear” and will be writing about the characters and events in the story.
In Maths, we will be learning our numbers to 50, as well as looking money and position and direction!
In Science, the children will be finding out about how to compare different animals, sorting and classifying them into groups.
As part of our physical education, we will be developing our skills using bats and sticks.
Our Art focus will look at sculpture and paper modelling developing their skills creating 3D structures.
Summer Term 2nd Half
This half term our theme will be ‘Over the Ocean’.
As part of our History learning, the children will be learning about a significant historical person – Christopher Columbus! We will also link our writing to this theme.
Our author focus for this half term will be Oliver Jeffers. The children will enjoy sharing his books, especially our focus storybook ‘Lost and Found’. During our writing lessons, the children will explore this text in more detail and write their own sentences linked to the story.
In Maths, the children will begin to explore the place value of larger numbers (within 100) and will learn how to find one more and one less than these numbers. We will also begin to look at the basic fractions one half and one quarter. There will also be a unit on position and direction where the children will be required to describe the position of different objects.
In Design Technology, we will be exploring mechanisms and the children will create their own moving pictures linked to our ‘over the ocean’ topic.
In Science, the children will be finding out about plants and investigating what they need to help them grow. Hopefully we will be able to grow a plant to bring home!