WRITING:

Using our farm to fork topic for the context, we will be using the structure of ‘See, Think, Wonder’ to develop sentence structure.  We will be looking at writing features and structures such as conjunctions (so, because, and) and paragraphs.  The children will also learn the difference between fact and opinion and will be encouraged to write personal accounts that include their thoughts and opinions.

SPELLING & PHONICS:

The children will continue to learn specific phonic and spelling patterns within our carousel or group activities.  Children will be encouraged to use these sounds for writing and reading more independently.

READING:

This term we will use our farm to fork topic to develop our reading skills.  We will read a variety of picture books within a farm context as well as the novel ‘James and the Giant Peach’ to develop understanding of texts. Using our ‘Blooms Bear’ approach to comprehension, the children will develop skills to ask and answer questions that have a higher thinking challenge.  Children will continue to have regular visits to the school library so that pupils can learn to recognise books that they can enjoy reading.  The children will also continue to have group and individual reading books that they can bring home.  These texts allow them to develop their reading aloud skills, working on expression and understanding punctuation.

LISTENING & TALKING:

Talking and listening skills are practised daily in all areas of the curriculum.  Our focus this term is to communicate our thoughts and opinions to others in the class or group.  The children will be encouraged to listen to a range of texts and videos that provide information (farming information for example) and use what they heard to sequence and show their understanding.  The children will also be encouraged to communicate clearly to express opinions and give reasons for those thoughts.

NUMERACY:

This term our focus for numeracy will be multiplication, division and fractions.  We will continue to develop the children’s number bonds and place value of numbers within 100/1000 but develop their understanding of multiplication and how it relates to addition (repeated addition).  We will encourage the children to learn to count in patterns of 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s to help recall of tables for those children that have a sound grasp of the concept.  We will then look at division and the vocabulary linked to that and how that can also be used within fractions.  All of the children’s learning will be through practical resources, whiteboard recording and games as well as some written work to consolidate their knowledge and understanding.  ‘Sumdog’ challenges and games on websites such as ‘Topmarks’ can be used in school or home to help the children’s mental math strategies.

MATHEMATICS:

As often as is possible, we will link our maths teaching to the context of our topic ‘Farm to Fork’ to highlight the relevance of number and maths in the real world.

Money

The children will investigate how we pay for everyday objects by learning about uk coins and notes.  We will look at buying farm products and calculating change.

Chance and Uncertainty

The children will develop their understanding of probability and explore chance using numerical representation such as a 1 in 6 chance of rolling a 6 on a dice.

Maths and its impact on the world

This area of maths will be relevant to our topic in order to explore how money was originally used to pay for goods that people wanted to buy instead of just trading like for like.  We will be looking at ways in which numbers and maths are used to help us in our everyday lives.