Sycamore
Welcome to Sycamore Class!
Welcome to Sycamore's class page! I'm Mrs Plummer the class teacher in Sycamore Class.
What are we learning?
Spring 2
'Growth and Green Fingers'
English & Grammar
This half term the children will continue to focus on grammatical features that will enhance their writing and apply these within English lessons. They will consolidate their knowledge of nouns, verbs and adverbs throughout the term. Using our focus text of ‘Gangsta Granny’, the children will be immersed into the story by focusing on elements of key chapters. They will then use these elements to create newspaper articles, persuasive adverts and eyewitness reports.
Maths
The children will consolidate their place value knowledge to support their mental Maths and apply this further when working on problems involving multiplication and division. The children will also explore length, height, mass, capacity and temperature and use this knowledge within real life situations.
Science
The children will focus on the question ‘What do plants need to grow? They will begin by revisiting their Year 1 learning about plants and their parts before finding out and describing how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy. To further enhance this learning the children will work scientifically to investigate and observe how light and dark affects the health and growth of a plant. |
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Geography In Geography, the children will learn about the differences between weather and climate. The will build on their prior knowledge of hot and cold places and begin looking at climate zones. The children will learn about weather forecasts, the symbols used to display weather conditions and weather instruments that can be used. They will then collect, record and analyse weather data within the school grounds and evaluate their findings.
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To link with English learning, the children will create a functional bag for Gangsta Granny to carry her jewels in. They will design theirproduct and develop their ideas further through class discussions and mock ups. The children will learn how to create a running stitch and use this method to join their materials together. They will then evaluate their product to identify their strengths and weaknesses.
PE
In PE the children will focus on Dance. Building on prior learning, the children will learn how to use their body to make shapes and convey emotion, how to travel safely and creatively in a space, communicate effectively with a partner and remember a sequence of steps when performing.
R.E
Using Questful RE, the children will continue their learning about Jesus and will focus on the Easter story. They will explore the question ‘Why is Easter the most important festival in the Christian calendar? The children will learn that symbols are pictures or objects with a deeper meaning or a story to tell, and will develop a greater understanding of the importance of Easter and the concept of salvation.
P.S.H.E
The children will explore their role within the wider world. They will learn about trust, their individual rights and emotions within friendship groups. The children will discuss how to get along with others, how to recognise the emotions they may be feeling and behave appropriately, where and when they feel safe and who they can go to for help.
P.E.
Maple Class have P.E. on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please ensure your child has a full P.E. kit in school fully labelled with their name. Kits will be kept in school until the end of term.
Reading
Children will be given new reading books on Tuesdays and Fridays once a book has been read twice. Please ensure you read with your child every night and leave a comment in their reading records to enable us to see how they have got on :).
Homework will continue to be given on Friday afternoon. This will cover topics and questions we have been doing in class that week to further consolidate the children's knowledge.
Homework books are to be returned no later than the following Thursday.
Sycamore Class have PE on Wednesday morning and Thursday Afternoon.
Please ensure your child has a PE kit in school.
Please note, earrings must be removed before PE.
Children are expected to read at home each night and reading books will be changed on Tuesday and Friday.
Please note that the children's reading records must be signed three times before their book is changed.
Children will also have a library book that they can read for pleasure.
We will endeavour to change these every week during our guided reading time.
**Thank you for your ongoing support**