Autumn 2 – The Victorians
This Half Term – PE will be on a Wednesday with Miss Goodbody and a Friday with Miss Goodbody
Our topic this half term is “The Victorians”. This will be a history-based topic with a specific focus on comparing the Victorian era to modern times. Elm will be learning to ask questions about this historical time, comparing clothing, housing and schools. Elm class will be able to discuss how electricity changed and improved Victorian life and placing household items into chronological order and asking those all-important questions of why they have changed and how. Elm class will also be researching Florence Nightingale and her important role within the Victorian era.
Our quality text this term is – The papaya that spoke.
Elm will be using the ‘The papaya that spoke’ story to support their own writing of a journey tale. We will be working on our writing process by looking at the structure, vocabulary, features and type of language used within these texts. The children will be practising innovating the ‘papaya that spoke’ before writing their own journey tale. We will be starting off with a mixture of sentence stacking and experience lessons to further the children’s understanding of this type of text. Elm will be using their new vocabulary and ability to expand sentences to create their own narrative.
In Maths, this half term we will be starting with Adding and Subtracting both within a 10 and across a 10. The children will recap what the symbols mean before ending the unit with adding and subtracting two 2-digit numbers. Elm will then move on to Geometry and learning the properties of both 2-D and 3-D shapes, what these properties mean and how it makes the shapes different. Elm will be able to name these properties, count them and sort them.
In Art, the children will be practising using oil pastels to recreate a ‘still life’ picture in the style of Auguste Renoir. DT will be using different patterns/fabrics to design and create their own Victorian clothes (for a paper doll) with the skills of using sewing and gluing to attach embellishments.
RSHE will be looking at how we grow from a baby to an adult including foetal growth. This half term we will be discussing firework safety and finishing the half term with discussing relationships both at home and at school.
Homework will be set on a Tuesday to be collected on the following Monday. Maths, English and Spelling homework is highlighted on the homework grid by a star and needs to be completed by all children.
Elm Class Team
