This week at Gray's Farm - W/B 22nd April

Week beginning: 22nd April

Nursery

Welcome back, we hope you had a lovely Easter. This week we will be reading the story “Where The Wild Things Are”  and encouraging the children to use their imagination and creating an animal of their own to take them off to a magical place.

In maths we will be looking at shapes and colours.

Reception

Welcome back for the summer term, we hope you had a lovely Easter break.

This week in reception we will be recapping on the life cycle of a plant and linking this with our maths topic measurement. If you have any photos of your child's plant you took home please post them on tapestry, for us to share with the class.

Through the week we will be looking at vehicles with wheels linked to the schools DT programme, so keep an eye out as you walk around and discuss these with your child.

Please continue reading every day and return all book bags by Wednesday.

Year 1

This week in Maths, Year 1 will be counting in multiples of 2ps, 5ps and 10ps and writing repeated additions for each of the coins.  In English, we will be learning about toucans and their habitat.  We will be sorting facts which we will use to write a fact file.  PE days will be Tuesdays and Fridays.  Please ensure that your child's reading record is signed every day when you have read with them.  Thank you for your continued support. 

Year 2

Welcome back to our Summer 1 Term. 

As our Geography topic is Climate change and how it affects our world, in our English lessons we are going to think and write about how we can help the world. We are going to use the conjunction 'if' to make our sentences more interesting.

In Maths, we are going to estimate on a number line and estimate calculations.

Year 3

This week in Year 3, we are learning about synonyms and antonyms and will be using them in our English writing. In maths, we are using our knowledge of Roman Numerals to read times and will be comparing and ordering numbers. In science, we are starting our new topic 'How is my body amazing?' and will be looking at balanced diets and how to fuel our bodies and we will be learning about the layers of the earth in geography. 

Year 4

Welcome back! We all hope you had a good holiday.  We had a brilliant end to the spring term in year 4!  We couldn't do it without all of your contributions and help.  This coming half term we are going to be looking at the destructive power of water in Geography, while in Science we're learning all about our digestive system - always a fun topic.  This is the term we also look more into computing and as you know R.S.E starts this week.  

Year 5

Welcome back! We hope you had a lovely Easter break. This week, we will be creating some descriptive writing in English with a focus on editing to improve our work. In Maths, we are revisiting some areas of place value. 

Year 6

This week in year six, we will be consolidating our English grammar skills. This will include us using the passive and active voice, present and past progressive and identifying different word classes. In English, we will be using punctuation and short sentences to create tension. During our maths lessons, we will be unpicking multi step problems.