We will be listening to and reading mainly fiction books. We will continue to learn weekly spellings to help us become more fluent writers. We are learning how to use question marks and exclamation marks in our writing. Good handwriting is important so we are learning how to correctly form all letters ready to start joining. We will be learning some poems off by heart.
We will be continuing to improve number skills, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, including fractions. We are learning to tell the time to o clock, quarter past and to and half past. Please practise this at home. We will be learning to identify shapes by their properties. We will be solving money calculations.
Towers, Tunnels and Turrets.We will be finding out about the history of castles. We will be using this opportunity for some model making and construction, looking at how to strengthen our buildings. We will be looking at some of the greatest towers in the world and placing them on a world map. We will also be looking at other structures like bridges and important tunnels of the world.
Our second half term topic is Messy Mixtures. In this topic we will be finding out about safe/unsafe liquids, Healthy Eating and how exercise helps to keep us healthy.
We will be looking at the importance of staying safe on line.