Welcome to Tiger Class!
Spring Term 1
Tigers, welcome back! I am really looking forward to another fun half term with you all!
English
This half term we will be focusing on Fairy Tales and Traditional Tales.
Throughout this unit, all children will:
Children who are working deeper will:
Writing opportunities throughout this unit:
Read, Write, Inc.
Phonics will take place daily, following the Read, Write, Inc. scheme. These lessons will incorporate learning phonics sounds, reading, and spelling.
Maths
Our Maths focus this half term is place value to 20 and addition and subtraction to 20. By the end of the term the children will be able to:
Science
Our Science topic for this half term is ‘The Senses’. We will be looking at the five different senses and finding out which part of our body is related to each of them. We will learn that the nose, ears, eyes, skin, and tongue are all organs, and organs are parts of the body that do specific jobs. We will talk about what the children can see, touch, smell, hear, or taste, and we will use simple equipment to help us to make observations.
Vocabulary
Wor Working scientifically - question, find out, observe, describe, test, compare, record, results, table, chart
AAni Animals including humans and senses - see, look, hear, listen, touch, feel, taste, smell, head, face, ears, hair, eyes, mouth, nose, teeth, cheek, chin, neck, body, arm, hands, fingers, legs, feet, toes, tail, skin,
We will also be continuing with our ‘Seasons’ topic by looking at the season of winter.
The vocabulary for this topic is - summer, autumn, winter, spring, sun, day, moon, night, light, dark.
We have a science star each week. Somebody who added something special to our lessons or completed a super piece of work.
Geography
In Geography, we will be learning about the UK and weather patterns. During this topic, the children will:
Art
In Art, we will be exploring the artist Piet Mondrian! During this topic, the children will:
DT
RE
Our Big Question for Spring 1 is, ‘How do we know that someone belongs to a Christian community?’. We will be looking at different communities we belong to e.g. football teams, school, Rainbows, etc. We will then move onto looking at baptism in a Christian church.
Computing
In Computing, we are ‘Programming’. During this topic, the children will learn:
PSHE
Our PSHE topic will be based on the book ‘Max the Champion'. Throughout this topic the children will learn that everybody is different and understand that not all differences can be seen.
Music
In music, we will be focusing on ‘Timbre and Rhythmic Patterns’ with a fairy tale theme. Throughout this unit the children will use their voices expressively, play an instrument to represent characters, compose and play a rhythm, recognise how timbre is used to represent characters in a piece of music and perform part of a story.
PE
PE will take place on Mondays and Fridays. This half term the children will be doing Dance and Team Games. Please ensure your child has a named PE kit in school each day.
Staffing
Mrs Gregg will be teaching the children on Thursday afternoons during my PPA.
Working alongside myself will be Mrs Knight on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Mrs Holden on Thursday and Mrs Hibbert on Friday.
Homework
Homework is a little different this year as it will all be set online and will not be returned to the class teacher. There will be weekly spellings linked to the Read, Write, Inc. sounds learnt in class. There will also be a maths activity to consolidate the learning from the week. This will be set online on a Thursday and can be found under the 'Homework' tab at the bottom of the class page.
Reading books will be sent home each week. Please read these books more than once if possible to increase fluency. You will change these every Friday so please make sure your reading books are in school that day.
You can also read online at https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
Username: parkgateprimary
Password: parkgate
Water bottles
Please ensure your child has a named water bottle in school each day.
If anyone has any questions they would like to ask me, please email me at tigers@parkgate.cheshire.sch.uk
Many thanks,
Miss Morris