AUTUMN 2

Fire Fire

 Religious Education

We are following the RE programme Come and See. It is an invitation for children to ‘Come and See’ the wonder of all that is within them and beyond them.
We are finishing our topic on Signs and Symbols where we have thought about the meaning behind the signs and symbols of Baptism. We will spend a week learning about Judaism before moving onto our topic Preparations when we will think about how Advent is the time when we prepare to celebrate Christmas.
 
Writing
We will be exploring a variety of writing styles this half term. The children will re-tell stories they have read in class, writing poetry creating shape poems and acrostics, and write a non-fiction piece about The Great Fire of London. They will be encouraged to use adjectives and in their writing. To develop their writing we will focus on connectives and how to improve our work by extending our sentences. We will continue to focus on the correct use of full stops and capital letters and how to use commas. We will also learn how to use capital letters for names, places and titles.
 

Reading

Throughout the week the children will be heard to read individually and in guided reading groups. We will be reading a range of texts – fiction, non-fiction and poetry. They will use their knowledge to work out, predict and check the meanings of unfamiliar words and to make sense of what they have read.

Phonics
In our phonics sessions we will revising alternative spellings in Phase 5 in the Letters and Sounds scheme. At this stage the children will be learning more graphemes and phonemes. They will also move on to adding suffixes eg ing ed….
The children will also practise blending for reading and segmenting for spelling.
The sounds that the children will be learning during the week will be sent home on Monday and the children will have a ‘spelling game’ on Friday.
 
Grammar
This half term we will be working on conjunctions ( a word that joins two or more phrases together e.g. but, so, because, however).

We will also be learning about the four different types of sentences that there are: statements, questions, commands and exclamations.

We will be revising adjectives, nouns and introducing verbs.

The children will also be learning about tenses ( which show the time of an action or a state of being as shown by a verb), specifically the  present tense and the past tense.

In our phonics sessions we will revise the Phase 5 sounds in the Little Wandle scheme and then work on spellings. In Year 1 we will continue with Phase 5 and Year 2 will be learning spelling rules.
The children will also practise blending for reading and segmenting for spelling.
The sounds that the children will be learning during the week will be given on Friday and  the children will have a ‘spelling quiz’ the following Friday.

Maths
This half term the children will continue to work on their knowledge of   + and – using blank number lines , partitioning and recombining part whole models.  Children will be encouraged to solve problems and explain how they got their answers.
The children will explore shapes and their properties
 

Science
In science the children are learning about the difference between plants and animals.
They will be learning that all animals need food and water to stay alive
and that they need a variety of food and drink to enable them to grow.
They will be recognising and sorting basic food types and know that they need right amounts of different types of food to be healthy.
They will also explore the importance of exercise for staying fit and healthy.

Computing
Children will be using a range of painting tools to create pictures. They will continue to work on saving their work and correcting any mistakes.

History
The children will be putting on their detective hats this half term to find out about a significant historical event;
The Great Fire of London. 
The children will ask questions in order to find out about the fire and then use different sources to find the answers. They will be learning about the events of the great fire and show it on a timeline.
 
Art and Design
The children will be making a mixed media collage. They will explore collage techniques to create a Fire of London background including the use of light and dark to create tone and tissue paper as a medium.
They will also make and design a pinch pot and paint using ready mixed paint.
 
 
Music
In music the children will play musical instruments and create musical patterns. They will use their voices expressively by singing songs and speaking chants and rhymes.

PE

PE will take place twice a week. On Friday, the LFA coaches will be running the sessions and there will also be a teacher-led day where there will be a focus on gymnastics and dance.

Homework

The children are expected to read daily.

Spellings are given out on Monday and there is a quiz on the following Friday.

English and Maths homework is given out on Friday and should be returned on the following Monday.