WRITING:

We will be learning to create detailed settings and character descriptions in an imaginative writing topic. We will be up levelling our writing through the use of a variety of openers and connectives and showing confidence when using paragraphs. We will be learning to use different literary techniques such as sentence length and vocabulary to add tension to stories. We will be learning to organise our writing by using a structured planning page to support.

SPELLING & PHONICS:

We will continue to learn new spelling rules and patterns each week which will help us spell more difficult words. We will be learning specialist words linked to our topic and will be learning to check and edit our writing appropriately.

READING:

We will be starting our new class novel ‘The Nowhere Emporium’ and we will be using this book as a stimulus for close reading tasks. We will be investigating story structure, characterisation, setting, writers’ themes and style. We will answer and create our own literal and inferential questions. We will continue to develop our note taking skills of non-fiction texts on Europe as we work towards our Euroquiz.

LISTENING & TALKING:

As we build up to the Euroquiz, we will be learning to respond to different types of questions. We will be developing our understanding of facts vs opinion.

NUMERACY:

We will be working on our multiplication and division topic, and also looking at multiples, factors and prime numbers.

We will be progressing our understanding of number by moving onto decimal numbers. We will learn to read, write and say numbers to three decimal places and understand the numbers before and after.

MATHEMATICS:

We will be starting a time topic in maths. We will recap over what we already know about time and revise over 12 and 24 hour time on analogue and digital. We will then move onto linking our understanding of time to word problems, interpreting timelines and looking at time zones linked to our IDL topic.

We will also be looking at money and finance, budgeting and comparing costs to determine affordability.

Linking in with our topic we will look at map reading skills and compass directions.

Our P.E days are: Monday and Tuesday

We will focus on hockey and rugby, badminton and gymnastics.

Health:

We will be continuing to focus on our emotions and friendship and respect. We will continue to develop our self-confidence. We will be using Emotion Works and Treehouse resource to support us in this.

We have signed up for the Euroquiz which is a general knowledge quiz competing against other schools. Therefore, we will be learning lots of different facts about Europe’s countries, flags, landscapes, languages, cultures and much more!

We will be comparing different countries with our own as well as developing our understanding of maps and our sense of place as well as learning about political, social, environmental, and historical impacts.

STEM :

Road to Riat – Developing technology skills through investigations and group work.

Sumdog: https://www.sumdog.com/en/

Splash Learning: www.splashlearning.com  Username-GTRORH PWord-Play92

Topmarks: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Spell Zone: https://www.spellzone.com/ 

Spell Training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/

Google Expeditions App: https://sites.google.com/tcsnc.org/tcs-g-expeditions/google-expeditions-app

Homework will go out on a Wednesday.