Objectives:

Our focus is time and measures.

We will be learning to :

*reading the time using o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past.

*Telling the time in 5 minute intervals.

*measure using scales.

We will be using times Table Rock stars to practise our tables, starting with the two times table.

The log ins will go in the children’s Reading Thingy.

Our book for this term is The Bog Baby.

In our English lessons we will be:

• Reading the story, making predictions about what will happen next. To make inferences about the characters and what is being said. To know what has happened in the story so far.

• Grammar – we will be learning what adjectives and nouns are and using them in expanded noun phrases. Using question marks and exclamation marks. Using when, that, if as conjunctions.

• Describing the setting
  
  
• Using a story board to create our own version of the story.
  
  
• Writing instructions on how to look after a bog baby. 

Discover Quest

Who is Kandinsky and Jackson Pollock and what does their work look like?

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Other useful information for this 1/2 term:

• PE days are Thursday and Monday. Please come in PE kit for outside please.
  
  
• Spellings will be given out on Friday to be learnt for the following Friday. Not all groups will start with spellings, so don’t worry if you child doesn’t have any.
  
  
• Maths home work will be sent Friday to be in on Tuesday.

Reading continues to be an important focus.  Please send the children’s reading book and reading thingy every day.