Beech
Autumn Term: 2019-20
Topic: Frozen Planet
English
- Fiction books: Here Comes Jack Frost, The Rainbow Bear
- Non-fiction books about cold places and habitats
- Poetry/Rhyming Narrative: looking at rhyming words – Polar Bear, Polar Bear
- Dictionary/alphabet work/using word banks
- Labelling, adding captions, writing lists
- Punctuation and grammar
- Role play, re-telling of stories
- Identifying ideas in texts, looking at characters and events
- Streamed Read Write Inc. Phonics, See and Learn and class reading sessions
- Contributing to group discussions, circle time
Mathematics
- Number and place value
- Addition and subtraction
- Problem solving – fractions
- Geometry – position and direction
- Measure – money
PSHCE
- Based on values of the week and this term’s topic
- Christmas celebration, Bonfire Night, Diwali
- Group work, circle time, free choice activities, games, feelings
- Trips to the library, park, cathedral, churches (link with RE topic Christianity and Churches)
Topic
- Science: Web of Life: classifying living things and evolution
- Humanities: Geography focus: cold places, map work
- Art/DT: drawing and painting skills: Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo Da Vinci
- French: numbers, Christmas vocabulary
- Animal Care: weekly sessions with Kerry Attwood
- Computing: weekly sessions with Jane Walters
- Music: weekly sessions with Jane Rowlinson
- PE: weekly sessions with Tom Kophamel
- Carousel activities: swimming (1st half term); cookery (2nd half term)
