This week we have covered:

English - Sentence stacking lessons about the Big Bad Wolf. With focus on time, adverbials and adjectives

Guided Reading – Poetry – The Special Badger gave us our input for vocabulary, retrieval and inference practice. 

Spellings – We are sticking with suffixes ending in 'ly' and 'ment'

Maths – Making numbers up to 1,000 on a place value chart

Science – The Nervous System. We discovered the importance of the brain in the performance of our body.

History – The Bronze Age and the impact of migration on introducing new materials.

Art – Studying the work of Leonardo da Vinci and sketching still life

PSHE – What the best school looks and feels like

Spanish – Phonics

RE - Creation stories 

P.E. - Hockey 

This week we have been learning about:

English – We tackled similes and played sorting games to help us describe things and places 'like' and 'as' something else. 

Spelling – Suffixes using the letters 'ly' and 'ment'

Guided Reading – The Twits were the text we used to practice our vocabulary, retrieval and inference skills.

Maths – Partitioning numbers up to 1,000

History – The Neolithic period took us on a journey to Skara Brae in Scotland as we explored what life was like in that period.

Science – The human skeleton. We all enjoyed as sing-a-long to Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem thigh bones...

Geography – We compared Kings Lynn to San Francisco and looked at the physical geography of the two locations, including Bays, Peninsulas and Straits

PSHE – As part of the Being Me in My World we studied what that worst school would look like and how we wouldn't feel safe or respected. 

P.E. – We continued with our hockey skills.

This week we learnt about:

Maths – Number lines to 100

English – We started sentence stacking and our text was the Three Little Pigs, the Wolf's story.

Spellings and Handwriting – Practising joining our letters and words ending with the suffixes -ed, -er, -ing

Guided Reading – We read the first chapters of The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl before building our vocabulary, retrieval and inference skills to answer questions

Science – We continued with our study of voluntary and non-voluntary muscle movements

Geography – We built on our knowledge of the compass points and moved on to Grid References.

History – The Neolithic era is the next step we started to explore in the Stone Age.

RE - Creation Stories across multiple faiths

PE - Hockey

There have been many new routines to learn, but with lots of practice, it will become second nature soon enough.

In the curriculum we learnt about:

Maths – Place value and partitioning numbers up to 100

English – Nouns, adjectives and time adverbials as we aim to re-write the tale of the 3 little pigs, taking on the view of the Big Bad Wolf...or is he?

Geography – We looked at the 8 points of a compass. We had one person going the extra mile and adding flags in each direction.

History – Exploring the difference between the Old Stone Age and the Middle Stone Age

Science – The Human Body. We made a steady start at exploring voluntary and involuntary muscle movement.

Art – We looked at the artist Paul Klee as we studied line and form

PSHE – To know our worth and recognise positive things about ourselves and others